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chucker

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#SoftwareDeveloper in 🇩🇪 #Bremen

Some #politics, some #tech (esp. #Mac), #StarTrek 🖖🏻, #music, occasional #photography, #Myst

I also develop a fork of #Mastonaut, a macOS native Mastodon client: https://github.com/chucker/Mastonaut

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subtle

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If the M4 benchmarks are true, 1) I find that quite surprising; nowhere did Apple seem to suggest that they touched the CPU compared to the M3 at all), and… 2) hey, a 13% per-clock performance increase, the first significant one since M1!

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@pmdj Geekbench 6 single-core results, but normalized to the same clock, and then generational improvements

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@pmdj base table:

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@pmdj regarding memory bandwidth, a single M1 Pro core did use ~102 GiB/s in this test: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performance-review/2 so an M4 core might be able to use more than that

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@pmdj Geekbench 6 doesn’t seem to clearly distinguish integer and fp results any more, so I’m left guessing which workloads are fp-heavy. HDR, probably?

https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf vs https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench6-benchmark-internals.pdf

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I see some US Target stores now lock… underwear?

“Yes um hi sorry this is embarrassing but I need, uh, deodorant”
(unlocks rack)
“Oh also, briefs”
(sighs, unlocks another cabinet)
“Uhhh errrr 😳 😓 also condoms”
(rolls eyes, unlocks that as well)

Oh and that’s before you go to the cashier. “Haha, you know, the essentials 🫠”

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Like… we lock hard alcohol (anyone could in theory fetch beer, although cashiers may ask kids for ID), and tobacco. That’s it, I think?

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nichts darf man mehr 😤

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Gefühlt 23,8% zu viel aber sure

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When your sleep was completely fucked but at least you got some work done and had some nice conversations with friends

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Article: 3 million Germans, or 5%, have never used the Internet

Me: are we sure they’re counting e-mail, Facebook, ticket vending machines, and increasingly even Internet-connected household items? I’m guessing a lot of them only consider the Web “the Internet”.

Two randos: “ackshually, none of my household items are connected” congrats, but you’re replying to me over the Internet, so you have zero relevance to my question??

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Deutsch ist, wenn zwischen Elektorat 🗳️ und Elektrorad 🔋🚲 nur zwei Buchstaben sind.

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The awful Fetterman take is bringing me a step closer to trying vegetarianism.

Perhaps that was his secret plan all along. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@marczak https://x.com/senfettermanpa/status/1786509165340357115

So, DeSantis signed a bill banning lab-grown meat. Fetterman remarked:

“Pains me deeply to agree with Crash-and-Burn Ron, but I co-sign this.

As a member of @SenateAgDems and as some dude who would never serve that slop to my kids, I stand with our American ranchers and farmers. 🇺🇸”

Then he posted a picture of a machine that produces it, with “this is the thing that makes lab meat”.

Weirdly populist.

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@marczak And also (intentionally?) ignorant of how regular meat gets made today

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Would you rather your therapist be a man or a bear?

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The Delta Flyers now has Shopify ads randomly interspersed. Not even a clean ad break. Nor an ad read. Just some AI-sounding voice. Ugh.

Hope that’s worth it for the actors?

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And the conversion rate must be brutal. Who listens to a podcast about Star Trek, suddenly hears some random voice talk about a web shop product very unexcitedly, and thinks, oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to give this a try.

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So is there any non-WebKit iOS browser in the EU yet?

I only care because there’s a chance it’ll handle Azure DevOps’s auth better?

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So in Swift, try! means “I’m confident the following will work; if it does not, crash”.

Similarly, in C#, someVar! means “I’m confident this isn’t going to be null; throw if I’m wrong”.

But in Dart, is! means “is not”.

The little inconsistencies between languages. 🫠

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@jamie_blumberg oof :)

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Q2 Mac revenues:

2024 $7.5B
2023 $7.2B
2022 $10.4B
2021 $9.1B
2020 $5.4B
2019 $5.5B
2018 $5.8B
2017 $5.8B
2016 $5.0B
2015 $5.6B
2014 $5.5B
2013 $5.4B
2011 $5.1B

COVID bump (an outlier) aside, still doing better than ever.

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Hey Siri how am I going to listen to all that

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