Genomes are sequenced when they're both accessible and are of scientific/economic interest. This results in an overrepresentation of: - Humans and their pathogens - Economically important organisms (e.g. crops and farm…
Right, the furin cleavage site seems to have occurred independently in SARS-CoV-2 or one of its undiscovered close relatives.
That’s still incorrect. MERS is a Betacoronavirus and has a furin cleavage site: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/42/15214.full.pdf Furin clevage sites haven’t been found elsewhere in SARS-Cov-2’s Sarbecovirus…
Using the number of BLAST hits as the basis of an argument is about as reliable as using the number of results when searching for a string on GitHub. Without further analysis of the specific sequence and its biological…
That’s not correct, furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
Nuclear weapons do not have situational awareness. They’re intended to be used as part of a larger deployment system with a human in the loop. There’s no threat model for them that includes self-arming when mysterious…
Existing Intel software (with potentially broken version checks) will work on ARM Macs under emulation. Once they rebuild with the new SDK they'll get the receive the correct version.
That converts miles to approximate hectometres.
The T2 chip is a derivative of the A10. It has similar power requirements to the SOC in modern iPhones. They could probably use a cut down derivative of the W2 chip used in AirPods with the audio codec etc. removed. I’m…
The way I’ve approached it in my compiler [1] is that garbage collection can never occur while Lisp/RFI (Rust function interface) code is executing. Once the program returns to the event loop GC can occur with a small…
You’re not parsing XML at that point. You’re parsing a text based data format that looks superficially like XML. This can work if you strictly control the encoder but it’s not generally interoperable.
The flip side of time dilation is Lorentz contraction. As you approach the speed of light objects in your direction of motion will become shortened from your frame of reference. For example, there are particles from…
This is a concern but it usually works for two reasons: 1. Most firmware is sufficiently broken that Linux drivers are already hardened against devices being brought up in arbitrary states. 2. kexec walks the device…
iOS 11 removed support for 32bit applications. Because the iPhone X requires iOS 11 I’m not aware of any way to run 32bit code on A11 processors and above. A32 support is likely already gone at the hardware level.
There is Barycentric Coordinate Time which is the time from a hypothetical clock at rest at the centre of mass of the Solar System. This is easier to calculate across spacecraft than an Earth-centric time would be.…
Presumably this would interact poorly with FaceID’s attention aware features. iOS periodically activates the front facing camera while unlocked to determine if you’re paying attention to the phone. This influences…
Approximately 90% of billionaires are male. It seems to have quite a lot to do with gender.
This quote was inside a list of negative experiences with WKWebView. It wasn’t intended to be positive.
You can’t set FS/GS from user space on x64-64 until the FSGSBASE instructions were introduced in Ivy Bridge. The kernel only needs to be involved as its privilege is needed to set the register; the kernel doesn’t “know”…
Vietnam has 95 million people and a larger economy than Greece. I would consider it a major country.
It's contributed to the open source ARM desktop/server community quite a bit. While ARM has had first class support in for embedded and mobile for a long time people weren't really running X11, Gnome, database servers,…
It's being mentioned more during product launches than it used to be. For example, Apple heavily promoted the iPhone XS's 7nm SOC where previously it wouldn't have been mentioned. I would guess this is due to other…
Changes to the language spec do not have to be backward incompatible. 8 of the 11 Go 1.x releases have had changes to the language spec.
TMSC’s 7nm is in volume manufacturing. It’s used for the A12 SOC in the latest iPhones.
This is an instruction specified in the ARMv8.3‑A instruction set. It was specified and designed by ARM, not Apple. Apple is merely the first to ship silicon implementing v8.3-A.
Genomes are sequenced when they're both accessible and are of scientific/economic interest. This results in an overrepresentation of: - Humans and their pathogens - Economically important organisms (e.g. crops and farm…
Right, the furin cleavage site seems to have occurred independently in SARS-CoV-2 or one of its undiscovered close relatives.
That’s still incorrect. MERS is a Betacoronavirus and has a furin cleavage site: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/42/15214.full.pdf Furin clevage sites haven’t been found elsewhere in SARS-Cov-2’s Sarbecovirus…
Using the number of BLAST hits as the basis of an argument is about as reliable as using the number of results when searching for a string on GitHub. Without further analysis of the specific sequence and its biological…
That’s not correct, furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
Nuclear weapons do not have situational awareness. They’re intended to be used as part of a larger deployment system with a human in the loop. There’s no threat model for them that includes self-arming when mysterious…
Existing Intel software (with potentially broken version checks) will work on ARM Macs under emulation. Once they rebuild with the new SDK they'll get the receive the correct version.
That converts miles to approximate hectometres.
The T2 chip is a derivative of the A10. It has similar power requirements to the SOC in modern iPhones. They could probably use a cut down derivative of the W2 chip used in AirPods with the audio codec etc. removed. I’m…
The way I’ve approached it in my compiler [1] is that garbage collection can never occur while Lisp/RFI (Rust function interface) code is executing. Once the program returns to the event loop GC can occur with a small…
You’re not parsing XML at that point. You’re parsing a text based data format that looks superficially like XML. This can work if you strictly control the encoder but it’s not generally interoperable.
The flip side of time dilation is Lorentz contraction. As you approach the speed of light objects in your direction of motion will become shortened from your frame of reference. For example, there are particles from…
This is a concern but it usually works for two reasons: 1. Most firmware is sufficiently broken that Linux drivers are already hardened against devices being brought up in arbitrary states. 2. kexec walks the device…
iOS 11 removed support for 32bit applications. Because the iPhone X requires iOS 11 I’m not aware of any way to run 32bit code on A11 processors and above. A32 support is likely already gone at the hardware level.
There is Barycentric Coordinate Time which is the time from a hypothetical clock at rest at the centre of mass of the Solar System. This is easier to calculate across spacecraft than an Earth-centric time would be.…
Presumably this would interact poorly with FaceID’s attention aware features. iOS periodically activates the front facing camera while unlocked to determine if you’re paying attention to the phone. This influences…
Approximately 90% of billionaires are male. It seems to have quite a lot to do with gender.
This quote was inside a list of negative experiences with WKWebView. It wasn’t intended to be positive.
You can’t set FS/GS from user space on x64-64 until the FSGSBASE instructions were introduced in Ivy Bridge. The kernel only needs to be involved as its privilege is needed to set the register; the kernel doesn’t “know”…
Vietnam has 95 million people and a larger economy than Greece. I would consider it a major country.
It's contributed to the open source ARM desktop/server community quite a bit. While ARM has had first class support in for embedded and mobile for a long time people weren't really running X11, Gnome, database servers,…
It's being mentioned more during product launches than it used to be. For example, Apple heavily promoted the iPhone XS's 7nm SOC where previously it wouldn't have been mentioned. I would guess this is due to other…
Changes to the language spec do not have to be backward incompatible. 8 of the 11 Go 1.x releases have had changes to the language spec.
TMSC’s 7nm is in volume manufacturing. It’s used for the A12 SOC in the latest iPhones.
This is an instruction specified in the ARMv8.3‑A instruction set. It was specified and designed by ARM, not Apple. Apple is merely the first to ship silicon implementing v8.3-A.