>What I'd like to know is what software runs adequately under it in 4 GB RAM.

I find this question rather sad.

I can run my everyday software stack (Emacs + Firefox + Dino) on my 3 GB RAM Pinephone. It's not as fast as my 8 GB laptop, but that's partly the CPU too.

Hope this makes you feel better.

The world doesn't even have the foresight of doing something basic, like mitigating against fuel crisis scenario, let alone what you have suggested.

> SVGs should never have supported scripting.

I would even go further: HTML should never have supported scripting.

... or third party requests. Scratch the H in HTML and internet tracking would have never happened.

You could track people without links. You just couldn't go to other places without links.

FPS based on last frame is good to see load spikes, particular periodic ones, if you graph them.

FPS based on the median of a moving window is good if you want perceived frame rate, which rejects extreme outliers.

FPS based on the average of a moving window is good if you want statistical mean frame rate.

> FPS based on last frame is good to see load spikes, particular periodic ones, if you graph them.

This.

The other two are not good for anything gaming as any framerate inconsistency breaks the experience. A stable frame rate is much more important than a high one.

The point is that if you’re not doing perf analysis and logging/graphing but just want to display FPS to the player, last-frame FPS is pretty useless because the number changes too fast.

Not quite true. Lots of Thai dishes use a tonne of fish sauce and even shrimp paste in their dishes. They even make side dish dipping sauce (Nam Jim Jaew) that's like basically 50% fish sauce.

In electric circuits, information is transmitted through the electric field, which itself is close to the speed of light.

Nope, it's 1/2 - 2/3 the speed of light depending on the metals used.

The velocity factor is usually 0.6-0.7, never seen it as low as 0.5.

And it's set by the dielectric, not the conducting material.

You're both wrong. It's true that the first whisper of movement travels at the speed of light, but the time until the flow stabilizes (which you WILL need to wait for in electrical chips) is actually slower than the "speed of electricity".

Oh and also: currently the idea behind on-chip lasers is interconnects that don't have this limitation. For example, PCIE is looking to build optical interconnects, which will do the equivalent of bringing every GPU 10x closer to the memory.

Optical computation would require that light switches light transistors on and off, which doesn't seem to be possible with this technology. This is optical computation in the sense of allowing light beams to be produced according to formulas.

Why do you need to wait for it to stabilize? You can keep changing the voltage at one end of the connection even if you have megabits of data currently in transit, without waiting for it to stabilize. Yes, you'll need to do impedance matching. Yes, that's a solved problem. Transmission lines.

>No, challenge the entire system.

Agree in principle. But people like her does not have the resources, financially and emotionally to go through the legal system again. Unless there are charitable lawyers who are willing to do it on her behalf for free.

Problem with the markdown approach the text will become rapidly ugly with hacks, non-standard annotations to enable same features as HTML.

I'm very curious. I hated how html requires angled brackets for everything and love markdown for its neatness.

What are some of the ugly hacks you've seen that were applied?

Image width.

Yeah I can see that being a source of annoyance for situations like yours. However, I welcome it from a privacy perspective. The indicator alerts the user if some nefarious application covertly enables the microphone.

Yeah, I fully understand why it's there — and also why it's not optional — but I hate that it's not optional.

> If you have to explain it, there is zero chance of massive adoption.

Here's the thing, one should not need to explain it no mire. Devices or applications accessing content with an RSS option should present it to the end user through a convenient interface.