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Java debugger can easily drop frames which helps tremendously in going over a function multiple times.

Hot code replacement, which I have already and still use since 2005 works very well as well.

In php, debugger are half as good but code replacement works immediately.

I would rarely use print debugging and in Java never.


We are at the beginning of ev and you already can buy them at affordable prices just not yet in every category.

Give it time. Right now a ton of money gets invested into batteries and co.

When you look how much impact proper market penetration is for prices (see smartphones, solar energy etc.) It will come and fast.


The world is not black and white.

I find those experiments until a certain threshold okay.

1 day: no problem here 20 days: still no issue.

Life doesn't start just because we let a biological machine execute something.


It's not a helpful comparison if you compare a chip from 2016 with a chip from 2020.

You would need to benchmark it against a current chip from someone else.


You're certainly correct for, say, highly-controlled benchmarks but don't discount subjective user experience. I've heard _far_ more M1 users talk about the subjective feel compared to even the previous generation MacBook hardware whereas it's been a long time since I've heard that about an Intel to Intel upgrade (basically since the Core -> Core Duo period) other than people with GPU-heavy needs and that seems like an interesting data-point to me.


I do wonder how much of that is just getting a nice new laptop? If the average user was handed the equivalent laptop with an Intel CPU but told it was an M1 would they notice? Would they also think it was nice and fast?


Here is why I think your hypothesis is not true: people were buying new Macs also before M1, but it did not generated the same reactions. So newness is not the cause of this or at least it is not the only cause.


Good marketing definitely impacts user experience. How much it is impacting the perception of M1? I have no idea.


Did Apple not market new hardware for a decade prior to M1? I don’t think this is sufficient to explain the difference, especially given the supporting benchmarks.


Possibly but it feels like that should have but has not happened to anything like this degree when people were getting shiny new Intel CPUs after the early 2010s.


Absolutely. Performance is very noticeable even between the current MBP Intel vs. M1


What other current chip provides this much performance while using so little power? Objective measurements also show the M1 far ahead.


yeah, especially given the leaps AMD has made.


I don't want to kill someone. I don't know if or why a person became a murderer.

It could be their upbringing which should be the responsibility of the society and clearly the society failed.

It could be a medical issue. A biological one.

It could be that the murderer did nothing wrong in their worldview.

We have to understand this as a society. We have to teach it if people don't understand it.


That's fine, just understand that your moral intuition isn't universal.

If there were some device (which doesn't exist and maybe can't) which simply lights up with perfect accuracy when pointed at someone who tortured someone before murdering them, I would support instant execution of that person by firing squad.

I'm not willing to accept a 4% error rate however. I'm not sure how low it would have to go, but it's lower than it plausibly can.

This isn't some kind of lack of "understanding" on my part, and you're not going to "teach" me to feel the same way about this issue as you do. We have different values. So you'll have to content yourself with my being on the same side of the policy question for different reasons.


I thought about this topic for decades now.when I was 16 I thought you should murder a murderer.

I thought a lot about moral and ethics, the balance between being right and no right exists.

So I do believe your thinking can and might change in the future.

Your torture example still ignores the history of the torturer. Would you like to be killed after this from a society which had it easier and better then you and did not help you? Is that really fair to anyone?

Do you believe in a god? Would you assume jesus would let you in after that? (I'm not religious, I do think so that either it's a good god and it doesn't matter believing in her but your actions)

Do you believe that we are in a simulation? What if you wake up in your next life as a murderer?

There are so many potential thoughts which we haven't thought through that removing a murderer from society to prison is the best choice we have as long as it is a prison who tries to rehabilitate a person.


I don't know how anyone can acknowledge that moral intuitions aren't universal while simultaneously believing their moral intuition can be used to justify the death penalty.


I still don't think it is okay to end the life of another human being.


I too am pro-life


In the last 10 years I have seen prices and still see them here around munich 100km radius where it just gets more expensive.

I ask that question and I make now nearly 6 figures.

Before it was passible to buy a flat and pay it off, now prices are where you wanna sell it in 30 years or so.


And who will invest in batteries or other direct useful power usage if burning it through asic's is just making more money?

No one :(


Bitcoin mining becomes less profitable the more people do it.

At some point it gives you exactly as much as you pay for energy to mine.

So if you can store electricity in the batteries for long enough to sell it for more than pruce of purchase then you are better off investing in the battery.

But since batteries are expensive and inefficient, you might be better off investing in the wind turbine or solar panel and mine with it if you can't sell energy to the grid for more money.

It's better than battery because when demand is high it gives energy, but it doesn't have to take energy when demand is low and it keeps itself financially afloat even when there's no high demand for a long time which might kill your battery energy storage enterprise.

I know about at least one pumped storage facility that died because of that.


Independently of this, bitcoin will never run on just dump load energy.


Mining bitcoin is less profitable the more people do it.

If a lot of miners mine on mostly dump load energy, minig on anything else becomes uncompetitive.


That money should be used to invest in real energy storage and not burning it through asics and useless calculations.


This model includes batteries and it uses mining to pay for those batteries.


Is that your money? The whole point of money is that who owns it decides where it should be used.


Yes let's ignore that I'm living on the same planet as you do and it doesn't affect myself and my family.

Right?

And no we don't live in a society where this doesn't matter. You are not allowed to do with your money whatever you want.

Buying a hitman: illegal in most of the world.

And you do understand that it is hypocritical to create a ton of co2 and making farming in other countries really hard and complaining later about immigrants. Just putting it in perspective


How on Earth is comparing this to hiring a hitman reasonable?

If your point is that you can't spend money on illegal things, bitcoin is not illegal.

Also, who complained about immigrants? Where did this come from. And even if immigrants/farming had any relevance to the discussion co2 is likely to increase crop yields.


It's just an easy example of disproving your argument.

Bringing up immigration is just a reference on today and what will come due to thinking that we as a society don't depend on decision from others.

It's a global problem with global implications for all of us.

And no co2 hurts us more than it helps us.


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