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by mrpippy 2y ago
Today’s Xcode 15.4 RC suggests that “Donan” is the M4 core codename, and that it may support ARM’s SME instructions. https://mastodon.social/@bshanks/112401605018159567
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by mrpippy 2y ago
If Google cares enough, then yeah probably. They have an emulator (libhoudini) to run ARM apps on x86 (Chrome OS being the main use case)
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by mrpippy 2y ago
The Fury program being sold here was developed by Blue Force Technologies (founded in 2010), which Anduril purchased last year.
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by mrpippy 2y ago
The change happened in March, so the timing at least lines up. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-formally-drops-fsd-beta-moni...
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by mrpippy 2y ago
I guess it's now called "FSD (Supervised)" (with footnote: "Active driver supervision required; does not make the vehicle autonomous.") What a silly and self-contradictory name. "Full", until it isn't
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Apple Silicon CPU Optimization Guide(idmsa.apple.com)
2 points by mrpippy 2y ago|1 comments
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by mrpippy 2y ago
Posted by Apple this week (but requires Apple ID login and a scary EULA)
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Very cool. Was Bali going to be the next high-end architecture after InfiniteReality? (I think IR was code-named “Kona” so the tropical codenames fit) Why did they cancel it, money running out? It’s sad to think they were close to a new arc
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by mrpippy 3y ago
My goodness, at a high school? Like Indys, or O2s? Was this a private school?
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by mrpippy 3y ago
What did you work on at SGI during your brief stint?
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by mrpippy 3y ago
The "sgi" logo was a big step down from the cube, but it was a lot more attractive than the Rackable/Silicon Graphics International "sgi" logo that looked like a cheap knockoff of the previous one. https:/&#x2
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Note that macOS guest support ended with ESXi 7.0: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88698 Running macOS is only supported/licensing-compliant on Apple-branded hardware anyway, and with the supported Intel Macs
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Japan isn’t as threatened as Taiwan, but is still liable to earthquakes, tsunamis, and is uncomfortably close to both North Korea and Russia.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
The title should probably be "WebKit *on non-Apple platforms* switching to Skia..."
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by mrpippy 3y ago
You should try it with the latest version: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/06/apple-id-security-keys-...
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by mrpippy 3y ago
In a couple years they won’t make any software for those chips either
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by mrpippy 3y ago
The Centris 610 had the 68LC040, which lacked a floating-point unit. Mac apps were not supposed to depend on the FPU being present, but I guess LabVIEW did. I assume they just replaced your 68LC040 with a full 68040.
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I don't think it’s that, D-AIMK is in the air right now. Also, they stupidly list the aircraft location as Rolling Hills Estates because the broker is based there. LAX is the only nearby airport that could handle an A380, but it’s a ve
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Long ago, Insignia Solutions (famous for the SoftPC/SoftWindows emulators) had a product called NTrigue which I think later turned into Citrix MetaFrame? Not sure about the lineage. Anyway, it was an early NT terminal server product. I
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by mrpippy 3y ago
> This article totally reminded me of one I read in the Atlantic many years ago Probably “The Lessons of ValuJet 592” by William Langewiesche (who has written many excellent pieces on plane and ship crashes) https://www.theatl
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I still have the receipts from when my dad bought GraphicConverter (with a carbon-paper credit card receipt in DM) and ZTerm for Mac back in the mid-90s. GraphicConverter is still actively maintained today (although that license isn’t still
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Even in the OpenFirmware PowerPC era, BootX was a reasonably popular classic MacOS app that worked the same way for booting into Linux (and confusingly, was also the name of a Mac OS X bootloader component). I think the BeOS loader also wor
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by mrpippy 3y ago
It’s worth noting that use of NEHotspotHelper requires a special entitlement (com.apple.developer.networking.HotspotHelper) that you have to apply for, and presumably Apple won’t grant unless your app has a legitimate need for it. That sai
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I guess the difference here is that there's 3 separate parties: McDonalds corporate, Taylor (makes the ice cream machines), and the franchisee. McDonalds requires the franchisee to buy a specific machine from Taylor (or a dramatically
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I love that "source code" was apparently too arcane a phrase to appear in the New York Times, so they describe it as "original programmer's instructions"
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VMware still committed to Fusion, Workstation(blogs.vmware.com)
15 points by mrpippy 3y ago|6 comments
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Interesting, how does Beeper avoid including it?
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by mrpippy 3y ago
To me, the more concerning paragraph is the next one: > Note: The binary that generates this “validation data” is highly obfuscated. pypush sidesteps this issue by using a custom mach-o loader and the Unicorn Engine to emulate an obfusca
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by mrpippy 3y ago
Killing i386 support allowed: - dropping the “legacy” ObjC runtime, which lacked many features of the “modern” runtime that all other Apple platforms use. In particular, Swift couldn’t be used in system frameworks as long as the legacy runt
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by mrpippy 3y ago
I had no idea Clang had this rewriter, what an odd feature to keep around for all these years. I wonder if Apple actually uses/used it for anything.

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