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> enable multiple interpreters in a single process.

CPython (the default interpreter) has had support for multiple interpreters in the same process since 1997, but it has only been exposed to the C API, and not in the language itself. Python 3.10, coming out later this year, will expose multiple interpreters in one process (subinterpreters, see PEP 554 [1]).

I'm excited about what could eventually come out of this. If there is one GIL per interpreter, we could have something like the `multiprocessing` library for parallel execution, but all within one process.

1 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/

The most common results on this page indicate that it varies with buffer size, but could be 9-11 ms for iPhones. https://superpowered.com/latency

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>Apple will liberally use an already-known VR technique that involves using eye-tracking to render objects in the user's periphery at a lower fidelity than what the user is focusing on.

This seems to be describing foveated rendering, which is reducing the image quality in your peripheral vision, because you are less likely to notice it there. It requires tracking where the eye to so you know what part of the screen the eye is looking at.

The RTX 3090 is likely rendering the whole 8k screen at a consistent quality level, whereas foveated rendering would mean that only the part of the display that the eye is actually focused on would be rendered at full quality. If Apple could pull off the tracking well enough (accurately, with low latency), they could probably save a lot of GPU power by lowering render quality outside of what you're looking at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_rendering

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Everything described in the article sounds exactly like some of the Virtex*-FX products from more than 10 years ago.

For instance, the Virtex4-FX had either one or two 450MHz PowerPC coresembedded in it, where you could implement 8 of your own additional instructions in the FPGA. This is effectively now a CPU where you can extend the instruction set, and design your own instructions specific to your application. For example, you might make special instructions using the onboard logic to accelerate video compression, or math operations; I know of one application that was designed to do a 4x4 matrix multiply per cycle.

https://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/virtex-4-fx-ser... https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/data_sheets/ds1...

Introduce a ceiling on the total amount of federally subsidized student loans that a person can get in a year. The ceiling steps down every year, until the loans have completely gone down. Start the first ceiling 2 years from now, so students and institutions have time to plan for the change, and complete the phaseout 8 years from now. That's how I'd do it.

As for how you would do it, you'd have to convince your congressional representative that reform is worth doing, and is worth the inevitable political cost to them. Making loans somewhat harder to get will inevitably make universities upset with the politicians (as universities are the ones that actually receive the bulk of the financial benefit from these loans). For this reason, I see this reform as unlikely to happen, at least as I described it. You would have to pair it with more direct funding for universities.

The Huawei Mate 40 came out two months ago, and uses the Hisilicon Kirin 9000, which is also on TSMC's 5nm. It has about 30% more transistors and a higher clockspeed than the A14.

> A significant portion of Apple's lead came from buying exclusivity on TSMC's 5nm process

It's hard to estimate how much of Apple's advantage came from the 5nm process, but we can get a guess by comparing the A13 and A14. One of the biggest differences between last year's A13 and this year's A14 is the 5nm process (vs 7nm+). The performance increase seems to be on the order of 15% [1], and Apple was able to fit in a lot more transistors- 11.8B vs. 8.5B, though we don't know how many of those transistors were spent on the CPU, and how many were spent in other areas like the GPU or ISP.

Seems like the additional transistors and lower power consuption were used to increase performance in a bunch of ways- higher clock speeds, more cache, and a bigger reorder buffer being the obvious improvements. Perhaps AMD can pull off a similar improvement when they switch processes.

[1] Spec2006 numbers from https://www.anandtech.com/show/16192/the-iphone-12-review/2

Site appears down- is there a mirror?

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That's $11.47 per month, per customer. Slightly over 10% of current pricing.

> Funding is distributed over 10 years, so SpaceX's haul will amount to a little over $88.5 million per year.

A geometric mean might make more sense in this situation.

> The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 is a United States federal law that prohibits U.S. citizens and entities from bribing foreign government officials to benefit their business interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act

Lufthansa A340s have the downstairs toilets as well.

I've been sending my computer audio to my Homepod Mini every day since I got it this week. Can the full sized Homepod not do this?

The 2 second delay is annoying, but doesn't really have a big impact for music.

In the US, you have even longer during the holiday period:

> Items purchased at the Apple Online Store that are received between 10 November and 25 December 2020 may be returned up to 8 January 2021.

https://www.apple.com/shop/help/returns_refund

> GitHub recommends using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories.

https://github.community/t/using-one-account-for-all-your-pr...

They look to both be almost exactly the same size- 3.9 inches in diameter.

Echo Dot: 100 x 100 x 89 mm HomePod Mini: 98 x 98 x 84mm

Perhaps users in one of the accepted countries might be willing to pay for the review as a way of supporting the plugin? I definitely would be willing to contribute (directly / indirectly) to support review of plugins that I use.

> they're not exactly on the top of most tourists' list

Turkey is the #6 most visited country in the world, and Vietnam is also a popular tourist destination (#27 on the first list I found).

My understanding is that it changes the toe of the front wheels, and is used to slightly increase speed on straight sections.

There are rules limiting what can control the steering / suspension components of a car, and that's one of the reasons why this is controlled by pushing/pulling on the steering wheel rather than something else.

The chip's responses are how the iPhone knows what device / cable type is connected to the port- at least that's what I understand from this.

  one can’t run an x86 OS on an ARM architecture

This is the limitation. There is an ARM version of Windows, but the comments from Microsoft don't sound terribly promising:

  “Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to OEMs. We have nothing further to share at this time.” [1]

And Apple has more firmly stated that this won't be an option:

  “We’re not direct booting an alternate operating system,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. “Purely virtualization is the route. These hypervisors can be very efficient, so the need to direct boot shouldn’t really be the concern.” [1]

1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...

Isn't this the Verge's summary of the Bloomberg article from Mark Gurman? Why not link to the original article?

A used 150/152.

If you have a personal paid account ("Pro"), the pricing page now says "Continue with Team". It looks like "Pro" has been renamed to "Team".

I regularly have complaints that people can't hear me over my laptop's fan when using slack video conferencing, or jokes about hair driers. Computer is a MBP16.

Seems like they need to get their CPU use under control.

Very cool work! I just manually implemented this in a python script.

Does it support other platforms? Will it run on Linux?

If the cloud is full, will it rain?

I have no idea what you're talking about. What is MF?