Comment How does the blood pressure monitor work? (Score 1) 53
Pressure cuffs are typical for upper arm blood pressure monitors. How does that work in a watch?
Pressure cuffs are typical for upper arm blood pressure monitors. How does that work in a watch?
No.
May I suggest Theodore Adorno? Hannah Arendt? Walter Benjamin? Siegfried Kracauer?
I know. I can _suggest_ it.
lol
Opinionated much?
Trump and his cronies incited an insurrection against the US Capital with MAGA kooks setting up a gallows outside while chanting, "Hang Mike Pence!" They brought in armed militia members, some of whom were seen holding rings of zip ties. Some were heard calling for Nanci Pelosi and saying they planned, "to put a bullet in her brain". All this to prevent a legal certification of the official electoral college vote.
That's not just opinion, it was broadcast live. Along with Parler and Facebook videos collected from the inside. They didn't disappear. Those records were saved via a data breach. And they ain't going away. Hundreds have already been charged in the attack. Some, already convicted.
If you were in any way involved, your time will come in due course. As former SDNY Prosecutor Glenn Kirchner says, "Justice will be served." Will a big fat F for Felony conviction.
You ever see a company where so many of the Sr Leadership leave en masse? Yeah, when they form a competitor. Regardless, expect more resignations. This ain't done. May the founders go bust and their investors lose a fortune. That'd be a lesson learned.
I switched FROM MacOS. Which I've been using since I switched from Linux to MacOS X in 2003. And yes, it's Affinity Photo. Typo.
Apparently 1/3 of the company, including those in Sr. Leadership positions disagree with your assessment.
Surely even a supposed self-unaware purveyor of unfact such as yourself knows this came about over a list of racist and absuive names marketing made of their own customer base. That the founders only chose to limit 'political speech' when it interfered with their own political messaging in the company and in public. That the policy creates a confusing morass of what speech is and isn't allowed, and can really only be settled ad-hoc based on what the founders want talked about in the moment. In other words, an utterly crazy-making demand that issues be discussed unless they are not to be discussed, in which case STFU.
I'm guessing he's never read any CritTheory too.
Let the company fester without qualified employees. Let the CEO piss away all institutional knowledge within in order to pursue his "anti-woke" agenda. Let the company go broke and declare bankruptcy. The "anti-politics" policy here isn't about suppressing political speech, it's about suppressing discontent over terrible management. May you one day never live in the "anti-woke" dystopia you promote. For it is tyranny.
Linux works great for Davinci Resolve 17.1, Blender, and a host of other creative tools. Inkscape is remarkably good, for instance. And while I'm not going to defend GIMP as some great FOSS alternative to Ps, you can mostly match Ps if you mix it with Krita. GIMP has good selection tools and fantastic snapping guidelines support. But it's layers panel is a mess and it doesn't support nondestructive adjustment layers. Krita lacks tools but has real nondestructive adjustment layers and nondestructive layerstyles. So, by moving assets back and forth it's possible to match Ps. Except for mesh deformation via the puppet tool. That has to go off either to OpenToonz or Blender to match that feature.
It's an incredible PITA and I don't doubt Ps and Infinity Photo folks would snort at the hassle of it. But if you want off Windows, it's possible to get image editing work done that way. Still no path for cmyk print output though. After over twenty years.
Wouldn't it be nice to pay their employees for the home office space employees need to properly work?
Good question. I'm arguing with that by cutting the clock divisor it wouldn't need branch prediction logic. But you got me. I only know the marketing images of the chip die and other press materials. I haven't seen internal technical specs of the processor. I don't believe such material is even public. All we know is that it implements at least a standard ARM instruction set. But if I'm wrong, I'd love a correction.
I'd add, with a fast enough interconnect, they could cut back on on-chip cache too. If memory serves, the AMD interconnect runs at the speed of the memory bus. Typically 1gz or so. That's with DDR RAM bound to a bus across the motherboard, with long traces. Put RAM in the CPU package with cm or less trace lengths and I bet it could go at least 1/2 CPU clock. Maybe better.
This is where I'm guessing the main performance boost comes from.
If I was AMD, I might consider a Threadripper package with embedded RAM chips and a memory bus. Could be used for cache. Or as fast ram with flags and instructions to choose fast or slow ram for a thread. And if I was Intel, I'd something stupid like try to burn it all on one chip using a foundry two generations behind the competition.
But again, I got no insight into what any of these guys are really doing on the inside.
32GB RAM is now a minimal configuration for a desktop. Most new workstations I see are now 128GB. Some, 64 cores with 256GB of RAM, and two or three GPUs. If Apple really does migrate off Intel, they will entirely cede the pro market. Because it's not possible to cram that much RAM on a chiplette package. And once they move RAM off to a system bus, their Apple processors will lose the performance benefit of bolting RAM on and cutting the clock divisor. They'll also have to add branch prediction. And they'll be in exactly the same boat Intel and AMD remain in.
Even a 32GB M2 machine with eGPU by Thunderbolt still isn't enough for the pro market. Maybe Apple retains some cutting and compositing workflow, but those hardware limitations and lack of expandability make the machines utterly unsuitable for the rest. And integration matters. You want as much of that pipeline to integrate together with the same scripts and binaries. You want to know that one frame rendered here will render exactly the same over there with no visible artifacts.
I don't see a path for Apple in the pro market if they migrate off x86. Or better said, if they can't match x86 performance and expandability simultaneously.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
