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by mikhailt 8y ago
> With regard to applications in which graphics API's are relevant (i.e. games) Apple still has a minuscule market-share, and it seems like they would be well served by adopting the dominant technology. Lock-in only works if you&#x
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Then close the bug tracker, don’t waste everyone’s time. The serious bugs will pop up in some ways. I’ve filed proper bug reports that went nowhere and guess what, I’ve lost interest in doing so since it was pointless. I’ve moved on to othe
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by mikhailt 8y ago
ARM was founded by Acorn, Apple and VSLI, btw. Small world.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
In the long run, they ended up with their own FS that they can scale from all of their platforms (tvOS, iOS, macOS, watchOS) and pulled it off without any serious issues, which is impressive on its own. It's going to be interesting to
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Normally I agree but this is Fortnite, massive profits all the time. Just a few hours worth of exploit can gain some a chunk of cash.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Nope, Google is not obligated to reply at all nor do they have any obligation to hold on these announcements. There are no faults for Google here. Their 90-day policy is just a courtesy call that comes with an exception, the moment a patch
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by mikhailt 8y ago
If it was one thing, I would agree but Apple/Jobs was known to do this, look at nVidia history as well. The licensing terms wasn't a dealbreaker on its own, both Oracle and Apple could've come up with a different agreement (l
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by mikhailt 8y ago
No, it isn't. Anyone can break apart the patch and figure out what was changed, meaning they can figure out the security issue and take advantage of it. At this point, both Epic and Google are at fault for not disclosing the details an
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Just want to make this clear, this is the standard disclosure policy of Google: > [NOTE: This bug is subject to a 90-day disclosure deadline. After 90 days elapse or a patch has been made broadly available, the bug report - including any
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by mikhailt 8y ago
No, they didn't wait until the last minute. Read their description, it is the last two lines, they did warn Epic. Here, I'll quote it for you: > [NOTE: This bug is subject to a 90-day disclosure deadline. After 90 days elapse o
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by mikhailt 8y ago
No, we will definitely see a 10nm Intel CPU and 7nm and 5nm. That's a sure thing, the problem isn't that they can't do it, they can and they already have developed some 10nm wafers a few years ago; they just can't scale
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by mikhailt 8y ago
You don't need such definitions but it would be nice to have them yes. Private entities do not need to have any TOS to justify banning anyone on their services. They can do so without a single reason. There is no expectation to have ac
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by mikhailt 8y ago
At work, we use Git to store our docs (markdown) and Atom feels natural to write MD files in and to push updates. Most casual users understand what push and pull is but they are not really that comfortable to use git commands via CLI.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
And yet, we've survived more "gates" without Jobs in the past few years as well. Batterygate recently, or bendgate?
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Dave (the guy who Apple mentioned working with to find this issue) already tweeted that the performance is "soo much better". Source: https://twitter.com/Dave2Dtv/status/1021817313555755009
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by mikhailt 8y ago
They had the same issues before Steve Jobs, 99% of people seriously do not care or even knew about this. What's more important is fixing and moving on to the next problem. Technologies are so complex nowadays that it is becoming virtua
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by mikhailt 8y ago
The issue wasn't cooling; it was how the CPU incorrectly throttle itself that caused it to overheat again too fast. There's another thermal control unit involved and what people found was that the firmware for it was causing the C
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by mikhailt 8y ago
eGPU support is opt-in on macOS. Games and apps must enable support for eGPU to use it, regardless of external or internal display. Here's a video of it in action with one of the first software that supports eGPU acceleration, DaVinci
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by mikhailt 8y ago
This is false as well. The problem is, games and apps have to opt-in for eGPU support. That's been clear since the original eGPU support in macOS 10.13.4. There is no universal eGPU support in macOS, it doesn't start acceleration
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Initially, yes. Later this year or next year, Thunderbolt will be an open royalty-free non-exclusive format. Source: Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder... Once it is opened up, it shoul
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by mikhailt 8y ago
They filed a patent application for it already: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Recent patents granted to or filed by Apple: 1. Touchscreen keyboard with haptic feedback: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/03/15/apple-seeks-paten... 2. Protection against duct/crumbles/li
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Be careful if you're already on ATT unlimited plans, they remove stuff like HBO for life if you "upgrade" to %More, which is 5$ more a month as well.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Yes because you can't fast forward during commercials for on-demand content while you can for DRV'ed content.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Previous dupe + discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17365366
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by mikhailt 8y ago
They'll do a Rosetta + fat binaries and use ARM's hardware virtualization features to run a lightweight Hypervisor to run these apps on top of ARM CPU almost faster than any emulation technologies. There's a reason Apple adde
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Or, you know, just get an iPad. iOS is a modified macOS, they're based on the same technologies, just different front end.
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by mikhailt 8y ago
> I don't see a lot of motivation for pre-compiled open source projects (such as R/CRAN) to maintain two copies of their software (one Apple AMD64 and one Apple ARM64) during the transition. Yet another thing that is going to m
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by mikhailt 8y ago
> Apple should actually go out and understand why developers are lukewarm on their machines, and if they're not or just ignoring one of those audiences, then they're doing so at their own peril. They did but only recently, it&#
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by mikhailt 8y ago
Beside the benchmarks showing their mobile SoC leading the market since their custom SoC (A6?) and being the first to 64-bit ARM? The upcoming ARM A67 SoC evolution is expected to be behind Apple soon to be two year old chip: https:/

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