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Oh, I definitely agree that the most prudent decision a few years ago was to avoid Tesla like the plague. Why would Apple, the most profitable company in the world, want a nearly-b…

How so? Apple could have bought a big chunk of Tesla and flipped it back to the public market for ~10 times the price today, for a cool $500B+ profit. Even if they wanted nothing t…

> Keep in mind, Tesla didn’t design or build the computers. Tesla has shipped their custom SoC in every new car since April 2019.

Only for the first-gen Roadster, all the way back in 2008. Total sales: 2450.

If you don't want the chip to throttle, the simple answer is to get the Macbook Pro, not hack together a crappy laptop from a Mac Mini :) Even then, the throttling on the Air seems…

Aside from what other people have mentioned already, there's one more trick. The Chase Freedom Unlimited gives 1.5 points per dollar on all purchases, which can be transferred to t…

Until mid 2021 several other things also count for the travel credit such as gas and grocery stores. Chase probably did not want a wave of card cancellations over the $300 credit b…

Not just masks. Early projections (March / April) by supposedly reputable groups like IHME were wildly inaccurate. Even a cursory reading of their methods showed that they had no i…

Many of the tech companies are in the "bad" neighborhoods. Most notably Uber, Twitter and Square are all headquartered right next to one of the worst parts in the city (Civic Cente…

TorchScript JIT (torch.jit.script) is similar for PyTorch.

Back then a software engineer at a well-known big company would make around $30-50k (not inflation adjusted). Combined with 1993's interest rates (~7%) $300k was quite steep. Today…

Hardly any of this matters in userspace or device-independent kernel modules, which is what 99% of developers work in.

I like Apple's approach of having more narrow vector units rather than a few extremely wide ones. Narrower vector units are generally easier to program and easier to support on sma…

This is an oversimplified statement. Extra decode width only helps if the rest of the CPU can actually process so many instructions in parallel without blocking on other resources …

I don't think I've encountered a single smartphone by a reputable vendor that has had significant issues sleeping, no matter the chip vendor or OS. Meanwhile people do have serious…

Old server hardware can be very cheap, although it's not necessarily the best value. Typically it only makes sense if 1) you need a lot of memory, 2) you don't mind a slightly high…

Yes, consider vector floating point fused multiply-add (FMA). On a typical AVX implementation like Skylake, this instruction has a latency of 4 cycles and a throughput of 2 instruc…

The study compares how many people in the experimental group and control group develop symptomatic COVID-19. In this case 11 people in the experimental group developed COVID-19 ver…

You're making completely the wrong comparison. On the left you have Geekbench 5 scores for the A12Z in the Apple DTK, and on the right you have Geekbench 4 scores for the Ryzen. Th…

Refurb 12" Macbook? Wish Apple would reintroduce those with the M1. Awesome form factor, held back by Intel's anemic Core M CPUs.

Dell even sold a 4GB (!) version of the XPS 13 for $999 up until a few months ago.

They're lithium-ion batteries with carbon fiber electrodes. Doesn't matter what kind of battery it is though, once you start cutting through them you are very likely to short the e…

Apple's perf/watt is much higher than AMD. Anandtech has the A14 within a few percent of the 5950X on single threaded workloads. Power consumption is 5 watts (entire iPhone 12) ver…

Anandtech posted some comparisons of the A14 against Zen 3 today, which may be an interesting comparison: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de... Seems like…

BTW, Stripe has already left San Francisco for South San Francisco (which is a different city).