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by vaxman 6y ago
Our hero! After reading the headline, I was like "Is it in Australia? He's buying Glen Helen Amphitheater? A RaspberryPi competitor? An AR version of Circuit Cellar?" ..then I started reading and went into full marketing buzz
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by vaxman 6y ago
We need more modern laws that define what credible software security providers are and subjects them to basic regulatory inspection (like oil refineries, for example), but also forces hardware OEMs (like Apple, Oculus, etc.) to allow these
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by vaxman 6y ago
Thank you, this is now on my AVOID list!
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by vaxman 6y ago
I was moderated for commenting about stuff like this in response to someone comparing him to Jobs. Not enough of us old guard spoke up when Jobs died, a book was released and kids started dropping acid and pulling Theranos scams on all diff
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by vaxman 6y ago
How long before 2020 Fujitsu rebinned SPARC chips are sold to OEMs for SPARCstations runnin’ popOS? It’s not like System76 is going to be able to buy M1s (dang sounds like a weapon when you put it that way ) and Ryzen might not compete with
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by vaxman 6y ago
uh, no. Well, maybe... “ On Friday, September 1, 2017, after a round of layoffs that started in Oracle Labs in November 2016, Oracle terminated SPARC design after the completion of the M8. Much of the processor core development group in Au
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by vaxman 6y ago
PS: Pro also means an extra GPU core.
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by vaxman 6y ago
> everybody wants to own the event loop Ah yes, one of my fav songs from the New Wave era
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by vaxman 6y ago
Votes are the only way the oil policy towards Middle East and Russia will change anytime soon, directly affecting China which supports Venezuela whose not-arms-length nationals created the voting machines.
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by vaxman 6y ago
The author doesn't seem to acknowledge the Mac's OSCP cache and uses vernacular that cheapens his otherwise valid point: Apple is operating a mandatory security service on behalf of its users in a non-transparent and potentially d
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by vaxman 6y ago
Apple has since explained that M1s are slightly different between the Air, Pro and Mini, accounting for the different thermal chassis. (In the case of the Pro they enable an 8th GPU core.) It sounds like they are three different chips rathe
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by vaxman 6y ago
> If it was about securing US oil, war in Venezuela and Canada would be far more sensible. Is there not a cold war between US and Venezuela right now (over nationalization of formerly American-owned oil production facilities there), some
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by vaxman 6y ago
> I started learning c recently and I want to learn embedded development, but I don't know where to start or how. After 38 years of programming in C, I'd instead recommend exploring CircuitPython.org from Limor ("Lady Ada&
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by vaxman 6y ago
Zephyr = winning! (except for the dumbass name, but could be worse, like Deb-Ian)
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by vaxman 6y ago
Pro apparently means it has an extra 100 nits and forced airflow to minimize processor throttling. It only has two serial ports and a small screen, so this was made for field use, though it does have support for a single 6K display when you
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by vaxman 6y ago
PS: 5G UltraWideband is basically a WiFi alternative in US because of the way it is being deployed, so I don’t particularly think the “tower pressure” argument is valid anymore, just that it would be reasonable to allow the tower network op
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by vaxman 6y ago
A ton of Apple people participate here on HackerNews and errbody in the industry saw the post on here about the takedown (almost 500 comments on it so far). Apple could let someone sell a full Linux distribution to run on iphones that have
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by vaxman 6y ago
Meg is part of a generation that treated devs (originally called “implementors” when she was young) like interchangeable technicians or “plumbers”. Jobs, was also part of that generation, except he was way “cooler” about it (in order to squ
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by vaxman 6y ago
If they can circumvent system security for their own purposes (even though I’m sure it wasn’t planned to be that way), then they should be open to circumventing it for our country (by backdoor-ing their encryption), at least that is how I w
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by vaxman 6y ago
The article essentially says that if Apple can’t build reliable robots to build mobile computers more efficiently that people, then it can’t really be done. This is, of course, horsepuckey, but what do you expect from an Apple blog?
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by vaxman 6y ago
good idea...but less profitable, though Facebook will continue to track these "banned" users as they roam around the network and trade on their information anyway.
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by vaxman 6y ago
Some people would process their most critical files on their cell phone if you let them. These devices have non-ECC memory, thermal concerns (that can result in component failure at the worst moment), SD card connector issues and the big on
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by vaxman 6y ago
Those avionics assembly people can go to work in the tech companies....doing what?
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by vaxman 6y ago
It’s far worse than that I’m afraid, but that’s not really important. AppStore was about enforcing expanded Human Interface Guidelines to ensure overall product quality while getting some money to the indie devs that had historically starve
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by vaxman 6y ago
I put the note in about being downvoted before I tapped Submit for the first time. It was a backhanded insult against Hacker News —whatever it is, it isn’t about hackers...more like people who dream about being hackers..or guys making too m
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by vaxman 6y ago
It has some big issues (first hand). Avoid for a while if you do mission/life critical work on your phone. As for some of the devs saying it is great, many of them have crappy apps. The top devs like Rambo are tweeting to avoid.
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by vaxman 6y ago
One word: Woz Two words: Pear Shaped (Young/foreign moderators won’t get it and downvote..it’s like a double entendre do love this site.)
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by vaxman 6y ago
Qualcomm, Apple and NVidia will lose favor with the US government unless they bring (at least a full copy of) their FAB partners and the rest of their supply chains home to America (Southwest including USMCA zone). We love Southeast Asia, b
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by vaxman 6y ago
Yer screen name is awesome. Highly recommend rolling your own home automation to the PDP11 and writing the control software in FORTRAN-IV (not sure if FORTRAN-77 runs on PDP11...the DEC version was called VAX FORTRAN...probably was back por
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by vaxman 6y ago
Possible but DEC wasn't known for that level of BS --I think some of the confusion may have come from the fact that SUN acquired a storage vendor in Colorado during that time that had massive revenues but was drowning in debt and that

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