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by sjwright 7y ago
The M in MTU stands for maximum, not mandatory.
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by sjwright 7y ago
A Toyota-Tesla collaboration would never happen, except that it did. We live in a truly strange world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#Second_generati...
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by sjwright 7y ago
We already have the evidence of how well it can work with the Intel transition. If anything, adding ARM to the Mac platform would be dramatically easier than the PPC-Intel transition because the ground work is already done: — Unlike in 2006
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by sjwright 7y ago
You’re right, Windows can—but whatever app important enough to justify the effort of running within a virtual machine probably can’t. (And you’re assuming that Microsoft will sell you a license for Windows on ARM in a VM, or that anyone w
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by sjwright 7y ago
I strongly disagree and for exactly the same reason you gave: because there wouldn't be any need to differentiate on technical differences. Once all developers have cross-compiled their apps, the only difference between an ARM and x86
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by sjwright 7y ago
The T2 chip is probably what these rumors refer to. I imagine there's also ongoing engineering research to incrementally beef up the role of the T2 chip as a system controller and possibly also perform more system and background tasks
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by sjwright 7y ago
> Leave your phone in a metal, security cubby and your battery will die quickly Which is the best selfish reason to remember to switch on flight mode on an aeroplane. (Also when you’re trekking in areas where you know cell coverage is no
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by sjwright 7y ago
> I went 4 months without pay. Were you still expected to show up anywhere or perform any duties? How was the situation any different to being unemployed?
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by sjwright 7y ago
And that really hinges on who is responsible for laundering said uniforms. If the employee is responsible for laundering, it is ridiculous for Apple to expect employees to not bring a personal bag to work.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The sad thing is, this could all be solved with Apple providing their employees lockers located outside of the security perimeter.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I wonder, do these security guards get searched at the end of their shifts?
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by sjwright 7y ago
Exactly this. I don't live in North America so perhaps there's different expectations there, but I'd be more worried about staff cohesion and loyalty than of occasional thefts. How should any employee take a company's co
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by sjwright 7y ago
The last four digits of your physical credit card number are stored by Apple Pay for the purposes of account identification. There are varying reports of people seeing unfamiliar (i.e. device) numbers and their card number on receipts. I&#x
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by sjwright 7y ago
Nobody said it was an Apple exclusive. But to be fair, after trying to do payments in various other ways, Google eventually built their Android payments platform to be an almost perfect 1:1 recreation of Apple Pay. (And this is a recurring
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by sjwright 7y ago
I was perfectly happy with the default/native skin for Windows 7, either with or without its transparency effects. Like most people I greatly preferred Windows XP in its classic mode because XP's default "luna" skin was
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by sjwright 7y ago
I think there's one true fundamental reason: software is a lot more difficult than we assume. We underestimate the degree to which even the most mundane program is the task of creating an entire universe and ecosystem from scraps. Even
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by sjwright 7y ago
For me, the high water mark is Snow Leopard. I don't think I remember any single operating system iteration for which I held such little contempt. I only have fond memories of it. (Second place is probably a tie between Windows 2000 an
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by sjwright 7y ago
You can have whatever kinks you want, but you can't escape the germ theory of disease.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Actually the equal-and-opposite thing was more true. They picked up the ball so hard that they believed they could compete with Android with an entire Mozilla mobile operating system. A lot of effort was wasted.
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by sjwright 7y ago
You are right that the core of Apple Pay security is functionally identical to chip and contactless transactions. However a seemingly trivial but important difference with Apple Pay is that it doesn't use your physical card number—inst
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by sjwright 7y ago
But it doesn't say "Not Google", it says "This is not an officially supported Google product." I read that as saying "Google totally made this, but please don't call tech support if it breaks."
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by sjwright 7y ago
If there's anything you don't want to confuse, it's your shit and your fuck. Keep them separate, people. Keep them separate.
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by sjwright 7y ago
At the risk of being controversial, perhaps the most modern simple invention is the internet and its ability to let randoms ask a basic question and have a thousand people contribute hundreds of cumulative man-hours to answering it. (Maybe
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by sjwright 7y ago
But then that disadvantages groups which might perform the same role outside of a religious context. Thus in practice it only serves to have Government favour a specific genre of cohesion. (Not to mention that your so-called “cohesion” also
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by sjwright 7y ago
Your question makes no sense. If a license is so restrictive to you that you can’t deploy it to testers, why would you be wanting to evaluate it in the first place? If you’re not distributing the result to other people, literally nothing yo
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by sjwright 7y ago
Recent major iOS updates have been great for performance. Where they’re being let down is in robustness, particularly where cloud syncing is involved. The iOS updates most notorious for slowing down iPhones were generally slower for a good
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by sjwright 7y ago
No codec is “ubiquitous” until it is.
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by sjwright 7y ago
How would the evaluation of any codec be hampered by any open source license?
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by sjwright 7y ago
The sad thing is, they could offer two levels of peak quality, one less than today’s and the other more than today’s—and their overall data usage rate would probably go down not up... especially if the lower bitrate was marketed as “faster
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by sjwright 7y ago
This is especially true in the UK where most rural roads are nominally 60 MPH even if they’re barely wide enough for two cars.

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