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by mrpippy 8y ago
Snarky but I can't resist: given Ford's share price since he took over, investors seem to be asking the same question
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Location: Orange County, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Embedded Linux (including GStreamer, Yocto, board bringup, kernel drivers, application-level software). Embedded firmware (ARM, PIC, Nordic nRF, Bluetooth classic
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Fox Rocked by $179M 'Bones' Ruling(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The Honda Clarity is their current plug-in hybrid (unfortunately not available in the Accord any more)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Interesting, I never considered how different the CPUs were (despite implementing very similar ISAs). The G5 was 2x2.0 GHz with OoO, Xenon was 3x3.2 GHz with 2-way SMT and no OoO
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Apple had always maintained (and publicly released!) Darwin on x86 dating back to OPENSTEP and the Rhapsody DRs, but much of the “Mac OS X” frameworks and pieces on top were definitely not running on x86 without more work. Think Carbon, Qui
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The Power Mac G5 SDK for the Xbox 360(journaldulapin.com)
2 points by mrpippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I'm not sure it is that big of a deal, but I read elsewhere that the stand is capable of supporting engines with up to 150,000 pounds of thrust. This is significantly more than any engine currently flying. The GE90 used on the 777-300E
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I suspect the reasoning is to prevent malware/spyware from setting up an always-on VPN without the user’s permission (i.e. the recent Facebook/Onavo scandal). Without using NetworkExtension, a kext is needed (which now require fai
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I don't think there's any way a magazine would profile a senior Apple exec without Apple PR being deeply involved.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Exactly. Whereas porting away from OpenVMS is a lot of effort, so it's worth the effort for VMS Software to port OpenVMS to x86_64
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by mrpippy 8y ago
If they get sued, this will be why. Other TV services go to much greater lengths to check location, with server-side geotracing and/or mandating use of mobile apps which access cellular/GPS location
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by mrpippy 8y ago
This is awesome, best of luck to them. I'm curious what kind of re-encoding they do though, and what the end-result bitrates are. I would love to see a service like this that had a sensible API available so 3rd-party DVR software (Myth
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I remember when San Diego streetlights had radios strapped to them for the Ricochet wireless internet service. 56-128 Kbps wireless internet was a damn cool thing to see back in the late 90s/early 00s. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The Calendar and Contacts Server that used to come with macOS Server is written in Python, I can’t think of any system utilities implemented with Python though. And once Python comes with the system (I think it has since at lest 10.4), the
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by mrpippy 8y ago
That is true, and they’re planned to stay in service (with new engines and radars) until at least 2050! They fly a lot less than a commercial airliner though, with wing surfaces limited to ~30,000 hours. ( https://www.globalsecu
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Some notable airlines have retired their 767 fleets recently. British Airways did a few months ago, a former BA 767 pilot posted a fantastic retrospective: https://tim-the-pilot.co.uk/2018/11/23/a-personal-ref
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by mrpippy 8y ago
They have exactly the same rear camera (the XS just adds an additional camera with a telephoto lens)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
ObjC was definitely seen as a dead-end at the time: it would either be replaced with Java, or maybe Mac developers would just stick with Carbon and C/C++. Either way, all driver development (on classic Mac, Windows, Unix) was in C, and
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by mrpippy 8y ago
> macOS Mojave shipped with four native apps that Apple had ported over from iOS. These apps were clearly examples intended to incentivize third-party creators into using the new API. This is not the case at all. 3rd parties can't (
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by mrpippy 8y ago
MpegDec is able to play MP3s on 68040 Macs (although with lowered quality settings and maybe even only mono). An SE/30 with an accelerator might be capable at really low quality. http://www.jwgdesign.com/mpegdec/ab
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I'm personally maintaining mbed TLS for classic Mac (68k included) for use in a libssh2-powered SSH client (an update of MacSSH). It works well on PPC, but I haven't benchmarked it on a 68k Mac yet. Without any optimized assembly,
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Could be useful for platforms which don’t have Rust support (Mac OS X < 10.7 comes to mind)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I stand corrected--this is exactly what they're going to do. Take Win32 Chromium, rename it Edge, and build it for Win7, 8, and 10. What a huge blow to everyone at MS who believes in UWP. https://www.theverge.com/2018&#
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Tweet from journalist Simon Le Gros Bisson: EdgeHTML and Chakra will still be maintained; I was told that the transition to Chromium for web views in UWP and the like is a longer term plan. https://twitter.com/sbisson/s
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by mrpippy 8y ago
In this case, I think "supported" means what Microsoft calls "Mainstream Support" (1). Windows 7 and 8.1 are both in "Extended Support", which only gets security updates. Mainstream support for Win7 ended in 20
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by mrpippy 8y ago
It's hard to glean technical details from the post, but "We will move to a Chromium-compatible web platform for Microsoft Edge on the desktop" indicates to me that this will be Edge based on Blink, not the full Chromium shell
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Agreed. I see zero chance that Edge will suddenly be ported back to Windows 7. And it would be almost as big of a shock if the Chromium-based Edge is not UWP.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
I'm doubtful they would/can change the controls over transparently. My guess is that once the Chromium engine is ready, binaries built against new Windows SDKs will use Chromium, and existing binaries will continue to use EdgeHTML
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Either that or 1080i, depending on the channel. Disney/ABC/ESPN networks all use 720p, as do Fox networks. CBS/NBC and all their networks produce in 1080i. There may be some 4K or 1080p on-demand or special event content (i.e

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