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by smoldesu 3y ago
I never said Proton would necessarily be faster than D3DMetal. I'm saying that upstream DXVK support would be better than D3DMetal and enable SPIR-V optimization. In essence, my original comment was a response to what this person is
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> provide a compelling explanation of how the way iOS runs PWAs constitutes a use of Safari, or of web browsing. Oh, this is easy. First-party software is distributed by Apple. They choose how that software is presented because they are
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It’s that a lot of the performance difference comes from the difference between a mobile tile based GPU and a desktop one. I just told you - a tile-based GPU can impliment every single raster feature Vulkan 1.2 requires. You haven&#x
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> You’re assuming a lot about what the hardware supports natively and conflating that to performance. I think you're assuming a lot about Apple Silicon that doesn't affect Vulkan conformance. Apple can support Vulkan featureset
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by smoldesu 3y ago
How can we be certain that Apple's actions don't mean a loss of privacy too? Whenever they're asked about seriously decentralizing their own trust model Apple tends to fall back on the "legal compliance" note, if no
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> The argument can be made that this is not Safari, but a PWA runtime environment that happens to use WebKit internally. This is a silly and thin technicality, and not at all the same as what people are mad about. Nobody cares that WebKi
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You've seen Proton, no? Supporting Vulkan 1.2 basically gives you de-facto coverage of DX9-DX11 for free, along with most of DX12 in beta. It's leagues better than Codeweaver's driver and makes D3DMetal look like a derelict p
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not an exception. Binary distribution is the norm - Apple founded their business on that norm, found success in it, fostered it and continues to support it on MacOS. The App Store style of distribution is not a replacement for it,
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Does 20.1 percent market share constitute a monopoly? Depends how it's used. Wabash v. Illinois set the precedent that a far-minority can be a monopoly if they block a government-designated common carrier. Europe's DMA does
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Safari already is a better browser... for users. Bold claim, wanna know how we test it? We let Safari compete with other browsers like it does on Mac. And having spent a lot of time around startups, I can assure you that the majority o
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> This weird idea to force Apple to have OS viewports use a foreign engine That is not what people are saying. Nobody cares that MacOS renders half its content using WebKit on Mac. Same goes for iOS - people do care that they can'
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Beats me, it's their funeral.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Or just, ship Vulkan drivers. That's it. I know it's a war drum everyone is tired of hearing, but Game Porting Toolkit has DXVK code in it; it's time to just support the API natively.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Are you sure about that? Certain as I can be, without having seen the cards. Apple is a company about margins; you see it in their hardware profitability, but also in Tim Cook's service initiative. They fought Dutch regulators ove
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> we will see calls that it is unfair Apple allows for one kind of web apps (on their own browser engine) but not others and that is self-preferencing. We have been seeing people say that for years. And mostly, they've been right; A
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The fear of low-profitability is what drives that behavior, though. You're right that the DMA/DSA threatens Apple's bottom line, but as long as Apple continues to sell iPhone hardware in Europe then they should be turning a p
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I doubt there was back-channeling - Apple is seeing how liberally they can interpret this act. They tried doing the same thing when they threatened to use MFi on USB-C, up until an EU Comissioner threatened to boot them from the market. Plu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I hope the commissioners write Apple another scary letter.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'm grateful for our provocateurs that encourage better regulation.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Sorry, Rupert Murdoch.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Tesla, Apple, and any other upstart business is entirely welcome to submit their connector or cable standard to the appropriate forum for evaluation. Because they avoid this, they get targeted by corrective legislation. Particularly when th
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> MAX comes in two editions -- a free Developer Edition for local development and experimentation, and an Enterprise Edition for production usage. A product, in charitable terms.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM. Wait... all of this is a lo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I've got one. I'm using it to power an LLM for a chatbot me and a few friends use. The memory and disk speeds are really slow, but there's plenty of memory to keep whatever you need loaded. I can mmap massive models and get d
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Really? The default GNOME Adwaita theme has been pretty blech in my opinion for a number of years. The update just kinda flattened out the visual identity and kept the same "sickness" looking colors. I quite like the GTK toolkit b
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Very neat! I've been stalking this project ever since I saw it get mentioned on the Candle repo, I'm curious to see where this goes next. Any plans for multimodal models like llava?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Ah yes, include "Open Source" as a fig leaf to cover up your fulminating rage over market regulations.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> feel free to name all the other European startups that are in the right place at the right time with their own technology. For starters, there's ARM and STMicroelectronics. Then all the classical household-name businesses like SAA
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> They seem to only care about national security when it comes to fleecing US companies Stop with that nonsense. Every single country that imports American goods has regulations on how it is imported. Your expectations are misaligned i
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> CPUs will increasingly gain specialist hardware to accelerate AI workloads Maybe, but then you're describing a coprocessor instead of the CPU. The CPU portion of the M1 SOC should be simpler than Apple's Intel processors, con

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