The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Disposable drones carrying disposable passengers.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Disposable drones carrying disposable passengers.
so a flying Yugo then
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality, or Christian morality to Nazi morality. In fact, of course, we all do believe that some moralities are better than others . . . . The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard . . . admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
OK, this is pretty cool.
watch in full screen modeDoes anyone else find something wrong with a sphere that is “526 feet wide and 366 feet tall”, or is it just me?
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
OK, this is pretty cool.
watch in full screen modeDoes anyone else find something wrong with a sphere that is “526 feet wide and 366 feet tall”, or is it just me?
They are referring to the full building including seating at the base of the sphere… So no it’s just you being literalist.
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It seems to be more of a hemisphere though, maybe 69% or 70% of the height of a a full sphere.
That actually explains the lack of full ‘sphericality’.
Oyaji was on to something. ;-)
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Not usually a fan of reaction thumbnails but this was amusing:
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Lob should be wary when getting his phone or laptop repaired:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-tech-repair-snooping-1.7000775
Actually, we all should. I only unlock my phone and hand it to someone if I’m watching everything they do with it.
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Maybe they shouldn’t be such who ares!
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I don’t want to pre-judge her but something tells me she won’t understand ANY excuse for having that on a phone to begin with.
But then again she may be a warhorse in the sack.
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That Cavoukian photo needed to be improved with Photoshop. Tough on the eyes, it was.
You see?
Even with just a little knowledge, anyone can improve a photo with Photoshop.
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This guy shows how easy this really is:
It seems there’s a conspiracy to misinform us involving Intel, TSMC etc. Clearly they don’t want us making 200 core / 400 thread CPUs in our garages and then losing their lucrative market.
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I bet he’d make producing a vat of pistachio ice cream look easy too!
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Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale. But I could just be a RISC fanboy.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Qualcomm’s latest CPU for PCs beats Apple’s M1 and catches up with M2
Apple has been doing a great job with its Apple Silicon “M” chips for computers, as they deliver more performance...
Awesome. Looks like we’re going to start getting laptops with M1 / eventually M2+ performance and efficiency (battery life) but aren’t locked into Apple’s ecosystem.
I hope Intel is seriously planning for a RISC future because x86 has no place in it IMO. Whether you’re an individual getting 50 to 100% better battery life in your laptop or a company saving a bunch of money in electricity costs, CISC doesn’t make much sense at any scale.
I didn’t understand any of this
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The M1 was a tank
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I didn’t understand any of this
Most of Intel’s chip production has been CPUs like the ones we’ve been using for decades in our home PCs. That is “x86” or similar. The 286, 386, 486, i3, i5 and i7 etc chips all use the x86 instruction set which is known as a “complex instruction set” or CISC. It basically means the fundamental/lowest level of programming for those chips has many instructions and many of those instructions are purpose built for very specific tasks.
The competing architecture to CISC, is RISC, or, Reduced Instruction Set Computing. The philosophy behind RISC is that there are way fewer instructions and to do anything on the CPU you compose these more simple instructions into code that does the more specific or complex task. One of the benefits of RISC is that the tasks can be much more easily broken up and executed in parallel (performance) and they generally suck less power to do it (energy efficiency/battery life).
RISC initially only became popular for regular people starting with phones because they had better battery performance. But then Apple shocked the industry by releasing their own Arm (RISC) chip which was really very fast and had a huge battery life (the M1). All new Macbooks since a year or two ago are all RISC. Microsoft also released Surface laptops running on Arm (RISC) chips but there hasn’t before been a non-Apple Arm chip that could compete with Apple’s own chips. That’s starting to change.
I basically want a laptop with Apple M1/M2 performance and M1/M2 battery life but I don’t want one made by Apple. I was never going to get what I wanted while we were all stuck on x86.
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@Hog that’s a really good explanation. So does CISC or RISC use depleted uranium shells?
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I took an M2 Air with me to Europe back in June, but I constantly worried about the risc of evaporation.
It was thin, light and needed to be kept in an Air-tight case.
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