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It might have something to do with 90% of the justification as articulated by the bill's own authors and supporters, and especially in the arguments before the Supreme Court and their opinion upholding it, being about "content-neutral" goal of blocking the ability of China to spy on US data.

Even when TikTok themselves tried to argue that the primary reason was to prevent foreign control over a recommendation algorithm, the Supreme Court said "nope, Congress's primary motive was the data collection."


Yet the FE versions end up cheaper than third party cards (at least by MSRP), and with fewer issues caused by the third parties cheaping out on engineering…


There aren’t many reasons to write an inline asm block that the compiler will elide because of no apparent effects; more likely you screwed up the constraints. If it’s due to ensuring correct memory accesses relative to the compiler, it’s usually better to define appropriate “m” constraints to give the compiler appropriate visibility, or if it’s complex/loopy enough to make that impossible then that is what the “memory” clobber is for, not volatile.

So I strongly disagree with 2 and 3.


Which part? The inability for 3rd parties to create bootable images instead of using Apple-signed tools? Because that was 4 years ago and is kind of a fundamental requirement for the chain of trust needed for signed system volume security introduced back then.

Or are you arguing that this blog post is wrong in asserting the OS release this week introduced a bug in those tools?


Arguing? Christ. Is that what we call “stating that it’s possible that…”. Not everything is a hill to die on.


If you want a verifiable large-scale example, the General Schedule has only increased by 12.5% cumulative in the last 4 years, compared to 22% CPI


Intrinsics are compatible across compilers and OSs within the same architecture, and are also mostly compatible between 32 and 64 bit variants of the same architecture. With asm, you have to handle the 3 different calling conventions between x86, x86-64, and win64, and also write two completely separate implementations for arm32 and arm64, instead of just one x86 intrinsic and one NEON intrinsic version. Sure ffmpeg tries to automatically handle the different x86 calling conventions with standard macros, but there's still some %if WIN64 scattered around, and 32-bit x86's register constraints means larger functions are littered with %if ARCH_X86_64.

Which brings us to the most "more effort" of assembly - no variables or inline functions, only registers and macros. Which is okay for self-contained functions a hundred lines or so, but less so with heavily templated multi-thousand line files of deeply intertwined macros nested 4 levels deep. Being able to write an inlined function that has no side effects felt a thousand lines away reduces mental effort by a lot, as does not having to redo register allocation across a thousand lines because you now need another temporary register for a short section of code, or even think about it much in the first place to still get near-optimal performance on modern CPUs.


The better chart is https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks/ which tries to discount outliers that might be liquid nitrogen cooled and/or faked


The M4 is almost 1/3rd faster than the top Intel (on this benchmark)?

I had no idea the difference was that big. I don’t know what a normal geek bench score is, so I just sort of assumed that the top of the lung Intel part would be something like 3700 or 3800. Enough that Apple clearly took a lead but nothing crazy.

No wonder it’s such a big deal.


Even thought that was updated hours ago it doesn't list Zen 5 or Arrow Lake.


Do you disagree with Intel's stated Tjunction, or disagree that Intel is capable of controlling clocks to remain within its stated thermal limits?

Like even with Intel chips that actually died early en masse (13th and 14th gen), the issue wasn't temperature.


2x correct amount of thermal paste... not good.

Insufficient airflow from blowers... not good.

110 celsius heat... not good for lead-free solder... not good for computer.

This whole thread is starting to feel surreal to me. Pretty soon everyone will have me believing I dreamt up Apple's reputation for bad thermal management.


Well, when you don’t appear to know or care about the actual issues stemming from poor thermals (Intel relying too much on turbo clocks, toasty crotches, low battery life, noisy fans) and instead complain about made-up issues, yeah.


My frustration was with the totality of comments in the thread, not yours exclusively. I'd have no problem with any one reply in this thread, on its own. Apologies if I came across as rude.

There's nothing in a comment thread so cringeworthy and boring as a person trumpeting their own expertise, so I'll refrain, and leave off here.


There has been zero reason to physically disconnect the hookup since analog cable was phased out 15 years ago.

It can still be cheaper to send a guy out on service start to ensure the existing hookup is of sufficient quality (hasn’t degraded or been chewed or cut by the last owner) and the new customer isn’t trying to hook it into their aerial or old satellite dish or something. Or if your records are spotty and aren’t certain there’s an existing hookup.


You're right that they probably don't disconnect it. Honestly, I've never considered what happens when it's disconnected, as it's always been when I move out of a place.

Needing somebody to show up to connect it made me assume someone disconnected it, but a status check makes more sense.


“Report junk” does jack all for legal to semi-legal spam, thanks to the carriers fear of politicians. It might do something for phishing and unabashed scams, but for the bulk of spam you get you do want to reply STOP. Not because the campaign will stop spamming you, but because evidence of explicit nonconsent is the only thing spam gateways like Bandwidth.com actually care about (under duress from the carriers), and they might actually fine them $10. Or worse, threaten to rate limit their spam.


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