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The RE thing may have been a false narrative, but tax abatements were a factor in at least one local company doing RTO; their business tax breaks were partially based on employees working in the city and then paying city payroll tax.
One of the things I ironically loved about my windows phone was that it was a PERFECT Phone [0], Sms [1], and Navigation device [2], good enough for music, but SUCKED the further you went from that.
[0] - Call audio was pristine
[1] - large live tile for SMS was great
[2] - Bundled HERE Drive let you pre download map data long before competitors had the option.
Part of me wonders, would 3d xpoint (if still around) be a viable option?
Yeah it is slower than real RAM by a good amount for latency, but you can get similar bandwidth and the cost was history about half of the same size DDR.
There are some minor exceptions but agreed otherwise. Manufacturers have been excessively using VRAM limitations as a price point distinguisher.
Aka 'follow JSF guidelines that still apply to C and not just C++'.
I.e. all alloc should happen up front, functions should have predictable execution time, etc etc
But can it do a better bad apple?
Lest we forget how they snubbed Bungie...
Depends a LOT on the res.
E.x. notebookcheck indicates that FEAR (released a yearish later) could get 20-30ish FPS at 640x480 but chokes at 1024x768 (at numbers matching the HL2 lost coast demo slideshow at 1024x768).
Gotta remember a lot of mac people were just happy to play something more modern than Marathon or Giants CK
Something to be said for branding.
There's a pizza place by me called "slice of the 80's" that has tacky vaguely 80-s feeling styling.
Surprisingly its been around for over 15 years and not the flash in a pan pizza shop that tends to come and go. Heck, I dont even think its very good, yet it has survived.
Natural gas is cleaner to burn than coal, if I had to guess this is lazy half-done greenwashing, i.e. 'at least it's not coal!' Similar to California's measures for cleaner power generation.
BEAM threads are kinda magicsauce tho, instructions have a cost and after a certain cost total (quantums) the scheduler can divert to another virt thread to guarantee forward progress. Also the immutability rules etc make it easier to optimize this switching.
Of course it's also possible there is some detail I've missed.
Can't speak too deeply for Go specifically, but I do know on .NET one of the big reasons generic methods where T is a structure gets monomorphized per type, is so that stack size is adjusted and potentially even arg passing (i.e. large struct) as far as the caller/callee.
Strife
The weeds are the hard part.
But as far as when I owned my own home, cutting the grass was just part of my routine and at least guaranteed some physical activity instead of working all day during covid.
SO got awkward when the not-bad anti spam measures got cross wired with a mod mentality similar to wikipedia.
Be more afraid of the technocrat who doesn't even have a tell. It means they are better at manipulation.
AGS time!
Lain is 10/10.
Caught the BeOS fan ;)
(I kid, mostly but remember Lain fans rabidly trying and espousing it)
In fact lumping xAI in that to cause a loss likely provides some tax benefits vs putting it with Twitter/X itself
Idk if the 75 was really that great tho, mostly in that it had a 50Mhz FSB rather than 60 or 66Mhz like most other parts.
Another factor for the later P1s being better IIRC was improved chipsets.
Right... on the flipside its one thing to where it is X+minor overhead inclined lib calls
Then a whole nother level of awesome where its literally just ASM
IIRC Apple is using the lower channel width options in LPDDR5.
I.e. instead of 64 bit channels they do 16 (or maybe 32) bit. That lowers the die area needed on the chip for memory controllers.
But it also impacts bandwidth, AFAIK an M4 ultra is still on the order of 1/4 the bandwidth of something like a 5090
As a "photography is a cheaper hobby than a boat person" I am semi-shocked you even considered it for only about 6ish percent off...
Even Amazon sellers where there is a better return policy will happily try to pass nonfunctional stuff as working and hope nobody notices till after the return period.
(And that, actually happened on a 500$ used a6000. Looked like it worked gr8 till you tried to take a picture)
Well, I know a year (or 3?) Back they changed their retention of long videos, my guess is to lower storage spend.
People who predicted the flood of people entering Software via bootcamps, etc. would never cause any problems because their god of software is consuming the world too quickly for supply and demand to ever be a real concern.
How was this group vindicated? It absolutely has caused problems at orgs and in the industry.
Just look at all the linkedin/twitter/youtube garbage of influencers trying to post boot camp tier advice and a sizable portion of new developers latching on to often questionable advice/viewpoints.
That lucky?
In 18 years AI is the third or 4th tool forced upon a shop/team, I will say of those it is the forst one that is genuinely able to make me more productive overall, even with the drawbacks.
Pink Beatles, in a purple Zeppelin comes to mind
But its still such a complex sort of beast.
Even if you had 'ai tools' guessing at component blocks on evaluation you would have to have some evaluation of the result.
And, thats assuming NVDA hasn't pulled a Masatoshi Shima type play on their designs (i.e. complex traps that could require lots of analysis to determine if they are real or fake)
Im not sure how much of a speedup even modern tooling/workflow could do reliably.
Even then,
The elephant in the room is that China is working on their own AI accelerators/etc, so while there can be benefit from -studying- the existing designs, however I think they do not want to clone regardless.
... how do you know if they have a gun?
As a fun example I had a coworker who collected handguns. I once asked him how many he had and he asked for clarification, should he include unregistered?
Sometimes its about the layers.
I.e. what kinds of loans can be tax deductible? To be clear theres decent effort into this, you can't just do a cash-out refi on a home, but loopholes exist for those who find it worth the effort.