This is my hometown. The homeless camps were becoming more and more visible before I left in 2021. And for every visible homeless person there were at least 10 living in their cars. Industrial parts of town with vacant buildings would have cars and RVs parked all along the streets.
San José used to be affordable. When I left it was the most expensive real estate market in the country. It's got plenty of space, but none of the developers are (or at least were) interested in building housing except for the tech workers who'd been streaming into the area. And the land prices reflected that. High-end developments were going into formerly low income parts of town.
LOL I was able to pass USPS's "identity confirmation" using a privacy.com credit card which will accept literally any address. So I'm now forwarding your mail to me as well.
You might be wondering whether reducing the clock rate actually reduces total energy consumption, since after all any given task has to do a certain amount of work, which is going to require the same number of clock cycles regardless of the speed.
The answer is yes, though the reason isn't obvious: it's because reducing the frequency of a modern CPU also reduces the voltage, which among other things reduces the energy needed to charge the various capacitances in the system, most of which ultimately gets wasted. Or, to put it another way, in any given clock cycle a certain number of electrons need to flow in various parts of the CPU regardless of the voltage, so lower voltage means less energy, since electrical energy is voltage times charge, or joules = volts * coulombs.
Speaking of, what is the symbol for energy in electronics, since voltage is E (electromotive force)? Since Q is charge, I guess you could just use V for voltage and say E = V • Q? Of course, Q is also reactance. I'm so confused. Physics is a lot more consistent.
@tek That's what happens in an industry where there's no actual competition except in "conceirge" services that compete for money on top of what insurance pays.
I doubt the oligarchs of Greater America want anyone but Putin anyway. They need to have bogeymen to scare their people with. Just like Trump is Biden's bogeyman and Biden is Trump's.
@jramskov Because Teslas are no solution to climate change. We can't save the world by continuing to dump at least as much energy into carting individual humans around in heavy metal boxes.
@jramskov I say at least as much but because of the Jevons paradox we'll almost certainly end up consuming more energy because of EVs, since people think "Oh my car doesn't pollute anymore so I can just drive as much as I want."
This whole idea that we can somehow deal with climate change without changing our lifestyles, in fact by consuming even more, is a pretty brilliant piece of propaganda that's quite a bit more powerful than any of the various "climate change is a hoax" conspiracy claims.
@eniko The ones based on contemporary conspiracy theories didn't age very well, not that that one was any good even in its day. Not sure if you remember the "Mars Face"/Cydonia conspiracy theory, but the release of photos of the same hill from a different angle pretty much killed that one. It was one of Richard C. Hoagland's many conspiracy theories involving NASA.
@jimgon Less wild when you realize that they represent the amount of money the VCs think they can fleece future investors, particularly the public, for.
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