mmaniac

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by mmaniac 2y ago
At this rate the only young Ukrainian men left will be the ones who fled.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
When Valve released Portal 2 in 2011, it was still 32-bit. This wasn't a problem for Windows users and still isn't. Valve tried as much with the Windows release of that game as the Mac one. Mac is just an unstable platform. Develo
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by mmaniac 2y ago
There's no political will to repeat the economic damage which anti-COVID measures inflicted either.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This sort of thing won't change unless customers stop buying user-hostile computers. This won't happen, so it'll continue.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
They're all over Aliexpress (prices before VAT, annoyingly) and often posted to hotukdeals when there's a sale. The Ryzen based miniPCs are also pretty good. Here's an example. https://www.aliexpress.com/item&
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Any Twitter users able to explain why this matters? I thought retweets were for things you wanted to show your followers.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
He had it coming. The funniest part is that everyone has a different reason to think that.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
"Banned books" that you can still just buy on Amazon or whatever other book retailer you like. Let's save the term for books that are actually made impossible to obtain.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
PS3 was popular for compute clusters because it was sold heavily at cost at launch. That's typical for a console where the platform owner gets a slice of all software sales, but makes no sense for a general computing platform. The perf
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Peace? What are you, some kind of Nazi?
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I was never bothered by the notch, but this is useful advice that seems to be little known. Thanks!
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I use SensibleSideButtons and ScrollReverser continually. Those are features which I consider absolutely basic and their omission leaves me cynical. Rectangle and Contexts are extensions I use to make Mac OS closer to Windows or Linux in co
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Mac OS has a serious problem with requiring loads of third party extensions to get a usable desktop experience. Most of the time it's merely annoying, but this situation also demonstrates that you're placing a lot of trust in the
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Here's my opinion. The gaming industry had a period of overreliance on certain genres from around 2007-2014 but has since diversified noticeably. That overreliance began because of the financial crash of 2008 and a bifurcation between
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The functional load of tones (that is, the importance of a pronunciation difference for distinguishing words) in Chinese is comparable to that of vowels[1] "Depending on how you view tones" dismisses the important phonemic value o
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Apparently[1] Snapdragon X is cost-competitive with Intel. That article discusses Raptor Lake on Intel 7, which is known to have razor thin margins, but Meteor Lake is reportedly expensive too. Intel's uncompetitive foundries continue
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Also, apparently low end (mobile?) Arrow Lake CPUs will use 20A while higher end will use 3nm. It's not looking good for Intel foundries.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Lots of reasons, but RISC vs CISC has little to do with it. Apple have access to the newest and best fabbing processes from TSMC. That alone can put a chip a generation ahead in terms of efficiency. Intel foundries have been struggling for
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The need for hyperthreading has diminished with increasing core counts and shrinking power headroom. You can just run those tasks on E cores now and save energy.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
I get the feeling this was less a conscious decision and more an admission of defeat.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Neither a Mac fanboy nor a Windows hater, but this looks horribly out of touch. Those ads were like 20 years ago and getting notifications is the least annoying thing about using a Mac.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
CEC is one of those features that sounds beautiful but never seems to work quite as well as you'd like. I have two TVs with a Roku soundbar connected to each. Sometimes when I wake each TV, the soundbar no longer connects so I get no a
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Compared to Intel, AMD seems to bin their chips a lot less. Intel have their -T chips which would be nifty if Intel weren't so far behind in terms in terms of efficiency.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
The people who think PCs are already fast enough don't buy CPUs every year. A 7950X in Eco mode is ridiculously capable for the power it pulls but that's less of a selling point.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This question is almost rhetorical. Yes, competition drives innovation. When Ryzen APUs only had Intel to worry about, they rested on their laurels with stagnating but still superior performance. Intel did the same thing with 4c/8t des
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Even including M2 Ultra in that comparison is a bit unfair. That's a HEDT workstation CPU. The competition for this is a Threadripper.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. Ryzen has never had the lead with 1T performance, but emphasises nT and core counts instead. Memory bandwidth is largely meaningless for desktop CPUs but matters a lot for a SoC with a big GPU. Stri
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by mmaniac 2y ago
AMD seem to be playing it safe this with this desktop generation. Same node, similar frequencies, same core counts, same IOD, X3D chips only arriving later... IPC seems like the only noteworthy improvement here. 15% overall is good but noth
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by mmaniac 2y ago
This is the second time AMD have revamped their mobile naming scheme in as many years, and it's only getting harder to know what you're actually buying.
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by mmaniac 2y ago
Haskell started using them because it allows a pure language to express side effects. Beyond that, they're a pretty general and reusable way of looking at data structures that nest.

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