#Geograph Picture of the Day #POTD from the #Windsor area, #England 2008
#motorway #M4 #phantomjam #traffic #photography Https://geograph.org.uk/p/800463
Free to share – please credit Andrew Smith/Geograph
A Phantom Jam or traffic wave is a bunching phenomenon, caused when cars start slowing to avoid tailgating. See also https://www.livescience.com/61862-why-phantom-traffic-jams-happen.html
@Aqsaqal celebrating his latest PragProg release -
Seven Obscure Languages in Seven Weeks
Let seven older, obscure languages open your eyes to new ways of thinking about programming, and change the way you code today.
http://pragprog.com/titles/dzseven
#Forth #Occam #APL #Simula #SNOBOL #Starset #m4 #7in7
*The speed is largely due to the increased single-core performance of the M4 system on a chip. Benchmarks suggest the base level M4 has roughly the same computing power as a 12-core M2 Pro, but with two fewer cores (4 efficiency and 6 performance). And the top of the range Pro version outperforms even the M2 Ultra, which is just outrageous. 
#AppleSilicon #M4 #M4Pro #Apple #MacMini #MacStudio
GNU M4 CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
Some people find ‘m4’ to be fairly addictive. They first use ‘m4’ for simple problems, then take bigger and bigger challenges, learning how to write complex sets of ‘m4’ macros along the way. Once really addicted, users pursue writing of sophisticated ‘m4’ applications even to solve simple problems, devoting more time debugging their ‘m4’ scripts than doing real work. Beware that ‘m4’ may be dangerous for the health of compulsive programmers.
Amazon finally showed up and I now have all three monitors hooked up to the M4 Mac Mini!
Now I can be a lot more productive. I'm really enjoying this Mac Mini so far and am really glad I was able to get one.
The colors on the monitors are all the same, though it doesn't show that way in the image.
New post on AllThingsTech: Hands-on: M4 Macs
"Apple recently announced a new slate of Macs with M4 chips and I am going over my initial thoughts on all of the hardware”
#Apple's #M4 Max is the single-core performance king in #Geekbench 6 — M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X
The M4 Max handily keeps up even in multi-core at a fraction of the power—beating Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K by around 19% in the single-core category and 16% in the multi-core category. Compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X, the M4 Max showed 18% higher single-core performance and 25% higher multi-core performance.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-m4-max-is-the-single-core-performance-king-in-geekbench-6-m4-max-beats-the-core-ultra-9-285k-and-ryzen-9-9950x
I can perform the Lingonberry Twist signature move, but not at that level.
#m4
When #Apple releases a new generation of #hardware, I like to see how the Apple Tax is holding up. The new #Mac #Mini doesn't disappoint - all figures in CDN$.
Also see alt-text.
Upgrade from 24 to 64GB of RAM: $750. Retail price of 64GB of RAM: $250.
Upgr. from tiny 512GB SSD to 8TB: $3000. Retail price of fast 8TB SSD: $900.
Price for maxed-out Mini M4: $6,000 without display, keyboard, mouse, or extra software.
20 core GPU to keep these 300 browser tabs open, amirite?
New M4 iMacs starting with 16 GB of RAM is great to see. I'm also excited to see that they're keeping the colors (and in new shades, to boot!). Apple's frequent regressions into blandness on the phones made me fear the colors might go away all together.
#Apple #iMac #M4
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-new-imac-supercharged-by-m4-and-apple-intelligence/
The now-more-mini M4 Mac mini is supposed to be announced this week. I’m curious to see it, though not looking to replace my M1 mini any time soon.
The time for a case shrink is long overdue. I took mine out of its accustomed spot to clean this week because I was doing some desk organizing and cable control, and was reminded just how not-that-mini the current design is.
#Apple #MacMini #M4
Afternoon Twters.
If, like me, you were planning on #travelling using the #M4, particularly around junctions 37/38 today, my advice is to not.
#WWDC24 Apple's hardware blitz in the #M4 #iPad Pro is missing the software magic to make it sing https://www.zdnet.com/article/apples-hardware-blitz-in-the-m4-ipad-pro-is-missing-the-software-magic-to-make-it-sing/
@verge The recent #M4 iPad Pro single core benchmarks beating the recent #MacBook Pro M3 and even in M2 Max suggest the #iPad could in fact be the future of the #Mac itself. #Apple seems to just be milking the category until they are bold enough to consolidate it into a defacto Mac. Potentially by the end of the decade, I could see a 17 inch iPad/Smart keyboard setup as the default, with iPadOS just being a mode that transparently transforms when you touch the screen or use a pencil.
As a *complete* guess, assuming the implementation is similar to prior devices, I'd expect the #M4 #SME and #SSVE implementations to be 512 bits wide.
It's simultaneously possible that Apple doubled the width relative to previous incarnations, and is shipping a 1024b implementation
While using geekbench as any sort of hardcore data source is a fools errand, a doubling of performance for certain operations that would be compute bound in SME are seeing ~2x uplifts on M4.
