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by sjwright 6y ago
I think it's an even money that Apple Silicon will mark the introduction of touch to macOS. In fact with Apple planning to make a big deal out of Silicon Macs natively supporting iOS apps, I'll be surprised if these Macs don'
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by sjwright 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see if capital-s Silicon becomes synonymous with Apple SOCs. After all, Chrome did it to user interfaces and nobody bats an eyelid about that any more.
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I strongly disagree. Apple needs real hardware in stores in order to get Apple Silicon into the hands of the long tail of Mac developer community and to light a fire under developers to get their stuff released. As for most "normal&quo
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by sjwright 6y ago
ARM has no exposure to any end consumers and takes the tiniest sliver from each sale—if anything at all. Tiktok can deliver arbitrary content to hundreds of millions of people’s eyeballs around the planet.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I wonder if this might be life reflecting art (or whatever) if the GPT-3 corpus is seeded with contemporary writing. Trump’s words are likely the most repeated of anyone in the past few years—within the anglosphere at least.
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by sjwright 6y ago
By that definition, if you want to be realistic about it, every OS vendor with regular software updates has the ability to do anything they like on any device they like.
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The same way as they validate the serial UART: by validating its application. Does the CPU fail if it’s close to an x-ray machine or an MRI? Intel isn’t going to tell you that.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> As for x86_64, the patents would expire in either 2020 or 2023 Those patents (if any) would surely be held by its inventor, AMD, to which Apple has a healthy corporate relationship.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Your response proves my point. As you are someone who knows that that an accountant saves you enough in taxes to justify the expense, you are a person who has time or resources to strategise their interactions with the tax system. Many pe
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Such life critical applications would be validated for safety by the product manufacturer/integrator, not by Intel.
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Meanwhile, Apple is gearing up for extensive x86 emulation capability within macOS on Apple Silicon, so I guess the minefield isn't as dangerous as Intel implies. Or perhaps Apple is happily licensing patents? If so, that suggests that
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'd be curious to experiment with a file system where all of the file and path metadata is centrally stored in a sqlite blob. Is sqlite fast enough for dealing with file system metadata requests?
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by sjwright 6y ago
English is exceptionally beautiful. And I hate it.
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Even though I know the correct meanings, no matter how hard I try the word “flammable” sounds to me like “able to flame” while “inflammable” sounds like “incapable of flame”. I hate English.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Deductions are a tax break for people who have time or resources to strategise their interactions with the tax system.
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The difference is that India has a very large population willing to train for the relevant skills. America does not.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> And yet it has been, really, quite successful. Has it though? Because Hungary begs to differ. I'll agree that for a large subset (France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, in particular) the EU has indeed been a successful experi
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by sjwright 6y ago
Language is a barrier to cultural union. It can be a blindfold to the rest of the world who are not invited into many parts of contemporary Hungarian culture. It can be a blindfold for its citizens, limiting exposure to external culture. Wi
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by sjwright 6y ago
The EU is trying to have its cake and eat it too. An economic union with independent economies. A political union with independent politics. A human rights union with ghettos of language. It's ridiculous that anyone thought a union bet
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Funding doesn't have to mean editorial control. Around the world there are numerous instances of Government-funded news publishers and broadcasters that have superior editorial independence than their commercial competitors. The BBC in
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The up–down orientation unquestionably comes from the near-universality of light sources being above you. You'll notice that intense up-lighting is almost never found in the natural or artificial world. (It's true that upwards-fir
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by sjwright 6y ago
The only evidence that we have that humans have the sensation of consciousness is our own experience and the assumption that we're not special. Dogs might share with us this sensation of consciousness, or a less crisp sensation, or non
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> If you write off consciousness as illusory, don't you have to write off suffering as illusory? Just because it’s illusory doesn’t mean you can or should write it off. Illusion is not a synonym for unimportant, so please do not p
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I see no reason why consciousness cannot be nothing more than a fully self-contained illusion instantiated by physical brains operating in a physical universe, an emergent consequence of sufficient complexity of processing. Our consciousnes
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In the case of an appliance device where the XML file was externally supplied? Continue as though the file never existed (and possibly also delete the XML file).
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I agree that writing your own login routines is not hard, except I wouldn’t want anyone to have the impression that it’s trivial. It’s not trivial. It requires some knowledge to do it well. Off the top of my head—choice of unique identifier
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I think you are grossly underestimating just how large a 747 is.
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Assuming you don’t have a 1500–2000 metre heavy aircraft runway in your backyard, it’s the shipping costs that would likely kill you.
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“Destructive”, regardless how minor, should be intentional or at the very least conscious. This is one of the various reasons why serious audio processing is done as 32 bit float: no (practical) risk of unexpected overflows.
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Precisely—and this circumstance is retirement with no prospect of a quick sale. At a guess, they’ll probably have limited parts value, only that which would be valuable to operators of 747 freighters. Mainly the engines, if they’re in good

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