> I think I just always want to stop at the 90/10 place where you get 90% of the functionality with 10% of the code, and the remaining 10% of the functionality requires 10x the initial code.
And that should be the right approach 90% of the time. Thanks for your comment!
Not sure if it applies to you, but I had the issue with black screen too but finally got it working after issuing the following commands [0] and restarting the device. Hope it helps.
You are definitely not. Writing this from my work machine, passively cooled Ryzen desktop, which has been serving me well for the past 5 years. And I don't miss much having a laptop. I work from home anyways.
I think the demographics depends heavily on industry. I know many people doing 3D work and they all use desktops these days.
No, it won't. Earth will either be a scorched planet or will be engulfed by the Sun. And it won't take those 5 billion years either for life to vanish from Earth. We're currently near the inner edge of Goldilocks zone (Mars is just a bit outside of the outer edge) and we have only like 500 million years. Either start colonizing other planets or we die, there nothing in between (assuming we don't destroy ourselves meanwhile).
Third option, we can take advantage of repeated gravitational slingshots to transfer orbital kinetic energy from Jupiter to Earth via an asteroid going repeatedly between both planets, gradually increasing Earth's orbit.
(I'm not an astrophysicist, I just read about this idea a few years back and it stuck in my mind).
The limit on earth's habitability is determined by permanent sequestration of atmospheric CO₂ through the carbonate-silicate cycle, not insolation. Once CO₂ drops below a certain level, photosynthesis will no longer be possible and all remaining ecosystems will collapse.
(Don't mistake that as an endorsement of burning fossil fuels — climate change is operating at a rate measured in decades, CO₂ drawdown via the carbonate-silicate cycle operates at a rate measured in hundreds of millions of years)
While I am not generally a proponent of waiting until the last minute to worry about a problem, I think with a time frame of hundreds of millions of years, we can afford to procrastinate a bit.
And that should be the right approach 90% of the time. Thanks for your comment!