amaranth

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by amaranth 1mo ago
The multicore is only close because the RISC-V one has twice as many cores and uses twice as much power. That would suggest the RISC-V cores are getting around pi3 levels of performance which is a decade old and losing badly as perf/W.
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by amaranth 2mo ago
The first one might not make sense but it gets them the pipeline for when it does make sense in the future. Plus for a lot of things using LLMs they'd be fine with older tech, especially if running it was even faster and cheaper.
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by amaranth 6mo ago
Phones and watches do that with LTPO OLED which I don't believe exists at higher screen sizes although I'm not sure why. This is supposed to be special because it isn't OLED so should be able to get brighter and not have to w
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by amaranth 11mo ago
A 2080 is about the same performance as a 5060 and every game is going to be able to run on a 5060. You might not be running it at 4K Ultra with ray tracing enabled but you should be able to run at like 1080p High or better. Whether or not
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by amaranth 1y ago
I believe it's legal because rear doors have child safety locks so often can't be opened from the inside anyway. Although that doesn't cover opening it from the outside...
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by amaranth 1y ago
One factor is that a part of their measurement is tracking how many new companies are founded and estimating how many employees a new company is likely to have. These numbers have been trending down and rapidly fell due to a lot of new comp
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by amaranth 1y ago
That's what Intel wants everyone to believe but not quite accurate. Intel was vague at best about what the motherboard manufacturers should and were allowed to do but even following their guidance as best as possible resulted in CPU fa
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by amaranth 1y ago
That's less of a thing here since this is "just" an ITX motherboard, a case, and a power supply. With the laptops replacing the board saves a bunch of other parts but here the board is basically the only part that matters.
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by amaranth 1y ago
The N64 is older than Pokemon.
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by amaranth 2y ago
Google Assistant is going away soon so this won't work anymore. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/end-of-life-gemini-wi...
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by amaranth 2y ago
Safari doesn't support zstd, that means if you want to use it you have to support multiple formats.
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by amaranth 2y ago
Now drag a window from one monitor to the other. The choice on X is to have both monitors run with the same specs (well, not for everything but yeah) or to have two completely separate screens at the X level which means they're isolate
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by amaranth 2y ago
There isn't a cheaper card that's worth buying over using the iGPU you already have so yeah, that's the low end.
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by amaranth 2y ago
Yeah, I worked on that but I didn't think that would count since it was a distro, not a desktop environment. In that case Novell shipped compiz in 2006 so even earlier.
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by amaranth 2y ago
My understanding is that most of the complaints about Vista being unstable came from the nvidia driver being rather awful [1]. You were likely to either have a system that couldn't actually run Vista or have one that crashed all the ti
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by amaranth 2y ago
GNOME 3 had a hardware accelerated compositor on release in 2011.
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by amaranth 2y ago
It's also meant to make it (somewhat) easier to apply various GPGPU filters and scalers before encode or after decode, like HDR tonemapping. The OS usually has some method to do this while keeping the data in the GPU VRAM by passing a
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by amaranth 2y ago
There are in fact two "to native" compilers for Kotlin, the one for Kotlin only is called Kotlin Native but you can also use graalvm native-image to compile any JVM language to native.
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by amaranth 2y ago
sd_notify is for additional (useful) functionality, it would work fine without it. You can tell because it works on arch.
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by amaranth 2y ago
The focus on _latency_ is a recent thing. VTE was previously focused on throughput and low CPU usage, which are conflicting goals.
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by amaranth 2y ago
In Rust the answer is "it depends". Since the runtime is not provided by the language you can have implementations that are a single thread, thread-per-task, a thread pool, or whatever other setup you can think of. Tokio at least
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by amaranth 3y ago
The font rendering thing is more complicated than that. Subpixel antialiasing doesn't work with animations and I'm pretty sure it interacts poorly with fractional scaling too. The fact that you don't need subpixel antialiasin
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by amaranth 3y ago
According to [1] the estimated number of iPhone users (leaving out any Mac users) in 2024 is 1.46 billion. [1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/number-of-iphone-users
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by amaranth 3y ago
If you live in the US there is a good chance that was your phone company throttling Netflix and the app automatically switching to 480p to adjust to the reduced bandwidth. They probably do that more broadly now but when they first started i
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by amaranth 3y ago
They launched with one with a built-in disc drive and one without. For their mid-cycle refresh they changed it to a single model with a disc drive add-on but sell a SKU that includes the drive in the box.
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by amaranth 3y ago
Wasn't uMatrix dropped because at this point it's just a more powerful UI to do the same things uBlock Origin lets you do?
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by amaranth 3y ago
The name comes from Node so that ship has sailed, I think. https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html#node-api
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by amaranth 3y ago
I take it you disregard pretty much all of quantum physics then?
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by amaranth 3y ago
GNOME started down their current path through a combination of Easel (started by the people who designed the Macintosh) designing nautilus and icon sets and trying to get the desktop to be more cohesive and Sun pushing hard on accessibility
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by amaranth 3y ago
This is at least partially because there is a performance overhead to calling out to C from Java or Go so eventually the optimal implementation of something will be in the language itself. Rust's zero-cost calls to/from C is a pos

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