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The lord of the rings trilogy - how long we’ve been waiting for a fantasy to actually make it onto the big screen? The return of the king sweeping the Oscars with a cherry on top. Final fantasy 7 remake delivering. the Mac to Intel transition.
Nobody is talking about it anymore now 6 months later, so I'd say it did not live up to the hype.
Functional Programming. I've been doing FP for almost 10 years. I've drank the kool aid. Give me those monads and referential transparency.
Bloodstained. A remake of Castlevania. It's better than the originals.
I'm loving my Apple Watch. I wasn't entirely sure yet what to think of the watch as a form factor, given that a phone can do everything it can and more. But there's three interesting aspects that have really added value for me. 1) is health data, in a way a computer or phone just can't do. It tracks things like heartrate that a phone + heartrate strap is too convoluted for, for non-athletes. Plus it's all-day and qui…
Possibly a silly question, but does the Apple Watch work with Android? Or at least with a Mac?
The Good Place has the best ending of any show that ever got created, i'd say yes it lived to the hype.
AMD's Zen microarchitecture. At the time, AMD was years behind Intel in both performance and power consumption. There were constant jokes about the Bulldozer cores burning people's houses down. The few remaining 'team red' loyalists had been hyping Zen were largely ignored. Then, boom. Over night AMD leapfrogged Intel, and now on the third generation has a firm lead in mid range desk top all the way up to high end se…
AMD's Zen microarchitecture. At the time, AMD was years behind Intel in both performance and power consumption. There were constant jokes about the Bulldozer cores burning people's houses down. The few remaining 'team red' loyalists had been hyping Zen were largely ignored. Then, boom. Over night AMD leapfrogged Intel, and now on the third generation has a firm lead in mid range desk top all the way up to high end se…
> Obviously, Intel has major partnerships with most OEMs, so despite their shortcomings they're still doing strong. There's this weird obsession with blaming AMD shortcomings on Intel... AMD can't produce enough chips for OEMs so they get left out in places. End of story. It's fun to joke about "14nm++++++" but it just so happens actually being able to stock your chips is a pretty big competitive advantage.
Take for example the 'Ultrabook' branding. It's an Intel trademark, and for a few years that word was _everywhere_. However, to get the shiny badge on your system you had to give a lot of control to Intel over the design and characteristics [1]. That's not to say AMD doesn't do the same thing to a degree - They own the term "APU" and will never let Intel refer to an i7 with 'Iris Xe Graphics' as an APU, Never.
The point is that Intel for a long time had leverage over most of the PC industry and used it to get exclusivity over certain parts of the market.
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[1] https://www.eweek.com/mobile/intel-ultrabook-partners-look-f...