Princess Mononoke just has a slow gradual buildup. It builds the world and plays with plot tension and progression in interesting ways. Then saves the climax for the end of the film, with an after scene that gives a sense of finality.
It's easily one of my favourite films for these reasons.
Statins are dangerous... they block cholesterol, which incidentally, is fundamental, crucial, even, to the formation of both cell membranes and innumerable important hormones.
If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for things like text editing and reading documentation.
Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output.
On the other hand, if it's plugged in much of the time, then let it boost as much as it can, with speed only thermally limited. Otherwise you're not getting the true performance you paid for.
> If you want really long battery life and no heat at all, you can downclock all the way to something like 200-400MHz. A recent CPU at that speed is actually quite usable for things like text editing and reading documentation.
Linux does grant the user that flexibility, so if someone actually wants that, they can have it.
The max non-boost frequency is usually the sweet spot for performance and efficiency.
> On the other hand, if it's plugged in much of the time, then let it boost as much as it can, with speed only thermally limited. Otherwise you're not getting the true performance you paid for.
If the user wants to live with a potentially reduced laptop lifespan, sure thing. But it's just not worth it for a laptop, frankly, given their limited thermal cooling capacities. That CPU will degrade over time when run at that level of heat.
That CPU will degrade over time when run at that level of heat.
If Intel warrants their CPUs to be at TjMax 24/7, it's a good sign that it shouldn't be a problem. I have not heard of overheating killing CPUs since the days when AMD's didn't have any thermal protection[1], and I've cleaned out machines which were heavily clogged with dust and thermally throttling all the time for many years (the service prompted by their owners complaining about their computers being slow.) In one memorable case the push-in heatsink pins must've been originally not fully inserted, since they came out at some point and the heatsink was not even touching the CPU anymore, yet the CPU kept running for years in that state.
> If Intel warrants their CPUs to be at TjMax 24/7, it's a good sign that it shouldn't be a problem.
It certainly does work. I was working on some manufacturing equipment in 2018. The 2010 release 1st Gen i3 had a centimeter gap between the IHS and the HSF. The Intel HSF thermal compound had not been touched, it was like new. The CPU had run thermal throttled to about 700MHz for eight years, continuously. Properly attached the HSF, the slowness and thermal throttling went away.
I overvolted and overclocked pretty much every chip I've owned from my 20 year old Athlon 64 to my 0 year old RTX 4090. None of them have degraded. If you watch overclocking livestreams you'll see just how much abuse it takes to get any sort of reaction from silicon.
I'd say it's neither. The only failures I've seen in the data center were caused by differential thermal expansion cycles and broken solder balls. Same phenomena that kills game consoles but not ML/mining GPUs that spend all day and night at max power/current and constant temperature.
Until you power cycle them a couple of times... My old AMD GPU even held a record for how "good" the ASIC still was or was not.
TL;DR Yes, your GPU wears and becomes slower over time; eventually it brakes.
Not because of bad thermal coefficients but because of the current... Even faster so when OC'ing because U=I*R. You can benchmark it yourself.
The broken solder balls of the past where attributed to the transition from leaded to lead free solder. If I recall correctly, it was mostly NVIDIA and Apple who suffered from this and only temporarily / 1 or 2 generations.
> Laptops shouldn't be using boost anyways, because their form factors and CPU coolers just can't handle the heat output.
That's quite a sweeping statement. The adequacy of cooling seems to depend a lot on the device and its configuration.
I've had two small form-factor ThinkPads at default configuration over the last nine years, and there have been zero problems with heat. The CPUs have conservative TDP limits, and the cooling seems adequate for that.
One of the laptops ended up with a broken keyboard after ~seven years, but if that hadn't happened, it would probably still be in daily (and not always particularly light) use, as it had been until then.
I'm sure some manufacturers and models choose their parts less conservatively, and put too powerful CPUs or GPUs (or set their cTDP too high) in a chassis that can't really handle it. For them, the maximum turbo allowed by their CPU/configuration might be too much over prolonged periods. Some of those devices might end up failing due to thermal issues within some years.
But for more conservatively configured laptops (such as business ones), disabling turbo would probably quite needlessly limit their performance. Unless you're aiming for a much, much longer lifespan than almost anybody uses their devices.
> It’s hard to be sure that anything has understanding beyond being able to be emit finely tuned responses though. It’s entirely plausible that humans differ from chatGPT only in that:
This is a non-response.
Unlike an algorithm, humans have the faculties of creativity, intelligence and sentience. Furthermore, we have the crucial traits of self-awareness and being able to have experiences. We humans do many, many things that cannot be reduced down to algorithmic or computable steps.
> Not sure about all its filters being RL. Sometimes it seems to flag its output as inappropriate because of a single word (or none at all). Also it has asymmetric behavior, e.g. it will make a joke about men but refuse to make one about women
Probably because in today's age, making jokes about men is a-okay, but making jokes against women might be perceived as misogynist. Potential misandry is okay, by comparison.
> I think it's inevitable given the geopolitical situation in Taiwan that someone eats TSMC's lunch on America's dollar. China will almost certainly invade in the next decade, and getting large volumes of delicate electronics in and out of ports that are subject to a Chinese navy blockade will be very difficult (not to mention the difficulty in manufacturing them amid explosions). The CHIPS act is a big part of preparing for this.
Isn't this why TSMC is creating another foundry in the US, so they can circumvent these issues with China somewhat?
No they are building in the US because the US told them they have to. TSMC is the biggest chip Taiwan has to convince the US to defend it from Chinese invasion. The most advanced fabs and the most capacity will definitely remain in Taiwan.
Overall, I get the feeling that women have far more confidence issues than men do, sadly.
Women aren't being systematically oppressed ~ but confidence issues might lead them to believe that they are, even if they can't identify any actual causes.
The real systematic issue seems to me to be that women aren't getting help in the confidence apartment, hence they can't easily stay standing in the face of something that may well crush one's self-confidence.
And there may be many, many things in workplace, not just interviews, that can feel defeating... interviewers are there to filter out those who can't handle the strain of the job, those who don't have the qualifications, etc. And even if that's overcome, then the job itself may overtime wear one down.
Burnout and imposter syndrome aren't nice to run into... :/
> Women aren't being systematically oppressed ~ but confidence issues might lead them to believe that they are, even if they can't identify any actual causes.
I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion.
Most women do not have career role models in our profession, or even most positions of power. Young women don't have examples of successful female computer scientists or engineers they can relate to.
And many women still come from households where their grandparents or parents told them that their main purpose in life is to be submissive and supportive of a breadwinner husband and anything else is degenerate deviation.
What's more, too many men discriminate against confident women; there's several studies that show that confident men are perceived as strong but confident women are perceived and oppressive or difficult to work with.
> Young women don't have examples of successful female computer scientists or engineers they can relate to.
Why not? It feels like there's a movie made about them every other year. They also cannot go into politics, because ... women chancellors don't count, apparently.
> And many women still come from households where their grandparents or parents told them that their main purpose in life is to be submissive and supportive of a breadwinner husband and anything else is degenerate deviation.
"Many"? Granted, self-selection and all that, but zero of my female friends have said that this was a thing. I'm sure it's "many" in absolute terms, but relative to the whole population ... are you sure it's "many"?
> Why not? It feels like there's a movie made about them every other year.
Hmm, no? Aside from Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace there aren't many female computer scientists who are well known and shown to be exemplary. Historic figures and people you know firsthand impact much more than fictional characters.
> They also cannot go into politics, because ... women chancellors don't count, apparently.
Who said this? An important phenomenon is that we've seen a wave of increased female participation into politics and those figures have certainly helped young women find role models.
It's easily one of my favourite films for these reasons.