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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Ultimately they had to if they wanted BIOS to be able to boot CD-ROMs. The BIOS boot sequence sticking around for so long is an unfortunate consequence of it becoming a decentralized standard outside of any one vendor's control, and so
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
UEFI doesn't much care what sort of storage medium something is on, so long as it is capable of reading it and it has a valid EFI partition. It is much less picky than BIOS, for which the El Torito standard had to be invented, and can
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Those large ones are large and important enough to receive substantial rewrites/overhauls when necessary. Those rewrites can be very expensive, and are completely infeasible for most software projects that don't have huge backing
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Sounds like a great way to get your IMEI blacklisted by the carrier (and drop/miss calls a lot), and would not really stop them from triangulating your position (because you still have to be physically in range of all the towers, and w
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
That doesn't have any impact. The memory isn't on-chip, it's just on-package. This makes it no different from if it was fully external. This has also not been a problem for any other unified memory system (which typically als
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There actually aren't really any benefits outside of manufacturing. Trace length is a marginal factor in memory performance/latency, and having the memory on-package versus only slightly further away doesn't mean much. I&#x27
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There's not really any reason it would be slower. Being on-package doesn't offer any real performance advantage (the lengths of the traces to memory have a negligible impact on performance or latency), and is more of a benefit to
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I'm not aware of any currently-available non-Apple ARM chips on TSMC's 5nm process. Can you name some?
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There's not really any magic to it, they just need to implement PCIe and include memory slots instead of hardwired chips on the package. There are other ARM systems that already do this.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I agree with the rest, but memory latency is actually pretty poor on the M1: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I have been trying to explain to people that having the DRAM chips physically next to the SOC on the package does not actually meaningfully improve memory latency. I get that people on this site are excited, but please be excited about the
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The optimal shape for most markets is a duopoly. Both competitors get a large enough stake to continue growing, but don't really meaningfully compete, and don't have to worry as much about antitrust.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There are a lot of tremendously unprofitable monopoly plays riding this sort of dream train, particularly since 2008. Which ones will work and which ones won't is hard to tell, but that is indeed what investors are betting on. At least
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Which is also the Apple approach. Mac OS is pretty terrible at sleep and wake on non-Apple hardware, but of course it is, Apple doesn't test against hardware they don't support. In both cases it isn't anything wrong with the
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
This sort of criticism isn't about content. Simply having something like that happen in the plot is different from saying something interesting about it. Those sorts of plot elements are core to the genre, and are an expected part of a
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It's also fundamentally untenable in a world where the purpose of the ads they replace is to pay for the content you're viewing. The web needs a real solution to the problems ads present at the moment, but we're unlikely to g
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
It was not made in 2018, that's just the latest renewal of the ruling (which was originally made in 2010). Apple's attempts to make it illegal were denied at the time too, because even without the ruling it fairly obviously falls
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Jailbreaking absolutely does not violate the DMCA, nor is it illegal. Circumvention that isn't related to copyright infringement is not covered under the DMCA, and jailbreaking mobile devices has been ruled explicitly exempt on those g
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
I doubt they'll manage to win, but the fact that Cydia predates the official App Store looks pretty core to the complaint.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
All the Bell Telephone company did was prevent other products/services from working with their system.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
If any industry is a cargo cult, the watch industry qualifies.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There might not be as many hateboys, but what I have found is that Apple fanboys are significantly more defensive, and often respond poorly to criticism, and are generally at best dismissive of it. This is probably a result of being so freq
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Pretty mainstream level of snake oil in the audiophile world though. Whom amongst us has not been told that this fancy power cable will be the second coming of Christ?
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
320 kbps mp3 is already indistinguishable for most people with most workloads, let alone the much more performant 320 kbps Vorbis that Spotify uses. A lot of people love to fret about this stuff and convince themselves they can tell for the
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
The Mac app store is a terrible platform for distributing games. People do not look there for them, and they have a bad reputation of breaking or being left unmaintained. It has awful discoverability and is filled with trash. Customers also
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Not really so much on it as using it as a dumb video terminal then though.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
Four M1s in a NUMA configuration would get absolutely crushed in the high end market outside of niche uses because of the amount of interconnect bus stress. NUMA is most advantageous on server workloads that Apple doesn't target and fo
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
G3 and G4 chips also had a fair lead there at the time. At the time iBooks were getting twice the battery life of most x86 competitors at least.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
There are also hidden costs in roads being clogged up with personal cars slowing commercial traffic.
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by chungus_khan 6y ago
What a really funny coincidence that it just happened to degrade in a manner that massively benefits corporate interests too. My other favorite coincidence is when I put a coin in a vending machine and a can comes out the bottom.

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