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elijahg said:

mcdave said:

loopless said:

HPC runs on Intel. Software vendors are slow to move in this field as it isn’t a simple recompile to run on Apple silicon. Apple would need to show a massive performance advantage…

What proportion of Macs are sold into this market?

It used to be surprisingly high. A large proportion of scientific software runs on Macs. That it until Apple essentially abandoned HPC users with the trash can, plus the 7 year gap between Mac Pro updates. Bit like the abandonment of Macs when Apple tried to force FCPX on editors, and then dropped Shake. Apple’s unreliability and penchant for dropping software titles isn’t something businesses can rely on with long term investments in hardware and staff. So they have gone elsewhere. The BBC’s editing was almost all on Macs until the FCP fiasco. Now it’s Avid on PC. 

lkrupp said:

So, are Russian cyber warriors better than the U.S. Cyber Command? Or are we doing the same thing to our enemies? Of course if we were we’d never heard about it I guess. The alleged joint effort by the U.S. and Israel created Stuxnet that caused Iranian nuclear centrifuges to self-destruct. We did hear about that.

In either event the western democracies seem helpless in the face of these attacks.

And enough of the bullshit of refusing to update your devices because of fear, some goofball app not working, general hesitancy to update. You know, like getting vaccinated.