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Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by saagarjha »

JohnBooty wrote: post #341
gumby wrote: post #286

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I didn't say they necessarily denigrated the open formats but added and preferred their own proprietary image, audio etc formats as they gained market strength. On the hardware side I'm delighted by Apple's USB C/TB push (and Apple contributed a lot to those standards, esp based on what they had learned with Lightning) but note they revived the proprietary "magsafe" connecter on recent laptops (though you can still u…

That's true. I forgot they brought Magsafe back. (Side note: I don't know why they couldn't just make a standard USB-C connector, except magnetic...)

Amusingly the new MagSafe is based on USB-PD I believe, just in a different connector form factor. (The old was 1-wire I think?)

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by kalleboo »

nly wrote: post #116
bwanab wrote: post #98

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My son bought a Dell XPS for exactly that reason. After 1.5 years, the battery life was at 50%. He called Dell support and they said it was normal. He's now in the market for a MacBook Air M2.

This is a limit of battery technology. Your Apple laptop will ha e shit battery life in a few years as well

Apple's batteries are covered under warranty up to 1000 cycles. I had them replace my battery that hit 80% capacity at 3 years right before AppleCare ran out.

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by kalleboo »

kelnos wrote: post #316
Closi wrote: post #117

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I can’t believe my M1 Mac is almost 3 years old, performs just like the day I bought it (blazingly fast). My work Thinkpad from the same period feels half way dead.

That's likely more a reflection of the software you run (and update over time) than of the hardware itself, no?

It helps that the Apple Silicon CPUs run so cool. In other laptops your CPU cooler and fans will fill up with dust causing the CPU to thermal throttle.

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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sbuk wrote: post #283
ohgodplsno wrote: post #251

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>I could live with not having iMessage So, literally any messaging app, something that non-Apple users have to do anyways, and have to deal with your bullshit about only going through iMessage when they have to send you SMS. >AirPlay Chromecast is infinitely more ubiquitous. Also, if Apple didn't patent AirPlay and refuse to share it with anyone, you wouldn't be in this situation. I will absolutely agree with Google…

> Chromecast is infinitely more ubiquitous. Chromecast is a device. > Also, if Apple didn't patent AirPlay and refuse to share it with anyone, you wouldn't be in this situation. Google Cast is just as proprietary as AirPlay. Both require licensing to be included in devices. I have an LG TV that supports both, an ancient Roku device that does the same, as well as supporting Miracast. I suspect you're confusing Chromec…

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Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by kalleboo »

sbuk wrote: post #283
ohgodplsno wrote: post #251

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>I could live with not having iMessage So, literally any messaging app, something that non-Apple users have to do anyways, and have to deal with your bullshit about only going through iMessage when they have to send you SMS. >AirPlay Chromecast is infinitely more ubiquitous. Also, if Apple didn't patent AirPlay and refuse to share it with anyone, you wouldn't be in this situation. I will absolutely agree with Google…

> Chromecast is infinitely more ubiquitous. Chromecast is a device. > Also, if Apple didn't patent AirPlay and refuse to share it with anyone, you wouldn't be in this situation. Google Cast is just as proprietary as AirPlay. Both require licensing to be included in devices. I have an LG TV that supports both, an ancient Roku device that does the same, as well as supporting Miracast. I suspect you're confusing Chromec…

> Chromecast is a device

It's branded as "Chromecast built-in" when supported by a TV, not "Google Cast".

e.g. https://www.sony.com/image/89821bf64399cd4c34680e0988903e4b?...

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by saagarjha »

Meegul wrote: post #413
Yajirobe wrote: post #391

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> Typically employees make poor money in comparison to what kind of profit they generate I think it’s the opposite - developers are overvalued.

I understand where that sentiment comes from, especially looking at the slew of mid-sized companies that have never turned a profit despite paying multiple hundred K TCs, but if you look at the profits of the giants, it paints a different picture. The labor of thousands of very highly compensated engineers is still a drop in the bucket of the revenue generated by their labor. Alphabet seemingly employs somewhere betw…

Alphabet has at least twice those numbers.

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by girvo »

i_am_jl wrote: post #226
gumby wrote: post #211

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> In my experience, Apple doesn't like any standards it doesn't control with an iron fist I would add some nuance to this statement: "Apple likes open standards when it is weak." The iMac and early OS X went big on open standards, and Jobs made a point of pointing this out: USB for the iMac, JPEG, MPG, mp3, Postscript etc for OSX. IP/TCP built in. They even paid the danegeld for .rtf. Then as they clawed their way ba…

>The iphone was an HTML device, loudly repudiating the proprietary (and terrible) Flash much less the crappy, mostly stillborn "mobile HTML" attempts. Skipping Flash wasn't so much an ideological decision as a practical one. At the time Steve Jobs listed a ton of reasons that they didn't implement Flash. Listed among them were concerns about it not being an open standard, inferiority to H.264, security and performanc…

That, and even if you somehow fixed that, Flash on mobile sucked. I had Flash on my Windows Mobile handset. It was horrible!

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by saagarjha »

astrange wrote: post #269
Foobar8568 wrote: post #35

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I bet Apple already tried and they refused due to NDA and non compete clauses, that or HR didn't validate their profile.

I don't think being able to reverse engineer your project is actually a good qualification for hiring you, considering your employees don't need to do that. Also, isn't she a high schooler/freshman? There's always internships but it's best to do other things before grinding those out.

Most employees would probably be well served being able to reverse engineer things. Sure, you might have docs on how your graphics pipeline works, but then you’re probably going to be looking at commercial software that runs on it.

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by TrackerFF »

LeonenTheDK wrote: post #270
pantalaimon wrote: post #266

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I thought she’s working for Collabora. But she’s still a student, so only part time.

She's doing all this while still being a student, unreal. I can't get over just how skilled some people are, and how far I myself am from them.

Talent + drive (obsession) + lots and lots of free-time.

Most of these types cut their teeth in their younger days - doesn't really mater if it is sports, musical instruments, art, coding, or whatever. If you spend 6-12 hours a day doing something, seven days a week, from you're 10 years old - you'll be pretty damn fantastic by the time you're college aged.

Re: The first conformant M1 GPU driver

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Post by saagarjha »

mellosouls wrote: post #448
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Harmful by what standard? The moderation here is among the best on the web, what on earth are you talking about? Even if there are a tiny minority of toxic users, blocking access to all seems like the issue may not be with HN... Edit: ok I missed some previous discussions, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971867#37000629 for earlier similarly dubious generalisations and complaints providing context.

Just because the moderation is good doesn’t mean that they’re always right, or resourced to do a good job in every case.
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