Probably not the resources he means. The cheap easy to access energy of oil just popping out of the ground has already been used. As more resources are consumed the easier to get to and easier to process ones go away, and you need a certain minimum level of tech to get to/extract/use what remains.. If that goes away, you might not have the resources to build the tech to get more resources.

As someone who did an "around the USA" trip last year (I'm not american) of all the places we stopped/stayed (disney world, vegas, yosimite national park etc) LA was the worst.

It's not quite "escape from LA" movie level, but it was darn closer than I'd have liked it to be.

Yes, which wasn't what I was suggesting, I was suggesting keeping the IDF within israels borders (not leaving israel)

Just like how compressed air cylinders in hospitals had to be manually shot up/destroyed after capture by the israelis because hamas might use medical equipment? Anything of use by civilization can be repurposed tools and materials are tools and materials.

Since the 1967 war israel has had full control of their water resources, farms having water access removed has happened long before oct 7 ( as well as air dusting to destroy them also but that's later on).

The controlled demise had been around since after the 1967 war, the 2006 blockade was just another measure to tighten the noose (a very effective one).

This is all pre oct 7, strategically oct 7 only made sense as an attack because the response was predictable and could not be hidden. You can slowly starve off a population and make them fully dependent without people taking notice. Dropping more bombs by weight than the equivalent of the first nukes used on Japan is not so easy to hide from the world. Their mistake was thinking the world would care enough to stop them.

When one side has their military doing the rounds to destroy rainwater collection pots and bulldozing wells so that people must move on or die of thirst.. it's weird having that behaviour defended by people. This this not start on october 7.

The snowden cable leaks revealed Israels stated intent to the USA was to crush any form of normal economy and to make them "tighten their belts" without crossing into mass starvation territory. Keeping them hungry.

With those goals in mind they achieved them quite well. Full dependence on Israel's mercy, without the resources to further their lot in life, slowly starving and being killed off.

Not that anyone would have the will to do so, but if the same style blockade were done to Israel (no military leaving the country, no iron/steel/construction materials, no control over water/resources, food imports limited based on population, farmlands destroyed by air) do you think they'd be fine with that? (not original responder)

That would be because CUDA relies on fixed function units in hardware. Which is great for compute speed and power efficiency.. until your fixed function needs changing.

AMD went all programmable with the 6000 line, but uptake of compatible/scalable api's that aren't cuda is abysmal, and even newer 7000+ units added some fixed function to their stuff too.

Yep, some vulkan-compute compatible frameworks exist, like ncnn. Supporting multiple acceleration api's so that even mobile phones can be used. Unfortunately the uptake of such things is pretty limited, and a lot of the work on supporting cross platform is so players that don't want to be held hostage to nvidia like china can get around restrictions.

The mainlined linux driver is fine, it was driver support that got me to switch from nvidia to ati well over a decade ago.

In the 3080/6800 generation performance was on par and I could have bought either, but 6800 had less headaches and longer support being in mainline.

It's the sensor size

Larger sensors, everything else being equal, tend to be better (resolution, dynamic range, light gathering capability etc). Increased die area costs though. High end dslr's tend to be full frame. Cheaper ones a smaller format with about half the area.

Cameras on phones tend to have tiny sensors because you couldn't fit the appropriate optics for a large one.. and it would dramatically increase the cost of the phone. Most image quality improvements in phones in the last decade have not been from physical improvements but from heavy reliance in computational photography along with some AI to recognize patterns and fudge things to look nicer.

Most of the things you've listed I don't really care about, nor do people who play games. Pixel peepers are usually less into the games.

Raster performance matters, frame generation increases input latency for a given framerate, since in reality the game is still running at the lower rate.

Not needed in non-twitch games of course, but in those games you don't need decent framerates either really.

Why should people prefer predicted potentially wrong images over actually rendered ones?

Nvidia have really leaned in to their fixed function units, amd's 6000 series was all programmable units but the 7000 added some fixed function also, unfortunate. Fixed function is great when you need the function, but not as flexible.

Kind of strange watching things come full circle from fixed to programmable to fixed again.

Because they are colluding with the machine vendor to screw over the franchisees.

McDonalds don't want to fix the problem, because the problem is McDonalds.

In Australia the daily charge has been spiraling upward to offset any rebates or lesser usage solar causes.

It is almost cost effective to roll your own microgrid. Once that threshold is reached more and more people who can afford it will go off grid, forcing the remainder of the higher costs on those who cannot afford the infrastructure to go off grid themselves.

That the energy sector has been so mismanaged that it's almost cheaper to roll your own power is insane.

If they block the purchase of any further studios by sony after blocking the activision sale that could be worthwhile. Otherwise it's pretty hard to justify the double standards when it was sony that pushed the trend of buy studios and make titles exclusive (which worked a treat for them).

Epic (unreal engine) started becoming a big sponsor of blender. Which makes a great deal of sense when they're selling a game engine. They want other tooling required to be cheap/free to encourage uptake.

Blender as a 3d modeller is no threat. Blender with integrated game engine was not a serious threat by any means, but why fund a potential competitor? It would have been easy for them to have enough influence to gently push in the direction of ditching it. It was already poorly maintained so easy to justify too.

Well it isn't common here, maybe it's an american thing? Considering there is dispute over what it means that could be reason for it's lack of usage.

Agreed

Not the person you replied to, but I don't/didn't, it reads like you want to plead to a question to make it do something, which is pretty nonsensical. Even with people who think they know what "begs the question" means there seems to be debate about it in this thread.

There may be no English czar, but we should try to gravitate towards the greater ability to convey meaning. Etymology and knowing roots/history etc helps with this usually, but not with idioms, which this usage seems to come under.

I'm not the person you responded to but..

5g dynamic beamforming changed all that. Part of the big draw with 5g was each tower direction finds the phone so it can send directional beams. Allowing telcos to re-use spectrum.

Having the direction to within +-5 degrees, as well as the signal strength, from multiple point sources.. significantly brings the area down.