• 1 Post
  • 394 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: August 8th, 2023

help-circle







  • What games should do is tell you the impact that settings have on performance. Just a text blurb that mentions how significantly you can expect a setting to matter. I’ve seen it in a few games where some settings are marked with something like heavy performance penalty but it would be nice for more things to be labeled.

    Looking at something like the task manager will tell you your CPU or GPU is maxed out, but how do you know what to change to correct this? Can you just change a few barely-noticeable settings, or are you expected to replace your CPU? If the recommended is CPU X, then why is my CPU Y maxed out? If I exceed the recommended build, why is my performance so bad?

    Often the recommended build is not enough to max out graphics at reasonable framerates, for example.








  • When it comes to whisky/whiskey they vary a lot in flavor, but have many similarities based on the region due to all kinds of factors. Bourbons in particular tend to have noticeable vanilla notes, which may or may not be lacking in other types. You can use bourbon or rye, or really any other whisky in an old fashioned, but you probably wouldn’t want to use an Islay single malt (well I wouldn’t, but maybe you do, I don’t know) but I think that’s specific to Islay, and I mostly would be fine having one made with any type of whisky.

    Anyway, my point is that unless you’re looking for something specific about bourbon that you can’t find elsewhere, alternatives are at least as good regardless of where they come from. I like a good bourbon, but at least for the time being, I wouldn’t buy any.



  • As long as it costs less than traditional electric heating, it should be fine.

    It would not. All work puts out an equal amount of heat for the amount of power drawn. A 1500 Watt electric heater will put out 1500 Watts of heat, and a 1500 Watt computer puts out 1500 Watts of heat, but only if it’s putting in enough computing work.

    That computing work might be worth something if you’re lucky, which is where the actual savings are. OP ended up saving much more money from heating less than from earning any crypto.



  • It’s another example of being ‘right’ but being ignorant to the full picture.

    No, it’s just wrong. These are import tariffs, paid to the government by the individual or company importing the goods, and not by the exporting country.

    The goal of import tariffs, is to increase the price of imported goods and materials to promote the use of local alternatives. The problem is that the US has given up on a lot of production of raw materials and imports a huge amount of them, like aluminum and paper products, from its neighbors. So now those raw materials cost more, and even locally-made products, made with imported materials, will have to get more expensive as a result.