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by mrpippy 7y ago
The blog post is 10 years old, the reasoning was poor then and has not aged well. No mention of the performance benefits of extra registers, new instructions, security benefits, etc. The only advantage I can see to staying 32-bit is that Wi
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by mrpippy 7y ago
The free (Community) edition is licensed for working on open source projects, individual developers, and up to 5 users in “non-enterprises” (< 250 PCs or < $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue.) So covers most people, but could be
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Yes. CodeWarrior flies on modern hardware, even with the CPU being emulated.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
The bitcode requirement was driven by the Apple Watch launching with a 32-bit ARM core, but Apple knowing they would move to AArch64 3 years later and not wanting to make devs recompile their apps (or have to support both ISAs on the Watch)
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Office on the Mac has been 64-bit (only) for the last 3 years, and it should work fine in Catalina.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Exactly. In the days of WWDC 2003/2004 there were numerous separate Cocoa/Carbon sessions, and the Carbon message was to go fully to HIToolbox and Carbon Events. Carbon NIBs even existed, although the format (XML) and concept (def
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by mrpippy 7y ago
The screenshot is from classic Mac OS, which means it’s at least 15 years old. I love the classic Mac OS, but a product being actively sold for much newer OSes needs up-to-date screenshots.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
I worked on a product that used Lua and didn’t particularly like it. I’ve never used it, but I do like the syntax and style of Wren ( http://wren.io/ )
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Windows 10 on ARM has been shipping for over a year, and it has an x86 (but not x86-64) emulator. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/
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by mrpippy 7y ago
It's odd that they would announce it's powered by a Snapdragon 855--a chip which is already a year old, and will be two years old by the time this device actually launches. Hopefully they'll upgrade that before launch.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Costco now has sauce machines as well, basically a big turntable with a dispenser arm. https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/how-costco-makes-its-pi...
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by mrpippy 7y ago
The Tezro and Octane both have prominent power-on lights, but I think they're tasteful and cool.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
ProtoThreads can use Duff's device to implement its "local continuations", but it's not the only implementation. There's an alternate one that uses the "labels as values" feature supported by GCC and Clang
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Same, I bought almost all the parts for my Ryzen 3600 upgrade from Micro Center. Prices were great, pick up was easy, and they reflashed the BIOS for free in 30 mins.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
I remember those, the one in Tustin also had pictures of industry luminaries (RMS, Bill Gates, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Woz, etc) inside, posted high on the walls around the edge of the building. Just going there takes me back to the prope
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by mrpippy 7y ago
They could put CarPlay on just part of the screen (this is what Volvo does)
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Haha that was because the base Indy was shipping with 16MB of RAM and IRIX 5 was too bloated for that to be usable. Meanwhile everyone with Indigos kept running IRIX 4 until things got better around 5.3. The Indy had XZ graphics available,
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Once the inevitable native ports start appearing, I’d love to see an OpenGL 1 graphical backend so it can run natively on IRIX
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Those brochures are probably worth real money on eBay if you still have them, a PowerSeries brochure just sold for $200! By the time the Indy came out, the Indigo2 had replaced the Indigo, and I suspect a midrange Indy was a good match for
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by mrpippy 7y ago
I'd love to see this happen, but the realist side of me would bet money that no American will cast a vote on a FreeBSD/RISC-V machine in the next 5 years.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
On some microcontrollers, marking variables/arrays as const allows the compiler to access them directly from flash rather than having to copy them into RAM at startup. I used this to great effect on a PIC24 with 256KB flash/16KB
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by mrpippy 7y ago
The source of the “data” is Speedtest.net tests, which is absolutely not an actual survey. At best, it represents the average speed of “enthusiasts who like to test their internet speed”. Who, not surprisingly, are going to have faster conn
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by mrpippy 7y ago
I don’t have any experience with it, but NetBSD still supports these machines (although the 660LX isn’t listed in the support table, not sure why) http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/hpcsh/
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by mrpippy 7y ago
It's worth remembering that the storage architecture of T2-based Macs (like this MacBook Air) is very different from previous Macs and any PCs. The T2 chip is an Apple ARM SoC running Darwin/XNU (basically a cut-down iOS). It conn
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Right, the projectors themselves aren’t VGA-only (because of course they’re not—-when did you last see a VGA-only monitor?). But the room infrastructure often still is, so there’s only a VGA cable coming out of the wall.
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by mrpippy 7y ago
I’ve never used it, but the desktop app is Electron
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Yeah, prying the frunk open and cutting the battery cables is the first thing they do in the video
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Apple's MPW (Macintosh Programmers Workshop) had exactly this: a tool called Commando which allowed you to graphically put together and run command lines. http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com&#x
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Wow, that touchscreen UI gave me serious flashbacks to Windows Mobile 6.1 (especially the dark theme used on the HTC Touch Diamond). Especially because the font looks like Tahoma, but even the appearance of the soft buttons is dated and the
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by mrpippy 7y ago
Apple's support for OpenCL is deprecated as of 10.14. Metal is the supported way forward.

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