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by banachtarski 6y ago
> you can actually but it isn’t easy How?
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Is being male and white not a factor in your analysis. Just looking statistically at the segment of the demographic which directly correlates with wealth and entrepreneurship paints a different story from your narrative.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Hard disagree. “Free speech” does not include hate speech.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Counterpoint, would you buy a machine in 2020 to service as a developer laptop or desktop with 8 gb of ram and 512 gb of storage? Saying that the premiums are "just the upgrades" sort of ignores what those upgrades actually are an
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by banachtarski 6y ago
How is that a fair point. Developers don't WANT bespoke frameworks that lock you into a single ecosystem. We would obviously prefer open standards and specifications supported by multiple vendors. The popularity of frameworks such as F
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by banachtarski 6y ago
The parent comment is talking about phones.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
We still use devkits because you cannot possibly develop a console game without one. They provide detailed hardware accelerated instrumentation, and also have specialized hardware that you can't emulate without a dramatic perf hit. The
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by banachtarski 6y ago
For apple they are 100% forced to. Not sure what you’re getting at but have you ever seen an iphone simulator on windows or linux?
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by banachtarski 6y ago
> Besides, you can still run non-notarized binaries if you want to. The UI does make it difficult, but not impossible. On ios and ipad (from your first sentence) you cannot.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
You’re being sarcastic... but your premise is wrong. I can build for windows and android from linux without issue. I can build for linux and android from windows without issue. I pay nothing in any direction.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
It keeps inching closer. You now have a unified arch between mobile and desktop. You were never officially able to cross compile before and now there’s yet another barrier. Phoned signing verification is another thing that is a precursor to
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by banachtarski 6y ago
There will be a day when all apps on a mac will only be installable from the app store. Developers will be forced to buy macs and subscribe to Apple’s developer program to support it. Customers will be trained to not care. And HN Apple fanb
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I use Linux and Windows. If Windows is an idea of a "sick joke," consider how much processing power and capability you're leaving on the table. Just losing the first-party GPU driver alone costs you. It costs you more for RAM
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I'm a graphics engineer. It's so low end at this point I honestly dread benchmarking on it.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Sure, but if you read the comments here you'd think the M1 GPU was state of the art or something.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
lol what's hilarious is the numbers probably go up just by installing windows and using the actual first-party nvidia driver.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
1050 Ti is below entry level at this point though.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
What is tempting about this? This benchmark shows that the M1 performs marginally worse than the low-end sku from 3 generations ago.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
For reference, the 1050 Ti card is considered the minimum spec at many AAA game studios.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Why do people buy chastity belts instead of phones and laptops.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/mtldevice/14... Here's Apple's documentation on creating a gpu command queue. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32
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by banachtarski 6y ago
I think you’re really cherry picking here. Most developers that frequent “caniuse” most likely encounter lack if safari support above every other browser. Also have you seen webgl 2? What a joke from the webkit team. Yes webgpu is on the wa
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Reverse engineering a published app isn't the same as "spying".
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by banachtarski 6y ago
> Okay, I know what exponential increase means This is the first thing that needs to break in your intuition. The "increase" that occurs with "repeated multiplication" in the layman's understanding of exponential
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Sorry but this reeks of nonsense to me. Even if true, surely the compute power could be used for protein folding or something actually useful instead of hashing bits only to throw the results away the majority of the time. Crypto needs to d
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Well, in their defense, I generally haven't run into any issues with their driver and it's also pretty easy to package/install as an enduser.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
You do not fundamentally understand the argument, which is that a freer market with the ability to charge for and ship software outside of the app store (like is done on Windows/Mac) would be better for consumers.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
Lol Ive used Arch as a driver for about 9 years now. No problems. Meanwhile, I constantly get asked questions about how to unbreak colleague/friend Ubuntu setups because they broke things try to get a slightly more recent version of X
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by banachtarski 6y ago
This is somewhat circular reasoning though. Apple and Google have deliberately made it impossible or difficult to sideload to maximize profits.
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by banachtarski 6y ago
During WWII, IBM supplied the Nazis with mainframe computers and were responsible for untold deaths in exchange for money. It's not that black and white.

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