@George-K said in Apple to move away from Intel?:

Unlike PC vendors, who license Windows from Microsoft or ChromeOS from Google, Apple also controls the operating system. This gives Apple a huge advantage over its competitors. Apple’s latest iPhone SOCs include both fast and slow cores, which the company prefers to call “performance” and “efficiency” cores. The advertised speed for a computer, like “3 GHz processor,” is the speed of the fast cores. When you do something processor-intensive, like rendering video in Final Cut Pro X or compiling an iPhone app in Xcode, those tasks would spin up all the fast cores. When you’re writing an email message or reading a Web page, the Mac doesn’t need to do hardly anything. Right now, all macOS can do is run the main Intel processor at a slower speed. With a custom ARM-based SOC with fast and slow cores, macOS could switch to slower, more energy-efficient cores. Dynamically switching cores depending on the task is key to saving energy.
In its A series chips for iOS devices, Apple also has custom-designed media cores for tasks like decoding video for a movie, audio for a podcast, and encryption. While Intel chips have similar features, with a custom chip, Apple could optimize for the media formats and encryption algorithms most common on Macs. And since Apple also controls macOS, it can ensure that macOS algorithms and processor cores are perfectly matched, again ensuring that they consume less power for any given task. When Apple engineers improve their algorithms, they can update their next-generation media cores to perfectly support the improvements, without those improvements also becoming available to competitors.

If it were so easy, then Commodore would be the big computer maker today and not the descendants of the IBM PC.

Modularity - building things by composing independent parts - is a beautiful and powerful design idea.

It's interesting how things go back and forth between monolithic and modular in every technical space every few years. Microkernel operating system or monolithic OS? Modular database or monolithic database? P2P or Client/Server? And so forth. There's never a clear answer.

I find your thread title to suffer from premature affectation...

Idiot

@Rainman said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:

I assume it's important to use bottled water.

I have never used bottled water for tea in my life. I suppose if you're going to drink it out of a Mason Jar or sieve it through a Japanese silk purse or something, then you might want to boil it first so that you can be absolutely sure that the revolting taste has nothing to do with the water.

Other than that, I wouldn't bother.

100 years from now nobody will have a degree.

They are just too expensive.

@Horace said in Geometry problems:

Dungeon Dudes did an episode recently that touched on the geometry of fireballs. I think the rules were changed at some point to remove the notion that a fireball must occupy some set cubic volume and will snake through whatever containing structure to do so. Now it's like an ethereal sphere which produces fire within that volume but nowhere else, and if it's blocked it's blocked.

Am familiar with Dungeon Dudes and must check out that episode.

And yeah, 5e is interesting. Overall, I like the system: the math is simple without being too identical for each character class, and each class has enough weird shit to make it unique without too many convoluted rules that bog down gameplay.

It's a hell of a lot better than 3 and 4.

@George-K said in Eagle Scout:

spur positive action.

Idiots

I'm t-mobile I didn't notice anything

He didn't have a single African American in his army.

Yep, that'll be about the coolest thing I hear about today.

@Loki said in This is how far we will go to find racism:

Show me the man and I will show you the crime.

We are in the phase here where everything gets taken out and shot. Indiscriminately.

It’s a pattern I’ve noticed in life. It always passes but in the meantime innocents get hurt badly.

Is it the pattern that it always passes and reverts to a mean, or is it the pattern that it goes in cycles but the mean keeps getting more and more reactionary towards perceived racism?

How can they tweet their support for protests and remind everyone of their duty to atone for being white if they are preoccupied?

Squealer.

Sketchy!!!

I wonder if it really can, short term. Remember the lack of shovel-ready projects? Complicated.

Speaking of playboy bunnies, I was in the Playboy Club in London England with my first wife back around 1978 having dinner with another couple when this guy decided he was going to take my wife to his table.

I went total Injun on him, and two of the club's security guards.... by golly they knew which way MY feathers pointed.....

No way. Bill Blasio using a welder?