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by musicale 1y ago
The target audience is everyone who wanted their Mac to run iPadOS. Without a touchscreen.
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It can't be good that aircraft fly overhead every minute or two.
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That's just the sort of thing an LLM would say.
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Apple transforms product categories from time to time, and the rest of the time improvements are incremental (though usually good). In the last 5 years or so Apple Silicon has transformed expectations, not just for Apple products but for th
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by musicale 1y ago
iPads already outsell Macs. I imagine Apple is willing to accept lower margin overall for iPad hardware (vs. Mac) since it gets a cut of iPad software sales on the App Store. This is perhaps a business reason for why you want macOS on an iP
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by musicale 1y ago
CP/M had a BIOS with a documented API.
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> standardized hardware interface that isolated the OS from the hardware Exactly the point of having a BIOS. CP/M had one as well.
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Amazing that Tandy managed to turn success into failure twice in the PC market.
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> mistakes that made clones possible You mean like publishing the system board schematics and a full source listing for the BIOS? That seems to have been surprisingly normal for PCs in the late 1970s. Apple also published schematics and
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by musicale 1y ago
> A company like Digital could have made the PDP-11 into 'the PC' They did! I kind of want one of these PDP-11 based PCs: 1977: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathkit_H11 1982: https://en.wikipe
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by musicale 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591578
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Intentionally open. As noted above, Apple published schematics and ROM source code. IBM published system board schematics as well as the BIOS source code.
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> Because IBM’s BIOS was soon reverse engineered Someone might also have read the BIOS source code listing that IBM provided: https://archive.org/details/IBMPCIBM5150TechnicalReference63...
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by musicale 1y ago
> If they were not swimming in a pool of money this wouldn't happen. Interestingly enough, Apple helped to develop a version of Linux running on the Mach microkernel, and handed out thousands of MkLinux CDs at WWDC and MacWorld Bost
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by musicale 1y ago
Many of them aren't tiny and hit 30mph or more, and as you note people ride them anywhere and everywhere: bike paths, sidewalks, school campuses, and other areas where motor vehicles are normally restricted.
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by musicale 1y ago
You can examine the Mona Lisa to study Leonardo's actual brush strokes, materials, underpainting, etc. It's hard to make an exact copy of it that can provide the same insight, though high-resolution 3-d scans (including x-ray&#x2F
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by musicale 1y ago
> But alchemy was wrong Yet alchemists developed and refined many important chemical processes including crystallization, distillation, evaporation, synthesis of acids/bases/salts, etc., as well as many useful substances and co
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I also found the Tcl implementation to be easy to read and understand.
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by musicale 1y ago
Epic's argument is very understandable: they don't want to pay the same kind of platform fees to Apple for having Fortnite in the App Store that they are paying Nintendo for having Fortnite in the eShop, etc. Makes a lot of sense.
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by musicale 1y ago
> The pre-eminent mainframe architecture these days (z/Architecture) is categorized as CISC. Very much so. It's largely a register-memory (and indeed memory-memory) rather than load-store architecture, and a direct descendant o
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> That never happened in MacOS Oh you've gotten lucky then. Or somehow disabled crowdstrike.
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> crowdstrike It is incredible that crowdstrike is still operating as a business. It is also hard to understand why companies continue to deploy shoddy, malware-like "security" software that decreases reliability while increasi
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by musicale 1y ago
> a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable. Note those docker containers are running in a linux VM! Of course they are on Wind
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by musicale 1y ago
IIRC Apple hired one of the developers of mptcp. Makes sense since they could implement it both on user devices as well as server-side for their cloud services. Google can probably do the same thing (or similar with multipath quic). It woul
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by musicale 1y ago
It's sad that the more generous, user-friendly trial policy led to worse sales. ;-(
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by musicale 1y ago
I always assumed that the rug shops were for money laundering. Palo Alto may buy a lot of rugs, but it seems like one shop should be sufficient to supply the entire city. Though now I am imagining Palo Alto rolling out its new, grand vision
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by musicale 1y ago
> Do you know how difficult it is to exercise your freedom to install software on an Android? Download the APK, open it, and tap past the warnings? https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-apks-31494/ Isn&#x2
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by musicale 1y ago
> Imagine if our cars were like phones. When you take your Honda out for a spin, if it couldn't visit certain destinations What web sites are you seeing that are blocked on Android (or is is just an issue in Chrome?) Have you tried
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Berkeley has more Nobel prizes (and actual elements in the periodic table); Stanford has more Turing awards (with MIT at #2 between Stanford and Berkeley). > However the raw number of graduates is not at all comparable between the two Th
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Smartphone game stores aren't the only option for game developers. They could go with Nintendo eShop (30% platform fee), or Sony PSN store (30% platform fee), or Xbox store (30% platform fee). Hmm, maybe there's a trend here? More

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