It depends on your wiring but I've had pretty good success with AV2000 powerline ethernet. I get about 400Mbps and a reliable 2ms ping which is good enough for gaming and streaming from my media center.
The endpoint in my living room also has a wifi AP so signal is pretty good for laptops and whatnot.
In NYC every channel is congested, I can see like 25 access points at any time and half are poorly configured. Any wired medium is better than the air, I could probably propagate a signal through the drywall that's more reliable than wifi here.
So having something I can just plug into the wall is pretty nice compared to running cables even if it's a fraction of gigE standards.
The current generation has a massive leap in storage speed but games need to be architected to stream that much data into RAM.
Cyberpunk is a good example of a game that straddled the in between, many of it's performance problems on the PS4 were due to constrained serialization speed.
Nanite and games like FF16 and Death Stranding 2 do a good job of drawing complex geometry and textures that wouldn't be possible on the previous generation
Nanite has a performance overhead for simple scenes but will render large, complex scenes with high-quality models much more efficiently, providing a faster and more stable framerate.
It’s also completely optional in Unreal 5. You use it if it’s better. Many published UE5 games don’t use it.
It’s annoying that Asus is shipping 14” laptops with 75Wh batteries while the Framework 13 maxes out at 61Wh and doesn’t use LPDDR. On the other hand, it’s annoying ASUS doesn’t ship models with more ram.
It’s also annoying that the latest Intel/AMD Zenbooks don’t offer a non-PWM IPS panel screen option. The OLED panels they use apparently bother some people at low brightness settings with flickering and of course there’s the usual longevity concerns with the technology.
Which was already the case at that time, with Blackberry, Palm and HTC dominating that market using Intel XScale.
Intel tried to corner that market by deviating from ARM with their custom MMX architecture. It worked with Windows PocketPC as a OS-supplier, but HW-vendors with their own OS didn't want to limit their supply-chain to a single CPU-platform.
But yes, their belief in x86 being superior surely clouded their judgement on XScale's future potential
And they would have been just as shitty as the Blackberry. Hell, even Google had to go back to the drawing board with their Android prototype because they still thought a physical keyboard on a phone was king....right until they caught a glimpse of the first iPhone.
i loved the blackberry keyboard and would take it anytimes over this fucking iphone keyboard. The iphone keyboard is a step backwards. people like haptic feedback.
The middle of the bell curve, which dominates the market, has a need for drool-proof interfaces that many of the sort who frequent HN and similar interest communities do not.
Scotland was around 35 degrees latitude and the Jurassic period was fairly warm compared to now (tropical plants are found up to 60 degrees latitude) so it’s unlikely there was a winter to hibernate through.
However there was significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere back then. There could be a metabolic component related to that since absorbing O2 was probably easier.
AMD and Apple tried to push OpenCL but the design of it, a C-like kernel compiled to the GPU with LLVM and managed by the Khronos consortium, tended to lag in absolute performance to CUDA which was able to take advantage of evolutions in GPU design more closely.
The feature lag wasn't the problem, the bugs were the problem: the only reliable OpenCL implementation was the one from Nvidia, but this meant it tended to drive people towards Nvidia rather than steal them away.
"Hey Khronos, can we tweak the OpenCL spec to be even more restrictive and higher-level, then rebrand it under our proprietary 'Metal' architecture so we can license it out to our competitors?"
"...no, but you could expand on OpenCL or Vulkan compute if you wanted. There are other spec stakeholders, we can't give you carte-blanche control, Apple."
"Why do you insist upon mismanaging the industry's APIs? Screw you guys!" <Beginning of mid 2010s "Khronos Drought" at Apple Computers>
The endpoint in my living room also has a wifi AP so signal is pretty good for laptops and whatnot.
In NYC every channel is congested, I can see like 25 access points at any time and half are poorly configured. Any wired medium is better than the air, I could probably propagate a signal through the drywall that's more reliable than wifi here.
So having something I can just plug into the wall is pretty nice compared to running cables even if it's a fraction of gigE standards.