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I think the author’s use of a 500Hz display covers up or minimizes a lot of issues. It’s really easy to look at this data and say 8ms click to flash is fabulous even though he has …

At one point you could have said the same thing about Blizzard, that everything they did was gold. It’s hard to pinpoint where they went wrong, but it’s not clear to me that it was…

No, this scenario works fine. Car audio (and UI) can interleave with CarPlay. I can put podcasts on my center screen, my car manufacturer's navigation in the driver's screen, and t…

Right, this is why video parse / decode ought to be sandboxed. Writing secure code for these formats, especially in C, is really hard. I just sort of glanced at the bug in the repo…

I’m not sure what the bug is, but this is a terrible fix. What this is doing is forcing the WindowServer to composite the cursor rather than treat it as a hardware overlay. I suppo…

The number is as low as 2. Hell, it may even be 1! I have had a subscription for years, I do not share it, and I read on 2 devices, and they've been hassling me with this nonsense …

Look closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.

I can tell you that inside Apple, they have something called the standard question, and it goes something like this: “What are you really trying to do?” If you haven’t personally f…

Then complain about that. That would make a much more sensible blog post and discussion. Asking for a crazy workaround to a sane problem isn't a great way to get good results, espe…

Yes 1920x1080@2x absolutely works on M4. I use this mode all day every day.

Yes, I would actually be surprised to learn that mode is available on any system. I’ve never seen that anywhere, though I only have a M1 Pro and an M4 Pro (and various Intel Macs).…

Exactly. Their holy war on the App Stores blunted Fortnite’s momentum at its apogee. On one hand, I admire their chutzpah. The App Store model has weighed down the entire software …

You could apply this same reasoning to any feature or technology. Yes there could be a zero day nobody knows about. We could say that about ssh or WebKit or Chrome too. I hear what…

On the other hand, the underlying functionality for sandboxing is used heavily throughout the OS, both for App Sandboxes and for Apple’s own system processes. My guess is sandbox-e…

I admit I started reading with some skepticism. It didn't read like PR, so I assumed I was reading fanfic. By the midpoint, she managed to convince me otherwise. I think the author…

Yeah I have tried it for myself. I am limited to 4K60 when using the HDMI 2.0 port on either my M1 Mac mini or M1 Pro MacBook Pro and LG B2 TV. I do get 4K120 with VRR with newer M…

At 4K? Or are you limited to a lower resolution due to bandwidth constraints?

There isn’t a single one way to be a dedicated gamer. Inevitably everyone has finite time and access to games and has to make choices about what to play. As a Mac guy, I always fou…

This is a big miss for me. I can’t use my TVs 120Hz VRR mode without HDMI 2.1. I realize the Xbox Series X is beleaguered at this point, but apart from playing games that are on St…

As a kid, I was marginally decent at competitive math. Not good like you think of kids who dominate those type of competitions at a high level, but like I could qualify for the sta…

Is it practical for Apple to produce a set of frameworks for Intel that run some useful set of old games but that do not run any useful set of non game software? I grant it’s proba…

That's one implementation, yeah, just have a list somewhere of approved software and make an artificial limitation. But their announcement is so vague, it's hard to say. And then t…

As I said in my first comment, it's at least Cocoa (Foundation + AppKit), AVFoundation, Metal, OpenGL, and then all of the lower level frameworks and libraries those depend on (whi…

I don’t agree. My point is their collective footprint in terms of the macOS API surface (at least as of 2019 or so) is pretty big. I’m not just speculating here, I work in this are…

But games are full fledged GUI apps. At a minimum they have a window. It’s really unclear what it means to support old games but not old apps in general. I would think the set of A…