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by mrpippy 11y ago
And to be exceedingly pedantic, a signal handler should only modify a 'volatile sig_atomic_t' variable. I assume this is just typedef'd to a machine word on all typical POSIX platforms though.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Source? They said in the WWDC session ( http://asciiwwdc.com/2015/sessions/706 ) that the process to disable rootless may change during the beta, but didn't say that it won't be possible in the GM. They kn
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Look closely and you'll see Don Melton ("Gramps") who was responsible for the Mac port at the time, then went to Eazel, then to Apple where he managed Safari from its creation. He's now retired from Apple and does some e
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by mrpippy 11y ago
DriverKit was the NeXTSTEP 3 driver environment, and it was written in ObjC. In old mailing lists posts ( https://www.geeklair.net/~dluke/PCIdevice_tutorial.txt ), Godfrey van der Linden (one of the IOKit architects) mad
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by mrpippy 11y ago
> Other devices (e.g. Galaxy Nexus, Droid Bionic, HTC One X+) married Qualcomm LTE radios with non-Qualcomm SoCs The Verizon Galaxy Nexus and Droid Charge (both made by Samsung) actually didn't use any Qualcomm chips. Samsung baseba
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I've used vnstat for traffic monitoring on Linux/BSD routers for years, simple and does the job. The on-disk format is not machine-independent though, I had to start my records over when OpenBSD went to 64-bit time_t.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Those pointers always need to be defined as volatile anyway
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by mrpippy 11y ago
For the for loop example, is there some reason why clang doesn't output a warning like "Does 'i' really need to be signed? If so, explicitly make it a 'signed int'. Otherwise, change it to be unsigned"
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by mrpippy 11y ago
> I would say that the Vita is the most secure consumer embedded device that's out today Moreso than the PS4 and XBONE?
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Or just use gfxCardStatus to lock your machine to the integrated GPU all the time
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Which can be done by running 'clang' from a terminal. And if you want the full Xcode, install from the App Store with just an Apple ID needed, again for free.
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by mrpippy 12y ago
ARM9/ARM11 were replaced by the Cortex-A series cores (contain an MMU, external RAM required, runs full OSes like Linux or WinCE)
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by mrpippy 12y ago
The current one is a derivative of NetBSD's implementation (where it shells out to use a sh builtin)
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Yes, pre-2005 the ILECs were required to "offer that wireline broadband transmission component separately from their Internet service as a stand-alone service on a common-carrier basis" https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_p
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by mrpippy 12y ago
> Additionally, full-blown Visual Studio is totally free now. Not exactly. Anyone inside an "enterprise organization" (according to Microsoft's arbitrary definition) is even worse off than before, because Microsoft won&#x2
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Right, and/or just make the connection to the vehicle bus read-only in hardware . i.e. leave the CAN controller's TX line disconnected. I can't see a reason why a device like this would need to transmit on CAN.
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by mrpippy 12y ago
I've also had lots of problems with Yosemite, but I don't think this comparison is useful at all. The Hackintosh looks like a fresh install with nothing else running, whereas the rMBP has other apps running. When I don't have
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Qualcomm has seen exploding revenues, now pushing $30 billion per annum and great profit margins. It is anything but a "commodity" market, and a few makers are making gangbusters. That is almost entirely from sales for Android
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by mrpippy 12y ago
The cost of developing an ARM core would need to be paid for solely by sales of ARM chips. By sharing x86 and graphics cores with all their other chips, that R&D is amortized across everything (and the financials for the Mobile division
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by mrpippy 12y ago
> Right now there are people who are running Android on Intel devices and they have absolutely no idea that they are. This is good for consumers, but terrible for Intel. Once Intel stops wrapping a $50 bill around every Android tablet ch
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Unfortunately it's still not dead: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/windows-embed... The target markets are pretty limited: obviously not smartphones, not automotive infotainment, really just ve
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by mrpippy 12y ago
> Make decent looking apps for each platform to provide functionality outside of platform supported features. CarPlay and Android Auto both do not allow arbitrary apps (which would be needed to i.e. control the head unit's FM/A
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by mrpippy 12y ago
I know of no cars in the US that are selling with Android-based head units (those Honda ones are Europe-only). There are plenty of cars with Linux-based head units though
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Yep the San Diego Fry's also moved into an Incredible Universe after they closed down (probably 15 years ago). Fry's never gave it a theme though and never even took the Incredible Universe logo off the delivery trucks
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Yeah this is a pretty odd choice, it would be fascinating to find out Motorola's reasoning. Motorola was comfortably TI's biggest OEM back when TI was actively pushing OMAP for smartphones. The original Droid (Milestone outside th
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by mrpippy 12y ago
He still has a Sun Blade 100 on his desk?
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by mrpippy 12y ago
No, it's competition for/keeping pace with Apple CarPlay. CarPlay is an extremely "sticky" part of the iOS ecosystem: if someone uses CarPlay for navigation, music playback, etc and their car only supports CarPlay, that
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by mrpippy 12y ago
Wow I'm impressed Qt runs acceptably on a Cortex M3, how much RAM do you have?
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by mrpippy 13y ago
Apple still sells 10.6 (the physical DVD) online (at it's original price, $20) for anyone still stuck on 10.5. Once you're at 10.6.8, the Mac App Store is available for further upgrades
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by mrpippy 13y ago
Anand stated in a previous article that Chinese customers were basically demanding 64-bit 4 or 8-core SoCs, just to tick checkboxes on a spec sheet. Of course it's pretty well established that 2 fast/wide cores (like Apple and Qua

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