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  • That's just a stupid claim, SteamOS is Linux based, and every Linux distro generally have the same optimizations SteamOS has.
    Windows is simply not as efficient as Linux is.
    For instance multi threading has traditionally worked better in Linux, but there has also been made massive improvements in the kernel to improve graphics card performance, with entirely new technologies introduced a few years ago to achieve that.

    These things also benefit CAD and other 3D-software, so it's not just a "gaming" thing. Linux is simply generally more efficient than Windows, at mostly any task.

    Valve has done a lot to help improve game performance on Linux, and these improvements are merged into the respective main projects, like kernel and drivers and graphics libraries. The same is simply not possible in Windows, because Windows is proprietary.

    Windows used to have a clear advantage in that all optimizations by GPU vendors and game developers were made primarily for Windows and Linux was just an afterthought. Also games were made for DirectX which is native for Windows, and a compatibility layer for Linux.
    So for decades games made for both generally ran better on Windows.

    So it is absolutely impressive that Linux can now run games faster than Windows. Despite having only a fraction the marketshare.

  • One can argue anything, but that doesn't mean it makes sense.
    If you want to change American democracy, which I agree is sorely needed, then you need to engage actively in politics. UNTIL such change has arrived, you are still a moron for not preventing a greater evil, when you are given that option.
    You are saying you won't use the democratic option you have because it's not democratic enough. Well I got news for you, democracy can never be perfect, because democracy is about compromise.
    Here we have 12 parties in parliament we can vote on, so we have options for mostly everyone. But it's still a game of compromise.
    If you can't find the best compromise among 2 parties, you sure as hell can't among several either. You just want to whine, so you would probably still whine even if you lived in the best democracy in the world.

  • That's not an option. So that just means you are delusional.
    If you didn't vote for Harris, you helped Trump get elected. That's basically the same as voting for Trump.
    All the morons that for instance criticized how Democrats handled Israel/Gaza, and recommended not to vote Democrat, are partly responsible for what's going on there now, with no help coming through, and widespread starvation and disease!
    All the morons that complained about inflation, despite it was getting back to normal after COVID, are responsible for the economic chaos we have now.

    By not supporting the lesser evil, you are actually helping the greater evil.
    There are lots of way more constructive things to do, that can help push things in the right direction, than just being in denial.

  • Both Aarhus and Copenhagen municipalities have decided this, and the ministry of Digitization is pioneering it for government administration. The decision so far primarily regards MS Office and MS cloud services, and MS Windows.
    The minister has even stated that the rollout is to begin already within 3 weeks!
    Also the government has decided to make guidelines to make the switch away from American software and services easier. These guidelines are meant both for public services AND private businesses.

    We haven't seen any results yet, but at least the political decision seems clear. The goal is to end dependency on American software and services for Denmark. Which is in line with a similar decision earlier this year for EU.

  • I think the difference here is that you can't quite just put an AI tag on something, and then investors flock to give you money.
    The AI companies that are invested in, are mostly companies that actually have something to show. And the biggest investment and benefactor is Nvidia that actually makes loads of money from AI products.

  • AI is improving at the same rate it always has

    This is blatantly false, there's a reason there is talk of the cold winter of AI, and the long walk in the desert.
    The desert walk was at least 2 decades of very little progress despite big investments, the cold winter was another decade without much progress because of disillusionment so nobody wanted to invest in it.
    AI has progressed more for the past 10-15 years than it did for 40 years from about the 70's to about 2010.

    For actual AI, nothing has changed.

    I assume you mean strong or general AI, and that's not what we are debating here, because that is not a reality yet.

    Something that doesn't exist obviously can't burst.

  • I agree 100%, and yes there are always losers due to competition and failure to compete. Just like some companies are losing money making cars, but cars are obviously not a bubble.
    Maybe the most of the hype is over for now among investors, but AFAIK Nvidia who is the biggest supplier of hardware for it, is not seeing a slowdown in demand.
    So maybe it's more a slow down of interest in the media?

  • No you can't sous vide at body temperature. red meat needs 60 °C (130 to 140 °F).
    Body temperature is only about 37°.
    Try to warm some water to 60° C and put your finger in it, and see how long you can hold it there.
    Or maybe don't because you will get burned.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sous_vide

    If your question is how we can tolerate higher temperatures than our body temperature, even up to 60° C, the answer is body cooling. As mentioned by others, cooling by evaporating sweat (water) from the surface of our skin.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index

    If you look at the table, you can only tolerate up to for instance 43° C at 40% humidity. At that point there is extreme danger.
    The more dry the air is, the higher temperature can be tolerated, because the sweat evaporates faster so you cool faster.

    So at 90% humidity cooling is very slow, so you can only tolerate up to 33° C. Which is about 4° C below body temperature. But the heat you generate internally makes you heat up to above tolerable body temperature, and if prolonged you will die.

  • So you are saying this is lawless territory?
    That does not sound acceptable.
    Obviously it would probably be the NHS that is sued, because that's the arm of the American administration that did this.
    And since he was expelled, I believe the case should be allowed to run in Norway.

  • Yes I think Facebook and Microsoft may lose money on this, you could call that over investing, but for it to be a bubble that burst, companies need to go down, and people lose money on it.
    Otherwise you may be looking for a completely different word which is fad, a period where something is over hyped, but quickly settles down like Fidget Spinners.
    .com was a bubble because a lot of people lost a lot of money, so much so that it reverberated through the entirety of financial systems globally. I don't think we will see a financial bubble burst due to AI, that is more than 1% of that at most.
    META is throwing out money like crazy on their "META" project that will never succeed, and they are doing the same with AI, but they will not go bankrupt on it, and AI will almost guaranteed be more successful than the "META" project.
    What I mean is that generally more money will be made on AI, than is lost experimenting with it.

  • I don't think it will, AI will improve transform and expand in areas of usefulness, so I think we are still in the early days.

    But at what point can we agree that it didn't?
    When we finally get FSD for real? When AI helps improve diagnosis and saves lives?
    When AI creates new molecules that are better than any chemist could do without AI.

    What will it take for people to realize that AI is here to stay? And AI will remain a significant part of our economy.
    Some people behave like AI is some sort of .com bubble, but from an economic viewpoint that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. The investment landscape into AI is completely different from the .com speculation that was completely void of content.

    AI is financed by established players that develop and use AI themselves, while .com was venture capital investing in ideas with no purpose.
    Tesla may burst, because they try to sell themselves as an AI company, but they are so far behind it's ridiculous.
    I suspect the Tesla bubble may burst in 5-10 years.

  • I also recently read a story about a Dane, who was married to an American woman, and had several children, and had lived and worked in USA for years was expelled.
    IDK why he didn't have the papers he needed, he should have known better. But people are naive, and he probably thought being married to an American was enough?
    But we actually have the same rule in Denmark now, being married to a Dane is no longer enough to be allowed to stay here. It used to be an automatic permit to stay, but not anymore. So he definitely should have known.