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by kllrnohj 2y ago
This seems like a $5 app full stop, not per-year. There's ~zero ongoing costs involved, and bugfixes that justify renewed purchases would be keeping up with any OS breakages which realistically should be exceptionally rare, but definit
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Because adding Go as an official language would be a monumental amount of work for vanishingly little benefit. Remember Android itself is half written in Java, so are you doing JNI calls for everything from Go? That's not fast nor &quo
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> this is a pretty cool hack that allows for opengl apps to be written in straight c that run full screen and have limited access to things like keyboards, adc inputs or usb. It's not even a hack. Android NDK added that way back in
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Gradle/Studio rot is so bad . If you continuously keep up to date it's not so bad, but you're absolutely fucked if you want to open a project from a year ago. Unfortunately this doesn't actually protect you from that si
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
C++ or Rust? Or Zig? Or D? Kinda pretty much anything else tbh?
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Not quite the same, but https://returnyoutubedislike.com/ is in a similar vein of an extension crowd-sourcing a return of data.
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Yes but I'm talking the other way around. Nanite is 1/4th the performance for triangles that aren't 1-3 pixels in size, which is the majority of the time. The main selling point of Nanite is really just to reduce artist costs
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> So even if you do it in software the point is that if you can get rid of that 2x2 block penalty as much as possible you could be faster than GPU doing 2x2 blocks in hardware since pixel shaders can be very expensive. Of course the obvi
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
In theory Nanite is superior to precomputed LODs. In practice it's less clear cut as they aren't going to be as good as artist-created LODs and it's not entirely reasonable to expect them to do so. Also the performance cost i
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
How is it disingenuous? Are you expecting Microsoft to just give the entirety of their cut to Apple? Stacking 30% cuts on top of 30% cuts does quickly make things "impossible"
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Yes they could have just defined their own global operator new/delete to have a micro-runtime. Same as you'd do if you were doing a kernel in C++. Super easy, barely an inconvenience
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Interestingly Gamers Nexus is using the YouTube video & merch money to fund an (ad-free!) written article site: https://gamersnexus.net/ It never seems to rank in search results, though, so it's easy to forget it e
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Wouldn't a hosted database really only "make sense" if you don't want sharding? It's a lot easier to shard at the front end before it makes it to any business logic than to do that and also shard the database. I
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
But that's not even close to true, either, eg any division or memory operation. In practice there's no such thing as "RISC" or "CISC" anymore really, they've all pretty much converged. At best you can say
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
~5% of steam users have 16 core CPUs & 22% are more than 8 cores: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/ No idea where you're pulling your 99% figure from, but it seems quite unlikely. Regardless,
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
RAM is cheap and easily upgraded after the fact, though. Going from 32gb to 64gb is $100 I certainly wouldn't spend that for a one-off patch to an open source project, but if you're doing this regularly it's not exactly a ste
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
16 core CPU, 64GB RAM, and 100GB of storage is definitely not a budget build, but I don't really see how that would be a "pretty insane workstation", either. That's firmly in consumer space these days and has been for a
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> This is what happens on consoles today. Except no, actually, it isn't. Neither Xbox nor PlayStation attempt to collect a 30% royalty from any of the streaming apps nor block them from steering. Consoles have a significantly more h
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Ad networks are also sure as hell not going to cover for anyone, either. If a client is causing them legal issues they're just going to drop them.
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Unfortunately the market has consistently spoken - small phones simply don't sell. Nobody could sustain it. Whether or not it's because the generalization is accurate or not is moot.
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Should Microsoft get 30% of everything you do on a computer? That'd be utterly absurd. Apple already got paid for those users when the user bought the device. Why do they get a share of the profits of a completely independent transacti
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Patreon doesn't currently and doesn't want to us Apple's infrastructure. They're being "forced" to do so, hence this post.
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> [HX370] runs at significantly higher power. It used 33w. Meanwhile the M3 result came from a 2023 MacBook Pro 14-Inch, which certainly has the potential for a TDP of around that. If you can find SPECINT MT numbers w/ power data fo
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> that M3 is massively ahead in integer performance The M3 is certainly an impressive chip, but note that it's only massively ahead in some of the int tests. It's not a consistent gap. > Integer workloads are by far the mo
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> 1. ARM is inherently more efficient than x86 CPUs in most tasks I'm not sure how you're reaching the conclusion of "most tasks" when Cinebench R24 is the only test you used because R23, which doesn't agree, was
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
Performance per watt is a bad metric. You want instead performance for a given power budget (eg, how much performance can I get at 15w? 30w? etc...) Otherwise you can trivially win 100% of performance/watt comparisons by just setting c
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
But surely they could just double pump like AMD does on Zen 4(c) and also on (some?) Zen 5c. It's weird to see an Intel so... Broke? That they are seemingly forced to recycle old architectures endlessly
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
I recently set up one of these: https://www.lincplustech.com/products/lincstation-n1-network... and it seems to strike a pretty excellent balance. 4x NVME + 2x 2.5" can get you a lot of storage, but it's stil
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
> Big ARM cores have much larger decode width than x86 cores Not in general they don't. Apple's does, and Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon X Elite also does. But most big ARM cores don't have larger decode widths than x
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by kllrnohj 2y ago
For things with non-trivial comparison functions you're all but certainly better off with those in something else like a hashmap. After all, the more expensive the compare, the more expensive the sort & reordering that a binary sea

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