You can really get into this article and enjoy it. The text includes lots of interesting source mentions without resorting to footnotes. The red flags I see are a nod to a little-known German chip design startup at the very end, and the fact that this is the author’s very first blog post. Coincidentally, the owner of the website is also from Germany, and their university is just about an hour’s drive from the startup’s headquarters.
Excerpt:
«Which, to me, is the actual answer to this post’s title question. The M1 did not feel huge because of any single trick. It felt huge because Apple moved every lever at once: the widest core in the industry, on the best process node in the industry, with memory in the package, efficiency cores doing the housekeeping, an OS scheduler that knows about all of it, and a translation layer with dedicated silicon support so that nobody had to wait for the ecosystem to catch up. Any single one of these would have made a nice bullet point in a keynote. Together, and only together, they made a laptop that felt like a different kind of machine. That is what ten years of building phone chips on a merciless power budget teaches you.»
In my tests it only recognizes the same browser. I’m a different person when using different browsers. I noticed that I can still be correctly fingerprinted after resetting the browser or using a private window.
As a color-blind person, most of the time when stuff on screen was only differentiated by color (like red/green status indicators), the go-to-tool would be the system’s digital colorimeter for me.
It was tiresome to have to launch an extra application and inspect RGB percentages to derive what color I was supposed to see.
The colorimeter I made activates while holding down an inconsequential modifier key on the keyboard and shows the name of the color.
Now I can also quickly double-press that modifier key and copy the color value to the clipboard.
Excerpt:
«Which, to me, is the actual answer to this post’s title question. The M1 did not feel huge because of any single trick. It felt huge because Apple moved every lever at once: the widest core in the industry, on the best process node in the industry, with memory in the package, efficiency cores doing the housekeeping, an OS scheduler that knows about all of it, and a translation layer with dedicated silicon support so that nobody had to wait for the ecosystem to catch up. Any single one of these would have made a nice bullet point in a keynote. Together, and only together, they made a laptop that felt like a different kind of machine. That is what ten years of building phone chips on a merciless power budget teaches you.»