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gbrown
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
I guess not, it says 180 on the back. Haven’t bothered to meter it under full load + charging though.

To be clear, I’m skeptical of pushing that much power over USBC.
gbrown
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Most of these gaming laptops likely don’t; they’re really not intended to be used for heavy gaming while on battery, because the battery can’t support the discharge rate needed by a high end GPU.
gbrown
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
No thanks, I’ll keep my gaming laptop. Far more portable than a desktop, lots of compute overhead, and I can use it for games. At home it’s basically a desktop with external keyboard and monitors.

Oh yeah, and when it’s not being used with the dedicated graphics card, it gets 6-9 hours of battery life.

Oh, almost forgot - it’s lighter and about the same size as my 2012 13” MBP.
gbrown
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
What’s the issue with newer EdgeOS? I thought the cloud crap could be disabled.
gbrown
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
You don't - you compare it to "standard of care" (antidepressants, CBT, etc.).

If we can compare an inferior treatment to placebo, and we can compare a breakthrough treatment to this established standard, we can evaluate the new treatment.
gbrown
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
I'm having trouble visualizing how this would be stable - from their reference frame (orbiting a Lagrange point), the pressure is coming unidirectionally. They'd be accelerated in one direction constantly, which seems like it couldn't possibly be stable.
gbrown
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
The carbon cost of manufacture and transport seems like it would absolutely dwarf any benefit to such a scheme.
gbrown
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
Wouldn't solar radiation pressure blow them all over the place?
gbrown
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
Completely agree - it's a classic prisoners dilemma, and the solution is to regulate cooperation.
gbrown
·il y a 9 ans·discuss
Also, there's no reason to suspect that it damaged only economically important plants. Nearby wildlife would plausibly be impacted.