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by pmjordan 7y ago
By "laptop memory" you mean SO-DIMMs; the only significant difference to full-size DIMMs is, well, size. Voltage and frequency tends to be the same, leaving aside extreme overclocker's RAM. In c't magazine's review
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Pretty good analysis overall, although this part is not true: > With the exception of the mac pro, Apple's entire lineup uses mobile processors. In fact their entire desktop lineup now uses desktop-grade CPUs. (except possibly some
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by pmjordan 7y ago
> ubers worth is their international recognition as a premium service Anecdotal perhaps, but that's not my impression among friends & family. (based in Central & Western Europe) Unless you consider "less likely to be to
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I don't know what boot environment this is emulating exactly, but it looks like a straightforward OVMF, presumably hacked up with HFS+ support and a bunch of Apple extensions to make macOS boot. In that case, running Mavericks should b
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by pmjordan 7y ago
VMWare doesn't use virtio as far as I'm aware.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Very recent versions of Qemu have "experimental" support for HVF, so in theory it should work. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, however, and it's possible that there are some MSRs or similar that aren't suffici
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by pmjordan 7y ago
For both iOS simulator and Safari, the lack of GPU acceleration can be a problem, depending on what/how you're trying to test, and also depending on OS version. I believe Xcode 11 requires a Metal-capable GPU in order to even run.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
This should no longer be necessary with newer Qemu versions (since 2.10 or 2.11 I think) as the USB tablet's device descriptor has been fixed to be standards-compliant in Qemu. (Source: I'm the author of both that driver and the Q
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by pmjordan 8y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy#Humans Although I have my doubts that this is what the mystics you're referring to are talking about.
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by pmjordan 8y ago
I think I've spotted iOS clearing the clipboard if you task-switch after pasting the contents into a password input field. Which is presumably precisely to defend against this kind of data theft.
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by pmjordan 8y ago
It's a bit of a reach to call Instruments a replacement for DTrace. A replacement for a subset of DTrace perhaps. And maybe they'll massively expand it over the next few macOS/Xcode versions. Or maybe it'll suffer the sa
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by pmjordan 8y ago
As with all these things, "sucks" is relative, and there are low paying jobs for anywhere in the stack. There's certainly fewer employers that need full time low-level software developers. So perhaps the contract/freelan
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by pmjordan 8y ago
IMO anyone buying a fossil fuel car at this point is the one being duped by marketing. I'm guessing this is deliberate hyperbole, because it's simply not true. The OP very much has a point: aside from Tesla X, the interior space
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by pmjordan 8y ago
Surely it's not just wealth though - if kids grow up in a family environment where breaking the law is normal, I'd very much expect that to affect their attitudes differently than if they grow up in a law-abiding family.
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by pmjordan 8y ago
Broadwell and Skylake brings nothing much substantial. Ironically, Broadwell's 128MB L4 cache did bring a substantial performance boost to a whole range of real-world applications, but it seems it's so expensive to manufacture t
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by pmjordan 8y ago
When we visited Yellowstone, one of the guides mentioned that Wyoming doesn't have any state income taxes. I suspect that might have something to do with rich people being officially resident there.
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by pmjordan 8y ago
Another outlier: Burgenland, Austria (the state where I live) has a population of less than 300000 and is shown as a distinct region
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by pmjordan 9y ago
This may be obvious, but when it's cold out, it helps to keep the phone in a warm pocket close to the body (e.g. on the inside of your coat) rather than a bag or so. I've never had any issues with iPhones that way; using it for mo
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by pmjordan 9y ago
According to heise/c't magazine[1] (highly respected German tech publication), the Vega-based APUs support HDMI 2.0 even if the motherboards only advertise HDMI 1.4 support, as the pins are directly routed from the APU package. Di
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by pmjordan 9y ago
There are some with USB-MicroB sockets, you can just use a C-to-µB cable with those, no ugly A-C adapter needed. (For example: Lindy UHC-300) I have about a gazillion other devices with Micro-B sockets anyway…
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by pmjordan 9y ago
100W is quite a bit higher TDP than any previous Mac Mini. The highest-power Minis I'm aware of are: - The Quad-Core Mac Minis from 2011 & 2012 with 45W TDP. (e.g. i7-3720QM) - The 2011 Mac Mini with dGPU with 35+26=61W TDP. (i7-26
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by pmjordan 9y ago
I think you should be able to do something like this with git filter-branch This won't be a terribly fun exercise, and could be very painful if your history contains a lot of merges. (should be easier with the cactus/rebase
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by pmjordan 9y ago
If in doubt, it's probably an MTU discovery issue. Initial TCP handshake succeeds, then the connection hangs on the first major payload packet (e.g. HTTP response). At least I've seen that happen on lots of awful setups. Many ISPs
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by pmjordan 9y ago
That's the one!
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by pmjordan 9y ago
I don't know if they still do it, but some years ago when I lived in the UK and later when I ordered something from amazon.co.uk while visiting, some items such as DVDs, which were marked as "sold by Amazon" were actually shi
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by pmjordan 10y ago
They already show a "this app may slow down your device" alert occasionally when you open a 32-bit app. This was added with iOS 10.
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by pmjordan 10y ago
You could probably start from here: x86 Linux running in a web browser, also by Fabrice Bellard. http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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by pmjordan 10y ago
Win32 has various different calling conventions, and each function is annotated accordingly in the header files. It's all a bit of a mess, which is presumably why they drastically simplified it in the x64 transition. (And realistically
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by pmjordan 11y ago
Could the timing of this be something to do with Rambus/RDRAM patents expiring? RDRAM made it to market in the late 90s, so relevant patents could conceivably be from ~1995-1996, and would be expiring around now. I seem to remember QDR
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by pmjordan 11y ago
FLIR do an entry level smartphone attachment, "Flir One". It's not particularly precise or high-resolution, but it's a lot cheaper. (Still not cheap-cheap.)

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