I can 100% guarantee you that if you have a computer with 8GB RAM, the computer wouldn’t start swapping if you brought up a new process that needed 4 of those 8GB even though it says the operating system is using “8GB RAM”
That's a blatant simplification, and does not match reality as far as I've seen.
The OS only only has one large source of memory it uses "optimistically" - the file/buffer cache. But that's tracked separately, so it doesn't show up in normal memory usage numbers (unless you don't know how to read them).
The other source of "extra" memory usage is memory mapped executable files, which can be unmapped and then read back on demand. That's quite small though.
Everything else (mostly) is actual memory usage caused by actual drivers and programs (though it can be swapped, but that's a major perf hit).
The major reason for Windows memory bloat is the hundreds of inefficient services from both Microsoft and hardware vendors that run at startup. The "optimization" pool (let's not call it that way) is way smaller than that.
eg. pre-loading an application is a pessimization if there's not enough memory - not only does it permanently eat away a portion of the total memory due to the intricacies of Windows working set memory management, it will need to be swapped out when actual demand for memory arises, competing with other disk access.
The only actual "optimization" in Windows is Superfetch, and that barely works these days.
110C is not that unusual in the Nordics (although way above average, it's for tougher sauna goers). I've been in one. Not most people's cup of tea though, the experience is comparable to the opposite of a long cold plunge.
A dry sauna sounds terminally boring. The point of Finnish saunas is that they are dry and hot, but you can adjust the pain...experience, I mean, by throwing water on the rocks at intervals of your choice.
It doesn't write anything extra to the browser history. How about actually checking before exaggerating. If you are bothered by a single wrong title with the right URL, well... I think something else is wrong.
You are also completely speculating on the intent. Less drama please.
That site/app doesn't have a single piece of information about who's running it, what the privacy policy is (besides some AI slop in the FAQ section) etc. etc. - and you're supposed to put business-critical information into it (according to its demo)?!
Those TFLOPS numbers are quite useless as they are "marketing peak TFLOPS". There's usually a 10-100× difference between that and actual computational capabilities in meaningful general workloads.
It only makes sense to compare specific, well-calibrated benchmarks, such as Linpack, which is what I did.
That's assuming every developer can get the same AI efficiency boost and contribute meaningfully to any feature, which is unfortunately not really the case.
Seniors can adjust, but eg. junior frontend-only devs might be doomed in both situations, as they might not be able to contribute enough to business-critical features to justify their costs and most frontend-related tasks will be taken over by the "10x" seniors.
The CFM number alone doesn't show that.
I assume the high static pressure ones would do a much better job in this context.
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