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by paulmd 2y ago
rather comically, the military is not taking boeing's word for it. they strip down and inspect the entire aircraft before acceptance.
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by paulmd 2y ago
this is just "99.6% of 'poors' have a refrigerator" but for college. HVAC in dorms is not what is driving up college costs, and in fact probably has become increasingly necessary because of the fossil fuels burned by yo
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by paulmd 2y ago
> The point is.. a system someone has physics access to is never secure. this is an article of faith among certain tech circles but it's not actually true. The entire point of the xbox security model is defending against an attac
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by paulmd 2y ago
https://faq.altstore.io/ Also no, 24gb isn’t enough to run the good models right now. Ideally you need 40GB-ish.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Nope, there's nothing wrong with that. IMO the mac stack really kinda ends at the macbook... or maybe the mac mini (which does make a compelling "NUC" for lightweight niches like HTPC etc). There isn't really anything
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, x86 does ok in bulk vector computations, but performance really falls off in 1T or light-load scenarios. So they have to boost super high to keep up, which tanks performance. That’s the major difference right now. Presumably this is be
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yup. I used to listen to it while working summer jobs, something new every day to pass the time (not just politics either, Diane was almost a variety show in a sense, sometimes it’d be literature or authors or whatever too) and her retiring
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by paulmd 2y ago
Apple M3 silicon has about 3-4x the perf/w in light workloads as the leading AMD chips on 5nm, despite a slight node disadvantage, let alone the comparisons against generic android phone SOCs. This is a huge part of what gives them the
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by paulmd 2y ago
Not really. I think the change from Diane Rehm to JJ Johnson and now the new “1A” host is precisely emblematic of the decline of NPR/APM (I do not care about the difference) in that era.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Well, other people feel the same way about their phones. The line you are drawing is arbitrary and personal and other people can choose to draw it in different places. Maybe a phone is something they want to just work, let them do their ban
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Problem is, this "need" for big platforms is entirely a matter of faith. It's like your "need" for supernatural bed-time stories that explain human suffering and make you feel cozy; they're just tall tales
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by paulmd 2y ago
providing an OS with your computer is pretty much a thing since operating systems (or supervisory programs) have been a thing. like the business model predates the personal computer by at least 25 years or so.
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by paulmd 2y ago
That’s how the law works. For example nvidia is in hot water for the way they treat their partners: restrictions on what they can make, bundling of products, etc. Really a lot of the same stuff as intel and AMD did back in the late 90s&#x2
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by paulmd 2y ago
hey kids, do you like performing “tasks”? do you want to see some real mine craft?!
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by paulmd 2y ago
yep, this really wound to a close once the Titan series started. There were some models of 780 6GB - but there were never any models of 780 Ti 6GB, because that would have been basically a GTX Titan Black without the professional drive
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by paulmd 2y ago
the ryzen 7/9 model is literally more expensive than every intel system they offer on that page? and yes, threadripper is unfortunately quite expensive now, that's a decision AMD made back in 2019 with the 3000 series to go heavil
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by paulmd 2y ago
"what I'm worried about is that the path they'll choose is the NVIDIA route and begin releasing incremental updates while segmenting/upcharging based on RAM capacity". like the null hypothesis is: maybe these things
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by paulmd 2y ago
> I technically could. Nothing stops me from self-signing apps or using websites only. It's just massively inconvenient literally all you have to do is `brew install altserver` and then be on wifi with your laptop once a week.
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by paulmd 2y ago
What about them? There’s no reason to believe oxidation defects during manufacture is a cause of those failures. This is a complex problem with several interacting causes and failure modes, and assuming that oxidation is the cause of all of
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by paulmd 2y ago
x86-64 wastes enough of its address space that arm64 is typically smaller in practice. The RISC-V folks pointed this out a decade ago - geomean across their SPEC suite, x86 is 7.3% larger binary size than arm64. https://people.ee
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by paulmd 2y ago
lmao he’s citing cinebench R15? Which isn’t just ancient but actually emulated on arm, of course. Really digging through the vaults for that one. Geekbench 6 is perfectly fine for that stuff. But that still shows apple tieing in MT and beat
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by paulmd 2y ago
if x86 laptops have 90w of platform power, that’s a thing that’s concerning in itself, not a reasonable defense. Remember, apple laptops have screens too, etc, and that shows up in the average system power measurements the same way. What&#
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by paulmd 2y ago
For $1200 you can easily pick up a decent refurb MBP - these are apple refurbs for example. OOS but an example of what you can find if you look around a bit. https://sellout.woot.com/offers/apple-14-macbook-pro-with-10.
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by paulmd 2y ago
It's one of the biggest problems with "sustainable software" if you will. How is honest software supposed to outcompete "free", especially for key "platform" things like email, where "getting platfor
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by paulmd 2y ago
portmaster is a freebsd "package manager" for managing installation and uninstallation of ports. Sort of analogous to the "formula" function of brew where it's compiled in-situ... with your local march! https:&#x2
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by paulmd 2y ago
PS: not saying reusing a flag is a good idea, but like, macOS is not Linux, it’s Unix, and mostly it’s the exact same differences on FreeBSD or illumos or openbsd, because the syntax comes from AT&T Research Unix in the 1970s (the oldes
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by paulmd 2y ago
this isn’t a gnu userland, macos adheres to BSD style where order does sometimes matter. Sometimes specific things have to be first or last arguments etc, it’s not quite as freeform. it’s understandable if you find it different/jarring
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by paulmd 2y ago
thank you for exemplifying the mindset to which I was referring. yes, that’s the weird sickly affection for AMD, and the weird sickly philosophical defense of a high-severity CVE on pseudointellectual principles. people would really rather
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by paulmd 2y ago
SMM is implemented as part of the PSP (again, see the link in the previous comment) and yes, writing to protected areas of firmware flash is the point. using SMM calls to jump to arbitrary code execution/control of the PSP is a big d
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by paulmd 2y ago
> For instance I was hoping to install Steam & Proton on an i3 machine for entry level gaming but found it wouldn't talk to a 1030 card I had laying around. this is absolutely a skill issue, there is no limitations about pluggin

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