@reedbeta@mcc The thing is I hear this stuff about literally every single sort of laptop, including Macs.
I once got off a plane, reached for my bag and almost scalded myself because the MacBook inside had apparently been running its fans at full speed the whole way. Literally too hot to touch.
So I think it's just a tradition or an old charter or something?
@mcc I thought the "10 core" Intels were a bit goofy-sounding - it's 2 big proper cores (2 threads each), plus 8 little ones (single-threaded, max out about 1.8GHz?). I mean how useful could those little cores be?
But actually they're REALLY FAST. What happens is if you do have multithreaded workloads, you get limited by memory bandwidth, not clock speed, so the small cores are surprisingly useful.
Please do not talk about the specifics of patents in social media!
Patent damages are 3x higher for knowing violation, versus unknowing violation. So if you broadcast the details of a patent, and the court decides that I read those details, even just while doomscrolling, now I (or rather my employer) have to pay 3x as much. The only sensible course of action for me is to MUTE YOU. And maybe you don't want that.
So moan about patents all you want. They suck! But don't say what's in them.
@lanodan@a13cui@cwebber I'm not sure broadening the definition of GC to include manual malloc/free is particularly productive though. All you've done is redefine the words "garbage collection" so broadly that it now means nothing.