My modelling is CPU bound as it’s a model made in Fortran by physicists (me included). The fact is that I wouldn’t get a 4x boost, and a model running overnight still would. When I actually need performance I use a 1000 cores compute cluster for multiple days, so that would never run on any consumer CPU anyways.

For the data processing, the real bottle neck is disk access and my scripting speed, so the CPU doesn’t really need to be amazing.

I have an other 2-3 years with my 1600.

Gaming, working (data processing, physical modelling).

The trick is to use a lower overhead OS than Windows.

I’m still using a i7-3630QM and a R5-1600.

They are both enough for what I do with them. Why would I upgrade?

I recommend LMDE nowadays, but it doesn’t really matter.

I feel vindicated that Vista and 8 where my favorite as well.

It’s not worth the cost of ruining LEO and the environmental effects of them burning up in the atmosphere

deleted by creator

Yes, every day. I don’t know what you’re referring to.

I just want to say, as a light pollution researcher, it warms my heart to see people start to get it.

You’re on the right track and got plenty of good suggestions already. I’ll add that the way to improve the feeling of safety is to light the faces of people, so you need lights at least taller than humans if you want them pointing downwards. Uniformity of lighting is also a big part, so multiple small lamps tend to be better than one big one.

In short, keep it dim, amber/red, uniform, localized, downward pointing (with dark roads if possible) and turn it off when not needed (most town in France shit off the lights in the evening and no one complained).

Also, keeping the streets narrow, winding and having buildings close (aka European streets) will confine the light in the city better than the opposite.

Feel free to ask me anything and good luck!

You mean the truck with hoods higher than the roof of my car? Those should be illegal as well.

I’m daily driving a 2013 laptop on Endeavour and it feels as fast as new stuff. Doing a lot of relatively heavy compute on it too.

They can’t say that because of terms limits.

Trump is more Zapp Brannigan

I feel like those can be solved already by searching through your emails/browser history.

Recall won’t help with that. You also don’t need an AI for the second one. Just something more than a basic shell.

I honestly don’t understand the use case. What do you find interesting about it?

Sponsors pay much more than views. So does patrons.

The true issue is discoverability in my opinion.

Religion isn’t something intrinsic about a person. If you hate the fact that you’re a Muslim, you can opt out.

You cannot opt out being queer.

Changing settings, changing tools. Hell, they could have made a modern one playing as Lucy or Desmond and interwoven it with Watch Dogs.

But people liked the first 3/4 games for the story and the movement. The Ezio trilogy is pretty much the same game three times! Make good stories and keep/improve on the core mechanics and they would have been successful.