Never experienced those with Firefox on Windows, macOS or a myriad of Linux distros along the years. Not using Ubuntu anymore, but when I did, I did not use flatpaks. That might be the origin of your issues.
I was referencing directly the amount of compilation, not necessarily the power consumption. But with regards to ecological impact, I would guess you have Java on a server in your mind.
But, the biggest Java user in term of number of devices is Android. And every time you install an app, you compile it. Including every time you update it (which nowadays is... everyday?). Also it'll recompile in background to use pgo. Nowadays [1] Google could pretty much compile it server-side for most devices, and save a lot of battery wear (batteries wear when getting hot, and compiling, weirdly, heats), in addition to power consumption.
It depends on how you use it. For long running applications like services, yeah, the JIT will get the bytecode down to some very high quality machine code. If you write lots of small applications and compose them using something like Unix, then Java is very inefficient.
Have any of you actually tried Asahi? Touchpad works flawlessly. A rust based, open source GPU driver is working since December and swiftly advances daily to a fully stable state.
Yeah, exactly. I reckon they didn't lose it. That money was sent somewhere else and they "covered" it up with their own issued/invented tokens at ridiculous real cost. It would seem plausible to think that they used Alameda as a proxy for the real destination of all that money.
The recent crypto downturn has been unrelenting and deep: It's totally plausible they just thought they were the kind of geniuses who could spot the bottom of the market and quickly bled through all the money
but yeah, it's also possible the money just ended up at a third unknown entity
Thats likely what happened. They are their own margin lenders and also FTX market makers. They backstop rapidly falling tokens on their exchange. So a sudden but prolonged drop in crypto prices can wipe put huge amounts quickly
His fuck buddy allegedly claims SBF's company forked over the cash to cover bad debts. I'm guessing we're talking $Bs.
"Around the time the crypto market crashed this spring, Ms. Ellison explained, lenders moved to recall those loans, the person familiar with the meeting said. But the funds that Alameda had spent were no longer easily available, so the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments. Besides her and Mr. Bankman-Fried, she said, two other people knew about the arrangement: Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang."
That's allegedly hell of a lot of money to lose over a shared woman who didn't even pop out your kid. Honestly dude probably could have made out and at least not gone to jail if he hadn't been allegedly defrauding his customers to prop up his amour's company.
Almeda was also the market-maker backstopping FTX. They were using Alameda to provide backstop liquidity to FTX, i.e. absorb losses when prices went backwards quickly. Unfortunately, they were also loaning out huge margins, which means people on their platforms could rack up losses pretty quickly.
There he is a blog authored by SBF himself from like 2018 where he was touting their innovative market superior market-making approach, which ultimately boils down, they had automated circuit-breakers, and if the worst came to the worst, some robust 3rd-party entity will come in absorb the losses. He never explained why anyone would want to do that. (I wish I can find that article where he explained it). He probably was using Alameda as that 3rd-party entity to absorb the losses. And since they were also recklessly handing out margin loans for people to trade with, those losses can get really large really quickly if crypto prices went down and stayed down. If they rebounded, they will make a killing. Which is why hyping crypto and SBF so prices rebound is their only play.
yes, I am sure there was some frivolous spend there. But my strongest hunch is that majority of the funds Alameda lost was from backstopping FTX when prices went south. He thought he was too smart. he basically reinvented the wheel. he reinvented the entire financial system with himself and his company playing the role of the Feds, larger bank, smaller bank, and retail bank, stock market exchange all in one. The FED has the economic and political and military might backing him. Alameda has funds deposited by users, and some guy who thinks he is too smart.
