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There's an order of magnitude difference in speed requirements between file format parsing and image decoding, then another order of magnitude difference to video decoding. Even ra…

Still true for extended attributes, which Finder and Spotlight love to query.

Even backwards compatibility is optional in USB4. There are USB4 devices (SSDs at least) that will not function when connected to USB 3 ports.

Zero micro ops to be precise, that’s handled entirely at the register rename stage with no data movement.

Cortex A8 vsub reads the second source register a cycle earlier than veor, so that can add one cycle latency Not scalar, but still sub vs xor. Though you’d use vmov immediate for z…

Fine, you made me look it up. M1 Air defaults to 2880x1800 on a 2560x1600 display, which is a 1.125x scaling. Nowhere near the 1.5x you claim.

Apple never supersamples by 2x. Default MacBook Air scaling was around 1.1x iirc.

OP dances around the key context that this isn’t hidpi, but rather a 3rd party hack that uses hidpi rendering to supersample their “native” 4k resolution by 2x, since the end resul…

And that itself is a recent policy change from just in the last two months; as of January United's official policy [1] matched the FAA's in only requiring checked devices to be pow…

It’s really a question of whether a team believes bugs are defects that deserve to be fixed, or annoyances that get in the way of shipping features. And all too often, KPIs and pro…

That's why I said generally - once testimony is compelled, it can no longer be used against you. And the definite exception for compelling your name is if the government already be…

First, you have the right to say nothing at all; there is no requirement to incriminate someone else to protect yourself. Second, you can still generally invoke the 5th amendment d…

Most of the world also doesn't have the same degree of protections against self-incrimination that the 5th amendment provides. If someone shot a person with my gun, while the polic…

It’s not a hard limit, especially if you aren’t pushing the frequency wall like Intel. AMD used to use a 2-way 64kb L1, Intel has an 8-way 64kb L1i on Gracemont, and more to the po…

ARM favored wider ILP and mostly symmetric ALUs, while x86 favored wider and asymmetric ALUs Most high-end ARM cores were 4x128b FMA, and Cortex-X925 goes to 6x128b FMA. Contrast t…

Your first example is a CPU limitation that Instruments doesn't model (does perf?), but is still mostly better than Intel chips that are limited to 4 dynamic counters (I think stil…

A quick google suggests that British Columbia's building code only requires STC 50 which is "you can hear but not understand a neighbor's loud conversation" levels of isolation. Th…