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glasshead969··on Happy New Year 2025
Happy new year!
glasshead969··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is 5G strictly worse than LTE?
Its been a clear upgrade for me. I am on T-Mobile and in my apartment i see around 200-300mbps and across Seattle metro area i hit 200mbps consistently.

T-mobile has better coverage here compared to ATT and Verizon because of Mid-band spectrum they got with sprint merger. I think other 2 are in process deploying more mid band spectrum and may be that will improve it in future.

In Seattle I see 5G UC (Marketing term for their MidBand Spectrum) for TMobile pretty much everywhere.

glasshead969··on Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
Intel's Power consumption numbers are ideal case, they routinely go over that. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16680/tiger-lake-h-performanc...
glasshead969··on Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
Its 60-90w including GPU.
glasshead969··on Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
It has to be 3x faster to match M1's efficiency given the TDP is 30 vs 105.
glasshead969··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
Yea I think this argument about node size comes up because in this case you couldn't buy just the soc but the whole Mac computer. People didn't care that some of advantage Intel had was from their process superiority because you didn't have to make any choices other than the CPU itself.
glasshead969··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
M1 with all its CPUs pegged to 100% only hits 20W, so M1 still uses way less power than single core in Zen.

Edit: In fact I just ran Cinebench R23 single thread test and package power barely crossed 5W.

glasshead969··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
Regarding the 5nm vs 7nm thing, I expect apple to be at least 1 node or intra-node improvement (eg: 5nm vs 5nm+ or 4nm) ahead for foreseeable future. They pay TSMC pretty penny to have access to cutting edge nodes. Not much different from how Intel had node advantage over others albeit here apple paying for it so at-least others aren't locked out of it for too long.
glasshead969··on Ryzen 5800X vs. M1: Programming benchmarks
yea its hard to compare, this makes sense as what is the most powerful cpu one can get no matter the power usage but there isn't anything close to M1 when it comes to high performance and long battery life. Even ryzen 4000 series laptops throttle a lot when on battery power while M1 performance doesn't change. I don't expect this to change with Zen 3 laptops either.
glasshead969··on Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
I have device with me and on full load on both CPU and GPU it can go up to 25 but for most use cases i see the whole SOC hovering around 15W
glasshead969··on Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14
iOS has many ad blockers which work as well as Ublock. 1Blocker for example. On top of it these blockers don’t need to read contents of the site to block ads.
glasshead969··on This Website Will Self Destruct
Thanks for this.

I am not person who wrote the message but I am in similar situation, may be it’s the quarentine and being alone at home for weeks now but I have been thinking about my choices and mistakes.

I hope it gets better eventually.

glasshead969··on India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
What’s the point of posting about Indian space program here if it’s going to devolve in to arguments how India is poor. What is new that is being said here that hasn’t been said before. So depressing.

Just to add numbers ISRO’s budget is 0.5% of Indian GDP, given that more money is probably wasted because of corruption and stupid policies I think this is not the worse way to spend money.

glasshead969··on Apple begins exporting India-made iPhones to European markets
Democratic process is slow but i am optimistic that these problems will be solved as the country grows richer. It’s chaotic but there is progress in this madness however slow.
glasshead969··on What’s new in JavaScript [video]
They were against the pointer events spec when it was proposed I guess they changed their mind.
glasshead969··on What’s new in JavaScript [video]
WebKit has pointer events in active development, so I expect setPointerCapture in safari soon.
glasshead969··on Deciphering the Messages of Apple’s T2 Coprocessor
T2 is a variant of A10 so it should handle apps.
glasshead969··on Intel Delays Mass Production of 10nm CPUs to 2019
We can probably expect 7nm in consumer hands this fall with iPhones. If thats the case, they are probably pretty close to High volume production.
glasshead969··on Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
There was some speculation this year may be delayed because of supply issues with OLED panels.
glasshead969··on Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
They are forecasting strong revenue for Q4, so odds are there will be some kind of iPhone launch in September. Not sure if it means OLED model launches in September.
glasshead969··on Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
iOS 10.3.1 patches this exploit.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207688

glasshead969··on The Tiger of Mysore
Not even sure what is left in Indian sense. its not as clear cut as it is in west. And congress really doesn't have a clear ideology it stands right now except may be the misguided notion that Rahul Gandhi is amazing.
glasshead969··on Dell, Google, and Internet Security
> Dell’s stock would plummet.

Dell went private, so reaction on wall street is a non starter anyway.

glasshead969··on The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review
> That's quite an endorsement, that is quite rare from Anandtech, if I've been following correctly.

The last smartphone to get a similar endorsement was HTC One M7.

glasshead969··on Plex on the New Apple TV
I ordered pretty much minutes after it was available and it delivers tomorrow. Friday delivery required extra 17$, probably not opted by most.
glasshead969··on Inside the iPhone 6s
Today's press release[1] announced Oct 9 as launch date for 40 more countries. Expected to hit 130 countries by end of the year.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/09/28Apple-Announces-Re...

glasshead969··on TvOS for Developers
JavaScriptCore framework gives full access to JS runtime.https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/javascriptcore-and-ios-7/
glasshead969··on TvOS for Developers
UIKit apps are possible too. https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/sampleco...
glasshead969··on TvOS for Developers
Apple introduced Native JavaScript bridge for iOS in iOS 7. you can call objective-c apis in javascript.[1]

[1]https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/AppleA...

glasshead969··on Apple Shuts Off App Reviews for Those Running iOS 9 Beta
iOS 9 is pre-release software with an expectation of changing APIs before it releases. So makes sense for them to have a hold on iOS 9 focused updates till release.
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