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by mrpippy 2y ago
The keyboards from all those G3/G4 era PowerBooks have some kind of glue that’s broken down and now smells terrible
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by mrpippy 2y ago
It was an option in classic Mac OS, passive-matrix screens were an option on PowerBooks even into 1998's WallStreet PowerBook G3 (a machine which can officially run Mac OS X!) I can't find a screenshot of the control panel, but he
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by mrpippy 2y ago
> Through years of architectural improvements and ecosystem development, ARM gradually expanded into mobile devices, then servers, and now even high-performance desktop systems Also, a complete re-boot of the ISA with AArch64. This is a
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Tesla officially renamed it to “Full Self Driving (supervised)” a few months ago, previously it was “Full Self Driving (beta)” Both names are ridiculous, for different reasons. Nothing called a “beta” should be tested on public roads withou
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by mrpippy 2y ago
C++17 removed trigraphs
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by mrpippy 2y ago
We would still like the changes to be upstream but they may need more polish, and it spawned a conversation about the division of responsibilities between SPIRV-Cross and MoltenVK: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Metal 3 (in 2022) added mesh shaders, which can be used to emulate geometry shaders. We (CodeWeavers) are doing this in (a fork of) MoltenVK, and Apple’s D3DMetal is as well.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Mac OS X 10.3 did have support for fat binaries, it supported both ppc and ppc64 (although there were very few system libraries that could be used from ppc64). Mach-O fat binaries date back to NeXT though, since NeXTSTEP ran on many archite
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by mrpippy 2y ago
That's likely software for the receiver/router/CPE that customers use, since it's being distributed they have to satisfy license obligations for it. Software actually running on satellites isn't being distributed, s
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by mrpippy 2y ago
HP-UX also ran on Itanium, those were on sale until 2021. No one bought those without a support contract, and probably some guarantee of support for at least 10 years.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
I don’t think this will make any difference—SIM unlocking is totally separate from phone firmware
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by mrpippy 2y ago
D3D is clearly more integrated into the OS than Vulkan is. Most importantly, Windows includes a software D3D renderer (WARP) so apps can depend on it always being present (even if the performance isn’t spectacular). There are lots of situat
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by mrpippy 2y ago
In the Mac/AppKit implementation it would be interesting to try using wantsUpdateLayer: and updateLayer: instead of drawRect. That should be more efficient.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Even talking about software running on servers, I think there’s more 32-bit software than you assume. But my real worry is embedded systems, where very little is 64-bit. Almost every embedded Linux system, IoT crapware, Android anything. Al
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by mrpippy 2y ago
I think that was because the max cable length in the USB 1.0 spec is 3 meters. The fairly short captive keyboard cable plus extension was in spec, but using the extension with anything else likely wouldn’t be. Hence, the weird connector to
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by mrpippy 2y ago
After all this, even in the best case (Starliner returns successfully with Butch and Suni), it’s hard to see that NASA would consider it vetted and ready for an operational (non-test) flight. They still haven’t figured out a root cause for
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by mrpippy 2y ago
No, the Shuttle post-Columbia. The use case was that in case an orbiter sustained irreparable tile damage on launch, the crew would hole up in the ISS for weeks until a rescue Shuttle could be launched. But it was still worth seeing if the
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by mrpippy 2y ago
If Boeing wants out after this debacle, maybe Blue Origin would be interested in buying the program/IP? Starliner is launching on ULA rockets (Atlas today, Vulcan likely in the future) anyway, and BE is rumored to be purchasing them to
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by mrpippy 2y ago
APU start/run, air data probe deploy, main-landing gear arm/down, drag chute arm/deploy, and fuel cell reactant valve closure were all landing steps that could only be performed manually. Post-Columbia, they developed a cable
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by mrpippy 2y ago
This article is mostly just quoting from Ars, link should probably be: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-...
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Here’s what Eric Berger wrote at Ars Technica yesterday: “If NASA defers to its fallback plan, flying on Dragon, it may spell the end of the Starliner program. During the development and testing of Starliner, the company has already lost $1
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by mrpippy 2y ago
On Apple Silicon Macs, Homebrew installs in /opt/homebrew.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
> Once Microsoft's eBPF support for Windows becomes production-ready, Windows security software can be ported to eBPF as well. This doesn’t seem grounded in reality. If you follow the link to the “hooks” that Windows eBPF makes avai
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by mrpippy 2y ago
The exploited vulnerability (CVE-2022-21587) is some Oracle E-Business web thing, nothing Solaris-specific like it sounded from the article.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Correct. For Win32 apps, the only official support for dark mode is some WinRT APIs to tell if it’s enabled, so you can “adjust your application's painting and rendering code to use a Dark mode color set” https://learn.micro
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Fascinating, what kind of hardware/OS was used in production?
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by mrpippy 2y ago
What a damn shame, I went in 2019 and had an amazing time. Played with a NeXT cube, Sun/3, Lisa, Alto, and so many more machines.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Rosetta now supports AVX2, this is a big deal for running Windows games in CrossOver/Wine
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by mrpippy 2y ago
How odd. The patents on AC-3 expired 7 years ago, but maybe they were still paying royalties for the decoder implementation they were shipping? And since Windows hasn't included a DVD player or ATSC TV player (Windows Media Center) in
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by mrpippy 2y ago
It’s in FreeBSD ports, what’s wrong with that? https://www.freshports.org/mail/thunderbird/

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