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by larkost 6y ago
I don't know about the latest Intel integrated GPUs, but for the original ones it was not a unified memory arrangement. Rather the integrated GPU used a dedicated chunk of main memory. It was the same banks of memory, but was treated a
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by larkost 6y ago
I disagree. On MacOS (x86) Docker runs inside a VM; which is running Linux (since Docker needs Linux kernel features). On the forthcoming ARM version of MacOS, it will need to run a VM, running the ARM version of linux. So having Docker wor
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by larkost 6y ago
No, they mislead. They did not say something that is untrue. They said "starting at $699", which is technically true. They should have been more forthcoming, and said "when bought for carriers..." (which they did in smal
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by larkost 6y ago
Apple already has a program for select third party companies to get their own signing keys for kernel extensions. They have been tightening that circle over the last few years as they provide more and more generic interfaces so that compani
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by larkost 6y ago
Beyond that, you have to acknowledge that Apple contributed heavily to USB-C. They are invested, but had to weigh the plusses and minuses of transitioning the iPhone. My guess is that it was something like this: Plusses: - everyone shares t
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by larkost 6y ago
Apple's .app system already has that ability, brought over from the NeXT purchase. Those regularly had PPC and x86 binaries in the same package.
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by larkost 6y ago
At the time Intel was pushing on performance-per-watt, AMD was not. So AOM was significantly further away from getting the iPhone contract than Intel was. And Apple is already extensively using multiple small chips put together to form thei
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by larkost 6y ago
I took Japanese in college, and we were taught that this is because dictionaries are arranged by stroke. For Kanji characters there are tens of thousands of them, so "alphabetical" order is a meaningless concept, making stroke cou
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by larkost 6y ago
The two downsides I see are: 1. There would be a lot of sudden changes, without any real explanation about those particular changes. 2. Unlike now there would be little on-the-ground reasoning to these changes. Districts would be split on r
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by larkost 6y ago
The other similar language to Finnish is Hungarian (that and a language spoken in Mongolia). My wife is Hungarian, so I have some exposure and I think the grammar is probably simpler in some ways (no "perfect" tenses for example),
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by larkost 6y ago
The problem in this case is not necessarily that President Trump is dumb (he may well be), but rather that he is dangerously overconfident in his abilities. He is one of those people who assumes that he knows more than the experts in those
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by larkost 6y ago
Citation needed. That is not Apple's lawyers' opinion. It is also not the interpretation of this San Jose law firm: https://www.sacattorneys.com/san-jose-intellectual-property-... The relevant quote is: "It i
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by larkost 6y ago
You imply that there is some list of prioritization out there. President Trump has repeatedly maintained that the Federal Government is not in charge of organizing who has what, and that the States should be managing this. Given this lack o
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by larkost 7y ago
They are very unlikely to have end-to-end security in a couple of months, for the same reason few (if any) of their competitors have it: it is really bandwidth intensive to send full-resolution video of every participant to every other part
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by larkost 7y ago
It is Apple's rebranding of StoreNext's SAN product. I used to run a setup, and other then a ton of knobs to turn for tuning with little explanation, it was a pretty good product. I wish Apple had really run the ball there (e.g.:
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by larkost 7y ago
That was not the plan, that was the stopgap. Apple (and even more the networks) were very scared that native apps would have unregulated access to the radio, and would mess with the cell networks. Web apps were the quick-and-dirty way of pu
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by larkost 7y ago
Apple is a really big place, so there is a lot of variability. On top of that, there is little internal pressure to clean out postings that are essentially stale (no longer have a budget behind them). So you sort of have to get lucky and ap
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by larkost 7y ago
My last employer used these when shipping robots. I don't know which was better: being able to show mis-shipment, or the deterrent effect of these highly-visible stickers.
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by larkost 7y ago
What is your evidence for this? The US is almost alone amongst developed countries in not having a government-run general heal care system, and has the highest costs (while not covering everyone). And Medicaid, Medicare, and the Veterans Ad
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by larkost 7y ago
No one is arguing that drug companies don't have work, and a lot of it, to do developing a promising drug (that is generally what comes out of university research) into a marketable one. Nor is anyone saying that that process is cheap.
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by larkost 7y ago
But for the up iMacs (not the base models) you can put in third-party RAM. That is what I have always done to avoid Apples high prices on that (except on my laptop, where it is soldered in). But I would caution you about trying to mix in fa
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by larkost 7y ago
They wrote the game targeting DX9, and then wrote a custom shim to translate from DX9 to OpenGL calls. Now they are transitioning to DX11 to get some newer features, and have evaluated the amount of work that it would take to either update
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by larkost 7y ago
There are a number of robotics companies (Savioke, Fetch Robotics, Bear Robotics, MiR, to name a few) that are producing robots that are currently doing work in the real world. I will fully grant that those all require in-advance mapping an
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by larkost 7y ago
I agree that that is a sentiment (being from one of those states originally), but then you have to start talking about how very reliant those same areas are on government programs (in other cases those same people would call hand-outs): 1.
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by larkost 7y ago
You choose the password. Most of Apple's encryption nowadays uses AES (since they have good hardware support for it), so it is probably that.
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This isn't a problem, it is a design decision that you evidently don't like. There is a difference.
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You are missing the point. The credit cards companies have mandated that the "regular" (that is the main advertised) price is the one you pay by credit card. They don't object to having cash-discount prices, but they want to
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by larkost 7y ago
On the closure front, you are assuming that `lambda` is the only way of writing a closure in Python. That is not true. You can write a named function (`def blah():`) in the same place, pass it around (within that scope the name is now `blah
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by larkost 7y ago
This is probably the root of the problems in US medicine: there is no effective feedback. The ACA (Obamacare) did a little work on this with Medicare payments to hospitals, but that is an exception in the system. What could we do to make th
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by larkost 7y ago
The next big problem after hitting positive energy production will be sustainability. My understanding is that the walls of the reactor get hit with enough stray neutrons that they degrade (often in radioactive ways). Unlike in fission reac

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