tmay

9secondkox2 said:

The progress apple has made in such a short time is astounding. Competitors cannot even get reasonably close without treading dangerously close to IP theft (like the kind obtained by hiring ex apple silicon engineers…) 

to be brutally honest, I wasn’t all that excited by m1 or even m2, but for the potential those series revealed. 

However, with m4, apple silicon has become quite dominant across the board. The only drawback being no m4 ultra to dominate the high end completely. 

The only issue I have with base m series chips is that the ram is optimized for performance but not for managing swap effectively. Too often, on my holdover m series devices, I run out of memory with multiple apps and lots of data being worked on. However, rhis issue is not present on older Intel devices with the same amount of ram. 

For my next mac (torn between Mac Studio ultra or MacBook Pro max if no large iMac shows up) I’ll definitely load up on RAM even though it’s prohibitively expensive. 16 or 24 gb just won’t cut it (though it does on older Intel models). I think 48 or 64 is the minimum nowadays if you want to do fairly heavy lifting. But I’ll be getting at least 128, bevause of the greater freedom to load up and not have to limit as much of what I’m working on at the same time. 

danox said:

tmay said:

waveparticle said:

Phony democracy freedom. 

Being lectured by you on "democracy freedom" is rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/02/tiktok-tells-european-users-its-staff-in-china-get-access-to-their-data

Enjoy the collapse of Xi's China, while the West looks in the rear view mirror.


That would be Russia definitely not China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Boh66Pjjiq0 The good a city the size of Austria with 32,000,000 million people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LArhIB_rVM The Average 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlu0bnlLIds    The Bad?

Vast infrastructure ….They ain’t going anywhere but Russia is.

TikTok may be gone in the US not the world, wishing China away isn’t going to work.

Decline is a tricky concept. The term makes us think of a country that is falling like a rock—one whose power and capabilities are dropping across the board. But a country can be in relative decline vis-à-vis a fast-growing adversary even if its own power is still increasing. It can be surging forward in some areas, such as military might, even as its underlying economic strength starts to wither. And decline doesn’t always lead a country to scale back its objectives—the sense of urgency it creates can cause ambitious powers to grab what they can before the clock runs out.

Xi Jinping’s China is about to give the world an education in the nuances of decline. Since the onset of its economic reforms in the 1970s, China has long defied predictions that it would soon stumble or collapse. Its spectacular growth challenged prevailing views about the sources of national success in the modern world. In some ways, China is still soaring: Its military power grows more formidable every year. When Xi declares that “the East is rising and the West is declining,” he gives voice to this sense that China is a country on the make.

Yet military power is often a lagging indicator of a country’s trajectory: It takes time to turn money into military muscle, and massive buildups often persist even after a country’s economic fortunes begin to flag. And today, for reasons including demographic disaster and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, China is facing the end of the stunning economic growth that made it possible for Xi to assert that the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” was at hand. The China of the 2020s will be a country whose coercive capabilities are more intimidating than ever as its economic dynamism fades. That could be the worst possible combination for the world

Half-Life 30

If a new study is to be believed, China could face a disastrous drop in its population within just 30 years.

China's aging population and decreasing birth rate have had its government on high alarm lately, with new census data revealing an even more significant drop in new births than expected, the South China Morning Post reports. Based on that data and an overall reluctance to have more kids, the country's population could be cut in half as soon as the year 2050, according to research published in the Journal of Xi'an University of Finance and Economics.

Urei1620 said:

tmay said:

That's why we can't have nice things in America; people as yourself are so upfront and proud of their misogynist behavior.

As a tall, white male with long fingers, I'm seeing a whole lot of white privilege in Bernie's ranks and that might be why he hasn't a chance in hell of winning the primary. I'm thinking that you are a better fit with Trump.

I just think that FBI needs to hurry up and close in on Hillary for running an insecure private email server to handle official email while She was Secretary of State, thus exposing classified information to foreign governments. She will be the first one to tell you that what Snowden did was wrong and he should be punished. The hypocrisy! She was also nailed on her Congressional hearing for Benghazi for covering up her negligent actions in response to the attack without sending help and her ridiculous explanation for a video causing Benghazi. She has the blood of 4 innocent, patriotic americans on her hands.If the DOJ wasn't so corrupt, she would have already been indicted.