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by stu2b50 6y ago
The bootloader isn't a problem, Apple even gave instructions on how to do it. Drivers are a problem. Somehow doubt Apple is going to document those.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
The issue is that you really start feel the performance limitations of a cheap ARM SoC. Especially if you do a bunch of C compiling like Torvalds would.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
About 8.5 minutes of full load it starts to throttle. At about 30 minutes the throttling peaks. Although, even when throttling it's only at 80% power. For native apps that's still faster than the mobile i9 in the 16in mbp.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I think the (dystopian, to most hackernews users evidently) future is that all OSes become nothing more than the layer necessary to run Google Chrome.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Having used Sorbet, one thing immediately noticeable is that it's incredibly verbose due to needing to be valid ruby syntax. Was there any developer pushback on that? Also, maybe I missed it, but Sorbet has a very fleshed out plugin fo
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by stu2b50 6y ago
It's one thing to adopt a layer of static typing on top of your massive production codebase, it's another to switch languages entirely.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Yes, I personally am happy that Spotify is an electron app. Considering that the Linux binary is maintained by volunteers at the company I'm pretty sure it just wouldn't exist otherwise.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
How about the German well-known biotech company that actually developed the vaccine that Pfizer is distributing?
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Roblox isn't so much a "game" as a platform for making games. Think Gmod. As a result, the more "creative freedom" you have, the more the often teen+ aged developers do what people that age do with creative freedom.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Yes, multiplayer is a good point. Roblox is an easy way to make games that are 1) Multiplayer (skipping all netcode, account systems, and so forth) 2) Have a secured, safe, and trusted way to make transactions If you were to try and make a
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Anything with VR has such an insane barrier of entry that I don't see it eating into anyone's lunch anytime soon. Roblox has the userbase it does because it's on every platform and runs on potatoes. How many kids (using a lar
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Don't consider Roblox a traditional game. It's basically Gmod for kids and with official corporate support and a official way for developers to wring money out of its consumers with micro transactions. More platform than game. It&
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by stu2b50 6y ago
FOSS should be particularly fine, since the code is public, eventually someone will recompile it for ARM (if it's even written in a native language; languages with runtimes will work perfectly fine when the runtime is ported) If not, e
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by stu2b50 6y ago
No
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by stu2b50 6y ago
What does that mean? Bootcamp is just running windows on the machine. You're gaming on an Intel cpu and an AMD gpu. That doesn't change because Apple installed another OS on the system. Sufficient or not is a weird way to put it.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Uh, unless there's some new Qualcomm chip I haven't heard of, the Qualcomm chips are all being utterly crushed by Apple's offerings in geek bench and specperf.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
But only after 10+ minutes of full load according to tests. And only after 30 minutes do you get noticeably performance drops (around 20% or so). For developers, for instance, I really doubt you're going to commonly have 30 minutes of
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by stu2b50 6y ago
There's been XCode benches on some of the reviews (see: https://youtu.be/XQ6vX6nmboU?t=186 ), seems like the M1 beats even the iMac Pro, and is as fast as a Ryzen R9 3950X hackintosh (although I suspect that they'r
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Dave2D had xcode benchmarks and it seems like... It's faster than the iMac Pro, and even faster than his friends hackintosh. Might be the fastest, or almost the fastest, out of Apples entire lineup. https://youtu.be/XQ6
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Well, yes. Microsoft has already announced they're working on an x86-64 to ARM emulator (i.e Rosetta 2 equivalent)[1] and they have partnered with Qualcomm to make ARM CPUs for their surface line up[2] [1] https://www.extrem
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by stu2b50 6y ago
That would exclude many programming positions, though, since really the old Air is perfectly fine for most SWE positions. Not optimal, but you can run iterm2, you can run a web browser, and you can run vim.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
To think I lived to see the day when you buy a macbook for value
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by stu2b50 6y ago
That does include practically every white collar occupation at this point.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
You want to have at least a nontrivial group of every race and ethnicity to ensure that you collect enough data to make sure it's also effective on everyone. Additional challenges in the US are that many minority communities are distru
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Quick Google seems to indicate it's true. >Pfizer said it will wait until after the US election to file its COVID-19 vaccine with the US regulator, as it awaits important safety data to become available. https://pharmapho
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by stu2b50 6y ago
There's also a provision in the DMCA law about "circumventing copyright law" https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 Which you could argue this falls into.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
DMCAs are a shoot first, talk later kind of deal. Or rather take it down first, file counterclaims, and see if the other party responds, then put it back up they don't.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I don't think gitlab* vs github matters. All public sites in the US and allies need to have a mechanism for DMCA removals, or they lose their safe haven status (which allows them to not be legally liable for what their users do with re
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by stu2b50 6y ago
That doesn't mean anything legally either. It's not like you give up your electors when you concede. It's just part of losing gracefully. Technically the only thing that matters is what the electors decide to do.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I mean they will count all the ballots, this is just the DDs of the major news groups seeing that its statistically improbable (like, less than 3 std devs) and projecting the winner.

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