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Comment Re:Say no to emulation, bridges, etc. (Score 2) 37

Errr no. There are insanely minor hardware accelerations at play here. Virtually all of the translation on the M series is handled by Rosetta 2 - a software emulation layer.

By "minor", since the M1 was released, it routinely beats Intel machines even on x86 software. While the M series is handled by Rosetta, all M chips have some hardware translation. That is pretty much a fact you are unwilling to acknowledge.

Context matters, ARM gaming is insanely niche, far more niche than Linux gaming providing the context includes recognising that tapping on a touch screen is not "gaming".

Sure if your denialism wants to ignore that mobile gaming is twice as large as PC gaming in terms of revenue. In fact PC at 22% of the market would be considered "niche" compared to mobile and then consoles. Which processor does most mobile gaming support: ARM. How much of mobile gaming is x86: nearly 0%.

The reality is if you create a game you want to reach the target audience, that is Windows x86. Many people consider the border of "niche" to be some 15% of market adoption. .

Only in your unwillingness to recognize a market worth $103B in 2025 compared to PC's $39.9B. But what are facts?

ARM currently is 0.0 fuckall% of the gaming market

Only in your No True Scotsman arguments and denialism. ARM represents more than 55% of the gaming market. You however will never admit it.

Comment Re:Say no to emulation, bridges, etc. (Score 1) 37

You don't have a choice of one or the other. You usually have a choice of one or nothing.

There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.

Making native games for niche platforms is not worth the time and investment of developers.

I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.

Comment Re:John Gruber is thrilled (Score 1) 29

(Personally, I think anyone who would go to work for Zuckerberg/Meta is someone I'm glad is not remaining at Apple. "Don't let the door hit you on the way out.")

If Zuckerberg rolled a truck full of money to my house to change jobs, I wouldn't say no. I would however take the attitude of Peter Gibbons from Office Space though: Cleaning fish at my desk, etc.

Comment Re:Quality Work Can't Be Rushed (Score 1) 125

by the time they wanted to switch to EUV, they had already fired most of the old white men, based on diversity quotas and salary, which would be able to execute the switch, and they got stuck with the quartz mask absorbing too much of the light.

Citation needed. While I don't doubt Intel got rid of older workers, the main reason is that newer, younger workers are cheaper. The fact they were old white men is more an artifact of the system where Intel hired mostly white men to be engineers decades ago.

Comment This is stupid. (Score 1) 73

This is exactly end to end encryption, and the so-called "security researcher" appears to have no idea what he is talking about. So:

Mr. Fondrie-Teitler, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Comment Re:What I love about Git ... (Score 1) 67

... is that it's a protocol designed and built by someone who knew what he was doing (Linus Torwalds) resulting, among other things, in the fact that migrating your upstream Git repo away from a commercial service like Github takes something like 20 seconds, if you're having a slow day.

The difficulty of migrating away from Github is when you've built your entire deploy pipeline and QA process around it, which is what a lot of companies are doing lately.

Comment Re:Wassa matter China? (Score 1) 87

More cylinders does make for a smoother engine without complex harmonic dampening, which the Japanese have decades of experience in doing exceptional at.

There was a big scandal about smooth submarine motion during the cold war. Toshiba makes the quietest refrigerator I've ever heard (42 db iirc). Can't hear it in the next room.

Comment Re:My honda does that now (Score 4, Informative) 235

Trucks, including the light trucks sold to consumers, are a separate category in DAFE. You don't average trucks in with cars.

It literally says in the very first sentence of the government page on CAFE: "NHTSA's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards regulate how far our vehicles must travel on a gallon of fuel. NHTSA sets CAFE standards for passenger cars and for light trucks (collectively, light-duty vehicles), and separately sets fuel consumption standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and engines."

How did this blatant misinformation get marked as "Informative", I'll never know..

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