TheTon

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by TheTon 2mo ago
I think the author’s use of a 500Hz display covers up or minimizes a lot of issues. It’s really easy to look at this data and say 8ms click to flash is fabulous even though he has an config that does 4ms. A better way to interpret this data
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by TheTon 2mo ago
At one point you could have said the same thing about Blizzard, that everything they did was gold. It’s hard to pinpoint where they went wrong, but it’s not clear to me that it was business model or game format related. Like, WoW was a fabu
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by TheTon 3mo ago
No, this scenario works fine. Car audio (and UI) can interleave with CarPlay. I can put podcasts on my center screen, my car manufacturer's navigation in the driver's screen, and the navigation prompts will duck the podcast and in
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by TheTon 3mo ago
Right, this is why video parse / decode ought to be sandboxed. Writing secure code for these formats, especially in C, is really hard. I just sort of glanced at the bug in the repo, but it sounds plausible. It certainly wouldn’t be the
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by TheTon 3mo ago
I’m not sure what the bug is, but this is a terrible fix. What this is doing is forcing the WindowServer to composite the cursor rather than treat it as a hardware overlay. I suppose the issue must be pretty bad for OP if this helps, but …
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by TheTon 3mo ago
The number is as low as 2. Hell, it may even be 1! I have had a subscription for years, I do not share it, and I read on 2 devices, and they've been hassling me with this nonsense for the past week or so. I'm holding out hope it&#
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by TheTon 4mo ago
Look closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.
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by TheTon 6mo ago
I can tell you that inside Apple, they have something called the standard question, and it goes something like this: “What are you really trying to do?” If you haven’t personally filed a bug report at feedbackassistant.apple.com, I recommen
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by TheTon 6mo ago
Then complain about that. That would make a much more sensible blog post and discussion. Asking for a crazy workaround to a sane problem isn't a great way to get good results, especially with Apple. Beyond the obvious performance pitfa
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by TheTon 6mo ago
Yes 1920x1080@2x absolutely works on M4. I use this mode all day every day.
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by TheTon 6mo ago
Yes, I would actually be surprised to learn that mode is available on any system. I’ve never seen that anywhere, though I only have a M1 Pro and an M4 Pro (and various Intel Macs). You’re rendering to a framebuffer exactly 2x the size of yo
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by TheTon 6mo ago
Exactly. Their holy war on the App Stores blunted Fortnite’s momentum at its apogee. On one hand, I admire their chutzpah. The App Store model has weighed down the entire software industry and has prevented entire categories of new products
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by TheTon 6mo ago
You could apply this same reasoning to any feature or technology. Yes there could be a zero day nobody knows about. We could say that about ssh or WebKit or Chrome too. I hear what you're saying about the deprecation status, but as I a
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by TheTon 6mo ago
On the other hand, the underlying functionality for sandboxing is used heavily throughout the OS, both for App Sandboxes and for Apple’s own system processes. My guess is sandbox-exec is deprecated more because it never was adequately docum
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by TheTon 10mo ago
I admit I started reading with some skepticism. It didn't read like PR, so I assumed I was reading fanfic. By the midpoint, she managed to convince me otherwise. I think the author is walking a tightrope between convincing the reader t
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by TheTon 10mo ago
Yeah I have tried it for myself. I am limited to 4K60 when using the HDMI 2.0 port on either my M1 Mac mini or M1 Pro MacBook Pro and LG B2 TV. I do get 4K120 with VRR with newer Macs with HDMI 2.1 as well as my Xbox Series X. It has been m
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by TheTon 10mo ago
At 4K? Or are you limited to a lower resolution due to bandwidth constraints?
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by TheTon 10mo ago
There isn’t a single one way to be a dedicated gamer. Inevitably everyone has finite time and access to games and has to make choices about what to play. As a Mac guy, I always found the game platform wars weird because even on the weakest
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by TheTon 10mo ago
This is a big miss for me. I can’t use my TVs 120Hz VRR mode without HDMI 2.1. I realize the Xbox Series X is beleaguered at this point, but apart from playing games that are on Steam but not Xbox, I can’t see why I would prefer the Steam M
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by TheTon 11mo ago
As a kid, I was marginally decent at competitive math. Not good like you think of kids who dominate those type of competitions at a high level, but like I could qualify for the state competition type good. What I was actually good, or at le
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by TheTon 11mo ago
Is it practical for Apple to produce a set of frameworks for Intel that run some useful set of old games but that do not run any useful set of non game software? I grant it’s probably possible to do, but I think that is a lot more work and
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by TheTon 11mo ago
That's one implementation, yeah, just have a list somewhere of approved software and make an artificial limitation. But their announcement is so vague, it's hard to say. And then the next question is why? It's not like they&#
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by TheTon 11mo ago
As I said in my first comment, it's at least Cocoa (Foundation + AppKit), AVFoundation, Metal, OpenGL, and then all of the lower level frameworks and libraries those depend on (which may or may not be used directly by individual games)
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by TheTon 11mo ago
I don’t agree. My point is their collective footprint in terms of the macOS API surface (at least as of 2019 or so) is pretty big. I’m not just speculating here, I work in this area so I have a pretty good idea of what is used.
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by TheTon 11mo ago
But games are full fledged GUI apps. At a minimum they have a window. It’s really unclear what it means to support old games but not old apps in general. I would think the set of APIs used by the set of all existing Intel Mac games probably
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by TheTon 1y ago
Ditto. Happily using 7, but if they ever break it I’m switching to Apple Passwords.
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by TheTon 1y ago
Thanks for the link. I read it. Alas, I think you and I are probably too far apart on the premises we accept to have a useful discussion, but I appreciate learning about your perspective and I appreciate your reply.
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by TheTon 1y ago
The author doesn’t attempt to address the issue that Apple and iOS are the only remaining effective bulwark against Google’s complete control of the web. Think about what Google’s end game looks like if they are able to convince lawmakers a
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by TheTon 1y ago
Typically you wait for the new chip. Sometimes there are hybrid coders that can use some of the resources on the chip and some shader code to handle new codecs or codec features after the fact, but you pay a power and performance penalty to
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by TheTon 1y ago
Wow, thanks for the insight. It's sort of crazy to think about how big GitHub has become, and how much Microsoft paid for it, but of course it wasn't the first product in the space at all. Right time, right place, right features,

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