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901.
by fidotron 1y ago
The end of the Mac spatial Finder with the OS X transition was not entirely welcomed by some people on that basis, but we live in a world that prioritizes thinking in words and looks down on visual/spatial reasoning.
902.
by fidotron 1y ago
> They had a UNIX clone in 1988. The guy that did the kernel, Mark Taunton, used it for his daily driver until some time after 2000 but they never ported their GUI to it. Are you referring to RISC iX? I had no idea there were serious use
903.
by fidotron 1y ago
Yeah, I'd seen this. I've not been a participant in the RISC OS community since the 90s, and clearly do not share the same enthusiasm some have for aspects of it. I'm honestly of the view the wisest thing to do would be focus
904.
by fidotron 1y ago
> When a program needs to allow the user to choose a file, drag and drop is again used, with the window providing a drop area to collect the file The neat part was you could "save" from one app into another, without having deci
905.
by fidotron 1y ago
> By the way, my comment telling you that you should apologize to the community received an upvote and likely will receive more. I too was upvoted for asking for your apology. I will not apologize for speaking facts, and nor should you,
906.
by fidotron 1y ago
To quote you elsewhere in this thread: > Patents tend to expire at different times around the world, plus there is the possibility of submarine patents. Without a declaration from Hitachi, adopting any processor design using their ISA is
907.
by fidotron 1y ago
> You should apologize to the people reading your comments for wasting their time. It is clear you are clueless about RISC-V and your foot is well into your mouth. You're absolutely out of line. > As for the J2, its creator does
908.
by fidotron 1y ago
> Hardware patents related to CPU design are typically ISA independent. So that is merely the entire semiconductor industry patent portfolio that you will have to avoid.
909.
by fidotron 1y ago
https://j-core.org/ > In any case, you should probably stop writing before you shove your foot any deeper into your mouth. Apology expected.
910.
by fidotron 1y ago
Sorry, that was poorly worded. My point is that if RISC-V takes off people will struggle to do decent implementations of it without stepping on the toes of the people already in the area. I'd go so far as to say this is the entire SiFi
911.
by fidotron 1y ago
Which in practice will mean free to make simplistic implementations using the lessons of twenty years ago. If this was a winning strategy those open source implementations of SuperH cores would have been incredibly popular instead of dying
912.
by fidotron 1y ago
The way you put it makes it sound like STM have a serious security problem with their manufacturing.
913.
by fidotron 1y ago
How are SiFive going to protect their IP when everyone is free to copy it? Patents.
914.
by fidotron 1y ago
RISC-V implementations are going to prove to be absolute patent minefields. Just because something is open source will not stop you from being stung during manufacturing, rather like how Android deployments are not free.
915.
by fidotron 1y ago
> It's because the software ecosystem around them is so incredibly lousy and painful. This is reaching breaking point entirely because of how powerful modern MCUs are too. You simply cannot develop and maintain software of scale and
916.
by fidotron 1y ago
> Depending on the situation, channels can absolutely be higher overhead and not worthwhile. Like streaming arrays one byte at a time through the channel. Such devs just aren't very good, and hear "Google internally recommends
917.
by fidotron 1y ago
Yeah, that whole era of things like the Jimmy Carr gameshows were honestly a sort of mass nastiness as entertainment. This business where we're all supposed to be surprised by what Russell Brand was up to despite him being incredibly o
918.
by fidotron 1y ago
> This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :) No it's not, certainly not any more than it's "based" on Smalltalk.
919.
by fidotron 1y ago
Oh yeah, WebObjects! I had forgotten that entirely, and it then transitioned to Java itself.
920.
by fidotron 1y ago
My experience is a shocking amount of the golang community believe channels are a performance problem for whatever they're doing, and they use mutexes in some misguided effort at optimization. But then I have also encountered Rust peop
921.
by fidotron 1y ago
Apple absolutely do get it, they might disagree with you about what that is. Google just can't. I worked in the games industry in exactly this area, and the difference between the two is just enormous, but in ways we cannot go into in
922.
by fidotron 1y ago
> As someone who's always been interested in gamedev, I genuinely wonder whether that would be good enough to implement cutting-edge combo modern acceleration structures/streaming systems (e.g. UE5's Nanite level-of-detail
923.
by fidotron 1y ago
What was the viable alternative? Microsoft had C#, at one point IBM pushed SmallTalk. C++ for these environments is doable but going to slow you down at development a lot, as well as being much harder to secure. At that time the dynamic alt
924.
by fidotron 1y ago
I think it's incredible with hindsight how Java countered many of the mid 90s C++ problems, especially by avoiding multiple inheritance. It remains a shame that it didn't launch with generics though, and I still think operator ove
925.
Toshiba Sparc LT(openpa.net)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
926.
by fidotron 1y ago
Google has a really hard time grokking the games industry, to the point they can hire people from it and just almost totally ignore them. Their ideas on how Android game development should be done were utterly hilarious, and it's only
927.
by fidotron 1y ago
Public transit agencies are not free to pick the best suppliers; there are political considerations at best and outright corruption at worst.
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ESP WebRTC Solution Release v1.0(github.com)
11 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
929.
by fidotron 1y ago
> “Of all the things you could do to affect the government, it would have been better to go after regulation. It would have been better to go after entitlements. Just blowing up jobs was a good way to make enemies, a good way to cause mo
930.
Mario Kart 64 decompiled documentation(n64decomp.github.io)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments

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