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by dagmx 2y ago
Differing priorities. Edge is based on blink now anyway , so as a core browser engine they’re roughly the same. It’s the higher level UX that is differentiated. Safari has largely caught up now for web standards and mostly only lags behind
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by dagmx 2y ago
Well think about it this way: Currently (in the US) no alternative stores for iOS exists. No regulation exists to create multiple stores. In fact, even in the EU, the regulation only states that you have to do so after a certain number of u
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by dagmx 2y ago
I can’t find the published decision anymore but did read it, but there are several summaries of the discovery that show why Epic won https://www.theverge.com/23959932/epic-v-google-trial-antitr...
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by dagmx 2y ago
Well, because it’s about anti-competitive actions. Again, it’s not about simply having a monopoly position. Epic couldn’t prove that Apple had taken anti competitive measures. Google on the other hand had it in writing that they did. It was
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by dagmx 2y ago
As much as you may say that out loud, it’s not how the market is defined and nobody has been able to interpret it your way in a legal context in any jurisdiction. The legal precedent is that each store only services the ecosystem they’re on
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by dagmx 2y ago
No, they were correct and you are not. The cases are fundamentally different, and rest on the actions the two companies took. Google actively harmed other stores. Apple has no other store to harm. In the Google case, epic was able to prove
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by dagmx 2y ago
Honestly at the time of writing, only gjsman-1000 has given you the correct answer if somewhat incomplete. Everyone else is just telling you what they think should happen or putting it up to the difference in courts, while ignoring the evid
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by dagmx 2y ago
Tbh most splats data today is not optimally stored. There’s a lot that could be done for streaming, data reduction and segmentation. So I think it’s definitely both possible and easy to reduce that data size in half if not more. They’ll lik
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by dagmx 2y ago
Again, I’m not saying it won’t be possible someday. Any number of things could happen, even though the trajectory doesn’t imply it will be in the next 5 years. All I’m saying is that the question is pointless without bounds. Otherwise flyin
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by dagmx 2y ago
Well my critique of your comment is just that it’s unbounded. Yes, eventually all compute will get better and we can use once slow technologies. But that’s not a very valuable discussion because nobody is saying it’ll never be useful, just
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by dagmx 2y ago
Ah, fair. I usually don’t include form factor too much because it’s so subjective. I think perhaps one of the reasons for the negativity here is that the price is approaching flagship from other companies, but that Tensor G4 performs like c
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by dagmx 2y ago
Nit: splats are significantly older than NeRFs. They just had a resurgence after nerfs. We’ve been using pretty similar technology for decades in areas like Renderman radiance caches before RIS.
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by dagmx 2y ago
They’re not “very efficient “. They have a significant amount of overdraw due to their transparency and will be a lot more inefficient if you’re only considering material-less surface representation. They’re more efficient to capture howeve
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by dagmx 2y ago
The data is definitely an issue, but they do make for fairly convenient alternatives to something like matterport where you need their cameras rented etc. Though I think matterport will just start using them since the other half of their pr
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by dagmx 2y ago
You can touch up a splat in the same way you can apply gross edits to an image (cropping, color corrections etc), but you can’t easily change it in a way like “make this bicycle handle bar more rounded”. Ergo it’s not art directable. With r
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by dagmx 2y ago
Sure, given an unlimited amount of time and resources, it’s possible that Gaussian splats could be performant. But that’s just too vague a discussion point to be meaningful. It’s definitely not in the cards in the near term without a dramat
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by dagmx 2y ago
Out of (genuine) curiosity, what major hardware improvements are you referring to? On paper, it’s largely the same as prior years for the SoC at least. I think the fold has the most obvious upgrade but nothing I’d consider really major. Oth
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by dagmx 2y ago
No, Gaussian splats are pretty poor for video games. There’s a significant amount of overdraw and they’re not art directable or dynamic. Gaussian splats are much better suited for capturing things where you don’t have artists available and
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by dagmx 2y ago
If you watch Google’s keynote, the majority of LLM inference they showed happens on their cloud. (Also called private cloud to borrow apples term) They actively call out only a few areas that run locally. Almost all their summary features a
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Comparing Apple's Latest App Store in the EU to Google's Play Store Guidelines(9to5mac.com)
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by dagmx 2y ago
Again, I think your logic here is flawed. It’s still valuable to know how a single core behaves for a rendering work load. I’ve worked professionally in feature film production. We test single threaded performance all the time. It tells us
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by dagmx 2y ago
Rendering is parallel, yes, but it also makes heavy use of SIMD to accelerate the operations per thread. One does not obviate the other. In the most trivial case, sure, the JavaScript runtimes won’t compile to use SIMD but there’s lot of ca
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by dagmx 2y ago
This feels like a really absurd stretch of trying to discern SIMD away from stuff like standard integer and float operations. Maybe in the early 90s, but they’re such a part of processor design that you can’t realistically avoid them. Espec
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by dagmx 2y ago
What is a 100% guaranteed secure OS that runs on AMD processors? Windows doesn’t cut it, neither does Linux or many of the BSD variants. Unless you’re running something like SeL4, I think you’re overestimating the security you currently hav
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yes, there’s no difference between the single and multi core benchmark other than how many threads get spun up. I’m not sure why you’re trying to equate simd with parallelization. Tbh, a lot of your response seems odd to me because it’s mak
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by dagmx 2y ago
R23 doesn’t have the same SIMD optimizations available for ARM as it does for x86. Anyone using R23 instead of R24, is putting arm at a disadvantage. Notebookcheck is often called out for this and haven’t really addressed why they stick wit
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by dagmx 2y ago
Their efficiency tests use Cinebench R23 (as called out explicitly). R23 is not optimized for Apple silicon but is for x86. The R24 numbers are actually what you need for a fair comparison, otherwise you put the Arm numbers at a significant
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by dagmx 2y ago
They just said they prioritize portability and your retort is over the number of non-portable external monitors that can be hooked up, and an outdated number at that?
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by dagmx 2y ago
Battery tests are important, but so is how it fairs on battery (what is the performance drop off to maintain that), what’s its performance is ant its peak and how it long before it throttles when pushed. The M series processors have succeed
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by dagmx 2y ago
That was my initial read but they have this line which made me wonder if it was somehow more than that > I suspect Grace has a very aggressive prefetcher willing to queue up a ton of outstanding requests from a single core.

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