Web Excursions 2021-10-25
John Siracusa’s discussion re M1 Pro/Max design
[Originally posted in May when the initial batch of rumors became available]
Apple's marketing diagram of the M1 SoC does NOT accurately represent the floor plan of the chip
Jade-C: The building block for Pro Mac SoCs.
Jade C-Die: The building block for Pro Mac SoCs • 8 high-perf cores • 2 high-efficiency cores • 32 GPU cores
Jade C-Chop: Jade-C minus 16 GPU cores Jade 2C-Die: Two Jade C chips in a package Jade 4C-Die: Four Jade C chips in a package
HN discussions re the abuse of tweet threads
mattowen_uk:
Why DO people insist on posting essays as 1,001 tweets!? The mind boggles.
dredmorbius:
It's where the audience is.
Sometimes ... tootstorms just happen.
It is ... remarkably like posting a public Zettelkasten. In particular, there are often responses to specific items on a thread and those themselves can prove revealing.
A huge issue with traditional "single entity" documents (books, essays, even longish HN comments as I'm wont to produce...) is that responses tend to be either to the thing-as-a-whole or some irrelevant point.
One of the hardest things to get as an author is specific feedback to a given passage of writing, and for all its many, many faults, the tootstream format cracks open that shell.
That feedback may highlight well-written bits, poorly-written ones (where readers repeatedly misinterpret authors' intent), salient or poorly-supported facts and logic, etc.
My usual platform for this is Mastodon, and I've posted a number of longer tootstorms (using the Mastodon nomenclature rather than "tweets"), searchable via hashtag from my present and previous instance
twic:
It's the only popular publishing platform that permits true hypertext features such as nonlinear text, and comments on and transclusion of individual paragraphs of a post.