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by bdash 3y ago
It could be fun to use this data to build a visualization of new games rolling out to locations across the world.
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by bdash 3y ago
I got into pinball myself this year in a big way. It started with restoring a mid-80s Williams Comet that my wife's family had stored in the back of the barn for years. Things went slightly off the rails after that and we have since pi
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by bdash 4y ago
Impressive work, Cameron! Hope you're doing well.
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by bdash 4y ago
Sorry, I don't recall.
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by bdash 4y ago
The code was added to the public WebKit source tree, but it wasn't written at the time. It was upstreamed from the internal fork of WebKit that Apple used for iOS.
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by bdash 5y ago
It sounds like things turned out ok after all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wade
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by bdash 5y ago
Awesome to see that you're doing well, Andreas!
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by bdash 5y ago
Most VORs are being phased out as well, with only a minimum network left in place to support routing flights on instrument flight plans to airports with non-GPS approaches (i.e., ILS) in the event of a GPS outage. [1]: https://ww
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by bdash 5y ago
Per https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/gami-awarded-long-awaite... , this new unleaded fuel is currently only approved for Cessna 172s with Lycoming engines, with expansion to more aircraft types coming next year.
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by bdash 6y ago
It looks like the article attempts to embed images in different formats for different browsers, but the source images aren't of the image type they expect which results in broken images for some browsers. <picture>
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by bdash 6y ago
There's no direct connection to New Zealand. The founders visited New Zealand at some point, and brought back a stuffed kiwi toy for their child. When naming the company, it crossed their mind and so they went with it[1]. Their offices
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by bdash 6y ago
It reduces disk space. Historically the dyld_shared_cache has been a pre-bound copy of most system libraries that is mapped into memory once and then shared across all processes. It was updated automatically by the system at various times,
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by bdash 6y ago
The Apple linker has used `tbd` files, a textual description of a dynamic library's interface, rather than actual dynamic libraries at link time for iOS for several years now. Prior to that it was using stub dylibs, which were essentia
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by bdash 6y ago
Tie-downs at Palo Alto are more like ~$170/mo
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by bdash 6y ago
FWIW, WebKit's complete history is available in its Subversion repository, all the way back to the initial commits in 2001 when they were importing KHTML and convincing it to compile without Qt. Granted, there was around two years afte
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Swift on Mac OS 9(belkadan.com)
272 points by bdash 7y ago|44 comments
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by bdash 7y ago
A student from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign wrote a paper on transparent pointer compression in their custom GCC backend back in 2005: https://llvm.org/pubs/2005-06-12-MSP-PointerComp.pdf . Their compiler
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by bdash 7y ago
It doesn't attempt to determine the size of the critical section, AFAIK. I think it's saying that sleeping immediately when failing to acquire the lock would significantly hurt small critical sections, and so instead they spin a f
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by bdash 7y ago
No, a thread that fails to acquire the mutex sleeps until the thread that is releasing the mutex explicitly wakes it. On Linux this is achieved via FUTEX_WAIT / FUTEX_WAKE.
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by bdash 7y ago
From the talk by Captain Al Haynes ( http://clear-prop.org/aviation/haynes.html ): > We only gave them two minutes to line up for runway 22. They were all set up for runway 31. And when I told Kevin we saw this runw
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by bdash 7y ago
Batteries not getting lighter with reduced charge is relevant in that it's not uncommon to trade reduced range for increased payload by carrying less gas. With batteries having a fixed weight, you don't have the ability to make th
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by bdash 8y ago
The recent Safari Technology Preview builds have support for the WebAuthn Specification, so it's clearly something they're actively working on.
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by bdash 8y ago
What's more, the two airports are 17 miles apart only if you look at driving distance. It's more like 12 miles as the crow (or an airplane) flies.
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by bdash 8y ago
The drone was reported over Teterboro at around 3,500ft. One of the ILS approaches into Newark[1] has Teterboro as an initial fix, with a minimum crossing altitude of 3,000ft. That puts the drone exactly where aircraft inbound on that appro
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by bdash 8y ago
It looks like the link within the presentation to WebKit's issue tracking their implementation is incorrect. It links to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180731 , which is about support for BigInt in the Web Insp
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Realm Cloud – Cloud deployment for seamless edge-to-cloud data synchronization(cloud.realm.io)
3 points by bdash 9y ago|0 comments
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by bdash 10y ago
If you're doing direct downloads then there's no reason to be building with bitcode enabled, and so the size increase should not affect you at all.
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by bdash 10y ago
The size I'm referring to is shown in iTunes Connect, which is the administrative side of the App Store that the developer uses to manage their app releases. As far as I'm aware the size shown in the App Store's user-facing U
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by bdash 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking here. Why would who do what?
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by bdash 10y ago
The Apple bug report was filed by my colleague, JP, after we noticed that the built size of Realm's frameworks dramatically increased after updating to Xcode 8.3. We pay attention to the built size of our frameworks as we distribute pr

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