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by wtallis 2y ago
And when laptops do have a spare M.2 slot it's usually intended for an SSD only and is not the right kind of M.2 slot for a cellular (or WiFi) card. And of course, you'd need antennas. So the whole laptop needs to be designed ar
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by wtallis 2y ago
From a marketing perspective, it's probably ancient history. They've had three rounds of iPhone launches between now and the launch of the 13 mini, and the 13 mini was discontinued a year and a half ago. Even if the 16e had been
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by wtallis 2y ago
They have not. The title says "formerly" but the article correctly says "formally". "Strix Halo" is just the codename, "Ryzen AI Max+ 395" is a model name from that family.
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by wtallis 2y ago
I wonder if it's actually due to the quantum dots, or if it's more broadly a thing for large OLED panels. I haven't spent any significant time using an OLED TV, and I think most of the OLED computer monitors I've seen in
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by wtallis 2y ago
It's vastly simpler, and more useful , for Steam to detect the current resolution. Trying to detect the maximum supported resolution is non-trivial, especially when there are devices that will accept a 4k signal despite having fewer p
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by wtallis 2y ago
They existed for a while, and as recently as a year or two ago there was a cheap LG 24" 4k that was only about $300. But I think the monitor market in general moved on to focus more on larger sizes, and "4k" became the new &q
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by wtallis 2y ago
If you know that your monitor is a 3rd-generation QD-OLED panel, then you probably know that text rendering was the main complaint about earlier generations of QD-OLED, and there are probably still more of those in the wild than ones as rec
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by wtallis 2y ago
It's actually probably reporting the software-configured resolution, not the hardware capability. The important distinction is whether it's a system-wide resolution setting or a game-specific setting that may not apply to browser
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by wtallis 2y ago
Web designers must simply accept that they are working in a medium that is not amenable to (sub)pixel-perfect reproducibility. It is not—and never has been—safe to assume that future versions of a given browser will render identically to th
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by wtallis 2y ago
Not all gamers have a computer entirely dedicated to that purpose. Even among those that do, it's not uncommon to also play games or run Steam on another machine.
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by wtallis 2y ago
I don't know the mechanism behind it, but I've done side by side comparisons and it's clear to the untrained eye that the impressive contrast ratio of OLEDs is easily weakened by ambient lighting conditions.
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by wtallis 2y ago
To an unfortunately large degree, browsers and browser engines are simply not concerned with respecting the host platform's defaults and conventions. The browsers are here to replace (and reinvent) the host platforms, not integrate w
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by wtallis 2y ago
On OLEDs, high levels of ambient light hitting the monitor tends to wash out blacks, making them appear dark gray, thereby subverting one of the most clear-cut advantages of OLED.
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by wtallis 2y ago
The Steam Hardware Survey samples the system when Steam is launched, not while a game is playing. For most users, Steam starts when they log in to the computer. I think the unfortunate reality is that a very large number of gamers are still
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by wtallis 2y ago
> PPI is high enough on modern displays that the reduction in resolution won't matter. Have you looked at the desktop monitor market recently? There are still a lot of models that are not substantially higher PPI than what was nor
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by wtallis 2y ago
Latency spikes, probably. But most UIs shouldn't be churning through enough allocations to lead to noticeable GC pauses, and not all of today's GCs have major problems with pause times. I don't think Electron's problems
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by wtallis 2y ago
Until Intel's Ice Lake server processors introduced in 2019, x86-64 essentially was a 48-bit address architecture: addresses are stored in 64-bit registers, but were only valid if the top two bytes were sign-extended from the last
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by wtallis 2y ago
Disabling cache as a binning strategy isn't too common these days, unless it's a cache slice associated with a CPU or GPU core that's being disabled. Large SRAMs are manufactured usually with some spare cache lines so that t
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by wtallis 2y ago
"Disabling bad memory" as in DRAM isn't a thing that happens, to anybody. DRAM is made in its own fabs and goes through QA before being packaged. So whether it lands onto DIMMs or in a SoC package, it's known-good dies t
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by wtallis 2y ago
Surely you don't believe that large chips like Apple's M3 Max and M4 Max shipped while yields were still immature. So do you think that the wafers per month that TSMC is now cranking out over a year after N3B chips started landing
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by wtallis 2y ago
4k 60Hz is still largely unachievable for even top of the line cards when testing recent games with effects like raytracing turned up. For example, an RTX 4090 can run Cyberpunk 2077 at 4k at over 60fps with the Ray Tracing Low preset, but
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by wtallis 2y ago
I think you may be overestimating the scale of attack that can be accomplished within the constraints of a microcode update. Given that the CPU has to still seem to be operating normally while using malicious microcode, how much space out
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by wtallis 2y ago
That's a great example. I've seen in other states that the definition of "motor vehicle" encompasses bicycles. It probably is the simplest way to ensure that all traffic laws automatically apply to bicycles, and then som
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by wtallis 2y ago
Arguably, Intel has already achieved the most important part of the Intel Foundry strategy: letting the CPU designers target whatever fab is best for their needs. Getting most of the consumer CPU moved to TSMC for Meteor Lake a year ago and
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by wtallis 2y ago
If Intel Foundry starting in 2011 had a non-trivial external customer base, Intel management would not have been so easily able to ignore the signs of trouble with their 10nm process and remain in denial. Their wake-up call would have been
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by wtallis 2y ago
> The red flags were there, it doesn't even have an official package manager. I think you may have several other misconceptions about what Unix means.
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by wtallis 2y ago
That ad was a two-page spread in printed magazines. The extra spacing was to account for the binding not laying flat.
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by wtallis 2y ago
I suspect there are exactly zero customers (of Apple or anyone else) who care to nitpick like this over strict adherence—out of the box—to any version of a UNIX specification. Anyone who really needs to guarantee that their application wi
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by wtallis 2y ago
The plant in Arizona is deliberately not equipped to produce current-gen chips.
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by wtallis 2y ago
The article is talking about Intel's capabilities almost 15 years ago. EUVL is not part of the conversation. This was when Intel was bringing up their first FinFET process. It's pretty widely known and documented that Intel at tha

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