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by dwaite 1mo ago
Hmm, odd listing. Looks like an embedded linux job working on a BSP, but they don't have any hardware I know of which ships with Linux. Even their constrained environments use things like their own L4 variant or RTKit.
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by dwaite 1mo ago
Apple until a few years ago had killed off all first party monitors because they thought that business line was a distraction. The challenge isn't finding an engineer. It is picking what project doesn't get done in its place.
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by dwaite 1mo ago
Also Apple stops supporting the hardware and the software at the same time. The case that Linux support lets hardware be used longer is a harder sell when the company stops manufacturing/stocking parts for servicing at the point where
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by dwaite 1mo ago
If Apple doubled their Mac revenue, the financial benefit of Linux would remain the same. That means it would then be effectively half as important for their business, but the operational challenges and risks remain the same. At some point
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by dwaite 1mo ago
is there a reason there are so many common base decorative elements across pelicans on bicycles? For instance, there's a lot hats/helmets and scarfs/capes across models.
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by dwaite 1mo ago
> another perfectly reasonable universe where 8 gigs was too much of a compromise and it flopped. The target audience didn't evaluate that as a limitation - the majority of the market for Apple devices does trust that they will not
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by dwaite 1mo ago
They also put in anti-reverse-engineering code in Studio, which I believe is also an AGPL violation.
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by dwaite 2mo ago
It is a nice thought, but there may not be a ton of effort in starting reverse engineering projects on a full custom silicon stack 7+ years after release (when Apple typically stops supporting hardware)
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by dwaite 2mo ago
It is most likely this: https://wicg.github.io/local-network-access/ For a while there's been an anti-pattern where a piece of software leaves a localhost daemon running (often without proper security) for web int
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by dwaite 2mo ago
Java has its own problems with generics, such as the near-lack of runtime representation or the lack of a This/Self type, as well as limited variance, leading to signatures like `public abstract class Enum<E extends Enum<E>&gt
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by dwaite 2mo ago
I assume you mean on an open hardware platform, because underneath Apple's SDKs are just more Apple APIs until you get to Apple's IPC interfaces to talk to Apple-designed hardware register interfaces. Unfortunately when it comes t
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by dwaite 2mo ago
But you likely feel somewhat comfortable with them if you purchased an iPhone. Purchasing an iPhone self-selects people who are comfortable with the idea of the features it is marketed as having, such as being able to take, store and manipu
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by dwaite 2mo ago
The problem is not speech but amplification. Facebook wants to get that speech in as many rooms as they can, because they figured out a way to profit off of the emotional reaction of the people who were already there. They offer free hostin
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by dwaite 2mo ago
I actually consider the Sony BMG rootkit as the beginning of commercial malware. The antivirus companies knew it existed, but did not flag it partially because it was by a legitimate company with a legal department, and not an unknown devel
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by dwaite 2mo ago
One big source of both delays and bugs is the feeling that your work (which has compatibility impacting changes) _has_ to make it in the current release, because otherwise it will languish for years until the next train leaves. Likewise, if
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by dwaite 2mo ago
Would they want to? If you were to build a system with no requirement for backward compatibility with cocoa or macOS, or even knowledge from such a thing existing, we have still moved forward three decades from not just NeXT, but the comput
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by dwaite 2mo ago
> and leave the archaic and the weird things behind. The number one archiac/weird thing was message passing instead of methods. Number two was square brackets for message passing. What would be left of Objective-C once these were le
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by dwaite 2mo ago
It is enabled by default in STP, so presumably it will launch alongside the 27 releases. Note Temporal was in the Ecmascript 2026 release back in March.
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by dwaite 3mo ago
I was unclear on that as well. WebAuthn uses an extended form of the U2F format, such that if you don't use any of the new features or extensions the two are binary compatible with compatible signatures. So the U2F bits like authentica
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by dwaite 3mo ago
The problem I would typically have (not just in Shinjuku) was with directions that did not repeat/update as you continued on through junction points. It made navigation more stressful.
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by dwaite 3mo ago
How much internal storage do you use for your full feature video editing, vs attached/network attached storage?
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by dwaite 3mo ago
Apple has plenty of enterprise-specific features. From a historic standpoint though Apple came back from near-death because they differentiated by focusing on the consumer first. While other companies were recycling the same beige boxes mea
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by dwaite 3mo ago
> Apple seriously thought the iPad would replace computers ...for some users. See their "Mac is a truck" analogy. And it has. My parents haven't owned a Windows or Mac machine in six years, since they got rid of the one I
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Where's a few good places to go to learn more about open weight models, both running hosted and running locally?
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by dwaite 4mo ago
I suspect this is because the next models are more imminent. Not imminent per se, but Apple doesn't want to be left holding the bag on most of a factory run of 512GB Studios.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Sure, quite often. They usually have a price target in mind, but their costs and margins mean they can't always hit it. What's rare is that this is a price adjustment on existing shipping models, without a corresponding new model.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
> What's the over/under on apple spinning up their own fabs for their own needs in the consumer market? Darn close to 0%. They generally go after multiple manufacturers for a part rather than trying to become a manufacturer the
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by dwaite 4mo ago
Third party retail may very well have not reflected the price increase yet. If not BTO, you could order today possibly for store pickup tomorrow.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
It can also be nice to switch climate control on a few minutes before you enter the car.
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by dwaite 4mo ago
The electronic key fob is typically not copyable, so you need OBD-II access to provision a new one even if you have proper equipment. I do not know the VW app, but other electronic key systems do not require you to have physical access to t

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