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So is this the fabled transition into COVID becoming the common cold? More infectious, less deadly?

The nuclear scare was definitely that constant, if not even more so. It was also a much more black and white issue, there was a clear us vs them to it. I personally think that 9/11…

Haha if we were measuring them on literary merit most would be promptly dumped in the garbage. This is kinda just what early sci fi was like, it's rarely about the stories, the sto…

Cool, now you're just denying reality, the activities of those harassers towards them and other people are public record, so I rest my case.

You seem to have no idea how obituaries work, you usually have to pay a newspaper to carry them, they aren't automatic, and if the news is published widely enough in the relevant c…

If you're going to base your entire argument on a document you haven't produced, believing you would also make me gullible.

First off, "that year" is this year, so you're boldly claiming there's a document claiming a lack of deaths in a whole year that hasn't ended yet. But even assuming such a document…

It's a hexadecimal dollar, actually, $2.56.

Don't fix what ain't broke. the year 2000 was the second skipped skip after 1600. If the Gregorian calendar could make it through those four centuries, with the increasing rate of …

They added a more sensitive camera that year as well as a brighter display with more colors, found interference, moved the display circuitry and cabling to the other side of the ph…

This was the selling point for the butterfly keyboard when it was introduced, actually, that no matter where you hit on the key it would be equally responsive.

Apple has an architecture license from ARM, so they're allowed to create their own ARM-compatible cores. They do not license any core designs from ARM (like the Cortex A57), they d…

Nope, RAM is off die but on package.

The gaming capability is there, but Apple only officially supports their own Metal on macOS as far as graphics languages, meaning the only devs with experience with Metal are the W…

Yeah, and they also deprecated OpenGL, which would have wiped out most of those games even if the 32-bit support didn't. I'm not expecting to see much backwards compatibility, I'm …

CPU and GPU is one die, you're looking at RAM chips on each side of the package. The M1 also had the RAM separate but on package. M1: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ZRQG…

macOS Monterey coming out on the 25th has a new Low Power Mode feature that may do just that. That said, these Macs are incredibly efficient for light use, you may already get 24 h…

Disco Elysium, EVE Online, Minecraft*, Timberborn, Total War: Rome Remastered, World of Warcraft. Minecraft is kinda cheating, because Java, and even considering that it takes a bi…

Asahi Linux is making great strides in supporting M1 Macs, and they're upstreaming everything so your preferred distro could even support them. https://asahilinux.org/

Well, Apple is selling M1 Macs like hotcakes, so it won't be too long until it'll be stupid not to support them. Also, texture thrashing isn't really an issue when you've got a sha…

Oh hey they went back to screws on the keyboards? that's nice, they used to be single use plastic rivets, so at least you can redo that. Also Apple's glue isn't usually that bad to…

Apple put ProMotion in the built in display, so while it can ramp up to 120Hz, it'll idle at more like 24 Hz when showing static content. (the iPad Pro goes all the way down to 10H…

Well, tons, there isn't another ARM core that can match a single M1 Firestorm, core to core. Heck, only the highest performance x86 cores can match a Firestorm core. and that's jus…

He made the Sibelius one before he'd ever used MuseScore, did the MuseScore one before Dorico/Finale because of popular demand even though he'd never used MuseScore before that, an…

Personally I think that even if UBI wouldn’t provide a living wage in today’s economy, that it will fundamentally change market dynamics in interesting ways. Companies constantly a…