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webaholic··on H1B Debacle Discussion
That would leave smaller companies in the mid-west or other LCOL places behind. Only companies with enough revenue can compete (mostly tech).
webaholic··on Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand
With all the hidden fees and exorbitant cleaning fees, I think it is much cheaper to book a hotel than an airbnb nowadays. No wonder demand is going down.
webaholic··on Why some team members need more guidance than others? It's not about skill
If only, as the picture illustrates, we can go back in time!
webaholic··on Nvidia CEO says "coding is a dying profession"
How is it different from today?
webaholic··on ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core
ARM should gain about 30% in a single gen to be competitive with Apple/Qualcomm processors. It's going to be interesting to see if they can achieve this. Ultimately, competition is good for the consumer. Android phones are so far behind Apple, it is not funny anymore.
webaholic··on AMD's Response to Nvidia regarding H100 vs. MI300X on real world workloads
This is why we should only trust reviews from reputed independent publications. But good for the market and AMD if these claims are true. Competition breeds innovation.
webaholic··on Telling young people to work-life balance is actively harmful
The reasons mentioned are exactly the reasons to have work-life balance. You have time, you have energy, you have less responsibilities. You should travel, explore various hobbies, and experience new things. By the time you are in your 30s, you will have too many responsibilities to do anything else.
webaholic··on Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs
AMD/Intel run at ~5 GHz at peak. Using that vs Apple's 3.7 GHz, you can see that the M2 is roughly ~20% better than the others at iso power.
webaholic··on AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 and it’s got receipts
Is there any article comparing benchmarks for the same power envelope between Apple and AMD/Intel laptops?

All I find are comparisons with the desktop parts.

webaholic··on Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark
Apple pays a premium to TSMC to reserve the early runs on the next gen nodes. They can do this because they can charge their users a premium for Apple devices. I am not sure the rest of the players have that much pricing power or margins.
webaholic··on Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions for 2022 MacBook and Mac Mini
Any pointers to their advice as to what the reason is?
webaholic··on Samsung and Apple is tech’s “unhappiest marriage”
Absolutely the right thing to do given what Apple did to previous collaborators like Imagination Technologies for GPUs and what they tried to do to Qualcomm for modems.

https://mashable.com/article/apple-imagination-takeaway

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673631

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-office-near-imagi...

webaholic··on DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0
Pretty surprised by the results here.. wonder what changes are under the hood for such a good showing.
webaholic··on Why RISC-V doesn't yet support KVM
"Company X" in the comments is SiFive, I am guessing?
webaholic··on The State of Toolchains in OpenBSD
Why was the compromise made for LLVM 10 with the Apache license and not for GCC with the v3 GPL license?
webaholic··on DragonflyBSD 6.0
If portability of other OSes has taught us anything, it is that the interfaces are much cleaner if you are to support multiple architectures.

I think it comes down to having people/companies interested in porting it to ARM64, not about cleaner codebases.

webaholic··on DragonflyBSD 6.0
Even the performance claims do not really hold up anymore. Freebsd in general performs better and not surprising since it has so many more resources.
webaholic··on Nvidia Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm CPU for Use in Big AI Systems
I don't think this will be anywhere near as good as the M1, since they are using the ARM Neoverse cores.
webaholic··on All C++20 core language features with examples
If someone is looking to learn a new language should they spend the effort on learning C++ or Go/Rust/<others>?
webaholic··on GTK 4.0 Released
Does this mean that Gnome 4 is around the corner?
webaholic··on Ampere’s Product List: 80 Cores, up to 3.3 GHz at 250 W; 128 Core in Q4
There is no inherent advantage to the ARM architecture other than it being designed recently (64-bit ARM is less than a decade old) whereas x86 has a lot of baggage it has to carry.

There is no proof that these outperform traditional CPUs at all. That is the reason you don't see them being used anywhere other than niche use cases or for cost reasons.

webaholic··on H.R.1044 – Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2019
Finally something reasonable and bipartisan. Here's hoping it passes and gets signed into law...
webaholic··on BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics
at what price though?
webaholic··on Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up
May be by the time Mac has an ARM processor, your deployment server might also be an ARM server. :)
webaholic··on I’ve Climbed Everest 21 Times. It’s Not the Mountain It Used to Be
Don't be. It is a very well paying job which rewards the efforts put in.
webaholic··on Fedora 30
This is good distro for developers by developers. I wouldn't suggest it for everyday users though. There are too many beta quality bugs since it uses really bleeding edge releases.
webaholic··on My Salary Progression in Tech
Senior Engineer (EE) in SV: 130,000 base, 25K RSU
webaholic··on DTrace on Windows
"DTrace has a C-style high level and powerful programming language that allows you to dynamically insert trace points."

Yes, that would be the D programming language :)

webaholic··on ARM processors like A12X are nearing performance parity with desktop processors
Indeed. Both falkor and thunderX2 are A64-only. The backwards compatible A32 mode is optional only and not implemented by the ARM server vendors except Ampere eMag.
webaholic··on Digitized minutes of Royal Society meetings taken between 1686 and 1711
Is it only me? I think I lost the ability to read cursive handwriting. I tried reading a few pages, and it is really hard for me to follow what is written.
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