Konrad Kołakowski

iOS apps & game developer, solo army of @OneMinuteGames. Also interested in retro computing and other stuff 🤓 Also here:

[Konrad Kołakowski @vashpan]

@exQUIZitely Seeing Railroad Tycoon I always have a feeling that Civilization was based on that codebase/engine - same terrain rendering, UI, color scheme, even terrain tiles were similar 🤓

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@SebAaltonen @VaibhavSisinty We can extend it a bit though as A-series iPhone and iPad chips had this architecture before.

M1 was not designed from scratch, it's basically an A14X - an evolution from previous A12X used on iPad Pro 2018 - it was even used in Mac mini dev-kit

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@LuftkoppTim @VadimYuryev This is definitely not the same - memory is still unified. There's no split between CPU & GPU memory.

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@p779010 @prywatnik W kwestii hardware'u DO uruchamiania lokalnego AI? A no tak że ludzie wykupili Maki Studio z dużą ilością RAM'u (i ich po prostu nie ma dostępnych) i Maki mini których używali do odpalania lokalnych agentów 😅

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@SmallBaguette @Sosowski Yes that's correct of course

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@Sosowski Yeah, sorry 😕

I've indeed read more about it and couldn't really believed that ARM Windows PCs are locked like that 😳 Even Apple don't do that on their ARM Macs.

I hope nothing is determined for this new nVidia platform though.

[Michal Mynarski @M_Mynarski]

trochę cyferek:
- CPU: N1x jest na poziomie podstawowego, ponad dwuletniego M3 (SP i MP score via GB6),
- GPU: tutaj ciężej ocenić, ale 5090 na baterii śmiga podobnie do M5Max, tyle, że w przypadku N1X będzie współdzielić die i TDP, ciężko więc będzie utrzymać podobną moc, nie gotując laptopa,
- pamięć: połowa tego co oferuje M5Max.

Czyli na jesień może będziecie mogli kupić sprzęt na windowsie (z warstawą translacji z x86), który specowo już jest słabszy od tego co jest dostępne na półce u konkurencji.

Już dziś możecie sobie zamówić od Apple sprzęt, który będzie generował ~2x tyle TPS na 20-30B modelu, co prawdopodobnie zaoferuje N1X.

Pytanie otwarte i trochę retoryczne: ile znacie osób, które używa lokalnie puszczanego modelu do codziennej pracy?

ps: nvidia architekturę rdzeni do N1X licencjonuje od ARM, bo brak im know-how. Apple robi swoją in-house od czasu Apple A6, czyli... iPhone'a 5 :))

[Konrad Kołakowski @vashpan]

@Dziki59667847 @stats_feed Na dole posta jest napisane na jakiej to podstawie

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@krzyzanowskim Yep, I was able to get ex-display model M4 iPad Pro just slightly more expensive than 256GB M4 iPad Air - while getting thinner design, much better screen, speakers etc, itd.

It had just 8 cycles of battery!

One downside - I had to replace the Magic Keyboard 💀

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@RetroTechChris @Roobar_Plays In theory it should run almost all Win 3.x apps + some early Win32 ones, all that while being way more stable.

IMO if someone wants just 3.x UI and wouldn't need much DOS, that would be it 😎

[Konrad Kołakowski @vashpan]

@RetroTechChris To be honest - I would genuinely would like to know from those power word processing users - what was missing in Word 97 🧐

And make some comparison between it and modern solutions like newer Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, LibreOffice etc.

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@wkurzak86 @Ravcio55 Ale chyba najnowszy Pixel 10 nie jest połowę tańszy od najnowszego iPhone'a 17? 🧐

A w momencie premiery oficjalna cena była w zasadzie identyczna

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@peter0x44 @camiloDelCodigo Would this "lite" version support older systems? 🧐 Full current mingw I think doesn't support "even" Windows XP

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@davepl1968 You can also just make a release build and distribute outside of the AppStore 😉

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@camsoft2000 There’s "low power mode" - which should throttle your P-cores a little bit and lower general TDP of the chip.

But in general - yes - Apple put a but more power to get even more performance out of the chips - but I think they did a good balance after all 🧐

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@jayleaton @camsoft2000 There're no fans on M-based MacBook Airs 😅

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@Dimillian @krzyzanowskim Which is sometimes INSANE - 10s of gigabytes of derived data only to... rebuild it again almost every time I open the project or rebuild it from command line 🤷‍♂️

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@Dimillian @krzyzanowskim Of course I'm nowhere near such usage - and truly can't even imagine that with my workflow yet.

It's also not that easy to "fix" - Swift is simply quite complex language to compile - especially type checking. What could be definitely improved is a build system and Xcode caching