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New comment by philistine in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

philistine — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:34:23 +0000

Apple has long term contracts for every part that goes in the most complex supply chain on the planet. Do you think they call their suppliers every morning asking for 2 million chips?

Their price increases were a mixture of absorbing some of the increase and passing what they won't on us.

New comment by philistine in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

philistine — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:09:07 +0000

as a mac user who does suffer from the insanity of compiled for Mac, but never tested on a Mac, thank you.

New comment by philistine in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"

philistine — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:54:38 +0000

The thing is Apple designs its own ARM cores. They don't use the vibrant ecosystem of ARM for all the important parts of the CPU; they compete with it on their own and manage to win. They only pay a small amount per device for an architecture licence that's very generous for Apple, in large part because Apple was an initial seed investor and first customer of ARM.

If all the current investments in ARM don't suffice to beat Apple's own efforts, I don't see how they could ever need to use RiscV's community to achieve their goals.

As long as ARM keeps the architecture up-to-date and the fees minimal, Apple's staying.

New comment by philistine in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

philistine — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:13:32 +0000

Those two resistors cost money. It's not incompetence. It's a deliberate choice.

New comment by philistine in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

philistine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:12:18 +0000

That’s why I love the Nova.app model. You pay for a year of releases, but if you unsubscribe you keep the latest version when your subscription was active.

It’s the best/worst of both worlds!

New comment by philistine in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

philistine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:23:13 +0000

I was asked to do that in my hometown with a girl I had never met before. It’s not only tourists, and it’s not only in foreign places.

BTW, that girl had to be 5% handsy with me to sell the lie, and when I met her real boyfriend that same night, he pretended to be royally pissed for five seconds and I was so scared. He laughed it off. Good guy.

New comment by philistine in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

philistine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:19:47 +0000

Yes, invented much later, but the expression of a different power structure that those types of Romans felt was not present. But to our modern eyes it was. Hell, the mere fact the centre of power was in Constantinople and not Rome is proof enough that they were distinct.

New comment by philistine in "ChatGPT Work"

philistine — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:39:18 +0000

The best of Microsoft's naming schemes, now coming to your LLM chatbot.

New comment by philistine in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

philistine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:22:30 +0000

Apple now designs its own modems, and its TSMC that fabs them. OP is asking if Broadcom might start fabbing those modems. This is not the case here, but you seem to ignore the fact Apple is a modem designer now.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:43:28 +0000

It’s not literally the map of the game: it’s about what the player can do.

A square means total freedom. A star means freedom to choose guarded experiences with internal choices.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:19:35 +0000

Microsoft's executives lacked time to be hands-on with every acquisition. They were very involved in the decision process at the big studios, and the favoured children, but left the smaller studios without enough input.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:16:32 +0000

Game Pass' finances ignored the one true thing about streaming services: they weren't going after the people buying DVDs, they were going after the people paying for cable.

Cable subscribers did not exist in gaming, and so Game Pass is stuck stealing Xbox's own customers. It just doesn't add up.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:14:18 +0000

Nintendo finally implemented a modern update system that installs the new version in a new volume, reboots you into that volume, and deletes the old one once booted.

It's why it's so fast. The work happened before you pressed update.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:06:14 +0000

Nope. There are no new levels on 3DS.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:02:04 +0000

The previously unreleased Starfox 2 is not a retelling, it is a proper story sequel. That is the one game where you're wrong, every single other game is a remake, with Starfox Zero the most tenuous one, but still a reimagining. They've remade the same story five times.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:59:46 +0000

Metroid has more duds than hits. Metroid Prime 4 is par for the course for the franchise.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:57:11 +0000

Pokopia and Tomodatchi only look like sandboxes at first glance. They are far more directed. They're not a perfect square with you in the middle. They're a star shape with you in the middle.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:53:52 +0000

Console generations are a cultural construct. And just like the bit wars of the 90s, they are cultural constructs that cannot explain the current situation.

We have not left the PS4 era. Both Sony and Microsoft use modern CPU and GPU in the PS5/Xbox Series that can 100% replicate the previous console. They use the exact same online store, ushering in a modern era where old devices will lose access to the store, but the store's never gonna close. All of this makes the use of generations to describe console gaming obsolete. We don't talk about generations in phones, or laptops. Same thing with gaming.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:47:08 +0000

> near launch

How can you say that? No credible reporting has proven that there ever will be a version of GTA 6 on a disc. The physical versions that are announced will all consist of a one-time code.

New comment by philistine in "Resetting Xbox"

philistine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:39:36 +0000

The fact that electricity was quickly commoditized does not guarantee that AWS will commoditize.