@paulg w/r/t cheese and bread, the American versions are optimized for shelf life and distribution, *not* taste. That's the signature.

@Carnage4Life huh, I've seen the opposite.. men so traumatized by dating apps that they practically become radicalized. Anyway, it's a totally different world for sure. Yet another way the smartphone changed everything.

And there were more! https://t.co/43ZFAX8uEa

@MikaCorinus exactly

@Jon_E @Carnage4Life Like so https://t.co/Ql2kMFMUeE

@billforsternz @siracusa It’s an interesting discussion; why haven’t we moved to a baseline of 32gb or 64gb? 8gb and 16gb are still super common. I remember 24gb being exotic in 2010. Maybe 16gb, unlike 640kb, “should be enough for everyone?” 🤔

@Carnage4Life Oh this has been the case for many years now. Since iPhone 11 at least. Once they got the low light stuff nailed down.

@bruceariggs even in the 80s this was in progress, with typewriters mostly and slowly transitioning to early home computers like Apple //

@lmamakos OMG I had forgotten about this, but me too! https://t.co/GMl0kI40Mh

@siracusa The wikipedia entry for it says he wrote the song lyrics in a few hours because confirmation of approval (he didn't want another Coolio confrontation) didn't arrive until last minute.

@_Tomalak sometimes, change is good, and forward progress is made. Why fight the future instead of embracing it?

@_Tomalak https://t.co/wFBj7samFz

@Carnage4Life Imagine what universal basic income could do

@donw well it has been 22+ years.. original song is from 1999 👴

@donw 40" monitor and 100 gb of memory are still on track, at least!

Site is down, but.. enjoy https://t.co/g5CtoTjpsA

@ignotofsky it's amazing! well done! 👏

a bit more detail on what it does and how it works https://t.co/vzQO5YdlF8

My first thought on seeing this ad .. how completely unrealistic this "armor" is https://t.co/IcYhj7EZD7

@spies_please had multiple opportunistic car break ins (you have 3 kids, you start forgetting a lot of stuff, like to lock your van regularly). They always stole the GPS, but in later years they stopped stealing the GPS, wasn't worth enough $ and people use smartphones for that anyways

@gpapilion what's also counter-intuitive (especially to the Android folks who are stuck with crap Qualcomm hardware) is that faster hardware can *save* battery life, because it is quicker to get to idle state. The exception is 100% usage but that's so very rare.

@kevindente They added stuff tho https://t.co/QAtZ20cmAl

@OscarRiba https://t.co/SCor2a05fp

@OscarRiba crysis could barely reach 60fps with anything!

@Carnage4Life no, but you can add *friction* and make it more annoying to do those things, e.g. https://t.co/h45z1CbKsE

also interesting is "why not connect a high end GPU via USB 4 / thunderbolt 3", which has.. some caveats. Note that the RTX 2070 number here is from the internal/mobile GPU inside the laptop https://t.co/LRZIg8H2hi https://t.co/WcDwLwuJEG

@raphkoster it's cool! I was thinking about how there's such a strong distinction between vertical and horizontal games.

@unconed @KarlKFI it is now 2022 and your dream has been realized. Plus the new GPUs coming in a month.

@mikeleigh1010 yeah that's basically the only option for consoles at $300-$400 which purport to deliver "4k".. they gotta cheat like crazy.

sadly that site has succumbed to internet rot, but https://t.co/EyLKuODLXV https://t.co/J8soYcirZZ

@RafalPiton @mderenio better perf helps everyone! And this effort has seen dramatic software improvements since 2015. The Qualcomm hardware.. unfortunately.. continues to lag far behind where it should be. 😢

@elsassph @stilescrisis @thefalken everything is supposed to get faster (and smaller and cheaper) over time, that's the whole point of computing. Qualcomm has been going in the wrong direction for 8 years. *How* is that possible?

range of avg framerates at 1080p very high quality is 165 fps (i9-12900k) - 66fps (Ryzen 5 1600). Of course, if all you want is 1080p 60fps stable an i3-10105f or better will do.. but it's practically unheard of to see these kinds of CPU perf differences in games at 4k very high! https://t.co/obLf6UwvVV

@SirCrest I don't want fake 4k, I want real 4k! But if the visual impact of raytracing is significant enough to justify it I could see using DLSS at 1440p.. I personally don't feel the "real" reflections add enough to spider-man to justify the extreme cost

@stilescrisis @thefalken yes! that's the problem! the lack of improvement compounds in both directions! 😭

@jcoehoorn very interesting point and perspective

@chx @lilychxi https://t.co/2tM19VlQrE note that rendering a video, something that happens a lot in an era of tiktok all the time, takes 30+ seconds longer.

@badp @robertauger no; it just means they get a subpar user experience. Ideally I want every device to have a speedometer 2.0 score of 100+, and that's *only* possible with the 888 which is .. what.. 1 year old? AMD and Intel have at least closed the gap, at a high TDP cost.

@gingerjoos eh, not quite. I think you need a Speedometer 2.0 score of at *least* 50 to be decently responsive on the modern web, and ideally well over 100. There's been progress on the Qualcomm side but glacially slow relative to Apple/Intel/AMD

@jgstew I don't understand why Apple is so, SO far ahead of everyone else here. At least AMD and Intel have closed the gap on raw performance somewhat, but at the cost of much higher TDP

@dearchap video editing / encoding is quite common in the era of TikTok and check out how much faster Apple is at it https://t.co/2tM19VlQrE -- that's 2x faster, saving you over 30 seconds.

@neojp there is no throttling in iOS for web, quite the opposite. In fact we only see throttling on Android to cheat and have "better" battery life. It's notorious on the OnePlus and I've experienced it myself: https://t.co/7RQytjiB0A

@neojp believe me, I wish Android had plenty of awesome fast SoCs to choose from! But they have.. Qualcomm. And that's basically it.

@chx @lilychxi "marginally" = 2x to 5x higher performance, and per-watt? even more! It would be *awesome* if Apple started selling servers, but that doesn't fit their closed end-to-end ecosystem game. At least AMD is bringing their A game on the server side.

@CristanMeijer @Carnage4Life agree; it's an interesting case study in "don't build what the user asks for"

@sysadmiral yes, and hardware 2FA beats most of it. That's the good news!

Just why Apple is *still* so incredibly far ahead of Qualcomm is one of the greatest mysteries of computing, for my money. https://t.co/JpuP8fsvsy

@woidda even then, 8 slow cores will get trounced by 4 fast cores all day, every day

@woidda Single-threaded perf is the single most relevant stat to typical computer usage. Having 128 cores doesn't matter for 99% of computing tasks. Unless you regularly render 3d scenes on your phone, or compile chromium on your phone ;)

It's all the same classic timeless social engineering stuff, but I still feel sorry for the victims https://t.co/zDleiSVyqa

@thefalken No. Kicking Intel's ass is the name of the game. It's started to happen, and will continue to happen.

@brian_g_moore The main counterpoint I am sympathetic to is camera improvements, which have been substantial, especially in low light.

@lilychxi none; single threaded perf correlates almost exactly with general usage behaviors. You could argue that iPhones have far exceeded "good enough" at around the iPhone 12/13 level and I would not disagree. But kicking Intel's ass is the name of the game, longer term.

@robertauger ah, the old "640kb should be enough for everyone" comment. The bus is right on time! (A more interesting and useful counterpoint is camera improvements in later gens)

@therealdarkmage you can buy a used 2018 phone that's as fast as the latest Android/Qualcomm stuff https://t.co/tiLyMwPaVG

@TallBlondeGuy Article also says this is the first year Apple has bigger market share in the US than Android. That's 100% related to pricing.

@jlericson @shog9 Yeah also because megatopics were a problem, and an implicit cry for chat https://t.co/EDpQc4MVm9

@Carnage4Life kind of an interesting case of intentionally not giving people what they want to maximize business outcomes. Netflix was the binge alternative, now it isn't. "build something people don't want"

@shog9 @jlericson we've added chat to Discourse as well. Long story, but it's kind of a fast lane / slow lane thing: https://t.co/mA4ak7ZvcN

@TallBlondeGuy it was very, very expensive. Do you remember when Apple dropped the price? That was (and still is) unprecedented: https://t.co/Ko2ktNb8P7

@TallBlondeGuy Not quite; lots of people still swear by physical keyboards and made a BIG, *BIG* deal about it back then. In the end, simplicity (less parts, easier to make) won, not "better typing".

which leads to, well.. everything after that, including T**mp https://t.co/h45z1CbKsE

@jwz @jamesfmilne At least it's a guy; if it was a woman speaking, you'd be pilloried.

@rossrubin @andrewmartonik (I don't mean to infer it would be the same person, but I'm sure someone, somewhere leads a life that charmed)

@rossrubin @andrewmartonik fortunately both your mom and your drug dealer are both on Signal!

@jwz Yeah there's a few channels like that for me. Unusual emphasis on words, odd cadences, etc. Not everyone has a voice for radio..

@Carnage4Life They've said this before, many times. I'd wait until it's proven and done.

@Beschizza I was worried about that one when I saw it trending

@timbray this is a rational way to look at it

I also love Aliens: Fireteam Elite, totally different style of game (action), but really gets the core gameplay and Aliens lore / visual style down https://t.co/7La7gJKV9u

@Adamar09 @jwkingsman you can also open it and install a SSD later; that's supported https://t.co/RfulpQIotH

@javajosh chart strongly sorts by core count, if you read the legend on the left! All the ones on top are 64c/128t

"the CDC only recommends using fans at temperatures below 95F/35C. Increasing hot-air circulation and sweat evaporation can actually speed up heat-related illnesses, like heat exhaustion. Unless you're able to use the fan to pull in cooler air from outside.." 🤔 https://t.co/8BrnUEdbjL

@jwkingsman @Adamar09 yeah surprisingly the SD card doesn't make a huge difference, though it depends on the game. I ordered a second Deck with the minimum specs based on that result.. https://t.co/59TofUJDja

@syntoythesis @Carnage4Life oh yes I am totally cheering for TikTok because someone, something needs to take down the cancer that is Facebook

@migueldeicaza it makes a lot more sense than the solid gold gen 1 Apple Watch. That was like a sobriety test. https://t.co/3HV6WIuKZ7

@Carnage4Life I wish. Instagram makes it virtually impossible to simply embed a photo these days (without their full JS tracking payload). Users are never, ever going to vote with their feet away from Instagram.

@migueldeicaza I can't get past the shape. The "bean" shape is vastly superior in actual use IMO. Hardware is nice though. https://t.co/OH67y74hm2

A big part of the magic of the Steam Deck is the custom SoC with improved GPU. We have obscene amounts of CPU power; why not subtract unnecessary die space taken up by "n more cores" and improve the GPU? That's what Valve gave us, for cheap: https://t.co/A33GfDvSGT

@gknauss I seriously dislike memoji. The only thing worse is freakin' bitmoji. Viewing them causes me physical pain.

@gknauss For me it's an addiction to the better cameras. Macro mode on 13 (I have a 12) would be useful in a bunch of cases. And this gen definitely stepped up on the camera, at least on the pro..

the guilty pleasure mindless gratuitous dude action movie trifecta for me is Crank, Shoot 'Em Up, and Transporter 1.

@bootrino my educated guess is that there are feedback loops here we underestimated

@bdurrett it has gotten pretty bad with higher end GPUs, they can really draw 300-400w all by themselves. And the next gen will draw more power..

@christinaleo sadly this awesome version doesn't seem to be available anywhere https://t.co/qJqI0lIP5y

@gknauss Arby's is like hot dogs.. very good once a month, any more than that and it'd turn bad.

@lordeagle yeah sounds like it was a rolling blackout aka "we'll force *some* of you to use less power, so that the overall grid can survive"

now on Season 3, and it works well as a sort of spiritual sequel to Heavy Metal (1981) https://t.co/Uc3pNAxUxn

Supposedly peak power use is 4pm - 9pm so an outage at 6pm is appropriate, I guess. The alert really should say “please turn down or temporarily turn off your air conditioning” IMO because that is, statistically speaking, where the vast majority of usage is

The router is on battery backup though. https://t.co/p3Kbf7vmRA

Difficult to find things to turn off that would make a meaningful difference; after air conditioning (which we don’t have) not many big electricity consumers in the house. Gas water heater, gas dryer, gas stove.. I guess avoid doing laundry and using the electric oven? 🤔 https://t.co/Plo8RtZ4iC

That rooftop solar system with battery backup I ordered can’t get here soon enough.

@baishen Yeah mine got better for a bit after I reseated the sphere but then got MUCH worse. No pattern to it that I could discern

Just as a caution, I had to get the LR4 replaced under warranty. Seemed to me like the torque sensor was miscalibrated; would complain daily “too much force!! Halting!” Then try again and succeed.. anyway let’s see how the replacement does.

@RageousX @jeff_hanna I’ve finished that game twice!

Also, the whole “we can only uncover our emotional issues through eternal combat” resonates a lot with me as a man, for better or worse

Thanks to those who encouraged me to continue (I did enable God Mode, which increases damage resistance 2% each death), there’s definitely a reason this game won a Hugo award! https://t.co/KprdEaPedY

Only 11.4 cubic feet, but 361kWh/year https://t.co/Kh3XhXfVw2

@mathowie It's also funny (obviously) because Al is a fairly devout christian, never curses, etc. But yeah. I can't wait to see this!!