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by bsorbo 4y ago
Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition consistently de-syncs when playing across a M1 Mac (using Windows 11 Arm or Crossover) and an x86 machine, and I suspect the difference in floating point behavior described here is the culprit: https:&#
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by bsorbo 5y ago
Adding onto this, this article compares various approaches to getting money “early” out of a 401k/tIRA (Roth conversion ladder as said here, 72t SEPP’s, early withdrawal penalty), and has the surprising conclusion that even the “just p
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by bsorbo 5y ago
Also worth calling out that the even older (2014) iPad Air 2 will be supported by iPadOS 15. It is the lone A8-series device with 2 GB of Ram.
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by bsorbo 6y ago
Some analysts (including Gurman) have pretty consistently called out 2020 as “the” year for a couple years now: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-02/apple-is-...
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Show HN: iPhone 6s Battery Replacement before/after [video](youtube.com)
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by bsorbo 10y ago
While the readme does state this (could be) a joke, this unfortunately isn't possible with PCI-e today: Motherboards only support directly accessing a (up to) 256 MB segment of VRAM directly from the CPU. This is the BAR1 space/ap
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by bsorbo 11y ago
I'm guessing the frequencies (performance) are the same, but it's possible the Samsung process is able to run the same frequencies at lower voltages.
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by bsorbo 12y ago
This seems really promising, can't say I would miss all of the ^ (hat) usage for Modern Windows APIs. I wonder how he intends to wrap/change the DirectX APIs. AFAIK Direct2D, WIC, DirectComposition are already native COM-based API
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by bsorbo 13y ago
"Purple" was one of the code names for the first iPhone - http://allthingsd.com/20120803/apples-scott-forstall-on-how-... I've seen PurpleEventCallback show up in different stacks.