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by wtallis 2y ago
I think older systems also tended to use a fixed refresh rate, rather than refreshing more often as the DRAM temperature rises. Temperature sensors on DRAM are more common now, so systems don't have to be so conservative with the refre
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by wtallis 2y ago
Camera pixels represent an area, but pixels coming out of a 3D game engine usually represent a point sample. Hand-drawn 2d pixel art is explicitly treating pixels as squares. All of these are valid uses that must coexist on the same compute
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by wtallis 2y ago
Menus aren't part of the GUI flow for installing a .pkg; you just open it from the Finder and click through the dialog boxes, or set the aforementioned option and tab to the right buttons.
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by wtallis 2y ago
The PR to add the basic infrastructure for engine-level support was posted yesterday . There hasn't been enough time for anything to pass through App Store review yet, let alone all the work that has to happen before that, like writin
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by wtallis 2y ago
> I still don't know how to install an app (*.pkg) just using keyboard on macOS. On Windows, it's simply "press tab or alt and see what happens". You may be looking for the "Keyboard navigation" preference t
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by wtallis 2y ago
The DMA security issue was an Intel problem more than an Apple problem. It was Apple's popularization of Thunderbolt that got Intel to finally stop disabling IOMMU support for product segmentation reasons.
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by wtallis 2y ago
> Those Gen3 x1 slots are limited to 7.88Gbps so they are pretty pointless This reviewer tested the M.2 capture card with two 1080p60 signals that have a data rate of 3.2Gbps each, so a PCIe gen3 x1 slot would have been plenty of bandwid
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by wtallis 2y ago
Intel's DMI connection between the CPU and the chipset is little more than another PCIe x4 link. For consumer CPUs, they don't usually include it in the total lane count, but they have sometimes done so for Xeon parts based off th
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by wtallis 2y ago
IIRC, X870 boards are required to spend some of their PCIe lanes on providing USB4/Thunderbolt ports. If you don't want those, you can get an X670 board that uses the same chipset silicon but provides a better allocation of PCIe
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by wtallis 2y ago
Low-end GPUs often only have eight PCIe lanes to begin with, sometimes because they're using chips that were designed more for laptop use than for desktop cards. Intel Arc A380 and B580, AMD 7600XT, NVIDIA 4060Ti and 5060Ti are all eig
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by wtallis 2y ago
Your display might have a more serious gamma problem, because the contrast ratio there isn't horrible on the displays I've tried. Or maybe your display is just set too dim for your viewing conditions. The test probably does legiti
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by wtallis 2y ago
Calibrating a monitor is intended to ensure that colors on your monitor closely match colors on an ideal reference monitor. That's not the same thing as ensuring that two different colors on the same monitor actually show up differentl
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by wtallis 2y ago
Tapes are cheap, tape drives are expensive. Using tape for backups only starts making economic sense when you have enough data to fill dozens or hundreds of tapes. For smaller data sets, hard drives are cheaper.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Water softeners aren't actually standard issue in all dishwashers, but if you're replacing your dishwasher it isn't hard to find one with that feature.
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by wtallis 2y ago
> And then I get the system and I get into Windows and ... everything just looks way too bright, washed out, hard to look at. I've seen OEMs do that to an Intel+NVIDIA laptop, too. Whatever you imagine AMD's software incompeten
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by wtallis 2y ago
It was a ten-year bet, but they spent the first several years actively sabotaging Altera by trying to move their whole product stack over to non-functional Intel fabs.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Guantanamo was Bush's attempt to circumvent habeas corpus by imprisoning people outside the country. The Supreme Court didn't let him get away with that. The El Salvador strategy is the logical next step to avoid habeas corpus, by
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by wtallis 2y ago
> it could be an extremely capable server. If not for the minuscule SSD. You can get adapters from Apple's custom slot to a standard M.2 form factor, allowing you to use a modern M.2 NVMe drive. As long as you have already installed
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by wtallis 2y ago
Speed limits for towing smaller trailers mostly derive from safety concerns about overloaded or imbalanced trailers being unstable at high speeds. A battery-only trailer with little or no cargo space, designed and certified in conjunction w
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by wtallis 2y ago
Your snark would be inappropriate even if you weren't completely ignoring the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted.
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by wtallis 2y ago
This is pretty interesting. I've seen a similar technique for handling a single time series when the number of data points far exceeds the number of pixels, doing a two-dimensional histogram rather than connecting subsequent dots with
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by wtallis 2y ago
No, it would need multiple instruction decoders to switch between, not just swapping microcode. Most instructions are not handled with microcode.
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by wtallis 2y ago
There was never a right time for Apple to make such a switch. NeXTSTEP predates Linux, and when it was adapted into Mac OS X, Apple couldn't afford a wholesale kernel replacement project on top of everything else, and Linux in the late
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by wtallis 2y ago
And what, refill the instruction cache in less time than it takes to wait for more registers to become available?
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by wtallis 2y ago
You might be remembering the 90s-era MDI user interface where you could have multiple documents open as sub-windows within the parent Excel application window.
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by wtallis 2y ago
The "tables" feature supported by Google Sheets and Excel is similar, but definitely not the same thing. Tables in those programs just ascribe special meaning to specified ranges of a single shared row:column space (what one would
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by wtallis 2y ago
Am I understanding you correctly: your complaint about OpenWRT software is that they aren't focused exclusively enough on being a router, and your complaint about OpenWRT hardware is that they are focused exclusively on being a route
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by wtallis 2y ago
> that gets executed by the OS Do you see the problem here? Which ACPI table do you expect to be used for delivering malicious executable code?
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by wtallis 2y ago
That doesn't prove anything. Allocating a second 30GB chunk and seeing the power go up another Watt would be more convincing.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Please don't ignore the points I've already made about how a firmware-based attack against a non-Windows OS is a lot hardware to pull off. I'm not asking if you think a company would be willing to ship such malware, I'

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