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by dagmx 2y ago
At that point you’re comparing different products as a whole not the SoC. At that point it becomes a significantly different discussion. Neither of those laptops you linked are comparable to the MacBook Pro on a number of points, primarily
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by dagmx 2y ago
I’m not sure this tracks because you’re not comparing like for like > Intel is willing to pay for the transistors, and Apple reserves them for the M3 Pro instead. Apple is also willing to pay for it. You just happen to be comparing the h
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yuzu was taking donations to support playing games that were leaked before release. Nintendo did ask Dolphin to pull out some DVD keys so it’s not like they’ve been left alone either. But Nintendo doesn’t care about emulation because that’s
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by dagmx 2y ago
I’m not saying the M3 has a fundamental advantage. I’m saying that it’s unlikely to be as high a difference as is being stated in real world use. I don’t think a SOC at half the power budget is going to be magically more powerful. Regarding
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by dagmx 2y ago
As of yesterday, the latest chips from AMD (stryx point) and Intel (lunar lake) are considered Copilot+ ready
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by dagmx 2y ago
Gaming is absolutely not all done with fp32. A lot of games actually target half precision , which is where most PowerVR based GPUs pull ahead. The majority of shaders and buffers are better suited for half. It also ignores things like occu
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by dagmx 2y ago
Not a great analogy imho. You’re comparing power output vs useful power input. TDP is about thermal envelope, which is a factor of the power input but not the useful output. Perf/watt would be a better point for your analogy. But TDP d
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by dagmx 2y ago
You can’t directly compare teraflops for GPU performance between different architectures unless you really only care about a single precision throughput, which is not a good metric. You do actually need real world graphics benchmarks to com
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by dagmx 2y ago
Where are you getting better GPU benchmarks from? Afaik there’s not been public graphics benchmarks and Intel didn’t compare against Apple. Apples GPUs have generally been class leading for integrated graphics. I’d be surprised if Intel imp
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by dagmx 2y ago
Technically, I think you can’t anymore? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t... Intel dropped support for 16 bit booting with their firmware from a few years ago. And wi
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by dagmx 2y ago
Apple have this built into their OS ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mediaaccessibility... ) and publish the implementation ( https://github.com/apple/VideoFlashingReduction ) There are a f
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by dagmx 2y ago
Why is that your criteria? That feels arbitrary unless it’s a required interaction model. Did phones with styluses mean they’d lost? It’s an optional, removable attachment.
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by dagmx 2y ago
People said that for photoshop and then procreate took over a big chunk of the market. Similarly people said that for desktop sculpting but many artists now use Nomad, plus there’s ZBrush for iPad coming out. How do you we know it’s not wor
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by dagmx 2y ago
I think CLI tools can help compartmentalise functionality and that can be helpful. But I think they can also obscure functionality the same way as a GUI tool. Take git for example, it’s much easier to visualize how it works from a GUI. Squa
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by dagmx 2y ago
Oh come off your high horse. The phrasing is exactly > There are people here on this forum openly admitting they don’t see how ‘knowing Linux’ is useful That could literally apply to any job, especially as a developer. And then the rest
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by dagmx 2y ago
What does that have to do with what you’re replying to?
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by dagmx 2y ago
But most frontend devs don’t need to do any of the things you’ve mentioned. By your own comment, they have a backend team who handle it and they work in concert. Would it be nice if they could understand each other better? Sure but most bac
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by dagmx 2y ago
I think you’re arguing backwards from the assumption that people aren’t learning those skills because it’s Linux versus the actual learning of the skill itself. Why would a frontend dev need to know how to configure a http server beyond wha
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by dagmx 2y ago
Surely, if my question is a trap then so is the initial premise I’m replying to? It doesn’t specify a job and that’s exactly what I’m calling out. Even your response assumes that a “typical” developer is one who deploys to the cloud , but w
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by dagmx 2y ago
Let me flip that around on you: why would someone need to know Linux specifically for the majority of jobs out there? I’m very familiar with Linux. My day job for years was Linux based and I honestly do not think one needs to know it, or an
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by dagmx 2y ago
Knowing Linux is different than knowing how to use a CLI. I dislike that the two are conflated. Firstly, Mac and Windows both offer a very mature command line interface. But also, I don’t think knowing Linux should require you to know the c
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by dagmx 2y ago
This is a pretty fantastic breakdown of UX and UI design, both for porting to SwiftUI but also to smaller screens. There’s obviously room for polish left but this looks so well thought out already. I am interested in how this might find its
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by dagmx 2y ago
There’s two parts to this. 1. By porting the frontend to SwiftUi, they’re actually making it more native for all Apple platforms. He hints at it, but this is a great first step to having Godot native on visionOS where they can iterate on th
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by dagmx 2y ago
Mobile GPUs with any PowerVR heritage have it https://medium.com/pocket-gems/programmable-blending-on-ios-... https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/605
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yep, and I think perhaps that’s where folks are getting hung up. NVIDIA didn’t invent the GPU. They coined the modern term “graphics processing unit”. Prior to that, various hardware existed but went by other expanded names or don’t fully m
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by dagmx 2y ago
I believe the distinction from NVIDIA was that they considered their product as the first all in one graphics unit > a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines that is
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by dagmx 2y ago
Both PS1 and N64 games were beyond the generation where direct assembly was required to achieve necessary performance. Compilers were good enough by that point in time for the vast majority of games.
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by dagmx 2y ago
It’s fairly well known in the specific domain space the author is dealing with, so I think it’s fair to treat it as implicit. But for more reading https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps2/Graphics_Synthesizer The author has a bun
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by dagmx 2y ago
Microsoft has Linux on Azure. Amazon doesn’t force everyone onto graviton cores, and offers competing cores. It’s just the nature of business.
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by dagmx 2y ago
To be pedantic, AMD have dramatically grown their data center share with their alternatives over the past quarter. So there is definitely some market share being lost.

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