Isn’t the RAM basically integrated onto the SoC now?
With the M1 as-is, yes. However, it's entirely possible that future M1X or the like will keep RAM separate.
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TacticalTable commented on How bad is your Spotify? pudding.cool/2020/12/judg... · Posted by u/feross
What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
> still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative
TacticalTable commented on How bad is your Spotify? pudding.cool/2020/12/judg... · Posted by u/feross
This seems like a lot of work. I wonder why people tolerate this, it seems to me to be a significantly worse UX over the radio.
A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.
People on Reddit are reporting long queues on the paid tier too.
Likely depends on region. I never experienced queues as a paid user in the midwest.
How does it look with geforce now? I'll admit I'm actually totally confused as to how that even works, but it seems like a really cool way of being able to play games on my macbook without spending $1500
on a new graphics card for my gaming PC!
I played through 40 hours of Cyberpunk and I'm about out of content worth doing. Geforce Now is great, but it has a caveat that make it dicey: ≤1080p only, and the window it creates cannot be resized. You're stuck with stretched 1080 if you're on a larger monitor (though it at least preserves aspect ratio when stretching).
Graphics are excellent, I was running on Ultra RTX (remember, 1080p) in most of the city and getting 50 fps, and latency was around 20-30ms. For how most games play, it wasn't really noticeable. $5 a month is a great deal, though I do wonder how Stadia stacks up. I certainly could have used the better resolution.
It also works on iPad/iPhone and Android decently, if you want to play anywhere. I didn't have any issues trying my iPad, though it appears you're stuck with controller input on that.
TacticalTable commented on The Story Behind Markdown capiche.com/e/markdown-hi... · Posted by u/awwstn
Hard parts:
- It's Markdown, not Word
- Finding an editor that felt comfortable. (BTW, iA Writer is awesome for this.)
Easy parts:
- "You never have to care about formatting again!"
- "Two people can edit stuff at the same time and we can work out the differences later, instead of playing the 'who has the most recent version?' game."
- "Look, you just write text and a nice document with logos pops out the other side, and all of the documents look nearly identical without even trying!"
- "Git shows you the full history of every line of this file."
- "Hey, cryptographic signatures you can use to irrefutably prove the history of the document!"
- "This 'pull request' thing in GitHub shows you exactly the changes you made, like 'track changes' except they're all in one place!"
Seconding iA Writer. I especially enjoy the focus and editing modes.
TacticalTable commented on Police are requesting data from smart speakers wired.com/story/star-witn... · Posted by u/seigando
> these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right?
Without it being open source, there's no guarantee though?
You can get a pretty good idea from power usage, storage, and internet usage. Unless there's multiple hidden revolutionary breakthroughs in speech transcription or compression, nothing unsavory is happening at scale.
TacticalTable commented on Samsung Ads – Demand-Side Platform samsung.com/us/business/s... · Posted by u/amineazariz
Samsung really needs to just flush their entire software division. It's all garbage. Their android software is a frustrating joke. Tizen is a hot mess. Every issue I've ever had with a samsung product was with their software, and it's why I've sworn off the brand as a whole.
I had been getting frustrated with my Oneplus and upgrade to an S10, and every once in awhile I wish that I hadn't. It's death by a thousand cuts, from engineers and management who have no respect for the user. Off the top of my head, within the past week, I've had:
* The wifi slows down to <1mbps every morning. Restarting wifi fixes this. * The entire bixby button. It can finally be remapped, but occasional double taps (like using volume in the dark) will still open it. * The weather 'Current temperature' widget updates every two days. Current temperature. Current. Two days. * Random notifications to sign up for Samsung services that I don't want. You cannot swipe them away. You have to open the app and decline their EULA to get rid of it. * Disappearing notifications * Needing to reboot every week, or getting slowdowns * Only two years of updates (an entire android problem)
Obviously all of these problems can be fixed, and many aren't exclusive to samsung, but dealing with all of them continuously is just grating. I had been planning to buy a Samsung Frame TV before I heard all this stuff about their ads.
TacticalTable commented on Where our economy is, for the young siderea.dreamwidth.org/16... · Posted by u/dsr_
Sure, I'm not even talking about the stars, but even the fact young people can make any money out of these is incredible. I wouldn't imagine it in 1991.
What I'm saying is for young people the opportunities for gig are relatively the same compared to 1991, except its in the different form.
Not to mention the opportunities to aquire skill or to learn almost anything for free from the internet.
> What I'm saying is for young people the opportunities for gig are relatively the same compared to 1991, except its in the different form.
You've explicitly named lotteries and acted as if they're the same as actual gig employment. I have several instagram influencer friends, and a few who make youtube videos on the side. It's their dream to go pro. You want to know their collective income, from a pool of about 10 people, who have been working at this for over a year? It's under $100. That's not a gig, that's a lottery that costs time and energy.
If you want to talk gigs, talk about Wag or Uber. Which, are also definitely not the same gigs that the article was talking about.
Sometimes a thing is not broken, but it makes you uncomfortable and you only notice that later. Like one of my washing machines that beeped a couple of minutes before it unlocked its door. If this will fly, please allow to add such details into reviews, e.g. “not broken, but I hate it” status.