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541.
by bpye 4y ago
Operating systems zero memory before handing out pages, I wonder what the perf impact would be to run at least a very basic test on a page before allocating it. Obviously allocation would be slower, but maybe it's worth it in some scen
542.
by bpye 4y ago
It really just depends how close you are to the data centre and how your traffic gets routed. A couple ms is probably acceptable, 50ms certainly not.
543.
by bpye 4y ago
> and it came down very early in time. Is this just because we’ve used it to define the start?
544.
by bpye 4y ago
Is that computer science or is that physics though?
545.
by bpye 4y ago
> The culprit? They downloaded the OS image using FTP and forgot to set binary mode. Various other network kit vendors I recall would do some level of validation (and anyone downloading should be checking the hash). RCA sent to customers
546.
by bpye 4y ago
Most new builds are a B on the EPC scale [0]. I guess they could require that all new builds meet A? 0 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-performance-...
547.
by bpye 4y ago
Yep, I attached one of these on the underside of the back of my desk. Means I basically have two cables from the wall, Ethernet to a switch and power. Works great.
548.
by bpye 4y ago
I saw this a while ago and then promptly forgot about it. I should give it another try! I wish I could disable auto switching on my cheapo USB 3 switch though, sometimes my laptop will update and reboot and steal input from my desktop which
549.
by bpye 4y ago
It says they are magnetic? I wonder if it'll be possible for third parties to make compatible lenses.
550.
by bpye 4y ago
I'd say it's more along the lines of Qemu user emulation / Rosetta 2 / Microsoft's x64 on ARM64 JIT.
551.
by bpye 4y ago
In addition to the other reply - Apple definitely _do_ run macOS in a datacentre for Xcode Cloud [0]. 0 - https://twitter.com/khaost/status/1410332951963869185
552.
by bpye 4y ago
> How will Apple recoup the cost of designing a powerful chip for a product like the Mac Pro, which is presumably their lowest-selling product? In their own datacentres?
553.
by bpye 4y ago
> Why am I mentioning this? Look at arduino... relatively speaking it was a shitty chip, with low specs and not even that cheap... But critically it had a reasonable quality, free, open source, C compiler.
554.
by bpye 4y ago
But it won't receive even security updates going forward [0]. Whilst LineageOS might be able to patch any issues in Android itself, any vulnerabilities in a binary blob will not get fixed. 0 - https://support.google.com&#x2F
555.
by bpye 4y ago
There is Waydroid. It doesn't use Chrome but should work on any Linux distro. I have used it in the past with some success, but not for quite some time now.
556.
by bpye 4y ago
NOAA has a neat tool to determine the difference (declination) [0]. Looks like it's about 16° for me in Vancouver, BC. [0] - https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/calculators/magcalc.shtml#d...
557.
by bpye 4y ago
> All this enables single chip processors with over 100 billion transistors, so, more transistors on laptop processor than neurons in your brain. I was sceptical, but this is true! The human brain supposedly has ~86 billion neurons [0].
558.
by bpye 4y ago
Oh, I understand that when AC is present, but in my experience in the PNW - AC is uncommon, but forced air is still preferred for heating.
559.
by bpye 4y ago
I find that radiant more evenly heats a space - there's no obvious warm air flow from a vent like you'd get with forced air. It's also near silent (except for your boiler) and doesn't blow dust about.
560.
by bpye 4y ago
I find it odd that radiant heat is so uncommon in the US and most of Canada, even in buildings without AC, whilst in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe it’s the most common form of heating. Anecdotally I much prefer radiant heat to forced air
561.
by bpye 4y ago
I do the same but FYI it's called Vaultwarden now.
562.
by bpye 4y ago
I wonder if the M3 could still get raytracing since the power budget is higher...
563.
by bpye 4y ago
Compared to the delays that Intel have seen in recent years it's honestly quite impressive that Apple have managed to get new silicon every year largely on time.
564.
by bpye 4y ago
I'm still holding onto my 11 Pro for now, but if the 15 Pro has USB-C I'll happily upgrade. There's nothing on my 11 Pro I'm unhappy with still, though the battery life is noticeably worse than when new by now.
565.
by bpye 4y ago
I wonder how closely related their GPU is to PowerVR these days as well. With both PowerVR and the Asahi GPU driver it would be interesting to see if any of the design still resembles PowerVR.
566.
by bpye 4y ago
It wasn't clear from the article that there was a fallback plan, or that they decided to use a lightly modified previous gen GPU because that was the only way to get working silicon in the timeframe?
567.
by bpye 4y ago
This is already an issue. For a lot of searches you end up with pages of content that appears to be copies, but with minor changes - perhaps manually but I suspect by some sort of ML model.
568.
by bpye 4y ago
Whilst true it seems likely that had sensor technology not evolved with point and shoots, phones wouldn't have been able to include cameras - certainly not as quickly as they did.
569.
by bpye 4y ago
That's kind of my point though - it ends up being charged on the 'value add' at each stage, so the vertical integration doesn't matter. X % of the final cost should still be VAT.
570.
by bpye 4y ago
I wonder if they might be applications for accelerated raytracing in augmented reality applications? There have been a handful of publications suggesting it for a while, such as https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6297

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