danieldk

32 ms·

271.
by danieldk 6y ago
Yes, starting with MKL 2020.01 release. The Wikipedia page has more information and references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_Kernel_Library#Performanc... This is quite bad, since a lot of software relies on Intel
272.
by danieldk 6y ago
Philips tried to block other companies from making Senseo-compatible coffee pads. The European Patent Office revoked Philips' patent after opposition of competitors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senseo#Revocation_
273.
by danieldk 6y ago
The money is barely a drop in the bucket for Apple. I was more hinting at that this inflates the number of developers, since a chunk of them are actually people who pay to get early beta access.
274.
by danieldk 6y ago
I find that to be pretty spot on... The cloud companies are making a lot of stuff point and click, and cut and paste YAML, so you don't have to use shell, but I think programmers are better off learning and using shell. I have been u
275.
by danieldk 6y ago
Plus most modern shells have a vi editing mode. Add something like vimium to your browser and you can use the same muscle memory across environments. I did switch from vim to Emacs + Evil though (Evil adds a decent text editor to Emacs), wi
276.
by danieldk 6y ago
Though don't underestimate the number that gets a developer account to get macOS/iOS beta versions. There are public betas now, but the developer portal gets them faster (and more frequently).
277.
by danieldk 6y ago
If length of support is your concern, why not iOS? Apparently, iOS 14 will support the iPhone 6s, which means that this 2015 phone will be supported until at least 2021.
278.
by danieldk 6y ago
Linux the OS is actually the Linux kernel + userspace software, and those pieces are built independently. With the BSDs, the team is building the userspace and kernel together. You end up with a small, well-designed system that fits togeth
279.
by danieldk 6y ago
I think this hits the nail on its head, but I would add v. Intentionally breaking other browsers subtly on Google properties. i, ii, and v are directly from Microsoft’s 90ies/00s playbook and the regulators are sleeping.
280.
by danieldk 6y ago
They are reacting to the parent who seems to have the misconception that all JavaScript is OSI opensource because you can read the source code.
281.
by danieldk 6y ago
I love Zappa. But I think John Zorn wins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn_discography
282.
by danieldk 6y ago
There are still plenty of musicians doing that. I haven't kept track lately, but John Zorn used to release albums every 2 months or so. Thee Oh Sees and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are also constantly putting out new albums (K
283.
by danieldk 6y ago
Except that AMD is killing it lately. 7nm MOSFET process, large L3 caches, chiplet design. Even better: everyone can get their hands on them. At least it seems that AMD's resurgence already had the effect of Intel increasing core count
284.
by danieldk 6y ago
If I am counting correctly, nixpkgs (NixOS) Hydra currently builds 22369 packages successfully on AArch64. IIRC also 98% of Debian unstable builds on AArch64. So even though the rPi foundation may be slow (I don't know), the larger com
285.
by danieldk 6y ago
* Never really got to try it much, as I didn't really use Macs back then, although I'm curious if anyone from that time knows what the "oah" name stood for.* I bought my first Mac just after the transition. I remember ru
286.
by danieldk 6y ago
about clearly being the most successful and powerful country in the world And this to the rest of the world is typical America arrogance. I am sorry to be blunt, but I have to call it out. I won't debate that the US is the most power
287.
by danieldk 6y ago
Do you mean with Face ID? Since WebAuth/FIDO already work with iOS 13. I have been using U2F with my YubiKey (whichever one has NFC).
288.
by danieldk 6y ago
> Now good luck to get that with most lock-file based package managers like npm, cargo or pip with ~1000 packages in your dependency tree that hardcode their dependency number... I don't know about spack or Guix, but nixpkgs has bu
289.
by danieldk 6y ago
Can this myth die? They throttle phones with old batteries that cannot provide enough current. This avoids that phones reboot spontaneously. Replace the battery and it is as fast as ever. I used an iPhone 6s (2015) until recently and it was
290.
by danieldk 6y ago
I was talking about finding vulnerabilities on end-user systems and servers. I don't know about others, but I don't generally keep compiler tool chains [...] You don't have to, most NixOS/Guix systems use binary caches
291.
by danieldk 6y ago
The real problem is that you have > 100 binaries which depend on those libraries, and instead of having the library authors go and update the library, you need each team responsible for one or more binaries to go and take the new librar
292.
by danieldk 6y ago
So, this is the real reason of the switch to arm "apple proprietary" cpus. No, it may be a side-effect. (1) the real reason is that they are not dependent on Intel for their product schedules anymore; (2) they can use the custom
293.
by danieldk 6y ago
MacOs you have to flip a setting to get things off store. This is false, until recently you could just run any signed application without changing settings. Currently any application that is signed and notarized. (IIRC this only applies w
294.
by danieldk 6y ago
I hold the relatively new opinion that being a fanboy, of any company, is no longer a tenable position. There are no good guys, there are no bad guys, they're just corporations. This has been on my mind a lot recently. Of course, I k
295.
by danieldk 6y ago
I often use Motorola devices as I find they are one of the OEMs which applies the fewest customizations to the OS. They got worse, also with updates since they were acquired Lenovo. Last time that I surveyed the Android landscape (~2 year
296.
by danieldk 6y ago
Google payed Apple $12 billion in 2019 to remain the default search engine in Safari. It's a large amount, even for Apple, but they would survive losing that. Besides that, they are even taunting Google by putting DuckDuckGo in their
297.
by danieldk 6y ago
The religion in theory is different from the religious state with living, breathing humans in charge. Indeed. I practiced Buddhist meditation for some years and was very interested in Buddhism. However, what I always found difficult was t
298.
by danieldk 6y ago
I think dilandau is asking if anyone is using Guix.
299.
by danieldk 6y ago
Chris Lattner: Bitcode is not a magic solution, though. You can’t take a 32-bit app, for example, and run it on a 64-bit device. That kind of portability isn’t something that Bitcode can give you, notably because that is something that’s v
300.
by danieldk 6y ago
If you have some basic library that would be updated by your distribution, you have pretty much big chance that it would be part of the runtime and updated by runtime maintainers, not by the application authors. Unfortunately, this is not

More ›