Ian Littman / is on Nostr

Code/infra/tech-lead mercenary. Mod/infra @ phpc.social, co-organizer Longhorn PHP (npub1l8c…cget) and MergePHP (npub1slg…s683), co-maintainer at Joind.in, 🤎 Tiffany (npub18cf…9kx8)

GitHub: https://github.com/iansltx
Location: Austin, TX
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2024-11-25 23:06:05

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Hanging over into the stripey bits is on-brand too.

2024-11-07 20:46:20

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I'm planning on presenting somewhere about Golang, and will make sure that that presentation winds up online as well.

2024-10-12 15:18:25

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Given that .NET is going to generally go all NG with Windows envs (even though the runtime is cross platform these days), of the two I'd go with Flutter.

2024-04-08 22:50:32

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oh right, that thing

2024-04-08 21:53:29

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Wait hol' up they actually connected to sat? Maybe AST or Starlink were doing testing er sum'n.

2024-03-26 20:11:32

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I mean, you *do* have literally the lowest-end Apple Silicon Mac, and it sounds like it's the passively cooled one, so your max TDP is 10W, and that'll trail off a bit for anything sustained. Comparing to a machine with thermal headroom ain't a fair fight, and Macs that have the headroom do perform better.
If you got a current gen Windows box with a 15W CPU you'd wind up in the same situation.

2024-03-26 19:30:58

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You still haven't told me what mac you're benchmarking against ;)
The reality distortion field is still real, but...some of them are actually solid machines. Not leagues ahead of PCs perf wise but depending on form factor and such may be better. One fun trick is gaming on battery for more than 30 minutes ;)

2024-03-26 18:39:03

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"But Apple doesn't have anything with dedicated GPUs anymore"...okay, so you're saying that Apple no longer has gear that's comparable to Wintel...er...Winvidia gear. Which is a completely fair thing to point out.

2024-03-26 18:37:55

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So...which Apple Silicon chip in which machine?
If you're comparing a fanless M1 (max TDP for the SoC is like 10W) to something that has a power budget 10x that for the GPU alone...yes, something with the power budget around that of an IGP is not gonna fare as well.
And if you are indeed comparing an M1, that's two generations old at this point.
Is Apple Silicon overhyped? In some cases, yes. But make sure you're comparing it to a comparable thing.

2024-03-26 17:19:04

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You're comparing a stock M1 to a dedicated GPU pulling 100+ watts?

2024-03-26 14:26:36

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nope

2024-03-26 04:22:31

How to cause an #LLM to hallucinate: ask it which phones support n70 (the #5G band).
"The Galaxy S22 supports n70"
lol no it very much does not, #Gemma 7B.