I'm confused. They're claiming "Apple’s M4 Max is the first production CPU to pass 4000 Single-Core score in Geekbench 6." yet I can see hundreds of other test results for single core performance above 4000 in the last 2 years?
They've been announced, within the past two weeks, and as far as I can tell aren't actually available for purchase from retailers yet: the only thing I've seen actually purchasable is Crucial's 6400MT/s CUDIMMs, and Newegg has an out-of-stock listing for a G.Skill kit rated for 9600MT/s.
The linked Geekbench result from August running at 7614 MT/s clearly wasn't using CUDIMMs; it was a highly-overclocked system running the memory almost 20% faster than the typical overclocked memory speeds available from reasonably-priced modules.
That result is completely different from pretty much every other 13700k result and it is definitely not reflective of how a 13700k performs out of the box.
Geekbench doesn't really give accurate information (or enough of it) in the summary report to make that kind of conclusion for an individual result. The one bit of information it does reliably give, memory frequency, says the CPU's memory controller was OC'd to 7600 MT/s from the stock 5600 MT/s so it feels safe to say that number with 42% more performance than the entry in the processor chart also had some other tweaks going on (if not actual frequency OCs/static frequency locks then exotic cooling or the like). The main processor chart https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks which will give you a solid idea of where stock CPUs rank - if a result has double digit differences from that number assume it's not a stock result.
E.g. this is one of the top single core benchmark result for any Intel CPU https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5568973 and it claims the maximum frequency was stock as well (actually 300 MHz less than thermal velocity boost limits if you count those).
Could those be overclockers? I often see strange results on there that looks like either overclockers or prototypes. Maybe they mean this is the fastest general purpose single core you can buy that is that fast off the shelf with no tinkering.
We had to disable the fraud protection on our account to be able to accept transactions temporarily, luckily we have alternative fraud protection in play too.
The issue with deeper and deeper ad blocking technology is that you're going to end up putting more and more trust into your ad blocker.
uBlock Origin requires access to the DOM, where it can do nasty things like overwrite window.fetch or window.XmlHttpRequest and intercept network traffic. PiHole, just based on the way it operates, has to route all your network traffic along a different route, and it's up to you to watch its upstream output to make sure it's not doing something bad.
I think there's some benefit to the way Apple is intentionally limiting the available surface for content blockers, but it'd be nice to expand on that surface in limited means (eg: freeze library functions so more of the DOM can be accessed, but at the risk of breaking badly-behaved websites) or at least to get a better, plain-English explanation as to _why_ those decisions are being made.
> The issue with deeper and deeper ad blocking technology is that you're going to end up putting more and more trust into your ad blocker.
To be honest, I trust my ad blocker more than I trust Apple.
This is not a joke. Remember that Apple takes literally billions of dollars per year in payoff to make Google the default search engine in Safari. Apple's interests are not exactly aligned with mine.
EDIT: it's actually his address, I thought it was just a coincidence but you can the house on Street View... I removed the actual name as doxxing isn't great, sorry.
Every time you write some code you need to remember removing before commit, surround it with a comment containing "NOCOMMIT". With this script as a pre-commit hook, git will echo an error message and fail.
E.g.:
print("debug: ", myval)
becomes:
print("debug: ", myval) # NOCOMMIT
I end up relying on this every day I program. Can't go back.
Thanks! I'm not sure how easy it would be to put the git hook on all my machines though? I have a collection of laptops (and one desktop) that I work on and I often don't use the same machine for a few weeks :-/
I ended up using a "env.h" file... is there a C-equivalent of the PHP (?) .env file?
Thank you! I use 'git add -p' all the time, but didn't know the trick with commit. I am a sucker for nice commits so I will check every commit's diff multiple times. When I don't, I usually end up including pieces of code which is not ready yet, which is meant for debugging,...
