> The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) (Japanese: 準天頂衛星システム, Hepburn: juntenchō eisei shisutemu), also known as Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a regional navigation satellite system (RNSS) and a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System

I wonder how much of this increase is solely enabled by TSMC process upgrades, either through higher clock speeds or increased number of transistors per core? It's kind of interesting that every iteration of the M series has corresponded to a change of TSMC process.

M1: 16 billion transistors at 3.2 GHz on TSMC N5

M2: 20 billion transistors at 3.7 GHz on TSMC N5P

M3: 25 billion transistors at 4.05 GHz on TSMC N3B

M4: 28 billion transistors at ?? GHz on TSMC N3E

N3E is slightly less efficient than N3B though, it just has higher yields.

Do both efficiency and yield play a part in the final off the shelf performance?

e.g. does higher yield mean you get more product in higher bins? I imagine we need to judge a process by the distribution across bins not just a max efficiency or a total yield.

Perhaps if this was intel or AMD with many binned SKUs, but Apple has very minimal SKUs and less binning wouldn’t account for as large a single core jump

AT&T ran fiber to my house (and everybody else on my street). 15 months later, the highest speed option we have is still 50/10 Mbps DSL from AT&T.

I wonder why they put it in if they aren't going to bother offering service with it?

So they can activate it in a down quarter or if Comcast threatens to move into the area.

What operating system would be run by PCs using this chip? Are there existing operating systems that support LoongArch?

Linux (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Operating_systems)

Hmm no reference to the OpenBSD port. https://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html

This is for the old MIPS based machines, the new ones have a custom ISA called LoongArch

NetBSD may? If not, it probably wouldn't be a terrible lift to get it running there.

NetBSD development is pretty stagnant these days, I doubt they have much support for new machines

Very excited that this unique game continues. It's too bad they aren't supporting the Mac, like the old game did.

Jonathan Blow tweeted that Mac support will come later on in 2024.

https://x.com/jonathan_blow/status/1722710169744757071?s=46&...

> taking over 500ms and a complete page reload

For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close to "instantaneous" for the "complete page reload."

EDIT: I'm in Texas, so most of this time is probably just round trip time to the west coast.

This was not paid with a check, but a cashier's check, and so the money would have already been gone from their account:

From the post:

> The car was paid for with a combination of card and CASHIER’S check. Cashiers check means the amount of money is withdrawn from the bank when it’s ISSUED not cashed. so no, we did not notice extra money sitting in our account because it had already been withdrawn.

> MicroLEDs are still just LCDs with a better backlight but LCD Tech has evolved quite a lot and pixel refresh time (< 3-4ms) is not much of a problem anymore.

You're thinking of MiniLED, which is just better LEDs behind an LCD.

MicroLED is a whole different ball game, with no LCD at all. It's just red, green, blue LEDs, one for each pixel.

Weasyprint is an excellent tool for converting HTML to PDF. It has supported CSS Paged Media Module for a while; this has been very useful for making printable PDFs from web pages.

Weasyprint seems to be one of the few HTML->PDF engines out there that doesn't depend on a browser engine. It's impressive just how much works (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), given that this is a relatively simple project compared to a full-featured browser. Performance isn't bad, considering it is implemented in Python.

How well does it install on systems that don't run python web apps? (I.e. I have whatever python the distro comes with)

Currently reliant on wkhtmltopdf for a few client projects, and while it works it has some.. Oddities that if I can, I'd like to get rid of having to remember.

Unfortunately wkhtmltopdf seems to be sunsetted... it's GitHub repo was archived in January and there don't seem to be any plans to move development elsewhere. When its version of WebKit becomes too old to be useful, that'll sort of be it :(

What is an FF car? Do you mean the Ferrari FF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FF

FF is "front front", i.e. engine in the front, drive wheels in the front. (Or: ~all regular every day cars.) FR is front-engine rear-wheel-drive (i.e. "sports" cars), etc.