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alwayssmh··on Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing
no mention of their recent faults too... (https://www.reuters.com/article/airbus-zephyr-idUSKBN26J0NU)
alwayssmh··on A sharp-eyed scientist became biology’s image detective
makes me sad to read that there are so many bad actors out there in the biology scientific community. hope she continues what she does - what a great service to the community and she seems to be bootstrapping everything herself.
alwayssmh··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
possibly yes due to how it now sits closer to the cpu and other components. Utilization is also different.

See: https://www.howtogeek.com/701804/how-unified-memory-speeds-u...

the current concern is how all these impact SSD(harddisk) life and health due to how swap memory is managed. It may be the reason why Apple priced such a breakthrough technology so competitively.

alwayssmh··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
because of the fundamental difference in architecture, one should not compare ram size of an intel based mac against the ram of a M1 based mac.

it's like comparing fuel tank sizes between two cars when one of them has a much more fuel efficient engine.

alwayssmh··on Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
i don't recall such support when msft was launching arm based laptops. does anyone have insight to why this is so? is it a case of apple developer relations doing an outstanding job engaging with the community?