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hatsuseno t1_j9jwc6i wrote

Reply to [OC] Median House Price to Income Ratio By Country by proof_required

Not sure where they pulled these numbers from for NL; but looking at the median income (around 38k gross) and the average price for an appartment (multiplier 9.8) or a single family home (multiplier 11.8) I don't see how one could reasonably come to a factor of 7.19 in the graph.

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hatsuseno t1_j6mt2v3 wrote

Reply to ELI5: Why do computers need GPUs (integrated or external)? What information is the CPU sending to the GPU that it can't just send to a display? by WeirdGamerAidan

Computers don't need GPUs. Older computers from the 80s sometimes didn't have any GPU, and the CPU was responsible for redrawing what you see on the monitor.

The problem with that is that it costs a lot of CPU time to do so, redrawing all the pixels 50 or 60 times per second.

GPUs started out as nothing more than a helper chip(set) for the CPU, so it wouldn't be doing the pixel pushing, but could do other stuff at the same time.

As what we wanted to see on the screen became more complex GPUs consequently also became more complex. First it was 2D acceleration to improve drawing windows and sprites on the screen, later 3D acceleration for obvious uses.

Or said in one line, CPUs are generalists so they can do the 'anything' computers are known for, GPUs are specialists so the CPU can continue doing generalist stuff, like instructing the GPU to 'draw a rectangle there', 'move the sprite from here to here over X frames', or 'add a sphere to the 3D scene'.

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hatsuseno t1_j6fwnx6 wrote

Reply to comment by SteveMcQwark in A toilet blown to pieces by Iwannasexdiofrfrogog

Yeah, looks really impressive, but a pound is not a lump. Add to that that in order to create a shock wave sufficiently strong to shatter porcelain outright in an open bowl you need something that really detonates, not the deflagration of hydrogen in an oxygen atmosphere. And no, putting the lid down doesn't change this sufficiently to matter.

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