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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
That’s not true. VMWare has worked well for years. I used on my Intel Macs for years.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
Does it still give an error trying to log in with your Apple ID? I had a version of this working months ago but it was pretty useless without iCloud or my developer account. I guess I should test it.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
It’s fixed in the release candidates for iOS and MacOS. The release of those should come next week.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
"Bored now"
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
According to the conclusion in the white paper, they tested for endurance only to 10^7 with no degradation. Obviously that is not enough for a real system.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
The number of transistors produced in 2021 is a bit mind boggling if you do the math. These are nanotechnology produced at a rate by humans that rivals any large physics number. By my calculation, Apple alone via TSMC produces something lik
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
He started off well with the history of civilization collapse but then he got the heart of his presentation with the misguided idea that modern software is more broken recently. He showed some incomprehensible bugs in Visual Studio. All I h
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
I have a Roku that I block from the internet. It blinks an obnoxious red led to complain it can’t phone home. I need some gaffer’s tape to cover it up I guess.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
Where is the function is_halting() ?
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
Neither Apple, Microsoft, nor Parallels is planning to support x86-64 Windows on Apple silicon. You can run emulation software like QEMU and it works but it is very slow. UTM uses QEMU.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
Apple uses the Arm Aarch64 instruction set with Apple silicon which is Arm IP. I don't believe that any Apple silicon uses any other Arm IP but who really knows since it is likely Apple would have written any contracts to prevent discl
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
Mind blowing progress! So impressed with the Asahi team.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
At the time PC was generic for personal computer. Only later was it associated with the IBM PC.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
My favorite is the 8k static memory board. It has 64 RAM chips which means each one comes in at a whopping 128 bytes or 1k bits.
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by thoughtsimple 5y ago
I think you meant: https://xkcd.com/1244/
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
I can't remember, did that ever actually ship?
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
M1 MacBook Air Apple M1 OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Azul Systems, Inc., 16+36 parsing random integers in the range [0,1) === number of trials 32 ===== FastDoubleParser.parseDouble MB/s avg: 492.324205, min: 479.57, max: 516.26 Double.pa
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
No M1 Mac has replaced any Mac with a discrete GPU. Not yet anyway. The Mini, 13" MacBook Pro and MacBook Air never have had discrete GPUs.
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
Now that Homebrew is up and running on Apple Silicon, I haven't found too much that doesn't work. MacPorts seems to mostly working too though at this point brew seems more up to date. If you want to get an M1 Mac for development,
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
Docker tech preview seems to work pretty well so I'm not sure what you mean "especially docker". The Docker M1 preview also supports x86_64 emulation with QEmu reasonably well. https://docs.docker.com/docker-f
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
The A12x and A12z don’t have hypervisor support. So the hvf accelerator isn’t going to work.
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
S100 was also a widely used industrial bus. My first job out of college (1980s) was writing software for a machine tool where the controller was a custom s100 80186 motherboard and a bunch of ROM and static RAM s100 boards. We used a ton of
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
How does Moore's law figure into this? I suspect that TSMC runs into the wall that is quantum physics at around 1-2nm. Considering that TSMC has said that they will be in full production of 3nm in 2022, I can't see 1nm being much
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
VMs work. Qemu is working with patches. You have to build it though. None of the releases seems to be patched yet. There is an early preview of Parallels. Both Linux and Windows on Arm are working. Docker has an early release as well. There
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
Is there some reason why the origin of the experiment is relevant?
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
The title of the article is "Physicists in China challenge Google's 'quantum advantage'. And the article does refute Google's claims of quantum advantage with references. "But some quantum researchers contested
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
For most of their existence, DEC had very aggressive IBM like sales people. They sold large systems. When they tried the Rainbow, they pretty much did everything wrong. They didn't have a sales staff that knew how to sell a $2000 compu
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
As far as I know, Apple doesn't manufacture anything. All manufacturing is outsourced. So it isn't likely that they will want to build a fab for several 10's of billions of dollars even thought they probably could.
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
It seems very focused on Python (not that there is anything wrong with that.) I tried to see if I could run a very basic Java Servlet application and there doesn't seem to be a way to make it work. Again, nothing wrong with that but it
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by thoughtsimple 6y ago
You can get M1 native Java JDK from Azul. https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?package=jdk

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