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by glhaynes 5y ago
iOS 11 was the first Apple OS to not run 32-bit apps so I'm guessing the iPhone X that was released later that year (2017) with the A11 Bionic chip was the first to drop 32-bit support.
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by glhaynes 5y ago
If that's the case, it's not clear to me that it shouldn't crash the app (versus the alternative of likely corrupting data) in release builds. I guess this is similar to the "assertions should/should not be turned
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by glhaynes 5y ago
Easy to get confused similarly about trees that grow down in computer scientists' diagrams versus growing up in nature.
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by glhaynes 5y ago
Some other advantages: - Things might be less likely to break. Certainly the default settings are the most likely to have a test case associated with them. How likely is it that there's a test case around the unique combination of the
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by glhaynes 5y ago
I first read “B&W Macs” as meaning “Blue & White Power Mac G3s” and couldn’t figure out why full-motion video would be impressive. Anyway, this is awesome!
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by glhaynes 5y ago
So much of that kind of stuff wouldn't be likely to cross my mind either. (What a nice privilege.) Shows how important it is to have a diverse set of listened-to voices when building tech products.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
People tend to lump them all together and just call them "ARM" but the 64-bit instruction set ("AArch64") first came out in 2011 and is hugely different than classical 32-bit ARM. And the chips Apple makes these days don
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by glhaynes 6y ago
I find it works great — on the 10% of attempts that I don't accidentally scrub back to the first minute of the movie.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Oh, wow, I'd never put the timeline together like that. Yes, that makes the 286 make much more sense!
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Ugh, that sucks. Thanks for the info.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Apple pushes their Accelerate framework pretty heavily as "the" way to do vector stuff rather than directly writing to a SIMD extension. But I don't have a sense of how widely it's used in practice.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Now do a Z80 on Micro Channel architecture.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
But that's approximately as true for other programming languages. (EDIT: Good point elsewhere in the discussion where it’s pointed out that assembly is significantly more verbose than nearly any other language so it’s desirable to keep
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by glhaynes 6y ago
What use-case would that satisfy better than a current FPGA?
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by glhaynes 6y ago
I'm no expert on such things but your proposal sounds similar (or at least maybe adjacent to) VLIW in the sense of pushing a lot of the smarts to the compiler. It seems to have had some isolated successes but not nearly as much as it w
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RISC-V isn’t as interesting as you think(sporks.space)
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by glhaynes 6y ago
I was watching a guy on YouTube the other day talking about a computer he was building. He made reference to how he was keeping some component simple (the memory interface, I believe), which would compromise performance, but he wasn't
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Because he’s a shitty dangerous clown who’s currently in power and calls to mind horrible rulers of the past? That’s my guess.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Fairly certain I've heard it as "ex-noo". But it could just be that I've said it in my head that way forever!
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Haven't used a Model M in 25 years but this comment brought me back to that time, wondering what the apparent speaker grill underneath was. For those who are also curious, here's what Wikipedia says: >Until the late 4th-generat
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by glhaynes 6y ago
This was so much more background than I’d dared hoped for! Thanks, really interesting. What a mess.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Why was running CP/M so slow? I never got to run it but I don't think of CP/M as being a particularly bloated/slow OS; but you say it wasn't the fault of the Z80. Something particular to the C128?
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by glhaynes 6y ago
(Thinking through it more, I bet "Advanced DOS" just means PC DOS >= 2.0!)
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by glhaynes 6y ago
handle 1. n. In the Advanced DOS and OS/2 operating systems, a binary value created by the system… “Advanced DOS”, interesting. I think I recall hearing that was a potential name for what eventually became OS/2 back before it wa
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Would the "Silver" Pro (white glass with a silver band) be that different?
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by glhaynes 6y ago
We'll see of course, but I don't personally find it obvious at all that Big Sur is designed for touch. Or, if so, it's only an incidental byproduct of them applying a consistent style between iOS-iPadOS-macOS as they make it
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by glhaynes 6y ago
I certainly don't have numbers to back it up but I'd guess WAY more purchase (or not) decisions come from holding phones in hands rather than reviewers complaining about a phone being too thick.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
iSH also acts as a File Provider so you can go to the Files app, tap “...” > “Edit Sidebar” and turn on “iSH” to “mount” your iSH filesystem and drag stuff in and out of it.
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by glhaynes 6y ago
One little correction, I think: the MD/Genesis had one PCM channel so it could play samples. Hence digitized speech in some games, for example. But, yes, it had nowhere near the capability to manipulate samples (aside from involving th
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by glhaynes 6y ago
Why would it differ in the RNG, I wonder?

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