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by wtallis 6mo ago
I use emu48 on my phone emulating the HP-50g, which was almost exactly the same size as the phone so my muscle memory somewhat carries over (minus the tactile feedback of a real keyboard). I still have the physical calculator on my desk at
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by wtallis 6mo ago
And you always start off knowing the total length of the array, and the width of the datatype. Actually deciding what to do with that information without incurring a bunch more cache misses in the process may be tricky.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Yes, this can be seen as unrolling the loop a bit. It improves performance not by significantly reducing the number of instructions or memory reads, but by relaxing the dependencies between operations so that it doesn't have to be exec
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by wtallis 6mo ago
There are so many caveats and limitations that bringing it up in this context is downright dishonest. The most you could fairly say is that some of the philosophy driving some of the meshtastic developers is what you want to see appli
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Did you intend to link to Meshtastic as an example of how not to achieve your goals? Because it definitely isn't capable of scaling up to anything like the whole internet, and the project struggles to agree on any goals they want t
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That's when Samba gained official easy to use support for being used with Time Machine. I'm pretty sure it was possible long before then, IIRC by changing a setting on the Mac to allow selecting unsupported network volumes. I don&
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Where "new" in this case could be a NAS running Samba from 2011? Samba added official support for Time Machine much later, but I think it was possible on earlier versions with some extra steps.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That's one of the several forms of support under discussion, under the specious claim that it would become the expected level of support as soon as Apple declared any level of support for Linux. But as the comments you're refusi
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Intel's done it again recently, this time targeting Geekbench: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000... Both that and the SPEC compiler shenanigans are cheating by
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That's a slightly different problem. There's no thing as saturation for a performance benchmark like SPEC; we can always conceive of a faster processor (even if we don't know how to build one). Saturation is the problem that
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by wtallis 6mo ago
I'm not sure people are really trying to interpret this kind of benchmark as being accurate in gauging the magnitude of improvement. It seems pretty obvious that doubling your score on some benchmark where 100% means "correctly an
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by wtallis 6mo ago
As used by commercial hardware and software vendors, "support" can mean anything from "we'll come fix it for you when it breaks, or your money back" to merely "theoretically, it should work, and we won't g
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by wtallis 6mo ago
There's nothing rude about it; the Nuvia CPU core is pretty much the entire selling point of the Snapdragon X Elite product family. Everything else on those chips is underwhelming. But the provenance of the CPU core is really irrelev
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by wtallis 6mo ago
See https://openwrt.org/releases/25.12/notes-25.12.0 and https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... They have the tools and infrastructure for assembling cust
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Auto-update is also a bad idea unless you can make it really secure, which is hard to do on devices so constrained they don't even have a clock to keep track of what day it is to judge whether a certificate is still valid. Minimizing
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by wtallis 6mo ago
The only thing that can reasonably be called "giant" about OpenWRT is the package repository: it has a decent package manager like you'd expect to find on a desktop Linux distro, and it can be used to add functionality to you
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Looking awful has not prevented local dimming from becoming quite common on laptops. Apple has been doing an okay job of it in the MacBook Pro for several years. Lots of Windows laptops have been very hit-or-miss about it, but at least with
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Don't think of it as defending a trillion dollar company, think of it as pushing back against a weak, badly-formed argument. When there are valid complaints to be made, bad arguments pollute the conversation and make it harder to focus
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by wtallis 6mo ago
It's not exactly a decade-old issue when the problem started a decade ago and persisted for half a decade. The MacBook Pros from the tail end of that era are only just now starting to reach an age where they can reasonably be consi
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by wtallis 6mo ago
I think the lack of haptic feedback is what doomed the Touch Bar. If they'd been able to solve that problem, it could have been an acceptable replacement for the function keys.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> I'd say the decline came around 2012-2013 or so. I think it started slightly earlier: 10.7 Lion in 2011 introduced the new full-screen mode that was completely broken on multi-monitor setups, as though Apple entirely failed to t
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> If Steve was stil alive he'd still be competing we'd probably have Safari on Windows to this day... and cheaper computers (like the NEO but with upgradeable RAM) The MacBook Pro started using non-removable batteries in 2009.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
In order for that to actually be a money-making strategy for Apple, those third-party apps that address weaknesses in the OS would have to be sold through the Mac App Store so that Apple gets a cut. I've been a Mac user since before th
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by wtallis 6mo ago
For stock prices, starting the y axis wherever is aesthetically pleasing makes some sense because everybody will have a different non-zero cost basis for their investment, and the graphs need to be able to clearly depict fluctuations that a
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Among other reasons: the recent ban was on FCC approval for new products. Existing products that had already secured FCC approval are unaffected by the new policy and can continue being sold.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
> How that is achieved is not my concern. You're dodging the question. Wanting to ignore the side effects does not mean they won't affect you.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
If the user didn't put it there, it's hidden. Nobody routinely inspects the detailed configuration settings of their backup system, especially when it does appear to be working if you see it transferring data to the cloud and spot
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Do you really want Backblaze to ignore all the side effects of scanning through the entire contents a badly-designed network filesystem?
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That shouldn't be seen as Backblaze's problem. It's Dropbox's problem that they made their product too complicated for users to reason about. The original Dropbox concept was "a folder that syncs" and there wou
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by wtallis 6mo ago
That's a widespread practice among OEMa that want to use the same board in a 13/14" chassis and a 15/16" chassis. They just need a longer cable to the daughterboard for the larger laptop. That usually means all the

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