Kirby64

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by Kirby64 4mo ago
This is no different than them skipping the “Ultra” chips on some generations. The only real difference is it going all the way down to skipping the “Pro” line. So, only the MacBook Air, low end MBP, and maybe the iPad Pro and Mac Mini get
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> I would not be at all comfortable, with a human server, making them wait while changing my selection multiple times (no I want it with the ginger sauce... no, without... no actually the sesame sauce... no actually I don't even wan
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> Seems like a made-up distinction that shouldn't be necessary since M6 has not even released. Why would it? Each generation of the M series has an architectural improvement on their chipsets. The difference between an M1 and an M1
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> All silicon shares the same process. CPU, GPU, SSD, etc No, no they don't. CPUs and GPUs do, broadly, but SSDs and RAM use specific processes catered only to their respective usages. You can't use a NAND flash process for any
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Until they raise the price on that too. Dell has explicitly stated it's a "limited time" price, so don't be shocked if it becomes the $699 XPS13 almost immediately.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> You really believe food, gas and house prices are not increasing at the same amount? No, I don't think food, gas, and house prices, have 5x'd in price like RAM has. This is abundantly obvious.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> That was from Gruber, a person who claimed USB-C was invented by Apple, AirPod was sold at a loss. I can't comment on the AirPod margins, but USB-C was, at least in large part, designed by Apple. That's absolutely true. They
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Doesn't solve any problems that are causing the price crunches. The problem is largely RAM and NAND pricing, which no small shop is going to spin up a fab to create. Making your own SoC would do little to alleviate the price issues.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> I genuinely have never understood why overscan is even a thing on HDMI ports. Remember that an HDMI port may be an input for another device where overscan is necessary to prevent the “garbage” at the edges of the screen. An example of
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Yes and no. There is sharing of RAM with IGPs from AMD and Intel, but my understanding is the way Microsoft handles the RAM sharing isn't quite as 'unified' as with MacOS. It's not a difference in hardware really, but a
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> No; that’s absurd to say it’s physically impossible, it is absolutely possible to etch whatever arbitrary pattern into a physical substrate, physics pending. Logic processes do not have the capabilities to even manufacture DRAM. It’s n
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> The problem there is that Apple's marketing speak of "unified memory" creates different and confusing connotations. Unified memory has nothing to do with them being on the same chip… it just has to do with them being the
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
The process used for RAM and the process used for the cutting edge microprocessors are nothing alike, so it’s physically impossible to have the same piece of silicon have both DDR RAM and the CPU. You’re not really going to find a citation
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
There's some companies (Snap being one of them) where certain classes of shares have NO voting rights. If you think SpaceX is lopsided, look at Snap's shares. They have A, B, and C class. The founders of Snap own 95% of the voting
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
I agree it’s not common. Doesn’t mean you couldn’t do that. If every room has its own breaker for the outlets in that room, you could convert that room to 240V, as an example, though. Also, another place where you might already have this ou
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
240V-20A circuits will handle 3.8kW continuous. It’s probably a 240V-20A circuit, as that is what the power supplies typically want. Also, easy to convert an outlet to 240V, if the breaker is dedicated to that outlet. Just requires swapping
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Is a 5 year ROI really that crazy? Seems very reasonable considering lifespan of solar is more like 15-20 years (or more).
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Where in Australia grows Sichuan peppercorns? They're almost exclusively grown in China and the general regions nearby to my knowledge.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
Pretty much all phones have screens, even landline ones. They communicate at minimum caller ID, or what phone number you dialed out. Using an old flip phone (they still make them that have 4g/5g connectivity these days!) gets you a sim
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> If you have a microcontroller in the lens you have software in the lens and if you have software in the lens you're going to need to update it. No, no you shouldn’t. There’s no reason why a microcontroller should ever need its fir
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> For those who haven't followed the camera world for a while, at this point a lens for a mirrorless camera will have a USB-C port to receive firmware updates. Besides the slightly interesting stuff Tamron is doing, why on earth wou
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
They’re also typically covered in hard anti reflective coatings. Making them similar to glass in scratch resistance.
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by Kirby64 4mo ago
> I've had more power outages with the switching to green energy production than I ever had whilst coal was king. Bit of a correlation not causation, no? Rise of renewable energy has also been during the rise of energy usage overall
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Interesting. I’ve worked for company’s that were all Dell shops as well and were similarly large and they had no such deal. You got whatever PC was available (like two options, one large and one small) and no choice beyond that. If you were
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
What company upgrades their windows PCs? They give them exactly as shipped. IT department is not wasting time swapping out RAM or SSDs. And they certainly are not upgrading them over time. You just replace the entire PC if you go to 's
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
> Why? The book itself gives no reasoning or exact age for when Earth started, yet we have to believe it is fact that someone misreading that book has the exact pure date? Young earth creationism is predicated on the idea that every word
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
Yet, carbon 14 dating is one of the “gotcha” reasons that they’ll try to argue an old earth is impossible. It’s not a good faith argument from them generally though.
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
You’re not providing adequate documentation then. I’ve charged back major companies before without issue when they were at fault and refused to help.
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
This has nothing to do with hardware decoding though, no? Hardware decoding generally is more restrictive in supported formats, not less restrictive. Unless you mean AV1 decoding is supported by Apple TV in hardware but not the Plex app its
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by Kirby64 5mo ago
That doesn’t answer my question. What does it get me? Why do I care if it uses hardware decoding or not if I can stream pretty much any content without any issues? It’s not like it causes stuttering or wastes a bunch of power because it’s u

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