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Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by wasfgwp »

sailfast wrote: post #446
conception wrote: post #417

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Also the US has very publicly shown they don’t have the ability to effectively wage war over any period of time.

Yes and no. The Iran war is deeply unpopular and won’t even pass congressional approval for money. It’s being fought from pocket change budgets because they know they can’t pass a funding bill for it. Also not the same kind of war. Any period time? US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan. Pretty effectively! To what end? Not an end an army can really achieve so… there you are. But a war that might actually be popul…

> US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan

That was an occupation and a low intensity “pacification” mission. Waging a prolonged war against a military peer on the other side of the continent is a bit more problematic (considering that US is/was on the brink of running out of advanced weaponry in Iran despite having aerial superiority which they won’t over Taiwan, Japan would have to get involved as well cause otherwise US would have to entirely rely on the fragile carrier fleet).

Using tactical nukes (even regardless of the extreme geopolitical downsides that might bring) wouldn’t necessarily give a great tactical advantage either, unless they are willing to do that over Taiwan itself to destroy the landing forces).

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by wasfgwp »

wongarsu wrote: post #460
sailfast wrote: post #446

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Yes and no. The Iran war is deeply unpopular and won’t even pass congressional approval for money. It’s being fought from pocket change budgets because they know they can’t pass a funding bill for it. Also not the same kind of war. Any period time? US waged war for 20+ years in Afghanistan. Pretty effectively! To what end? Not an end an army can really achieve so… there you are. But a war that might actually be popul…

And it'd be the kind of war the US is best at. Boots on the ground, against conventional military, with a civilian population that is on the side of the US forces No guerilla warfare, no insurgents, no need for extended beyond-visual-range warfare that depletes missile stockpiles

> against conventional military,

Last time used faced a conventional military that could actually challenge it was in Korea.

It won’t have complete areal superiority or entire division surrendering after running into contact with US forces like they in Iraq. “Shock and awe” of course can be very effective just probably not against China. Even now US is running out of materiel against Iran and can’t really sustain a prolonged intense conflict while being able to protect its gulf allies from ballistic missiles and drones.

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Post by wasfgwp »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #496
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #410

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My bet would be that invasion wouldn't look like quick war, but slow control of political power either through light force like economic blackmail, or through something similar to what US did with Venezuela. Now that US has already opened the gate to labelling nation head as drug seller, this just eases things for China.

Any country that competently adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently. And that's for a continental invasion. Taiwan? All surface ships are sitting ducks. Troop transport ships would get absolutely decimated, and then the landing troops would get swarmed by drones all over again, and then they have to maintain logistics to the small minority that land (good luck with that). And that's…

> adopts Ukrainian drone technology cannot effectively be invaded currently

The tactical situation in Taiwan is very different though. I think it would come down more to what’s happening in the air since the stalemate in Ukraine is in large because the Russian airforce is almost completely neutralized and can only be used to launch cruise missiles from a safe distance. I doubt China would invade unless they feel they can somehow achieve at least temporary air superiority and achieve their other objectives during that period.

Air defenses are probably much more important than drones overall.

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by ahmed_1000 »

robotpepi wrote: post #591
ahmed_1000 wrote: post #574

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Thinking there's no corruption in China because Jack Ma got sent to a dungeon for being too mouthy is actually comical

there's less corruption than in the US nowadays.

How would you know?

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by mrheosuper »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #554
mrheosuper wrote: post #535

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I'm not experience here, but are there any obstacle to move from "unlocking bootloader" to "running full blow linux on phone" ? I imagine it can't be that simple(mostly driver issue).

Lots of obstacles. The biggest obstacle is having access to the kernel sources. Even if you've got access to the kernel source, driver blobs are a big issue, because if you move to a newer kernel the old drivers may not work. Take a look at the PostmarketOS Device Wiki[1], you'll see that even phones released 10+ years ago (like Xiaomi Redmi 4) still do not have 100% functionality. In saying that, in this era of LLMs…

i'm not kernel dev, but i've heard the folk at kernel always try to maintain a stable API so as not to break backward compatible, is this the case here ?

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by wasfgwp »

manithree wrote: post #469
bdhdhduuyd wrote: post #368

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They already consider it as one country. The CCP sees Taiwan as a province of China.

Or mainland China is occupied west Taiwan.

“West Taiwan”? Why not just say ROC instead of inventing nonsense names..

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by cromka »

ruszki wrote: post #570
05 wrote: post #249

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> They do allow to unlock their bootloaders Kafka himself would be proud if their unlocking process[0], but technically sure, they allow it > Press "Apply for unlocking" at exactly 12:00 AM GMT+8 (pressing it too late will cause the "application quota limit reached" error. Use this website to check the time) "Account Error" might show up. If that happens, retry after 10 days [0] https://github.com/realdtn2/xiaomi-unl…

This is even funnier than how some people defended Apple, that they allow changing OSs on Apple silicon MacBooks.

Is it? When I unlocked my bootloader it was straightforward. And my point on China migrating to Linux still stands.

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by wasfgwp »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #349
holoduke wrote: post #310

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Gdp grew much faster in the US than in the EU. I believe the EU is the worst performer of the planet. No joke. And not surprising with the self destructive actions.

This doesn't really refute what Dah00n said. Sure, GDP in the USA is growing faster than the EU, but the question is who is benefiting from the increased GDP ? The answer is in Dah00n's comment. The rich are getting richer, while the population gets scraps. Meanwhile, people in the EU get guaranteed healthcare, paid time off, maternity leave, better worker's rights, etc.

> Meanwhile, people in the EU get guaranteed healthcare

They had that 20 years ago? Since then the rich asset owners have been accumulating a bigger share of the pie in the EU as well, it’s just marginally less pronounced because there is less wealth to go about in the EU due to the multi-decade long stagnation (outside Eastern Europe and a handful of other countries). On the whole I find it extremely hard to view this as a positive without a huge amount of wishful thinking.

People in the EU need to start thinking about how to improve things rather than exclusively focusing on holding onto what they already have (which is slowly turning into scraps..). To a large extent the old EU countries just froze in time after the GFC.

Re: Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Post by wasfgwp »

well_ackshually wrote: post #350
holoduke wrote: post #310

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Gdp grew much faster in the US than in the EU. I believe the EU is the worst performer of the planet. No joke. And not surprising with the self destructive actions.

Because as everyone knows, GDP is _the_ indicator for well being of its citizens. Nobody in the US is in catastrophic health related debt, because the US's GDP grew so much <3

The median person and especially those in the top 10th percentile are fairly well off and respectively extremely well off in relative terms compared to people in other developed countries. To bottom deciles are of course not in the best situation but for the most part the rest of the population find it fairly easy to ignore that.
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