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by lynguist 4y ago
It’s a valid thought, but it would really be like trying to take pictures of the sky from underwater and using AI to make it look like it was taken from out of water. This means: the AI has to predict what it is supposed to look like and fo
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by lynguist 4y ago
Do we know the motive of the perpetrator?
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by lynguist 4y ago
For me it’s a non-story as I believe the main advantage of the M2 over the M1 is its 50% higher memory size (24 GB instead of 16 GB) and memory bandwidth. So if you stress all CPU and all GPU cores the same time the cooling can’t keep up. I
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by lynguist 4y ago
I have a small question: Can I anyhow sideload the real Fifefox on iOS?
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by lynguist 4y ago
Gran Turismo 5 players will remember the Chaparral 2J Race Car '70 (a real race car with two giant fans on the back which was immediately declared illegal after protests of other car makers) and the fictional Red Bull X1/X2014 fan
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by lynguist 4y ago
Oooh. This article taught me that in India of 1400 someone figured out how to calculate pi more accurately than had ever been done before and it took until 1600 in Europe that these methods were independently rediscovered.
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by lynguist 4y ago
This is OK for icon sized images, but it hurts me when I read webpages that incorporate photographs or visualizations in low resolution. They keep saying “Web resolution” and talk about something like 200x200 images maximum. Even for the pa
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by lynguist 4y ago
The writing style has the same cadence as the speech of “Uncle Roger” of egg-fried rice fame: https://youtube.com/c/mrnigelng
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by lynguist 4y ago
It’s really funny because centi- means both hundredth and hundred. And it’s a doublet of hecto! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/centi-
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by lynguist 4y ago
The funny thing is that actual Macs with 4GB RAM are also supported and they can run the entire desktop environment.
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by lynguist 4y ago
I agree except for the Python bit, which is factually wrong. Python allows you to program as if you’re a jazz pianist. You can improvise, iterate and have fun. And when you found a solution you just refactor it and use numba. Boom, it runs
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by lynguist 4y ago
The difference between modern humans and other animals, even extinct humans, is not the presence of intelligence, it is language. Just compared to other extinct humans, we are more social and more violent. I believe what makes humans differ
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by lynguist 4y ago
I assume by November/December 2022. I think they meant 2 years from the release of the first Apple silicon Macs which was in November 2020.
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by lynguist 4y ago
They can say what they want. What is realistic is that Qualcomm is ahead of any Intel and AMD offerings by using Cortex-X2, they just have to go ahead and build that SoC. Cortex-X2 is currently 1 year ahead of Intel/AMD, however Apple
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by lynguist 4y ago
This is what you think when you don’t exercise and aren’t in tune with yourself. You had all this time to do it (get in tune with yourself) and if you still didn’t manage it by 60 (!) it will establish itself and occupy you with these memor
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by lynguist 4y ago
For the past fifteen years I found that a main drive of ca 300 GB is needed. 256 GB can cut it if you don’t have many larger files, but 128 GB doesn’t cut it. I remember back in 2011 when SSDs started becoming popular people would cheap off
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by lynguist 4y ago
Mike Clark, the architect of Zen says in [1] literally that ISA doesn’t matter and that it’s all about the microarchitecture. Quote: “Although I've worked on x86 obviously for 28 years, it's just an ISA, and you can build a low-p
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by lynguist 4y ago
Look, we have the headphone jack (6.35mm) stemming from 1877, and its miniature form (3.5mm) from 1960. It’s ok to let USB-C live for another 60-100 years.
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by lynguist 4y ago
I’ve read that the Olympic gold medalist in archery specifically practiced the piano, basketball, and painting just to improve his archery skills. Skills translate.
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by lynguist 4y ago
You get a comparable performance at 15W with M2 to Intel at 55W. Intel is not significantly faster, just more power hungry. That’s the mean difference in day to day usage.
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by lynguist 4y ago
It would mean 96GB. They increased from 2 memory channels per M1 to 3 memory channels per M2.
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by lynguist 4y ago
None, unless you’re in a warm room and have a long compile job. For that case, which only happened once to me, I just put my Macbook on the cold balcony.
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by lynguist 4y ago
What is even a Windows laptop? A laptop for which Windows has drivers? You buy a laptop for which Windows has drivers in order to install Linux? That doesn’t make sense. What you mean to say is: you buy a laptop for which Linux has drivers
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by lynguist 4y ago
The ISA does not matter in a CPU design. But the process node is also not the main reason. What matters is only microarchitecture. And Apple has by far the most performant microarchitecture design of all CPUs.
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by lynguist 4y ago
Pretty much every distribution and software package is available in ARM64. You will not miss anything.
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by lynguist 4y ago
The full Windows 10 runs on ARM64 since 2017. See here for all architectures of Windows. [1] And the deal is that current ARM processors have higher IPC than even the latest Intel and AMD processors and are much more diverse. The biggest AR
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by lynguist 4y ago
I myself played Ratchet & Clank 3 on PCSX2 on my Macbook Air M1.
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by lynguist 4y ago
I work on an Ubuntu VM running in Parallels on a Mac M1 to target a Raspberry Pi. It’s the very best such setup possible.
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by lynguist 4y ago
What about the very same laptop running native Debian? How to install: https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian/
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by lynguist 4y ago
I tried Windows 10 and Windows 11 on a Mac M1 with UTM and Windows 11 with Parallels. I found that Windows 11 ran much better than Windows 10 (it gets stuck) on UTM and I found that Parallels ran much better than UTM. So, I’d say yes.

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