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by jorvi 3mo ago
The infamous greed cycle: https://streamsofconsciousness.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
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by jorvi 3mo ago
Panther Lake is impressive for x86, but decidedly middling when stacked up against a field including ARM. The problem is that x86 can (almost) match ARM battery life but at much worse performance, or match the performance at much worse batt
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by jorvi 3mo ago
> Battery life? 20 hours of video playback. Yeah, they pretty much lied about that. It is only in a special Windows ultra-power saving mode that heavily throttles background tasks, forces the screen to be 30% lower brightness, heavily do
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by jorvi 4mo ago
I guess all the grandmas on the beach that look like they have a leather hide for a skin didn't get the memo that the sun doesn't cause damage after all. In all seriousness: don't listen to OP, use sunscreen whenever possible
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Do they work with the network or with the app ? If it's the first, that seems like they would be a vastly superior offering to AirTags, especially outside America, where people aren't so Apple-crazy.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Yes, but AppleCare+ is one service applied to whole series. A 20% price hike on a $1000 iPhone would be $200. Equalling 4-5 years of warranty would mean you need to put in at least $600 in AppleCare+, vastly more expensive than the $200. Yo
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by jorvi 4mo ago
They EU could just require these companies to label the button "license" instead of "buy"
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by jorvi 4mo ago
DisplayPort still doesn't have anything as good as CEC. DDC/CI exists and bizarrely enough has existed for much longer than CEC (since the DVI port era), but DisplayPort Alliance has never bothered to standardize it and iterate on
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Because none of that requires "AI". You can use a script to clone GitHub top NPM repos (by whatever measure), and then 'simply' try to migrate them to Deno and log all the errors and warnings. Maybe you compile those e
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by jorvi 4mo ago
The EU price includes the warranty, which is at least 2 years but is officially for "the expected life of the product", which in the case of an $10,000 laptop would probably be a decade plus.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
With new fabs built and AI demand shrinking, they will have to. If they don't, considering the last lost price fixing case, they will be absolutely crushed by the EU and probably other governments as well.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
I meant peak performance vs peak performance though. An M1 Ultra uses 25% of the energy of an RTX3090 but gets 70% of the FPS. And in synthetic tests the M1 Ultra can get as close as 95% (!). Nvidia (and AMD and Intel) just suck at efficien
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by jorvi 4mo ago
> Desktop GPU designs did not focus on tiny efficiency gains I'm not sure they're all that tiny if you can squeeze out 70% of top end performance for 25% of the power draw :)
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by jorvi 4mo ago
You do realize e-bikes only go 25 km/h? You're confusing them with speed pedelecs. Those go around 50 km/h, although that's still a far cry from scooter speeds, let alone motorbikes.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
"AI" to most laypeople means LLMs and imagegen. They have no clue that anyone with an iPhone has been using "AI" since iOS 15(?) when it got stuff like photo object selection, instant OCR and voice isolation.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Nix's complexity isn't with itself, its if you try to step one bit off the beaten path where it immediately starts to grate.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
I mean, even applied voice 'models' suck for this. For some godawful reason, Apple Maps voice directions assume that you also understand what it omits. So if it says "turn right in 500 meters" "250 meters" and
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Of the no-hassle browsers (read: widely support, no snags) it is still the most private browser you can run. It blows Firefox out of the water on adblocking and its adblocking itself doesn't rely on Manifest so it isn't hit by Go
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by jorvi 4mo ago
> .. There was a brief moment in the early 2000s where the newly introduced SSDs made booting quick .. Anyone else reading this and getting the feeling someone is reminiscing about a past they didn't live and thus are seeing it thro
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by jorvi 4mo ago
I don't know if it is still the case with current models, but a few generations back Microsoft had some research results where asking a model to iterate N times would significantly improve performance, with the optimal point being 4 it
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by jorvi 4mo ago
> You do loose the first day's pay Many countries have this system and the usual effect is that the duration people are sick for is magically never less than 2 days. It's dumb policy.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Usually you give your friends a friendly discount because it saves the hassle from advertising, packing, etc. and also your friends return the favor. But I would never sell something expensive to a friend, period. There be dragons.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
What really sucks about mass production is that it inevitably kills the middle tier of craftsmanship, whilst doing nothing to offer something of similar quality. So before, you had 3-5 levels or craftsmanship to choose from, with an exponen
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Nope, that is not defamation. Both defamation and libel require it to be a false statement. If you did find a cockroach or your plate was dirty, you can freely say so without needing to provide extensive proof.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
In a real competitive market it would never make financial sense to do stock buybacks because competition is so fierce you need to invest it all in R&D and sharp prices for your customers. See the Chinese EV market. Stock buybacks are a
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by jorvi 4mo ago
> A lot of us are happy gnome doesn’t support tray icons. A lot of us = very few people in total, apparently. There's a reason Dash to Dock and AppIndicator are packaged by default on most Gnome distros and overwhelmingly installed
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by jorvi 4mo ago
Yeah, no. GDDR is functionally very different than SDRAM. GDDR tries to push out as much bandwidth as possible, because that really matters for (traditional) GPU workloads. A constant but insignificant (= correctable) error rate is consider
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by jorvi 4mo ago
> I thought it would be a good idea to do the core structure for the new test suite in public on master first though given all the rage that has generated maybe that was a bad idea. I don't entirely understand what this is saying. P
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by jorvi 4mo ago
The comment literally mentioned how unusual Pix adaption is and how innovative it is. It is neither of those things. Because of aforementioned history.
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by jorvi 4mo ago
The bitrate thing is certainly true, but at the bitrates that Netflix streams I'd almost rather have the same bitrate for a 1080P stream and then use my Shield to upscale it. As for the color thing, 4:4:4 has very little material relea

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