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by florakel 4y ago
“ MacBook Pro with M2 Pro features a 10- or 12-core CPU with up to eight high-performance and four high-efficiency cores for up to 20 percent greater performance over M1 Pro.”
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by florakel 4y ago
You could simply do nothing with it and let nature take back the land. Natural restoration.
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by florakel 4y ago
>There would be a significant hit to processor performance. You are probably right. Look at the gains Qualcomm saw by migrating from Samsung to TSMC: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17395/qualcomm-announces-snap.
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by florakel 4y ago
Actually Qualcomm moved from Samsung to TSMC 4NM to build the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4NM is the marketing name for the most advanced 5NM node) https://www.qualcomm.com/products/application/smartphones/sn... Qual
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by florakel 4y ago
> Examples of productivity porn include but are not limited to: reading a tweet by a top VC about how to become a better startup founder; watching a Youtube video about the 7 mistakes you need to avoid at the gym; perusing a Hacker News
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by florakel 6y ago
Google today published Chrome 87 with (supposedly) big memory and CPU usage improvements: https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stab... Also they started rolling out the first M1 optimized v
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by florakel 6y ago
When I share an article from Anandtech I always use the "print" URL which has all content on one page https://www.anandtech.com/print/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-test...
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by florakel 6y ago
The article is basically just rehashing some ideas of Peter Thiel without quoting his work. His book “0 to 1” starts with exactly the same thoughts.
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by florakel 7y ago
On my 16” I disabled “use hardware acceleration when available” in Chrome’s advanced settings. Chrome stops using the GPU altogether. I did not run into any performance issues, but getting less heat and longer battery life when using chrome
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by florakel 7y ago
The VC will cash out with the IPO. That’s the new strategy. Drive companies to valuations higher than the market cap of many S&P500 companies and then sell them to the “free market” (Uber, Lyft). Great deal for the involved VCs and bank
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by florakel 7y ago
For every app that I install I check if the app activated background app refresh. Most of the time it does not make any sense why an app would even need that, other than tracking me. Also disabling it for most apps is one of the best things
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by florakel 8y ago
It is time to give AMD a chance. Intel is plagued by problems with the 10nm process technology resulting in no significant innovation on their CPUs' performance or power consumption for over two years now. And just recently they pushed
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by florakel 13y ago
Google does not use Google Analytics data for SEO purposes. What they measure are bounces back to the search result list. E.g. User clicks on a search result link, did not like what he saw and clicked the back button after 2 seconds to refi