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by mrpippy 8y ago
It would be fun to do a similar port of an embeddable JS engine like Duktape ( https://duktape.org ) also
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by mrpippy 8y ago
BBEdit dates back to 1992, and I believe Tex-Edit is even older. CodeWarrior and BBEdit were both Carbonized for OS X very early (because developers needed them for bringing up other apps). I don't remember SubEthaEdit coming out until
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PlayStation Classic mixes PAL and NTSC games – and the results disappoint(eurogamer.net)
1 points by mrpippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Related tweet from last week: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim/status/1062740353533513728 Observation: Before 2014, iOS conferences were iOS conferences and was mostly about how to use the frameworks. After 2014,
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Visual Studio still isn’t even 64-bit native on Intel. I wouldn’t be surprised if that got fixed in the next year or two, but I think ARM native is farther off (depending on how well ARM machines do in the marketplace)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The feature is part of the airplane’s certification (probably added to make the handling characteristics more similar to previous 737 generations), it won’t be disabled. An FAA AD might be coming to fully document it in the FCOM, and pilots
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by mrpippy 8y ago
It's NVMe to the T2 SoC, which acts as the storage controller (among many other tasks). It would be nice to have the raw NAND on a removable card, but the market for "raw-NAND-on-a-stick" would be entirely limited to these ma
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Common? For organizations yes (much more so than today), but most users only had dialup at home even in the late 90s
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by mrpippy 8y ago
They are a lot more similar than they were when the MacBook came out a few years ago. However, the MacBook is fanless (which also means much slower) and smaller/thinner/lighter than the Air. Will the MacBook stay around? I suspect
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by mrpippy 8y ago
My personal guess is that they wanted to release the printed spec before they released the code. The spec has now been released, the 10.14 source has not, maybe apfs.kext will be in the 10.14 source drop. (also, HFS+ and its fsck have alway
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Specifically, LGPL3 since Qt 5.7. Big problem for people making embedded devices, but shouldn’t be for commercial software.
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Mortal Kombat 3 source code leaked(archive.org)
7 points by mrpippy 8y ago|1 comments
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by mrpippy 8y ago
With 2 gigabit Ethernet ports, this would make a great pfSense/OpenBSD router. Too bad the price will be over $100 though, not including a DDR4 SODIMM, but that’s the price of Intel. Great to see a well-known boardmaker coming out with
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Transmission’s Developer ID cert wasn’t compromised, the compromised binary was signed by a different developer.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Also, I think FreeBSD eliminated the giant lock ~10 years ago and maintains similarly good documentation. It’s just a matter of priorities, and SMP scalability/high performance has never been on the top of the OpenBSD list.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Correct. Even on the much bigger A330 wide body, fuel dump is only an option: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1351703
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Google is only interested in tablets that run ChromeOS, and just announced one without a headphone jack. Not sure if the low-latency audio is making it to the CrOS/Android environment either.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
We had RAM Doubler 1 and also used it on a 660AV, originally with 8MB and later 24MB of physical RAM. I remember the downloadable updates (and there were many!) could actually update the original installation floppy disk
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by mrpippy 8y ago
One of the few remaining services in macOS Server (discussed elsewhere on HN today) is Profile Manager, an Apple-developed MDM server. Given that it requires a static public IP and only runs on macOS, there's a pretty small niche that
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Or mount Mac Pros in a rack: https://www.sonnettech.com/product/rackmacpro.html
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Exactly. One of the biggest reasons why Carbon (and Mac OS X) succeeded is that Carbon apps also ran on OS 8/9. Big apps like Acrobat, Final Cut Pro, Mozilla, and many others were able to use Carbon and run on OS 9 and X.
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IRS: Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage [pdf](treasury.gov)
87 points by mrpippy 8y ago|21 comments
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by mrpippy 8y ago
On that note, I am surprised that they added Fusion-awareness to APFS, rather than just putting APFS on top of CoreStorage. It certainly is better to have the filesystem aware of the Fusion situation, but...measurably, significantly better?
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The 'Fusion' section at the end is interesting. macOS 10.13 didn't convert Fusion drives to APFS, but 10.14 will. Presumably this specific support for Fusion drives is new in 10.14. HFS+ had no knowledge about Fusion drives,
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by mrpippy 8y ago
Probably Retrospect for the backup software, it was the standard on Mac OS. I feel like 8mm was probably the most common consumer (i.e. cheap) tape format, but also could’ve been 4mm.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
> The Touchpad was only on the market for just over a month before being discontinued. Why do that? Léo Apotheker.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The test equipment and medical/chemical diagnostics business was spun off into Agilent in 1999, and Agilent then spun out the test equipment a few years ago. Keysight Technologies is now where they live on.
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by mrpippy 8y ago
The original GeForce had hardware transform and lighting (T&L), but lacked FSAA. The Voodoo5, vice-versa. In a parallel universe where 3dfx survived and thrived, maybe they would be defining FSAA to be an important part of the first mod
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by mrpippy 8y ago
It adopted features from the OPENSTEP file manager (column view, inspector vs Get Info) but I doubt shared much if any code with it. It was written in Carbon and IIRC built with CodeWarrior (at least at first)
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by mrpippy 8y ago
These were designed by Centaur Technology (based in Austin, TX), I'd love to hear from any alums (danluu?) what the purpose of the coprocessor is. BTW there's an interesting documentary about Centaur, free to watch on Prime Video.

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