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by wtallis 3mo ago
> While it would be nice to have a multi-threaded benchmark that demonstrates a realistic scaling towards many threads, I have no reason whatsoever to trust that the Geekbench implementers are capable to optimize the inter-thread communi
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by wtallis 3mo ago
I don't think you've put forth a coherent argument here. SPEC CPU is distributed in source form, to be compiled by the end user. There are restrictions on what kind of compiler options and other games you can play when making an
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by wtallis 3mo ago
Geekbench is not just intended to be used to benchmark consumer systems, it is intended to be used by consumers to benchmark their systems and to have its scores interpreted by consumers . For that audience, the most important thing th
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by wtallis 3mo ago
Yes, they have a valid reason for the change. But I think it's still making a tradeoff, and has a clearly identifiable downside because the content of the multi-core test suite is no longer as closely aligned with the content of the si
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by wtallis 3mo ago
> But, of all of the 2-pick-only options, choosing a custom mix and calling it multi-core requires guessing your actual workload on both the content of the mixed test suite as well as the scaling profile of the CPU to reason with. Yes, t
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by wtallis 3mo ago
Geekbench is not intended for benchmarking large workstations. Look at how the web site actually describes the benchmark. It's for phones and laptops and similar devices. A test mode that uses a machine in a way that is only relevant t
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by wtallis 3mo ago
Please stop framing the multi core scaling issue as a matter of the benchmark being good or bad. Geekbench 5 scores scale better than Geekbench 6 scores because Geekbench 5's multicore test runs N independent copies of the same workloa
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by wtallis 3mo ago
The client/consumer desktop market hasn't actually disappeared, and soldered memory is almost unheard-of in that market segment.
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by wtallis 3mo ago
The iGPU's video decoder could even be drastically less efficient than the dGPU's decoder, and it would still be better to use the iGPU, because just powering up the PCIe link and VRAM for the dGPU costs far more power than the
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by wtallis 3mo ago
You might want to not only re-evaluate what you consider a real GPU, but also take a look at what the latest Intel integrated graphics is capable of (Panther Lake laptop chips with 12-core GPU chiplet fabbed by TSMC). Intel is still way beh
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by wtallis 3mo ago
I was including USB history before USB-C, because HDMI and DisplayPort have been around much longer than USB-C. And limiting the discussion to "fully-featured USB-C cables" is ignoring most of the real problems.
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by wtallis 3mo ago
The critical difference is that USB versions keep adding new wires and active components, while the display cables largely stick to tightening the analog signal integrity requirements. Whether an old HDMI cable works for a new display is la
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by wtallis 3mo ago
> I guess I just don't really buy your argument, because if their CPUs had turned out poorly, you could have applied the same argument to their CPUs instead of the GPUs. Doesn't the argument work fine on the CPU side? Apple doe
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by wtallis 3mo ago
You say "that's exactly why they do it" then go on to describe something entirely different: an organization with plenty of options to spend their development resources on, and they make their decision not out of a lack of op
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by wtallis 3mo ago
> Yes, get-childitem is a little weird to remember, That's not the problem. The problem is that it's way too much typing , and with the default tab completion behavior it's often way too much backspacing if I didn't
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by wtallis 3mo ago
I don't think software companies ship UI churn because they're running out of things to do with their development resources. They're just bad at rewarding bug fixing and bad at saying no to user-visible changes that aren&#x27
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by wtallis 3mo ago
PowerShell has always struck me as being fine for scripting (especially since the OS ships with an editor with autocomplete), but absolutely insane for everyday interactive use, especially given how many places Microsoft applied their usu
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by wtallis 3mo ago
You seem to be conflating "RGB" with one particular RGB color space: sRGB. That's a common enough conflation to make, but not appropriate when you're trying to be pedantic.
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by wtallis 3mo ago
Do any operating systems update file access time after every read operation instead of just at fopen?
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by wtallis 3mo ago
It's kinda irresponsible to talk about read disturbance without clarifying that it takes an extremely large number of reads to cause a read disturb error, and it can be corrected by a single rewrite of the data. Read disturb errors are
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by wtallis 3mo ago
> I guess they're just welding the memory to the CPU chip, but still curious. Unified memory is more of an architectural and performance characteristic, and does not imply much about the physical layout of the machine. Most unified
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> And you probably won't pull more than 100 Watts I've played with ds4 on such a machine, and the battery drains when using only a 96W power brick. But you can put it in low power mode and the fans won't even turn on while
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by wtallis 4mo ago
So you're just repeating the assertion that SDR vs HDR and absolute vs relative brightness aren't orthogonal, but haven't even attempted to explain or construct an argument to justify the assertion. I think it's quite ob
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by wtallis 4mo ago
It has always struck me as strange and user-hostile that most of the computing and entertainment world has decided to couple together the transition from SDR to HDR with a conceptually unrelated switch from relative to absolute brightness s
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by wtallis 4mo ago
The contract terms could very well have actually had a meaning that included filming inside the apartment. The existence of other laws overriding the contract isn't actually the same thing as the contract not having that invasive meani
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by wtallis 4mo ago
I think X11 terminology may be causing some confusion. Refer to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/MultiMonitorDesktop.html The normal, usable way to have multiple monitors for your X11 desktop environment is for them to all b
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by wtallis 4mo ago
I think there's also a major difference between the kind of weird intermediate frames that are acceptable for a highly-stylized cartoon at 24FPS and the kind of intermediate frames that are acceptable for a UI running at 120FPS.
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by wtallis 4mo ago
It doesn't look like the certification requires those UUCP binaries to be in /usr/local, that's just where you have to put them on macOS to be able to `chmod +s` them, which is what the certification actually requires. L
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by wtallis 4mo ago
When people talk about whether something like a Pi is aimed at industrial customers, that is largely not a statement about the cost vs specs, nor about the level of engagement with the DIY community. It's usually about having a suita
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> It could instead require third parties to improve theirs. Apple made it sound like their proposal for that was rejected by the EU. And it would be consistent with previous regulatory decisions by the EU for them to not want Apple to

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