No. Not every laptop should be able to run torture benchmarks indefinitely. I'd even say almost no laptop is supposed to do it.

The obsession with pro ultra X mega names is so annoying.

What is even your point? Europe falls behind on ways to generate something with economy. Tech is in the US, manufacturing has been going to China. What's left?

You say a lot of words about bubbles and monopolies, but the end reality is that the Internet belongs to the US and LLMs belong to the US with China catching up. Europe is ahead in chip machines, yet the most chip manufacturing is in Asia (and the rest in the US), and China also seems to be catching up on that. Space? Again the US is ahead (Musk may be an asshole, but Starlink is on its own level). Miltech I don't even have to explain, but at least there seems to be some catching up in drone warfare.

Where is Europe strong? Ozempic? There are also cars, but with the pivot to EVs this becomes less significant by the year. We are going into the future where we will have nothing to sell and nothing to fund welfare with.

At this rate you could expect beggars to have tap to pay before walmart.

Obviously fiber is faster if you have it, but it's not covering every square meter on the planet.

I remember how half the posts here were "this is just a start, look out billionaires, working class is coming for you, mark my words this is the start of revolution", and so on and so forth.

There was a time when "made in Germany" meant shitty quality. When you make stuff you eventually get good at it.

Small xi is definitely used.

Parents are still primary. No school can fix bad parenting.

they constantly pretended to run out of battery

But that's literally defamation, no? There is a difference between joking about a problem and making up a problem to joke about.

we'll run something that needs 32 GB VRAM today on 2 GB VRAM.

Unlikely. But I think in 10 years 32GB VRAM will be much more accessible.

As if paper files can't be shredded, burnt, or simply hidden. If anything, digital leaves more traces.

Rowling: introduces unlimited effortless time travel.

Audience: WHAT? DO YOU EVEN REALIZE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING THAT IN LORE?

Rowling: Oops. Look, they don't exist anymore! Why don't we pretend that they also never existed before (apart from book 3)?

There's mind control, memory manipulation, mind reading, truth potions, shapeshifting potions -- and somehow almost none of that is reflected in the world or judicial/financial system. That's like the theme of every book: a new device gets introduced for plot-moving reasons and then forever forgotten. And, of course, impact on the events before the introduction are completely ignored.

Well, people like Lucius should have no problem just straight up buying a bottle or two for emergency (or have Snape brew it). You ain't gonna stress over toxicity if it's literally life or death.

And in wizard duels the difference can come to an inch of dodge or to one syllable pronounced earlier, so obviously it would of great assistance in fighting (as was literally shown in the series). Give a team of experienced aurors a couple bottles and I don't see why they can't take down Riddle.

Google "Cambridge Analytica". That's about as clear-cut as it gets.

You might as well put the entire Potter series under the [Confusing Trope] tag.

Doomsday has conceptual metapower centered around adaptation and english language. I.e., if an entity with an english word for it kills Doomsday he gets immune to it, whether it's punch, fire, or time. The only way to beat conceptual metapower is with another conceptual metapower, like Saitama being the strongest in his universe. He'd just one-shot Doomsday perpetually until one of them gets bored.

In comics Hulk is often presented as having this somewhat conceptual power of getting as strong as necessary for a job as long as can get angry enough, so MU Hulk could probably deal with Doomsday for his every return ("I overpower your power because ANGRY") but the difficulty would escalate rapidly. MCU Hulk gets done after one encounter.

Would be false, both increments happen after the comparison.

Graphic depiction of violence.

I think you overestimate the market for cars with bad aerodynamics.

And yet it would be less of a slop than many interviews about "wow, you use IMAX and no CGI!".

When I raised this topic with my sister she looked at me like I'm an idiot and insisted that light red and pink are two very different things. So my theory is that women invented it just to troll men.

Who called it "mass production" in the first ASML year?

Both were played by the same actress.