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wosmo t1_ja2sr20 wrote

Reply to comment by 8NAL_LOVER in How old is the ISS REALLY? by gwplayer1

I read that if relativity wasn't corrected for, GPS would accumulate an error of 10km per day. Seeing those nanoseconds translated into the functional accuracy we depend upon, really his this home for me.

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wosmo t1_j6bwxvs wrote

not that I've heard of. I only recognise it because I gave my K8 a silicone pour to give it more heft and less of a hollow sound - and it looked exactly the same as this, even down to the lumps for the two switches (mac/pc and bt/usb) and the gap for usb-c at the far end.

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wosmo t1_itlz90g wrote

That makes it look like "Irish" was intended as a colourway. Within that description, there's no rhyme or rhythm between where they use layout(colours) and colours(layout).

But then they also call US-ANSI "normal english", so .. the idea that anyone would learn layout names from that is worrying.

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wosmo t1_itjjorb wrote

I'm not sure it'd work out. A lot of what makes M1 work is having everything on the same fabric. It gives them awesome memory bandwidth, unity memory so the gpu properly shares the cpu's ram, giving zero transfer time, etc. A lot of the gains come from architecture that wouldn't survive being taken off the SoC package.

That said, I'd love to be proven wrong, because competition is good.

(On the down side, it's also why we're unlikely going to see replaceable RAM - taking it off the chiplets would take it off the fabric, and lose that bandwidth. Best-case scenario is the on-package RAM and the replaceable RAM would work on different tiers, making the on-package RAM the mother of all caches.)

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