Bandwidth is one. Going from 30fps to 60fps doesn’t necessarily double your bandwidth (due to how video compression works), but it doesn’t help.

On the recording side, things get even worse. You want very light compression, preferably none if you can. At higher resolutions, that can stress the limits of hard drive throughput, and flash storage is still expensive.

At really high resolutions and framerates, the CPU usage of just moving data around can be a stress point. You don’t want to have a CPU fan running in the background during a shoot. You need either a passive cooling solution on a low end CPU, or a bunch of thermal mass to absorb heat for the length of the shoot and then let the fan go crazy as soon as you stop. Oh, and that heat has to stay away from the camera sensor or you get thermal noise.

Then there’s lighting. Doubling the framerate means half the light hitting the sensor per frame. So you use more light. But studio lights remain expensive because they need high CRI and (especially at higher framerate) need to be flicker-free. The power supplies for LEDs to be flicker-free tend to be less efficient or more complicated, so they’re not mass market with economies of scale. Or you can use older, hotter, and even less efficient forms of lighting. The kind that can literally cook an egg on its backside.

Alternatively, you can turn up the ISO, but now you’re introducing thermal noise again. Edit: can also use a lens with a big apature, but this is also expensive and affects the depth of field (the part of the image that’s in focus).

It’s all stuff that can be solved with some amount of money, but even the LTT or Mr Beast level channels struggle to get there.

That’s a funny looking O-face.

The Mithras cult gets far too much credit for these things. We know very little about them. Almost everything you’ve heard about them was made up.

The modern Christmas tree tradition goes back a few hundred years to central Europe.

We can put a number on the difference between “rich” and “filthy rich”. It’s about $10M.

I say this with regard to the Trinity Study, which backtested a retirement portfolio to see how long it would take for a given withdrawal rate (and adjusting for inflation each year) to fail. It went all the way back to 1925, which means it would have seen boom and bust, high inflation and low. What it comes out saying is that if you withdrawal 2.5% per year of a balanced portfolio, you can live on that indefinitely.

2.5% of $10M is $250k. That’s enough to live very comfortably anywhere you want. Yes, even Manhattan and San Fransisco–lookup median household income for those areas and you’ll see that $250k is far above it. Also, you can live basically anywhere if you do this, so maybe don’t live in a high cost of living area. There’s plenty of nice places to live that are cheaper. That said, if something is keeping you there, you can do it and still live pretty well.

So that’s the limit. Anything above that is just hoarding wealth.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Violence is clearly justified. There’s only a question of it being the most effective means.

I’m currently reading “Why Civil Resistance Works”, which strongly suggests that non-violent means of protest are far, far more effective.

404 CEO Not Found

The backplate does provide some cooling on higher end cards. I have a water block on a 3080 and it’s not recommended to run it without a backplate.

Publicly traded companies would have all this listed in official filings, anyway.

Found it hiding under the couch, but squashed it with my shoe real quick.

If you invest in the sp500, you’ll have something around 8% return per year. This is highly variable year by year, of course, but in the long run, that’s what you can expect to average out. You can do better than the sp500, but generally not without accepting higher risk.

With those returns, you will double your money every 9 years. Roughly. It’s going to vary by decade. 2000-2010 was flat, while 2010-2020 was unusually good.

If you max out a 401k, HSA, and IRA on this strategy from a young age, you should have millions for retirement. If you’re a millennial or younger, you’re going to need a million or two (at least) to have a reasonable retirement.

How do you turn that into a billion? Doubling every 9 years won’t do it in your lifetime. Not unless you started life as a millionaire and never withdrew a dime until you were 90. Starting with $1000 and doubling every year for 20 years, consistently, would do it.

How do you double your money consistently for 20 years? Either extreme luck or doing something extremely shady. Probably both.

In other words, they are not the genius captains of industry that right-libertarians want you to believe. They got lucky or are deeply unethical or both, and they do not deserve your respect. Most likely, they deserve your disdain. Every one of them.

The [BATF] agents explained that prosecutors have been generally reluctant to charge these cases, and the bureau stated that “it is our goal to educate, not investigate,” according to a 2017 law enforcement memo obtained by CBS News.

“Just to let you know, taking the minigun purchased with federal grants by your sheriff’s office and selling it to drug cartels would be illegal. We thought it’d be good if that were clear. Anyway, do you mind if I take a ride in your Corvette?”

Measure of a Man is legally and philosophically nonsense. It doesn’t grapple with any of the history of questions around consciousness, and there has got to be dedicated JAG officers on the Enterprise who are better equipped to handle the case.

The issue is that they’re being counted extra times because of multiple people logging into the same machine.

Nah, they’re stuck. The most recent 2xx series Intel chips are actually on a better TSMC fab than what AMD’s 9000 series chips are using, but you wouldn’t know it from almost any benchmark available. Their architecture is just bad, and a fab improvement can’t even save it.

Almost certainly too late to get Nintendo. According to Nvidia insiders, their work for the Switch followup SoC has been done for ages, and they’re a bit puzzled that Nintendo hasn’t released it yet. The reason seems to be unfavorable exchange rates between the Yen and USD, and Nintendo’s board of directors has worked themselves into analysis paralysis over the “best” time to release.

Aren’t those subsidies for building new fabs? They aren’t able to use those funds for general operations.

They are. Modeling has shown that getting Australia to 98.8% renewable is highly achievable.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/energy/grid-renewable-electricity-simulation/

Every time Intel makes a release when AMD is about to release their own competitive product, Lisa is seen sitting in a big comfy chair, next to a fireplace, calmly sipping tea at them.

I don’t watch LTT anymore, but they do have my favorite example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaiqcjf0bs

tl;dw: Intel did a last minute reschedule of the embargo on their new HEDT lineup to lift hours before the new AMD Threadripper chips did the same. Those chips could barely keep up with AMD’s current offerings, and everyone involved knew that the new AMD stuff was going to crush it (which it did). Intel bumps the timeline so reviews have to go out (because reviewers have to get them clicks) without being compared to what’s actually going to be sitting on shelves alongside it. Linus sees what they’re doing and absolutely rips into them at the start of the video.

Steam hardware survey is questionable. There’s a lot of computer cafes in east Asia where people login to their Steam accounts and happen to hit the survey. Those machines are often running very low end cards like the Nvidia 1050. This is common enough that the results are heavily skewed.

The competition for CPUs can be AMD vs ARM vs RISC-V. It doesn’t have to be between two x86 giants.

That’s better, not necessarily for instruction set reasons, but because ARM and RISC-V are more open to multiple companies stepping in to produce chips.