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greg5green commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau

shadowpho · 5 months ago

For which band? I run 160/160 on 5/6ghz and it’s nice. They are short range enough to work. For 2.4 yeah 20mhz only

greg5green · 5 months ago

For 5ghz, that's a pretty unusual. You need to be somewhere where DFS isn't an issue to even get 160mhz.

For 6ghz? Yeah, not uncommon.

greg5green commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau

mumber_typhoon · 5 months ago

The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet).

All in all, apple is doing some incredible things with hardware.

Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. The M1 itself is so powerful that nobody really needs to upgrade that for most things most people do on their computers. Tahoe however makes my M1 Air feel sluggish doing the exact same tasks ive been last couple of years. I really hope this is not intentional from Apple to make me upgrade. That would be a big let down.

greg5green · 5 months ago

>The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet).

Is that good? Their cellular modems have been terrible. I'll reserve judgement until trying one out.

>The M1 itself is so powerful

I think this is a bit of a fallacy. Apple Silicon is great for the power consumption to power ratio, but something like a Ryzen 9 7945HX can do 3x more work than an M1 Max. And a non-laptop chip, like an Intel Core Ultra 7 265k can do 3.5x.

greg5green commented on I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain initialcommit.com/blog/im... · Posted by u/initialcommit

metaltyphoon · a year ago

Learning the -p was the biggest gain I’ve had after years of using git via cmdline only.

greg5green · a year ago

You can do it with stash too!

greg5green commented on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019) blog.haschek.at/2019/the-... · Posted by u/BayAreaEscapee

eertami · 4 years ago

>And what do we do, when we want to find out a location associated with a wifi name? We go to wigle.net, enter the SSID (=wifi name) and it tells us where on the world it is found.

I've always enjoyed having unique/personal SSIDs, but had never seriously considered this consequence. I wonder what the worlds generic SSIDs are.

greg5green · 4 years ago

This feels like something that's "security by obscurity" vs. "security by obscurity." Would you rather be obscure because you have the same SSID as everyone else so no one guesses which is yours or obscure because you have the same SSID as everyone else and no one knows which is yours, but it's easier to see what is going on inside the network?

One comes with more easily identifying you/your network while the other comes with being more easily hacked by readily available rainbow tables (I think, but am not sure, that WPA3 fixed this, but WPA1/WPA2 use the SSID as a salt for the password)

greg5green commented on New Covid Variant 'Deltacron' greekreporter.com/2022/01... · Posted by u/euler2100

greg5green · 4 years ago

I'd really like to see an article that described what the actual variant looks like (in terms of mutations from the Wuhan or D614G strains). Neither this article or the [likely] source Bloomberg article have any info on it. Don't see anything else out there (besides a CNBC article that credits the Bloomberg one).

greg5green commented on Why Apple’s iMessage is winning: teens dread the green text bubble wsj.com/articles/why-appl... · Posted by u/cwwc

mulmen · 4 years ago

When FaceTime was announced Steve Jobs promised Apple would create an open standard so it could be used by anyone. They got wrapped up in patent hell and chose to limit the service to their own devices rather than pay for licensing. The alternative would have made Apple less money.

greg5green · 4 years ago

You can do it now! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212619

I mean, you can't start a FaceTime call, but at least they finally let you join one.

greg5green commented on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies nature.com/articles/s4142... · Posted by u/bananapear

alecst · 4 years ago

You asked a good question that I’ve wondered as well. Basically someone has to show that immunity to one variant confers immunity to another, which is not at all obvious since presumably they have different epitopes. I guess what people are suggesting is that the epitopes are distinct enough that a targeted vaccine might not cover both, but not so distinct that they behave like separate infections in vivo. But I would hope that an expert can chime in and shed some light here.

greg5green · 4 years ago

>I guess what people are suggesting is that the epitopes are distinct enough that a targeted vaccine might not cover both, but not so distinct that they behave like separate infections in vivo. But I would hope that an expert can chime in and shed some light here.

There are sooooo many papers that prove this -- stop pretending you are too important/lazy/etc to search for them yourself because you want to write some anti-vax BS.

greg5green commented on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies nature.com/articles/s4142... · Posted by u/bananapear

rootusrootus · 4 years ago

I've seen it repeated pretty extensively on r/covid19, which I have to say comes across as a much more scientifically robust site for covid information than Hacker News. The quality of information here isn't much above Facebook.

greg5green · 4 years ago

>I've seen it repeated pretty extensively on r/covid19, which I have to say comes across as a much more scientifically robust site for covid information than Hacker News. The quality of information here isn't much above Facebook.

I 100% agree with you on the quality of information here vs. there. It is much, much more strictly moderated. But with that moderation, that subreddit does not recommend going out and getting COVID in lieu of a vaccine. Even if initial response is better for COVID.

COVID + Vaccine is by far the best, but that doesn't mean you should skip the vaccine to make sure you go the 'rona frst.

Vaccine + Vaccine (and maybe + vaccine) is, by far, the safest combination for pretty much everyone people.

greg5green commented on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies nature.com/articles/s4142... · Posted by u/bananapear

UnFleshedOne · 4 years ago

People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection).

greg5green · 4 years ago

>People are not usually saying getting covid is better (not without many qualifiers anyway), they are saying that if you already had covid, getting shots might have bad risk/benefit ratio. (you get all the risk for small additional protection).

You should really check what people are saying on random posts on Facebook.

greg5green commented on SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies nature.com/articles/s4142... · Posted by u/bananapear

inglor_cz · 4 years ago

So, they detected this variant half a year ago, and yet it didn't become prevalent. Delta rules the roost.

Is it possible that the heavy mutations detected on the A.30 variant also make it less contagious?

greg5green · 4 years ago

>Is it possible that the heavy mutations detected on the A.30 variant also make it less contagious?

100%. This strain hasn't been seen since May. It has already died out because of Delta.

All of these discussions are academic -- we really are only talking about if a Delta variant can gain these mutations and really wreck havoc. And the answer is "probably not" (for a while, anyways)