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King1st | 2 years ago | on: New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

I have a Thinkpad T480 from 2018, bought it last year for $100. Peoples needs in a laptop are far lower than marketers would have you believe. Where as many M1 macs users are finding their laptops a struggle to do basic tasks. I use it for programming, 7 hours battery life with hot swappable battery. My fan spins up less often than the Apple silicon pros in the office which is nice because I hate fan noise.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Ryzen Z1's Tiny iGPU

HBM would be having it bandwidth reduced significantly to sync with the on system. Thats ignoring how the timings for everything would be ruined which is a pretty important and hard to manage thing for RAM.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia's CUDA, x86

ARM has abysmal SIMD support. Not even supporting AVX 256. for reference that is about a 10 year lag behind x86. Neon is not an adequate substitute. Additionally when AVX is used, the power draw of a ARM skyrockets to x86 level defeating the advantage ARM has over x86 while offering worse performance. ARM is good for things that require many threads and are not heavily dependent on incredibly high integer performance per thread. x86 is the dominate in high power, when individual thread power is more important due to application requirements or size limits or if they need to do anything with SIMD. ARM has a lot of push behind it. But it contrary to techbro hype., it is not a drop in replacement for x86 and I dont think it ever will without shooting themselves in the foot making them less efficient.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: NetBSD 10: Thirty Years, Still Going Strong

BSD is really do for companies that want to keep their code closed, but not start from scratch. I see this as a large reason why Netflix uses them and Sony uses BSD on playstations.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Intel's Humbling

The Bulldozer design had a few main issues.

1.Bulldozer had a very long pipeline akin to a Pentium 4. This allows for highclocks but comparatively little work being done per cycle vs their competition. Since clocks have a ceiling around 5GHz they could never push the clocks high enough to compete with intel. 2.They used a odd core design with 1 FPU for every 2 integer unit instead of the normal 1:1 that we have seen on every x86 since the i486. This leads to very weak FPU performance needed for many professional applications. Conversely it allowed for very competitive performance on highly threaded integer applications like rendering. This decision was probably under the assumption APUs would integrate their GPUs better and software would be written with it in mind since a GPU easily out does a CPUs FPU but it requires more programming. This didn't come to be. 3. They were stuck using Global Foundries due to previous contracts when they spun it off requiring AMD use GloFlo. This became a anchor as Gloflo fell behind market competitors like TSMC. Leaving AMD stuck on 32nm for a long while, until gloflo got 14nm and eventually AMD got out of the contract between zen 1-2.

bonus: Many IC designers have bemoaned how much of bulldozers design was automated with little hand modifications which tends to lead to a less optimized design. 3. 3.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Intel's Humbling

Intel has used political incentives often though its history to great effect. I think its a much smaller issue than you think. Its part of their standard game-plan for over 30 years. The issue with boeing is becoming acontract company that into contracts out all their work which is self defeating and leads to brain drain. EX: the door lacking bolts because Boeing doesnt even build its own fuselages anymore and have let their standards fall, wholly depending on contractors with little oversight.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Safetyism killed playtime

Crazy new drivers have always been around. you probably just live in a more populated area now. I remember People ripping down my roads in the 90s.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Linux for Playstation 2

While true, Its important to note that the second Cell wasn't gonna be the same type as the main CPU cell. The cell they intended to use as the GPU would have only 4SPEs(vs 7 in the main Cell)along with various rasterization components. Would have been cool. Settling on the Cell was compromise after compromise.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971

WTFHappendin1971 & this article both practice bad economics and make gross assumptions. Is like the writer took every point made and picked the exact opposite take while missing the correct answer in the middle every time.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: Opinion: We Brits don't need tea-brewing advice from Americans

I dont think a culture that uses tea bags should be snooty about tea. They love tea, but its not inherently English just because they drink the third most per capita. He poopoos the idea of a grain of salt while loving the low quality tea acknowledge bags in this article. Ignoring research and conclusions because it conflicts with your beliefs is pointless traditionalism/tribalism for no gain. Even if they started using salt that wouldnt ruin the social fabric of Britain like they seem to be making it out as. Just like coffee, there are many ways to brew a cuppa, assuming yours is the peak is just nonsense.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States

" from social conservatives against LGBT people" Its not just from social conservatives, many social liberals are also in this group. This is adding an inherent bias. Trans-exclusionary feminists(TERFs) will for example have heavy overlap with many of the opinions of of the anti LGBT movent, yet are being excluded.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: 2020s anti-LGBT movement in the United States

Its gotten worse as egotistic sudo-intellectuals have taken over and revert any proper changes even when properly source because it conflicts with their personal beliefs. Like colleges information is being limited by political alignment.

King1st | 2 years ago | on: The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds

Those aren't performance based requirements though. The TPM 2 requirements that actually limit many computers from running it is entirely arbitrary to limit user ability to modify their own computers. It also gives them a backdoor into your system. The requirements are there just for Microsoft to better control you and your system. The ARM SOCs used all have these features, which is why theyre allowed to run Win 11.
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