Would you keep cooking if a Star Trek style replicator existed that could more or less cook anything in a minute? What if all of your friends and family were satisfied with the replicator food and weren’t willing to…
> If AI can do what we deem creative work, say implementing a chunk of a Ruby gem, should we still consider such work creative in the first place? Assuming that it can, and it can also do a great number of things that…
I think the author’s use of a 500Hz display covers up or minimizes a lot of issues. It’s really easy to look at this data and say 8ms click to flash is fabulous even though he has an config that does 4ms. A better way…
At one point you could have said the same thing about Blizzard, that everything they did was gold. It’s hard to pinpoint where they went wrong, but it’s not clear to me that it was business model or game format related.…
No, this scenario works fine. Car audio (and UI) can interleave with CarPlay. I can put podcasts on my center screen, my car manufacturer's navigation in the driver's screen, and the navigation prompts will duck the…
Right, this is why video parse / decode ought to be sandboxed. Writing secure code for these formats, especially in C, is really hard. I just sort of glanced at the bug in the repo, but it sounds plausible. It certainly…
Look closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.
I can tell you that inside Apple, they have something called the standard question, and it goes something like this: “What are you really trying to do?” If you haven’t personally filed a bug report at…
Then complain about that. That would make a much more sensible blog post and discussion. Asking for a crazy workaround to a sane problem isn't a great way to get good results, especially with Apple. Beyond the obvious…
Yes 1920x1080@2x absolutely works on M4. I use this mode all day every day.
Yes, I would actually be surprised to learn that mode is available on any system. I’ve never seen that anywhere, though I only have a M1 Pro and an M4 Pro (and various Intel Macs). You’re rendering to a framebuffer…
Exactly. Their holy war on the App Stores blunted Fortnite’s momentum at its apogee. On one hand, I admire their chutzpah. The App Store model has weighed down the entire software industry and has prevented entire…
You could apply this same reasoning to any feature or technology. Yes there could be a zero day nobody knows about. We could say that about ssh or WebKit or Chrome too. I hear what you're saying about the deprecation…
On the other hand, the underlying functionality for sandboxing is used heavily throughout the OS, both for App Sandboxes and for Apple’s own system processes. My guess is sandbox-exec is deprecated more because it never…
I admit I started reading with some skepticism. It didn't read like PR, so I assumed I was reading fanfic. By the midpoint, she managed to convince me otherwise. I think the author is walking a tightrope between…
Yeah I have tried it for myself. I am limited to 4K60 when using the HDMI 2.0 port on either my M1 Mac mini or M1 Pro MacBook Pro and LG B2 TV. I do get 4K120 with VRR with newer Macs with HDMI 2.1 as well as my Xbox…
This is a big miss for me. I can’t use my TVs 120Hz VRR mode without HDMI 2.1. I realize the Xbox Series X is beleaguered at this point, but apart from playing games that are on Steam but not Xbox, I can’t see why I…
As a kid, I was marginally decent at competitive math. Not good like you think of kids who dominate those type of competitions at a high level, but like I could qualify for the state competition type good. What I was…
That's one implementation, yeah, just have a list somewhere of approved software and make an artificial limitation. But their announcement is so vague, it's hard to say. And then the next question is why? It's not like…
I don’t agree. My point is their collective footprint in terms of the macOS API surface (at least as of 2019 or so) is pretty big. I’m not just speculating here, I work in this area so I have a pretty good idea of what…
But games are full fledged GUI apps. At a minimum they have a window. It’s really unclear what it means to support old games but not old apps in general. I would think the set of APIs used by the set of all existing…
The author doesn’t attempt to address the issue that Apple and iOS are the only remaining effective bulwark against Google’s complete control of the web. Think about what Google’s end game looks like if they are able to…
Typically you wait for the new chip. Sometimes there are hybrid coders that can use some of the resources on the chip and some shader code to handle new codecs or codec features after the fact, but you pay a power and…
Wow, thanks for the insight. It's sort of crazy to think about how big GitHub has become, and how much Microsoft paid for it, but of course it wasn't the first product in the space at all. Right time, right place, right…
No regrets here, but I did use Google Code a fair bit prior to GitHub and I had an experience that made me think maybe Google regretted that product in some ways. Around 2005-6 I wrote a Mac OS X client for Xbox Live.…
Would you keep cooking if a Star Trek style replicator existed that could more or less cook anything in a minute? What if all of your friends and family were satisfied with the replicator food and weren’t willing to…
> If AI can do what we deem creative work, say implementing a chunk of a Ruby gem, should we still consider such work creative in the first place? Assuming that it can, and it can also do a great number of things that…
I think the author’s use of a 500Hz display covers up or minimizes a lot of issues. It’s really easy to look at this data and say 8ms click to flash is fabulous even though he has an config that does 4ms. A better way…
At one point you could have said the same thing about Blizzard, that everything they did was gold. It’s hard to pinpoint where they went wrong, but it’s not clear to me that it was business model or game format related.…
No, this scenario works fine. Car audio (and UI) can interleave with CarPlay. I can put podcasts on my center screen, my car manufacturer's navigation in the driver's screen, and the navigation prompts will duck the…
Right, this is why video parse / decode ought to be sandboxed. Writing secure code for these formats, especially in C, is really hard. I just sort of glanced at the bug in the repo, but it sounds plausible. It certainly…
Look closer. I doubt he uses Chrome regularly, I think he's using it to write this article precisely because he has no extensions installed in it.
I can tell you that inside Apple, they have something called the standard question, and it goes something like this: “What are you really trying to do?” If you haven’t personally filed a bug report at…
Then complain about that. That would make a much more sensible blog post and discussion. Asking for a crazy workaround to a sane problem isn't a great way to get good results, especially with Apple. Beyond the obvious…
Yes 1920x1080@2x absolutely works on M4. I use this mode all day every day.
Yes, I would actually be surprised to learn that mode is available on any system. I’ve never seen that anywhere, though I only have a M1 Pro and an M4 Pro (and various Intel Macs). You’re rendering to a framebuffer…
Exactly. Their holy war on the App Stores blunted Fortnite’s momentum at its apogee. On one hand, I admire their chutzpah. The App Store model has weighed down the entire software industry and has prevented entire…
You could apply this same reasoning to any feature or technology. Yes there could be a zero day nobody knows about. We could say that about ssh or WebKit or Chrome too. I hear what you're saying about the deprecation…
On the other hand, the underlying functionality for sandboxing is used heavily throughout the OS, both for App Sandboxes and for Apple’s own system processes. My guess is sandbox-exec is deprecated more because it never…
I admit I started reading with some skepticism. It didn't read like PR, so I assumed I was reading fanfic. By the midpoint, she managed to convince me otherwise. I think the author is walking a tightrope between…
Yeah I have tried it for myself. I am limited to 4K60 when using the HDMI 2.0 port on either my M1 Mac mini or M1 Pro MacBook Pro and LG B2 TV. I do get 4K120 with VRR with newer Macs with HDMI 2.1 as well as my Xbox…
This is a big miss for me. I can’t use my TVs 120Hz VRR mode without HDMI 2.1. I realize the Xbox Series X is beleaguered at this point, but apart from playing games that are on Steam but not Xbox, I can’t see why I…
As a kid, I was marginally decent at competitive math. Not good like you think of kids who dominate those type of competitions at a high level, but like I could qualify for the state competition type good. What I was…
That's one implementation, yeah, just have a list somewhere of approved software and make an artificial limitation. But their announcement is so vague, it's hard to say. And then the next question is why? It's not like…
I don’t agree. My point is their collective footprint in terms of the macOS API surface (at least as of 2019 or so) is pretty big. I’m not just speculating here, I work in this area so I have a pretty good idea of what…
But games are full fledged GUI apps. At a minimum they have a window. It’s really unclear what it means to support old games but not old apps in general. I would think the set of APIs used by the set of all existing…
The author doesn’t attempt to address the issue that Apple and iOS are the only remaining effective bulwark against Google’s complete control of the web. Think about what Google’s end game looks like if they are able to…
Typically you wait for the new chip. Sometimes there are hybrid coders that can use some of the resources on the chip and some shader code to handle new codecs or codec features after the fact, but you pay a power and…
Wow, thanks for the insight. It's sort of crazy to think about how big GitHub has become, and how much Microsoft paid for it, but of course it wasn't the first product in the space at all. Right time, right place, right…
No regrets here, but I did use Google Code a fair bit prior to GitHub and I had an experience that made me think maybe Google regretted that product in some ways. Around 2005-6 I wrote a Mac OS X client for Xbox Live.…