This isn't an "end run around 1A" - the law doesn't target any speech or content at all. TikTok can keep operating with all the same content, they just need to separate from Chinese ownership first. If this was about censorship, why include that option?
This isn't about censoring content, it's about preventing ByteDance from collecting personal data from 170M Americans that Chinese law requires them to hand over to their government.
Power consumption varies significantly based on what's being displayed, on top of brightness settings.
I have a 42" 4k LG OLED. With a pure black background and just a taskbar visible (5% of screen), the TV draws ~40W because OLED pixels use no power when displaying black.
Opening Chrome to Google's homepage in light mode pulls ~150W since each pixel's RGB components need power to produce white across most of the screen.
Video content causes continuous power fluctuation as each frame is rendered. Dark frames use less power (more pixels off/dim), bright frames use more (more pixels on/bright).
Modern OLEDs use Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) for brightness control - pixels switch rapidly between fully on and off states. Lower brightness means pixels spend more time in their off state during each cycle.
The QN800A's local dimming helps reduce power in dark scenes by dimming zones of the LED backlight array, though power consumption still varies significantly with content brightness. It's similar to OLED but the backlight zones are not specific to each pixel.
Dark mode UIs and lower brightness settings will reduce power draw on both QLED and OLED displays.
Traditional LCDs without local dimming work quite differently - their constant backlight means only brightness settings affect power, not the content being displayed.
This explains those power fluctuations in the QN800A measurements. Peak power (429W) likely occurs during bright, high-contrast scenes - think NFL games during a sunny day game, or HDR content with bright highlights. For gaming, power draw is largely influenced by the content being displayed - so a game like Factorio, with its darker UI and industrial scenes, would typically draw less power than games with bright, sunny environments.
I was under the incorrect impression the power consumption would related to the rendering of the image (ala CPU/GPU work). Having it related to brightness makes much more sense.
This is really a key point. Inkjet printers are great for printing photos and will work great if you do so frequently. But if you don't, they have issues.
Unless you print something in "full color" (and even if you do), you rarely use the inks evenly. One cartridge will always run out or dry out faster than another. Also, ink can dry out in the jets - causing clogs and resulting in streaks. Also, if a cartridge dries out, the printer thinks it is empty and almost always requires you to replace it before printing even if you don't need it.
They're great for photos (especially Canons), but a simple BW laser is a better investment if all you print is documents. If you need color (for documents), a color laser is also more ideal. It is much more expensive up front, but also a good long-term investment. Toner you use less frequently (like cyan) won't dry out. It'll just sit there until the odd day that you need it. Prints-per-cartridge are usually higher since the cartridges are typically larger, physically. Streaking in the conventional sense isn't even possible with how the tech works. Price-per-print is typically much lower. Especially if you consider less trips to the store, and less replacing of wasted cartridges.
A $600 color laser (more like $400 now) can be an expensive upfront investment, but for printing color docs, it's almost always cheaper in the long run.
Source: I worked retail in college and sold printers and had this conversation literally thousands of times.
That's what we recommended. Print something that uses all the colors at least once a week to keep the ink moving. I believe some printers have a "test" print that does exactly this.
Also a cloud engineer. I use a similar setup professionally and for various personal projects.
For someone who isn't familiar with standing up cloud resources the diagram can look overwhelming but once you play around with AWS for a bit, most of the resources you see are fairly boilerplate.
VPC is essentially just setting up a virtual LAN for your resources. S3 is being used as an API mediator to NOAA. CloudFront is a CDN for your API Gateway. Lambdas run your logic. API Gateway triages api requests to lambdas, and a couple other services act as mediators.
There is some vender lock-in in that everything here is built on AWS, but all the major cloud providers have similar/equivalent services. If you decided to move to GCP or Azure you could probably move the entire stack in a few days (maybe more depending on how much your lambdas use AWS specific internal APIs).
If vendor lock-in is a really big concern for you, you can run everything on an EC2 instance running Ubuntu instead. That way you can just spin up your service on another Ubuntu instance in another datacenter, or locally, or whatever.
Soooo, yes. There is some vendor lock-in here, but not much.
To answer your cost question. I run a very similar setup for personal projects and I rarely exceed AWS's free tier for most services. On a high-usage month it's around $85. It isn't super optimized. I could make it cheaper and nearly free if I put in the work.
That said, cost for a service like this scales very proportionally to usage. For example, AWS API Gateway can process 1 million requests for free before they start asking you for money. If the service becomes super popular we'd likely see the "Buy me a coffee" button promoted a little more and eventually you may see a paid tier as an option, but as it is, it's probably pretty affordable to run.
I'm the dev behind this, and really appreciate all the insight from actual cloud professionals! Your guess here is spot on, I designed it so that I could more or less fit in the free tier with exactly one user, with costs scaling pretty linearly afterwards. There are a few more optimizations I could do, but it's honestly pretty impressive how much traffic (I'm at about 10 million calls/ month) can be (somewhat) cheaply handled using AWS
When you start asking questions like "What's a sign of burnout?", that's usually a sign of burnout.
Other obvious signs:
- experiencing less and less enthusiasm about work, making it difficult to want to go to work at all
- difficulty focusing on tasks at work because you can't muster up any "care" at all to actually think about what work wants you to do (Task: Change the font size on the About page. Internal response: "Why? Who cares...")
- taking longer breaks and finding any excuse to drag your feet when you are heading back to your desk
- taking sick days when you don't feel "sick" but really feel like you need a day off (I would argue that the way you feel is a valid reason for taking a "sick" day - which is why we call them "personal days" at my company. Sick, tired, hungover. We don't care. You need a day off, you take the day off)
- asking questions about when's the soonest you can take a vacation even if you have no vacation planned (feeling like you need to escape)
- becoming more disagreeable with your coworkers, tasks, friends, family, responsibilities, etc (related to the above "not caring". You start to not see the value in a lot of "trivial" things, and become disagreeable on their basic merits)
- eating and/or drinking more than usual (or other substance use)
The list goes on, but I would say that a lot of "burnout symptoms" are akin to those with depression.
Essentially, your energy, enthusiasm, and general give-a-shit slowly starts to fade.
Unfortunately, humans are rarely rational creatures. Even armed with this information, it can take quite a bit more "drudging along" before a person will hit their actual breaking point.
My personal recommendation when you start to feel this way, if you can, is to walk away....
It feels like a huge change to just quit your job, but looking back, I believe that the damage that burnout has caused would have been less if I had taken the financial hit and just quit the moment I started feeling it.
Edit:
In response to the poster's edit question "When is it time to change change jobs because of it?"
Asap.
The longer you stay, the more you will feel burnt out, and it will result in diminishing returns
What sort of job did you switch to? My problem right now is that I am pretty convinced I'm burned out, but nothing seems better. Objectively the job is fine if a little pointless, and if I can't appreciate that one .. y'know?
Same type of job (software), different circumstances.
The most burnt out I've felt was when I needed to be in an office from about 9-5 every day. I lived in a town I didn't really like where there wasn't much to do besides checkout yet another new brewery and I worked on a product that sounded kind of interesting for the first five minutes, but I quickly realized I couldn't care less about.
Now I work remotely. My hours are flexible and deadlines are relaxed. Most of my coworkers work remote and at different times. Most conversations are asynchronous, removing a lot of that fake urgency that comes from feeling like you need to respond immediately to someone's message. The product is more interesting and something that I can see adding value to peoples' lives.
The biggest thing for me personally though: I travel while I work. Not for work, but while I work.
I've always liked exploring and being able to spend a week working in a new town "just because" has been huge for me.
Because I don't work set hours, I can sleep in when I need to and work later that day. Or I can decide to go exploring around a new town for a couple of hours before I start work. I run errands anytime I need to - which is great for avoiding busy times and traffic.
Working remotely with flexible hours has removed a lot of small, but substantial, stressors in my life. I wouldn't say this is a panacea for burnout though because it really depends on the person and the company, but it has worked well for me.
In what places do you sleep, shower, and work while traveling? Do you pay for hotels? I've considered a similar lifestyle, but paying for hotels all the time isn't enticing.
It can definitely be expensive depending on where you stay, but there are some things that help me justify the cost in some situations. The freedom to come and go at any time - no lease/contract/mortgage, etc. Usually hotels are nicer than an apartment or house that I would stay in anyway - cleaner more up to date rooms, a pool, housekeeping, etc. Breakfast and coffee are complementary in most places. Free wifi in a lot of places that is usually pretty reliable (but make sure to double check ahead of time. Some places have terrible internet).
Some places can be as low as $70/night which is less than what I paid for rent the last time I had an apartment. Also, if you stay with certain hotel chains enough times in a year, you'll start to get complementary upgrades, the occasional free night, and some other little perks that do actually make it seem worth while.
Asking about "longer" term stay (multiple weeks, to a month) pricing has actually resulted in a decent discount a few times as well.
That said, it's not for everyone. You can certainly find cheaper places to rent in a lot of places, and it's definitely not something I'd recommend unless you are single and do not have any dependents (dogs, children, a goldfish, etc).
i sympathize a lot with all of the symptoms. in my experience, as someone who used to work pretty hard, once you're past the cusp of 'it's all pointless' it makes it really really hard to bother.
Like you're not getting anything out of it. You don't care if the work is done or not. Nobody else seems to care. And even thinking about it makes you feel ill and horrible. Difficult situation to grind hard work out of
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor but I've had diagnosed work-related depression ('burnout') and got treated for it. This is based solely on my personal experience:
You don't need to work hard to be burnt out, you may just be continuously confronted with tasks or conditions that are too much for you to deal with. A high stress environment. Burnout is just another word for depression, caused by a specific set of circumstances that are usually work/career-related.
Your son may have clinical depression, you can't willpower yourself out of one of those.
I would imagine that "adding value to the user" translates to "adding value to the business" in a lot of ways for Google.
If, on average, users perceive more value from Google, they use Google more, and Google earns more ad rev. Even if this lowers value substantially for the "relative few".
It's basic utilitarianism, and it sucks to be in the "relative few"...
I too, wish that quotes were respected, and Google would stop giving results for what it thinks I meant to search for like it knows what I meant better than I do - even if that is the case...sometimes.
At every company I've worked at any time someone has asked "How many active users do we have?" it was a difficult question to answer because everyone's idea of "active user" was different.
"Active, as in logs in regularly? Wait, what is 'regularly'? Once a week? Once a month? Every day? Does 'active user' mean, online right now?"
Etc, etc...
Their definition of "active user" is relative, not inaccurate.
You can build a simple desalinator (aka, a solar still) with a couple bins, some glass/plexiglass, and access to sunlight. Preferably in an enclosed system to better contain heat and prevent water vapor from escaping.
No filters to replace, and it will run for as long as you feed it water.
Where do you put the left over salt? At those levels it’s both toxic for animals and toxic for plants.
Even putting it back into the ocean isn’t simple. If you do it in one big batch, you would kill everything in that location for a while. If you do it slowly, that isn’t simple.
Make margaritas. Put some on your steak. Throw the rest back in the ocean if you want.
We're talking, maybe a couple pounds of salt per person per day. It's not an unmanageable amount.
You're not going to hurt the ocean by adding back a little salt - salt that you took out of it...
Yes, you will most likely affect cultures within the immediate vicinity of a salt dump site but they will regrow elsewhere. It's peanuts compared to the amount of dilution being caused all the time by normal freshwater runoff and ice cap melts.
This isn't about censoring content, it's about preventing ByteDance from collecting personal data from 170M Americans that Chinese law requires them to hand over to their government.
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