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This is basically happening for me now. Bought a house and a ton of gadgets to tinker with, with a dream of having the ultimate smart home.

Heavily underestimated the time sink it is and how often things break. But it definitely scratches and itch.

I’ve learned so much about circuit boards, electricity, and soldering in the past few weeks I think it’s well worth it, even if the smart home dream itself might never materialize.
> AMD has not beat Intel until the very latest release, so it makes sense to speak of them beating the market leader.

Well, neither did Apple - and yet all of the article is about their latest released M1 chip which hasn't even stood the test of time.

Meanwhile we know what Ryzens can do - and per-core performance per Watt is rather close still (IIRC 6W vs. 7-8 power draw at load?).
I'm sure you can still visit it even though it is a mosque - I've certainly visited many mosques in Turkey and other countries.
Bootloader/kernel signing can be turned off, there is even GUI for that if you turn off SIP first. Is it just like a jailbroken iPhone/iPad, but straight from Apple and without losing warranty.
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I don't see why it would be hard. Iterating on a architecture is harder than starting one from scratch. If the software market moves to ARM and there's bigger opportunities on the laptop/desktop side, it will attract other players in the high performance market.
Until now there was very little incentive due to the lack of software on mainstream operating systems (microsoft learnt this the hard way). Linux market on laptop an desktop has been way too small to attract big investments in the area.
After x86 is not dead, AMD is competing pretty well with their Zen architecture. It will be interesting to see what the next iteration will bring in term of power consumption and performance.

I also wonder if being an SOC with integrated memory helps the M1 in term of performance (I guess it must improve data access latency). It might push competitors to build high performance SOC.
Get a properly calibrated 1000 nits screen and display #000 on #fff (without wearing sunglasses). Have fun ;)

One of the major issues on the web currently is that colors aren't properly colorspaced or matched to a brightness curve, so on shitty 6-bit 100 nits panels #000 on #fff will still be grey-on-grey while on a proper 10 or 12-bit 1000 or 4000 nits panel #000 on #fff will be a color contrast of "literally looking into the sun" vs "the darkness of the darkest night".
The problems with this are more societal ones than technical or practical: It is impossible, for example, to install most popular apps for macOS without identifying yourself to Apple (and by extension the US government and military intelligence). You can't use the App Store (even for free apps) without an Apple ID, and you can't get an Apple ID without a phone number. (In many countries, you can't get a phone number without a government ID.)

Similarly, if you wish to publish apps widely, you can do so with unsigned ones, but users won't ever figure out how to run those.[1] If you want your app to be widely used, you must ID yourself to Apple, who can deny/censor at will (or under state (or Hollywood) compulsion).

It builds a world in which it is impossible to easily build or distribute tools that the state really doesn't want distributed or used, because Apple is too large to deny them their demands.

I think the phrase used is "turnkey tyranny".

Anonymous publishing is essential to the preservation of a free society.

Imagine if there were one company who could remotely disable printing presses, or televisions/radios.

For those of you who aren't yet worried about this possibility of state compulsion, I ask you this: Dubya is to Trump as Trump is to x? It's not a matter of if these remote censorship tools built by Apple will be used to abuse human rights en masse, but instead a matter of when. Apple is already compromising their crypto due to requests (not compulsion) from the federal police—today.

[1]: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
It is not ALL about platform control. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture gives us full day battery browsing/video-playback using the efficient IceStorm cores as well as very competitive performance benchmark results using the FireStorm cores.

Apple's System-on-a-Chip provides additional value-add (e.g. unified memory). Vertical integration of silicon does expand Apple’s walled garden but I’m not convinced this is the driving force.
I don't think it was Intels fault that they decided not to run a heat pipe to the fan on the previous gen MBA
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I don't know about the 100% part, but it doesn't seem crazy or impossible that they'll do something like that, and we should all be well aware of the possibility.
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Agree. In my market (AI & physics simulation) AMD has been the default choice for years. And with lots of investment into SSE & AVX performance gains, I don't see these tools switching to ARM anytime soon.

Edit: I didn't know before, but AMD also already has 20% of the notebook market.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3615331-amd-to-take-20-share-o...

So that makes it even more weird to say "expand Apple’s share of the PC market — at Intel’s expense" and not mention AMD.
Dry ice is very common, and you get 5 days at refrigerator temperature. Everywhere in the world is reachable in 5 days if you need to. It gets really expensive to charter flights to many areas, but it is possible if you have money to burn.

Of course we now have reason to believe that vaccines that don't need dry ice will be approved, so logistics will direct the easier to ship ones to remote places.
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-apple_m1-1804
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple-ma...

I see the M1 as strong in single core benchmarks, probably because it's an evolution of the iPad's processor, that doesn't do a lot of multitasking, and kinda meh in multicore.

I disconsider geekbench tests because of the disclaimer: "Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count".
>they're going to come to the PC and perform like Samsung's smart phones.

Sounds like Apple cooks (pun intended) with magic, and not with water, Graviton? Ampere?
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Remind me again, how much power does a regular taxi driver Joe have under the previous system, where he has to rent a medallion from its rich owner?
The reaction to this in tech circles has been surprisingly muted IMO. You used to see lots of posts complaining about how Apple didn't innovate and just slapped hefty price tags on generic components. That line of criticism has not aged well. Now there are lots of people complaining about minor transitional issues that are essentially caused by the low end macs - that aren't intended for demanding pros - having enough raw performance (but not enough RAM or ports) to almost be good enough for them.

Apple have successfully executed a bigger R&D project than any PC manufacturer in history. (In fact, the R&D costs probably wouldn't even have been a good investment if Apple only sold laptops and desktops.) As a result, the base model Macbook Air now offers objectively better value for money than any competing laptop, when considering just the basic metrics of performance, form factor and battery life. To me that's outrageously impressive.

I suspect Apple are going to move to a Mac product line structured more like their iPhone product line. When you buy an iPhone you always get way more performance than you really need, even if you buy the cheapest model. PC manufacturers have to differentiate on performance because Intel and AMD won't sell their fastest chips for cheap, but Apple has a lot more flexibility now.
Did you actually do it...? J2ME was a nightmare of incompatibilities. You could basically use it only for games, because you took control of the whole shebang. The slightest attempt at integration with platform services or native widgets brought utter pain across devices.

Symbian also changed drastically from featurephone to featurephone. WinCE was a bit more consistent but nobody used it on actual phones, it was largely a PDA os and PDAs were a very small market.
Sure, but you can’t reasonably restrict your speech such that no one can take your ideas, apply their own strict lens, find some reason for there to be offense using that lens, and then object to your speech on that basis. You’d have a hard time discussing the weather under those rules of conversation.

If someone thinks drugs are so bad that an even-handed curiosity whether a particular drug could have been at play is unseemly, the problem is with them, not with the reasonably sanely grounded curiosity. Replace cocaine with alcohol or aspirin and @influx’s comment is the same.
M1 certanly doesn't draw 10W (the tests has shown that it'll pull way more than that on some devices) - and if you see per core power draw the Zen3 and M1 architectures are within 15-20% which can be attributed to the 7nm vs. 5nm manufacturing process.

Remember that AMD is fabricating their CPUs at the same fab than Apple does - they're not crippled by obsolete manufacturing process like Intel.

This is why these articles are such puff pieces - they're focusing on Intel, which has fallen behind by quite a lot and completely ignoring the major changes that also happened on x86-64 front.
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You are correct, but I believe the parent commenter meant that M1 is useless for datacenters as long as you cannot run Linux on it.
You have clearly never spoken on the phone with my mother.
No, it isn't. There are plenty of subs that just talk about their thing. justEgan is entirely correct to point out that you can avoid politics or news if you want to.

An awful lot of people do have this idea that you just have to turn the whole thing off, though. And i see a lot of people on Reddit equally incorrectly saying that about Twitter! I wonder why.
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At WWDC they said they're starting a transition period that'll last 2 years.

So I expect them to drop support in 1.5 years
Seems unlikely apple would sell their chips and also that cloud providers would buy them instead of doing the same thing apple does, and design their own.

That is what Amazon is doing with Gravitron, isn't it?
It's a little swamped with tourists and tour buses, though. If you want a place less overwhelmed with queues and cameras I suggest Avebury.
>Most people don't want to pay that much money for a computer. That includes individuals, small businesses and corporates.

And most people aren't doing anything remotely close to requiring the "latest and greatest" processor. All of these benchmarks are great for us nerds, but it's hype. A lot of Apple customers want to know they are buying "the best", even if they have no practical need; the company has always been half lifestyle brand.
Aren't Apple devices assembled in sweatshops? The comparison might be more accurate than intended.
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> Only in single-core performance and performance/watt

I mean, the Ryzen besting the M1 in multi-core performance isn't really surprising when you consider that it's a 16-core/32-thread, 105W desktop CPU vs an 8-core/8-thread (four of which are low power cores), ~25W fanless laptop CPU (looking at the 5950X from the Anandtech review).
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> What Cupertino really wants more control. First over the development roadmap and inner working of its silicon. With in-house processors, Apple can drive integrated imaging, machine learning, and security features in the direction it wants.

This is the real point about control - not about forcing anyone to use the App store which may or may not happen but could have happened with Intel CPUs too - and its about building more capable machines. The speed is in part as a result of that control.

And I don't think anyone is being duped.
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64-bit apps debuted something like 12 years ago on the Mac. The writing has thus been on the wall for circa a decade, as I said. You figured 32-bit would be supported for what, 20 years? 30?
> the nicest hybrid smart watch

There’s a very nice one on Kickstarter right now. Ad Maiora.
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No bitmask will give you divisibility by 3 in base 16

In this case (division by 3 in mod 16) is the same as base 10: if the sum of digits is divisible by 3 then it is divisible (and the "extra digits" are 'c' and 'f')

Examples:

0x3c (60) -> sum = 0xf (divisible)

0x2d (45) -> sum = 0xf (divisible)
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> This entire article seems to work on the premise that Arm chips and Apple silicon are the same thing. This is demonstrably not the case though. Apple silicon seemingly trounces other phone silicon. It's not like Arm chips are going to come to PC and perform like the M1, they're going to come to the PC and perform like Samsung's smart phones.

Yup, and it assumes that all x86-64 chips will behave like Intels obsolete architecture right after AMD has shown pretty impressive IPC improvements with Zen3 as well.

It's clickbait by someone who doesn't really understand the difference between an architecture and actual designs being built.
As long as your interests align with Apple's, yes. But if they stop being aligned you basically have no control. So it's a double edged sword, it basically comes down to personal choice.
I don't think this will increase market share at all.

There is a market for $1000 computers that is serviced by Apple, Lenovo, HP, etc. If Apple can improve their offering over their competitors then you would expect their market share to increase.

Most people don't want to pay that much money for a computer.

I can't afford a Ferrari but I'm under no illusion that the supercar manufacturers aren't fighting over the same customers.
OpenHAB seems to be the choice if you're doing something commercial and want German Engineering And Stability.

But one thing it isn't is user friendly.

I'm not an IoT novice (I did that for a living for half a deacade) neither a programming novice (Java for a living since -99). Still I couldn't wrap my head around the OpenHAB way of doing things.

And I didn't even want anything complicated, just wanted my Hue lights to turn on when I pressed a button.
Two interesting points:

“ AstraZeneca, which has pledged it won’t make a profit on the vaccine during the pandemic, has reached agreements with governments and international health organizations that put its price at about $2.50 a dose. Pfizer’s vaccine costs about $20 a dose, while Moderna’s is $15 to $25, based on agreements the companies have struck to supply their vaccines to the U.S. government.”

And:

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I assume you are joking? Apple would never sell M1 to other manufacturers.
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> Apple no longer has to support OpenGL and it can just cut out relevant hardware on the SoC level, leaving more room for other things.

Just for everyone who is scared by this statement - macOS on Apple Silicon still supports OpenGL and OpenCL, but it is emulated on top of Metal now.
I blame being an operations researcher for always (pessimistically) first and foremost seeing how the system can be gamed. You have to think very very carefully what the objective function is and which kind of undesired solutions need to be forbidden using the constraints.
Also you'll get American politics in your face on many subs, even generic topic-based ones. It's like I'm not even American, why would I want to see BLM stickies on every interest-based sub?

Or check out the top posts in /r/cringe or /r/publicfreakout. It's all related to Trump. It just gets so boring, repetitive and predictable.
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> As a weird sidenote to this: Whilst I was looking up the benchmarks of the iPhone I found out that basically every single tech mag is owned by the exact same company - you can tell because they all have the same adblocker nagware.

OT: I’ve been using a pi-hole for about a year now and adblockers for much longer. The pi-hole combined with ublock origin seems to cover a lot more than what ublock origin alone did.
On the one hand I tend to agree, and all my expectations for this vaccine are positive. The medical industry tends to be paranoid to a level that exceeds rationality and even if they dropped their standards for this that should only get them down to "conservative and rather safe" levels of caution.

On the other, a cursory search says the current record for fastest developed vaccine was mumps at 4 years. So this is a vaccine setting new milestones, and there is a risk that not all of them will be positive. I'd rather be a little late to be vaccinated than a little early, especially being in a lower risk demographic.
No, you see Foxconn is the one building them, Apple only pays them.. Lol.
About three discussions on the front page right now are about Apple controlling the Mac platform, but this is one of the upsides. Companies that use only Macs with gatekeeper on have automatic protection against a whole class of cyber security problems.
>and the advantage the M1 has in both of these metrics is pretty much exactly the difference expected between a 7nm and a 5nm process (they’re both being produced by the same fab, after all).

Maybe, maybe not. There's no reliable way to estimate exactly how much improvement AMD would get from moving their design to the same fabrication process that the M1 is using.
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Don't get me wrong it's an amazing chip, but the Intels were never given a proper chance on the previous machines especially the MBA. If my previous gen machine wasn't a toaster I wouldn't be upgrading
It's Intel's fault but it is a problem for all of us. It isn't good when a company gets too big in too many areas and tightly couples everything.
You can get on the order of 25 [1] M1s (i.e. 100 high performance/100 low power /200 GPU cores) in the same TDP as a Threadripper. Until someone builds a Beowulf cluster of MacBooks they're not just in a different league but playing an entirely different game.

1: Anandtech attempted to estimate the CPU power draw and got to around 10W at single-threaded load and a peak of 27W under compute-intensive load: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste... - that might mean you'd need "only" 10 M1s to reach the TDP of a current Threadripper
Yeah, you’d think that something that connects to wifi and has a http API is good enough for anyone. I guess that may be hard for a wall switch?
"No study detected live virus beyond day 9 of illness, despite persistently high viral loads," - is it possible that IgA antibodies in the mucosa neutralizes the virus even before it gets spread?

That could also explain the strange heterogenity of the virus spreading - maybe some people have more IgA or have IgA earlier and don't really spread a live virus?
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Yes, R is at 1.3 with WFH and other restriction. In March, R was 3-5 without restrictions.

If everyone got vaccinated with 90% effectivity (or even 70%), it would be enough. However, availability won't be sufficient to get to 100% within a year, and compliance seems to be somewhere around 50-70% at most given polls. (There are a huge number of people even in this forum who are antisocial - "I won't get vaccinated until I have seen super-long-term effects, and screw the people who I superspread the disease to".)
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It activated A genetic disorder. factor 5 Leiden. Basically lots of strokes.

Doctors flat out don’t care how it happened, and want nothing to do with paperwork.

So getting legal or even basic disability was impossible.

So yea environmental factors are a big deal.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if you're not, the only way you'll ever be able to buy one of these is soldered into a Mac.
> So, if you compiled specifically for some CPU,

It would be unreasonable to the point of impossibility to expect it to implement every instruction that an x86_64 CPU could possibly have. So as far as it pretends to be an x86_64 CPU, rather than every x86_64 CPU, it works on all [program] binaries.
That wasn't my criticism. I critiqued a specific proposed law, which would indeed run afoul of the first amendment.
Why? I think in this case the 'penis' is highly relevant.
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