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by modulusshift 5y ago
So is this the fabled transition into COVID becoming the common cold? More infectious, less deadly?
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by modulusshift 5y ago
The nuclear scare was definitely that constant, if not even more so. It was also a much more black and white issue, there was a clear us vs them to it. I personally think that 9/11 and the response to it would have all been taken compl
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Haha if we were measuring them on literary merit most would be promptly dumped in the garbage. This is kinda just what early sci fi was like, it's rarely about the stories, the stories just contextualize ideas.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Cool, now you're just denying reality, the activities of those harassers towards them and other people are public record, so I rest my case.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
You seem to have no idea how obituaries work, you usually have to pay a newspaper to carry them, they aren't automatic, and if the news is published widely enough in the relevant communities why would you bother to pay for it? As for
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by modulusshift 5y ago
If you're going to base your entire argument on a document you haven't produced, believing you would also make me gullible.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
First off, "that year" is this year, so you're boldly claiming there's a document claiming a lack of deaths in a whole year that hasn't ended yet. But even assuming such a document exists, do you have evidence tha
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by modulusshift 5y ago
It's a hexadecimal dollar, actually, $2.56.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Don't fix what ain't broke. the year 2000 was the second skipped skip after 1600. If the Gregorian calendar could make it through those four centuries, with the increasing rate of political and social upheaval, it's not goi
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by modulusshift 5y ago
They added a more sensitive camera that year as well as a brighter display with more colors, found interference, moved the display circuitry and cabling to the other side of the phone to compensate, and then that interfered with the headpho
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by modulusshift 5y ago
This was the selling point for the butterfly keyboard when it was introduced, actually, that no matter where you hit on the key it would be equally responsive.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Apple has an architecture license from ARM, so they're allowed to create their own ARM-compatible cores. They do not license any core designs from ARM (like the Cortex A57), they design those in house instead.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Nope, RAM is off die but on package.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
The gaming capability is there, but Apple only officially supports their own Metal on macOS as far as graphics languages, meaning the only devs with experience with Metal are the World of Warcraft team at Blizzard and mobile gaming studios.
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Yeah, and they also deprecated OpenGL, which would have wiped out most of those games even if the 32-bit support didn't. I'm not expecting to see much backwards compatibility, I'm expecting forwards compatibility, and we&#x27
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by modulusshift 5y ago
CPU and GPU is one die, you're looking at RAM chips on each side of the package. The M1 also had the RAM separate but on package. M1: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ZRQGFteQwoIVFbNn
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by modulusshift 5y ago
macOS Monterey coming out on the 25th has a new Low Power Mode feature that may do just that. That said, these Macs are incredibly efficient for light use, you may already get 24 hrs of battery life with your workload. Not counting screen o
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Disco Elysium, EVE Online, Minecraft*, Timberborn, Total War: Rome Remastered, World of Warcraft. Minecraft is kinda cheating, because Java, and even considering that it takes a bit of hacking. Alternatively you can sideload the iOS version
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Asahi Linux is making great strides in supporting M1 Macs, and they're upstreaming everything so your preferred distro could even support them. https://asahilinux.org/
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Well, Apple is selling M1 Macs like hotcakes, so it won't be too long until it'll be stupid not to support them. Also, texture thrashing isn't really an issue when you've got a shared CPU/GPU memory with 64 GB of
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Oh hey they went back to screws on the keyboards? that's nice, they used to be single use plastic rivets, so at least you can redo that. Also Apple's glue isn't usually that bad to work with. Doesn't leave much residue
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Apple put ProMotion in the built in display, so while it can ramp up to 120Hz, it'll idle at more like 24 Hz when showing static content. (the iPad Pro goes all the way down to 10Hz, but some early sources seem to say 24Hz for these Ma
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Well, tons, there isn't another ARM core that can match a single M1 Firestorm, core to core. Heck, only the highest performance x86 cores can match a Firestorm core. and that's just raw performance, not even considering power effi
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by modulusshift 5y ago
He made the Sibelius one before he'd ever used MuseScore, did the MuseScore one before Dorico/Finale because of popular demand even though he'd never used MuseScore before that, and then eventually got hired onto the MuseScor
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by modulusshift 5y ago
Personally I think that even if UBI wouldn’t provide a living wage in today’s economy, that it will fundamentally change market dynamics in interesting ways. Companies constantly adjust prices up in the US because of increased buying power,
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by modulusshift 6y ago
Huh. I'm pretty sure I remember blog posts by Scott Siskind back in the early 2010's. And I've never heard of Scott Alexander. So that was a weird perspective to come at this post from. I wish him the best of luck.
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by modulusshift 9y ago
A compiler in particular is a very extreme case. Most software is used to its fullest extent by its developer, 90% of bugs are likely to be found by said developer in their normal usage. Another step out, library developers often use their