Maursault

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by Maursault 3y ago
> I think a Mini of any spec is a great value. My second suggestion for 16-core was M2, also. $100 less with 1Gb, and with 10Gb it would be $100 more than you paid. i.e. two of the 8-core M2 Minis with 24GB RAM each would do about twice
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by Maursault 3y ago
> legacy wins 20 years ago, probably. I don't understand why it is still the case today that legacy is important. Who is still running very old, 25yo software, and just how are they wagging the dog?
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by Maursault 3y ago
Itanium was supposed to be powerful, not efficient, and it originated at HP. Atom was x86. If Intel designed something new from the ground up with high efficiency specifications, I don't think it could be too terrible, and I think it w
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by Maursault 3y ago
Why does Intel need Arm for collaboration, and what does Arm get out of optimizing "Arm’s IP for Intel’s upcoming 18A process technology?" Why doesn't Intel license Arm designs like anyone else, and optimize it themselves? I
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by Maursault 3y ago
Not awful, but for $2K you could have had 16-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine, 48GB unified memory, 512K SSD storage, Four Thunderbolt 4 ports, two HDMI ports, four USB-A ports, two headphone jacks, two Gigabit Ethernet.
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by Maursault 3y ago
A lot can change in that amount of time and apparently has. Also, as you're very likely aware, KDE runs on macOS, though idky anyone would want to do that. It certainly wouldn't draw anyone back from FreeBSD. The best and worst pa
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by Maursault 3y ago
It's just such a waste of time, resources and talent, when it would be vastly better, and presumably easier, to stop the extinction of vaquita, black rhinoceros and other subspecies, saola, tiger species, leopard species, elephants and
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by Maursault 3y ago
> KDE is so great. Funny, back in 2006ish, KDE development was stalled, and it was a janky, inconsistent mess. Everyone hated it and used Gnome, which had a simpler design and was far more stable and smooth.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Just yesterday I started using a new maxed out Mac mini and everything about it is snappy. Really?! I didn't think anyone here would fall for that. Mac Mini 12-core M2, 19-core GPU, 32GB, 10Gbit, 8TB storage? $4500
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by Maursault 3y ago
SP1
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Maybe. But graphics cards aren't the only thing people put into PCIe slots. Right, so there will be PCIe slots for expansion, they just won't support PCIe GPU, just like Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis for Thunderbolt now.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s. AGFA sold Alphas (DEC-branded) running NT4.1 in the mid-1990s along with their Apogee film imaging equipment to run their Apogee RIP soft
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by Maursault 3y ago
> It could be that Apple does away with it entirely and the Mac Studio is the new Pro. Or the Mac Pro will be released without PCIe GPU support, and Apple will be able to leverage increases in Apple Silicon GPU performance to eliminate a
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by Maursault 3y ago
Not really. Software drivers alone will not get it done, at least not adequately (Asahi-related developers may come up with a software solution for Asahi, but it will necessarily degrade performance, so the effort is likely to be abandone
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by Maursault 3y ago
Automatic transcoding is the last thing I'd want wasting processor cycles.
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by Maursault 3y ago
You are mistaken. Plex is really just a dedicated web server with a bunch of annoying feature creep.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> I save media into the corresponding folders, point Plex to the folders and Plex takes care of the rest. It’s a ten second process. Unnecessary step, and if it only takes you 10 seconds, you really have no media to speak of: when it is
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by Maursault 3y ago
To suggest it is merely lack of drivers is an oversimplification. There is a chip errata that prevents PCIe GPUs from working properly on Apple Silicon: the architectures are not compatible. Apple Silicon GPU drivers are deeply integrated i
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Life began in that alien environment, and at some point between 3.2 and 2.8 billion years ago, cyanobacteria began to use sunlight to split hydrogen from water, discarding oxygen as waste. David Attenborough brilliantly explains the be
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by Maursault 3y ago
There are two issues. 1) Apple Silicon won't support PCIe. 2) Apple doesn't want it to. #2 means Apple is taking nVidia and AMD head on in the GPU space. Apple wants to control everything, and allowing these compe
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by Maursault 3y ago
I don't think the race is over yet, but it is really entirely up to developers, not Apple. Apple Silicon isn't quite 3yo yet, and it is hard to say right now what the gaming landscape will look like in another five years. Technica
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by Maursault 3y ago
Does this qualify?[1] [1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/mlc-llm-mobile-laptops/
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Local LLMs do best on big GPUs, which aren’t an option on Macs. What Apple has done with the M-series silicon is really impressive, but it’s not as fast as big, dedicated GPU silicon. It'd be pretty silly for Apple to cram in big,
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by Maursault 3y ago
> My guess has been that they are an item a journeyman blacksmith had to create to be promoted to master. Seems pretty specific to span two centuries of known construction. Why would they be saved and not recycled? Nearly every medieval
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Pain is a signal of impending damage/injury, or existing damage/injury that may well worse if not dealt with immediately. Pain is not necessarily associated with injury. >All signals within a human nervous system can be mi
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Good old Descartes. Descartes stood on the shoulders of Moses.[1] [1] Exodus 3:14
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by Maursault 3y ago
> What is suffering? Pain is one of the few sensations that is unmistakeable. If you think you are in pain, then you definitely are.
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by Maursault 3y ago
> Age of universe is 14Byears It's age now. What will its age be when it is the relative equivalent of a 75yo human? A cosmic blink will be far longer than 7 months.
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by Maursault 3y ago
Clumsy headline. It's a vaccine that inoculates against pancreatic cancer. It wouldn't inoculate against the treatment for pancreatic cancer, because why would anyone want to develop a vaccine that prevents a cancer treatment from
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by Maursault 3y ago
It sort of becomes obvious when everyone in the photo has seven fingers and two thumbs on each hand.

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