Looks like Crucial is not so crucial for Micron's business anymore.
Readit NewsZuLuuuuuu commented on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news... · Posted by u/simlevesque
ZuLuuuuuu commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
No that is a huge failure. That is perhaps the biggest failure of Obamacare.
That means I, as someone with healthy lifestyle habits, has to pay largely the same premium as someone who smokes, is obese, and doesn't exercise. And sure enough, life expectancy in the US immediately stalled after the law's implementation: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni.... Exactly what economics would predict would happen.
That decline is mostly because of Covid pandemic, no? And it looks like the life expectancy picked back up after 2022.
Similar laws existed in EU countries long before US, and EU countries also saw a decline in life expectancy during those years: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/deu/ger...
ZuLuuuuuu commented on 3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] retrocmp.de/fdd/diskette/... · Posted by u/susam
Apparently 3M was a serious player back in the day on magnetic tapes and floppy diskettes. But today they are not present in a similar market (digital storage) at all.
I wonder what was it like to go through that timeframe, as the management and the employees, where the floppy disks were becoming obsolete. Did they purposefully took the decision to not pursue CD, flash memory market? Or was it just a shortsightedness of the management where they fell behind and eventually had to exit that market?
Of course 3M still managed to be successful and today it is one of the big market cap companies...
ZuLuuuuuu commented on Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidi... · Posted by u/kjhughes
All the Symbian devices used resistive touch screens, though, didn't they? E.g. the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. So the user experience was not quite the same as with capacitive touch.
No, there were quite a few Symbian models which used capacitive touch, combined with a modern Qt based Symbian OS. Check out "Symbian Belle" and the phone models released with that OS version. I loved my Nokia 603 :)
But I think they only released such models with Symbian for a couple of years, before switching to Meego and then later Windows Mobile OS.
ZuLuuuuuu commented on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores browser.geekbench.com/v6/... · Posted by u/aurareturn
Looks like M5 Macbooks will still have an edge over PC equivalents, but I am glad that with the new Qualcomm CPUs, PCs are at least getting close. Unfortunately Intel and AMD are falling so much behind that they cannot compete on laptop form factor anymore. The best Intel and AMD laptop CPUs, regardless of their TDP, are still around 3000 score on Geekbench single core.
ZuLuuuuuu commented on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU qualcomm.com/products/mob... · Posted by u/wmf
Unless they added low power cores to it, its probably isn't great. Chip design was for originally for datacenters.
Didn't laptops with Snapdragon X Elite CPUs have pretty good battery life?
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2375677/surface-laptop-2024-...
X2 Elite shouldn't be that different I think.
ZuLuuuuuu commented on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework simonhartcher.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/deevus
This sounds like the so-called "modern standby" (S0 vs S3, if I remember correctly). I bought a thinkpad a while back with "modern standby" and the thing wouldn't last the night suspended, and would often wake me up with its fans howling and end up being very, very hot while suspended. I disabled "modern standby" in the BIOS and it was back to sleeping for weeks without losing charge. I have no idea if that's what's going on with Framework laptops, but "modern standby" is one of the dumbest changes I've ever seen in PC hardware. To my understanding it's to make laptops behave more like phones, but I've never experienced any meaningful difference in resume behavior between S0 and S3 suspend.
The idea behind modern stanby is a good one, when it is implemented correctly (like how Macbooks do it). Unfortunately most PCs have a terrible implementation and instead get hot and drain the battery overnight.
ZuLuuuuuu commented on AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86 techpowerup.com/340779/am... · Posted by u/ksec
There are a lot of theoretical articles which claim similar things but on the other hand we have a lot of empirical evidence that ARM CPUs are significantly more power efficient.
I used laptops with both Intel and AMD CPUs, and I read/watch a lot of reviews in thin and light laptop space. Although AMD became more power efficient compared to Intel in the last few years, AMD alternative is only marginally more efficient (like 5-10%). And AMD is using TSMC fabs.
On the other hand Qualcomm's recent Snapdragon X series CPUs are significantly more efficient then both Intel and AMD in most tests while providing the same performance or sometimes even better performance.
Some people mention the efficiency gains on Intel Lunar Lake as evidence that x86 is just as efficient, but Lunar Lake was still slightly behind in battery life and performance, while using a newer TSMC process node compared to Snapdragon X series.
So, even though I see theoretical articles like this, the empirical evidence says otherwise. Qualcomm will release their second generation Snapdragon X series CPUs this month. My guess is that the performance/efficiency gap with Intel and AMD will get even bigger.
I'm really excited about the Desktop mode, now I can finally break free of Samsung!
I was also very excited about it and that's why I immediately upgraded to Android 16. But it turns out that it is not part of this update. The same with the new Material design, it doesn't come with Android 16 update. So weird that they announced both of these features as if they are part of Android 16.
- I donated to PyInstaller project in the past. Being able to package Python programs as executable literally made a big difference at work. I am very grateful for that project. But I can't find a donation link on their web site anymore.
- I donate to Wikipedia every year a small amount.
- It is not related to programming directly, but I try to donate to https://u24.gov.ua every month.