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by pmjordan 13y ago
You can't submit apps built against the beta SDK to the app store. So in many cases, there is no way for the developer to remedy the situation until Apple deems a particular release candidate as The One, at which point they start accep
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Or atrocities committed by organised religion, even though such action is considered a horrific sin according to the same religion's scripture. (it doesn't always have to be nation states - the size of the tribe doesn't seem
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It's been progressively updated (faster speeds, more reliable, more secure[1]) and in recent years, standardised (I think we're on the second version of the standard now) to enable interop/less interference between gear from
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With the "old" compose UI, you can/could click the box-with-arrow button to transition into a new browser tab or window. Solves the same problem without trying to re-invent windows in HTML. I'm guessing this didn't
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You may be surprised to hear that knowing how to swim is still far from a universal skill.
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I'm fairly sure that's not right. If listening to Metal has taught me anything, Perkele is a Pagan god/the Christian devil. I suspect the EU legal texts that Google uses to train its translator don't use the phrase very
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The question is not so much "where is NUMA effective," but, "given that for highest speeds memory needs to be attached directly to the CPU, how do we deal effectively with the case of multiple CPUs?" If you want multi-so
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You should at least be able to control that with regular CPU affinity from software.
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All modern CPUs have memory controllers built in as opposed to using a distinct "northbridge" chip. The RAM attaches directly to the CPU socket (or soldered BGA). In multi-socket systems, this means there are memory buses coming o
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Except there are Thunderbolt-to-PCIe enclosures, which come with their own set of problems (latency, hotplugging, I/O memory range allocation, bandwidth, not to mention cost). But I guess Apple can just say "we don't support
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The Mac pro only has one CPU because that's all they could fit in. I suspect the real reason is that Apple still {can't be bothered|can't figure out how} to add NUMA support to OS X. The existing 2-socket Mac Pros have been
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For better debugging and diagnostics, I like my macros to do as little as possible. Plus, if the generated code is the same for all types apart from an offset calculation, duplicating it is silly. If you look at the slist, slist_queue and d
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I'm not a fan of macros either, which is why I've ended up implementing hybrid C data structures, with the logic in functions, and some optional type helpers in macros: https://github.com/pmj/genccont Anyway,
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Older 30" screens tend to only have DL-DVI ports.
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I had that problem a few years ago, and it turned out to be a precursor to the adapter failing altogether. I got it replaced under warranty and the new one has been working fine for years. So it might be worth trying to get yours replaced.
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1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place(bbc.co.uk)
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Yeah, I've noticed the same in Southern Africa. By 8-9pm I was always totally ready to go to sleep, and I'd actually be pretty happy to get up at 4:30~5:00am. Although we had artificial lighting, it was fairly low-wattage incandescent. Duri
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Oddly enough, it does share the life/death subtext.
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Have you configured his iMac to run in HiDPI mode, using the "Quartz Debug" tool? (free download in the "Graphics Tools for Xcode" bundle from Apple's developer area) That at least increases the sharpness of the text, rather than the plain
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As far as I know, this is exactly the rationale, actually. Say you have: struct a { int a;} struct b { int b;} struct c : a, b { }; c myc; c* p1 = &myc; b* pb1 = p1; // correctly points to myc's base b, which is offset
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I have to say I'm rather skeptical - the author doesn't say anything about installing the special "late 2012" version of OSX 10.8.2[1] which supposedly contains the functionality. Moreover, as far as I can tell, he's just combined the two d
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I don't really know much about the movie business, but my understanding is that new companies are incorporated for each individual movie project. The investors (of cash, franchise IP, or time) receive shares in that movie's corporation. P
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I can't comment on the quality of the theory described here, but I hope you realise there is silicon everywhere - most common minerals contain a substantial proportion of Si.
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LED at 50: An illuminating history by the light's inventor(bbc.co.uk)
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So this is all very well and good, I've had about 5 intros to Bayesian Statistics. But those are a fair bit away from actually applying that knowledge in practice in software. Let's say we have N different kinds of events with unknown proba
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Oct 5th deadline to comply with Twitter’s new tweet Display Requirements(thenextweb.com)
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They haven't done this for vulnerabilities in either 3.1.3 or 4.2.1, the other two EOL versions. I guess there probably aren't enough users of these to make them attractive to exploits, but the number of users stuck on iOS5 will likely stay
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Shorter .uk Internet domain proposed by Nominet(bbc.com)
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Can electronics be designed in a way so that it has a very long life? NASA seem to be pretty good at that. I guess it's a question of cost more than anything else.
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The latest version (if it works) - iTunes on your Mac/PC should store the latest compatible one though. Yes, it's a mess. Apple really need some kind of plan for discontinued devices. What happens when a critical flaw is discovered in Mobil

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