“sj placed cool first” … in what universe? Steve placed “Steve likes it” first. Many of the things he liked were terrible. Cool things happen(ed) at Apple in spite of executive leadership, not because of it. The better…
You are confusing waterfall with BDUF.
I do wonder how much of the hate on “waterfall” is perpetuated by folks that never read the paper. It’s the “socialism” of development workflows…
The exploit as described doesn't "brick" the device; that would require permanently disabling it. A tethered restore would be all that's required to recover in this case.
For a long time we held the line on not having file operations originate from within the kernel (layering reasons). Eventually less sane heads prevailed.
No.
Responding to a TCAS RA is not "overly cautious".
You mean “can’t resist the name placement kickback promises”, surely.
Viewing an ad is not “giving back” in any meaningful sense. Modern adtech primarily benefits the infrastructure providers, rather than providing a service to its “clients” or a revenue stream to site owners. Adblocking…
For sufficiently narrow interpretations of "working", perhaps. Otherwise, I think you might be a little optimistic here.
> I've also wondered why the TLB isn't larger. Fast CAMs are (relatively) expensive, is the excuse I always hear.
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I’m not sure about the “sadly” part here. Whilst it proved that something could be done, it also taught us a lot about what doing it cost (a lot), how scalable it was (not), and whether it would be broadly applicable…
Memory efficiency just for one. For most programs, and especially in the embedded space, 64b systems carry around (and process) a lot more zeros than 32b systems do. You can still do 64b math when you need it, but you…
Excruciatingly slow, mechanically and electrically unreliable, obscenely large. Inconsistent-to-zero quality of the inserted device leading to people complaining about how “you” lost the data on their US$3.00 card.
Try making a living as an indie developer and then bitch about pricing. As others have noted, the up-front honesty and realistic pricing are a lot more refreshing and encouraging than some race-to-the-bottom pricing…
It’s happened more than once. Itemis built a whole pile of tools on it, and the things it enables (stacked DSLs lowering to C, for example). Sadly, nobody wanted it. Check out https://mbeddr.com and weep for what could…
You... haven't worked on a large codebase, have you? The part that baffles me about this entire post is that it's trivial to obtain pointers to member functions legally, without the fragility associated with guessing…
Less “intentional” and more “unavoidable”. There was limited runway to fix the S5L8900 design, the Cortex A8 wasn’t ready at tapeout, and so the ARM1176 was it. If Broadcom hadn’t looked like they were fumbling the…
DFU is implemented in the ROM; it is morally if not technically a subset of the open standard by the same name. Recovery mode is implemented in iBoot; it provides mediated access to the command interpreter and some…
Keller is a manager. He was a gateware engineer.
Sometime around 2010, I’d guess? It’s been a long time since this has been a meaningful issue…
dSYM bundles have entered the chat
You need to be able to explain the goal sufficiently well, and then you need something goal-seeky to do the work, i.e. a closed-loop system. LLMs are impersonators. They take a prompt and then make up something that…
Meta wants to know everything it can about you because other people will pay them for the information. Apple doesn’t. It’s really that simple.
“sj placed cool first” … in what universe? Steve placed “Steve likes it” first. Many of the things he liked were terrible. Cool things happen(ed) at Apple in spite of executive leadership, not because of it. The better…
You are confusing waterfall with BDUF.
I do wonder how much of the hate on “waterfall” is perpetuated by folks that never read the paper. It’s the “socialism” of development workflows…
The exploit as described doesn't "brick" the device; that would require permanently disabling it. A tethered restore would be all that's required to recover in this case.
For a long time we held the line on not having file operations originate from within the kernel (layering reasons). Eventually less sane heads prevailed.
No.
Responding to a TCAS RA is not "overly cautious".
You mean “can’t resist the name placement kickback promises”, surely.
Viewing an ad is not “giving back” in any meaningful sense. Modern adtech primarily benefits the infrastructure providers, rather than providing a service to its “clients” or a revenue stream to site owners. Adblocking…
For sufficiently narrow interpretations of "working", perhaps. Otherwise, I think you might be a little optimistic here.
> I've also wondered why the TLB isn't larger. Fast CAMs are (relatively) expensive, is the excuse I always hear.
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I’m not sure about the “sadly” part here. Whilst it proved that something could be done, it also taught us a lot about what doing it cost (a lot), how scalable it was (not), and whether it would be broadly applicable…
Memory efficiency just for one. For most programs, and especially in the embedded space, 64b systems carry around (and process) a lot more zeros than 32b systems do. You can still do 64b math when you need it, but you…
Excruciatingly slow, mechanically and electrically unreliable, obscenely large. Inconsistent-to-zero quality of the inserted device leading to people complaining about how “you” lost the data on their US$3.00 card.
Try making a living as an indie developer and then bitch about pricing. As others have noted, the up-front honesty and realistic pricing are a lot more refreshing and encouraging than some race-to-the-bottom pricing…
It’s happened more than once. Itemis built a whole pile of tools on it, and the things it enables (stacked DSLs lowering to C, for example). Sadly, nobody wanted it. Check out https://mbeddr.com and weep for what could…
You... haven't worked on a large codebase, have you? The part that baffles me about this entire post is that it's trivial to obtain pointers to member functions legally, without the fragility associated with guessing…
Less “intentional” and more “unavoidable”. There was limited runway to fix the S5L8900 design, the Cortex A8 wasn’t ready at tapeout, and so the ARM1176 was it. If Broadcom hadn’t looked like they were fumbling the…
DFU is implemented in the ROM; it is morally if not technically a subset of the open standard by the same name. Recovery mode is implemented in iBoot; it provides mediated access to the command interpreter and some…
Keller is a manager. He was a gateware engineer.
Sometime around 2010, I’d guess? It’s been a long time since this has been a meaningful issue…
dSYM bundles have entered the chat
You need to be able to explain the goal sufficiently well, and then you need something goal-seeky to do the work, i.e. a closed-loop system. LLMs are impersonators. They take a prompt and then make up something that…
Meta wants to know everything it can about you because other people will pay them for the information. Apple doesn’t. It’s really that simple.