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by sjwright 6y ago
Android was on track to be a Blackberry clone with no touch screen until they got wind of what Apple was up to.
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by sjwright 6y ago
So you cannot say what would satisfy you. Good to know.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Tell me, which answer from which court will satisfy you? Be specific.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Relying on—and rejecting votes using—a poor method of voter identification is voter suppression. A signature shouldn't be used for identification matching but rather as akin to the signing of an affidavit.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I use the app and "flawlessly" is a joke. The app doesn't even connect to the headphones reliably, even if they're paired and I'm listening to audio through them. Maybe 10% of the time I have to force-close the app
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by sjwright 6y ago
(For the record I'm Australian and I don't have much riding on your election result.) > Why was the Russia election collusion story in the spotlight for years despite flimsy evidence? Perhaps the most genius thing Trump ever di
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by sjwright 6y ago
This is an instance where imprecision in language is being weaponised for talking points. There are always many small errors and fraud in any large election. I don't think anyone would dispute this. And it is tolerable because the erro
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by sjwright 6y ago
Concur—I have the QC35, I’ve given up with all the endless niggles of multiple device support and limited them to just the phone which is my use case 95% of the time.
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by sjwright 6y ago
What has any of that got to do with gaming in any practical sense? With the barest minimum of smooth scaling, fidelity wouldn’t be any worse on the monitor with higher pixel pitch. Now you might have a point if talking about pixel art game
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by sjwright 6y ago
> Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? No, it makes sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it to people who are most at risk of dying fro
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'd interpret this as the inherent limitation of emulation and compatibility layers. It's pretty clear that the A1 GPU is pretty good as long as software natively targets it. Obviously it's not going to come close to dedicate
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by sjwright 6y ago
There is if your goal is to make judgements upon hardware performance.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Or a version that's optimised and natively compiled for the M1.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I don't understand the logic behind this complaint. What is so different about playing a game rendered at 900p on a 900p display and the same game rendered at 900p on a 1600p display?
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s astonishing that this reply is being voted down. It is surely improper and unreasonable to judge a CPU architecture based upon code running predominantly through emulation layers on an architecture for which few if any serious optimis
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by sjwright 6y ago
The explanation is appreciated. We’re all human and passions drive us in weird, occasionally unpredictable ways. I’m undoubtedly as guilty of it as anyone. Also, fuck those anti-vaxxers.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Yes, Nvidia and AMD are #1 and #2. I was contemplating who might be #3 right now.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Understood. Intent is often difficult to robustly convey without being neurotically verbose. I promise my response was not borne of annoyance. I just got the impression that you wanted to focus credit on the one thing about the A1 SOC whi
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by sjwright 6y ago
In terms of GPU cores it seems evident that Nvidia is clearly number one—disregarding any thermal limits—and AMD is clearly number two. It seems Apple is a solid contender for third place now. I don't think Intel or the smaller embedde
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by sjwright 6y ago
In your quest to avoid almost-religious overhyping of everything Apple, I'd contend that you're presenting the inverse: almost-religious anti-hyping of everything Apple. We can criticise them for their seemingly blinkered focus on
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by sjwright 6y ago
The way I see it, you could have a Mac Pro with (let’s say) 32GB of super-fast on-package RAM and arbitrarily upgradable DIMM slots. The consequence would be that some RAM would be faster and some would be a bit slower. They would be contig
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by sjwright 6y ago
The HN title needs the word "Homebrew" added for context.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It has to though. X = Y; // what should change?
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by sjwright 6y ago
As did every new laptop Apple made from then on.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Correct. And it’s not illegal to investigate when nominal jokes about bribery may be construed as code inviting actual bribery.
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by sjwright 6y ago
The notion of distributing a billion copies of a vaccine at -80°C to every corner of the planet seems rather resource intensive.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Back in 2010 both me and my parents owned Mazda 3 (model year 2009) cars. They live in the suburbs with no traffic lights for a kilometre in every direction. I lived in an inner city (CBD fringe) apartment. Their car consistently reported 7
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by sjwright 6y ago
Huh? You can buy full featured smartphones right now that let you sideload apps and alternative app stores. If that matters to you, the alternative is available.
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by sjwright 6y ago
And that's despite 15% likely being near to or below cost for Apple. Remember, Apple sells a LOT of store credit through retail gift cards where Apple probably sees less than 80 cents in the dollar.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Owning the atoms is less consequential than you infer. You don’t “own” the operating system software loaded on it, it’s only licensed to you.

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