Reminds me of an app I built ~20 years ago now. We wanted a cross-platform C++ layer and native Cocoa front end. Objective C++ wasn’t a thing then, and having built a plain C shim previously I didn’t want to repeat the…
If you’re interested in BMFF and don’t care to spend ISO prices, you can always go back to the original, Apple’s QuickTime File Format: https://developer.apple.com/standards/qtff-2001.pdf
MacBooks don’t ship with OLED displays, only micro LED (“XDR”) displays which shouldn’t be susceptible. iPhones however do have OLED displays.
The problem is that you’re always at a sensor deficit because you need so much more resolution to cover a wide field of view. When sensors and chipsets would finally catch up, user expectations would grow to match. Now…
I worked on 360 cameras / software for many years. Looking forward to the day when an article like this comes out for one of the products I worked on. When you’re in the heart of it it’s so easy to take pride in the…
I mean this is an intriguing rationalization, but I don’t buy it. Buying votes simply doesn’t cost this much, by orders of magnitude. Burning your empire to ashes as a loyalty test doesn’t hold water either: It’s…
More often than not I was opening documents, not apps. But with spatial windows in Finder I used to just arrange my Applications folder the way I wanted (sometimes using Aliases) and have it open on the left of my…
It’s interesting: my recollection of that period was I rarely stored anything on the desktop. The file system was so much smaller and easier to handle that I stored things in folders and didn’t have trouble finding them…
Spam was a losing battle. I stopped running a bulletin board around the same time I stopped hosting a mail server.
It was Sony, not IBM. They built the PowerBook 100 based on Apple’s 150 and 170 models.
As it is likely that the number of launch customers for this node is one (continuing the trend), this may be necessary simply to reach agreed upon volumes.
APIs existed for fractional scale and assets in early Mac OS X versions (10.4 I think). I remember building out 1.25, 1.5 and 2x assets for an application at the time. These were never to be shipped to consumers for a…
It’s cheaper to build two at the same time than shutting down production for years and trying to build another one. Tooling doesn’t last forever, and the process and skills required to build one can help you build the…
Sounds like “Knowledge Navigator”, a concept from Apple’s Advanced Technology Group: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0
Surprisingly my rate was not effected (around $1200/yr), though I have been a customer for more than 20 years without a claim.
My Model 3 hit some road debris a couple years ago. It damaged the coolant line connector heading into the battery. Tesla replaced the entire battery for ~$15k, which probably could have been a $700 repair like that…
I think the feet-dragging comes more from the dealer network than from automakers themselves. Ford, GM and the like will still make plenty of money from offering parts for their EVs. Dealers however continue to show…
Apples and oranges. Tesla AutoPilot is a driver assistance system not an autonomous vehicle. It doesn’t even claim to avoid these situations, hence the need for full attention by the driver. AP has billions, not…
H2 does not, and cannot offer the end-to-end efficiency of battery electric vehicles. The distribution infrastructure for H2 is inherently less efficient than electricity distribution alone, making BEVs 3x more…
> In contrast with conventional digital cameras, in fact, curvy imaging sensors typically require multiple and complex lens combinations to take clear and high-resolution images. This sounds backwards to me. My…
The neat thing about codecs is they're really defining the bitstream and decoding algorithms. The encoding algorithms are not written in stone, so to speak. If you can optimize motion estimation encoding using…
Maybe there should be a separate indication of throttling so we don’t conflate with CPU usage. Throttling is essentially determined by three factors: Energy usage, thermal saturation, and cooling. A bath tub analogy…
> It shouldn't take horrific accidents for us to suddenly decide to care about structural safety. Building codes are written in blood, as they have always been.
I wouldn’t count on it. Apple is vertically integrated, but doesn’t do their own manufacturing. It’s not necessary when They can dominate the supply chain and hold a practical monopsony on the best production capacity…
It's been a decade since AirDrop was released. It's clearly a useful capability, and I would love to be able to share with any device this way. Nevertheless, no universal protocol has emerged, simple or otherwise, that…
Reminds me of an app I built ~20 years ago now. We wanted a cross-platform C++ layer and native Cocoa front end. Objective C++ wasn’t a thing then, and having built a plain C shim previously I didn’t want to repeat the…
If you’re interested in BMFF and don’t care to spend ISO prices, you can always go back to the original, Apple’s QuickTime File Format: https://developer.apple.com/standards/qtff-2001.pdf
MacBooks don’t ship with OLED displays, only micro LED (“XDR”) displays which shouldn’t be susceptible. iPhones however do have OLED displays.
The problem is that you’re always at a sensor deficit because you need so much more resolution to cover a wide field of view. When sensors and chipsets would finally catch up, user expectations would grow to match. Now…
I worked on 360 cameras / software for many years. Looking forward to the day when an article like this comes out for one of the products I worked on. When you’re in the heart of it it’s so easy to take pride in the…
I mean this is an intriguing rationalization, but I don’t buy it. Buying votes simply doesn’t cost this much, by orders of magnitude. Burning your empire to ashes as a loyalty test doesn’t hold water either: It’s…
More often than not I was opening documents, not apps. But with spatial windows in Finder I used to just arrange my Applications folder the way I wanted (sometimes using Aliases) and have it open on the left of my…
It’s interesting: my recollection of that period was I rarely stored anything on the desktop. The file system was so much smaller and easier to handle that I stored things in folders and didn’t have trouble finding them…
Spam was a losing battle. I stopped running a bulletin board around the same time I stopped hosting a mail server.
It was Sony, not IBM. They built the PowerBook 100 based on Apple’s 150 and 170 models.
As it is likely that the number of launch customers for this node is one (continuing the trend), this may be necessary simply to reach agreed upon volumes.
APIs existed for fractional scale and assets in early Mac OS X versions (10.4 I think). I remember building out 1.25, 1.5 and 2x assets for an application at the time. These were never to be shipped to consumers for a…
It’s cheaper to build two at the same time than shutting down production for years and trying to build another one. Tooling doesn’t last forever, and the process and skills required to build one can help you build the…
Sounds like “Knowledge Navigator”, a concept from Apple’s Advanced Technology Group: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator https://youtu.be/umJsITGzXd0
Surprisingly my rate was not effected (around $1200/yr), though I have been a customer for more than 20 years without a claim.
My Model 3 hit some road debris a couple years ago. It damaged the coolant line connector heading into the battery. Tesla replaced the entire battery for ~$15k, which probably could have been a $700 repair like that…
I think the feet-dragging comes more from the dealer network than from automakers themselves. Ford, GM and the like will still make plenty of money from offering parts for their EVs. Dealers however continue to show…
Apples and oranges. Tesla AutoPilot is a driver assistance system not an autonomous vehicle. It doesn’t even claim to avoid these situations, hence the need for full attention by the driver. AP has billions, not…
H2 does not, and cannot offer the end-to-end efficiency of battery electric vehicles. The distribution infrastructure for H2 is inherently less efficient than electricity distribution alone, making BEVs 3x more…
> In contrast with conventional digital cameras, in fact, curvy imaging sensors typically require multiple and complex lens combinations to take clear and high-resolution images. This sounds backwards to me. My…
The neat thing about codecs is they're really defining the bitstream and decoding algorithms. The encoding algorithms are not written in stone, so to speak. If you can optimize motion estimation encoding using…
Maybe there should be a separate indication of throttling so we don’t conflate with CPU usage. Throttling is essentially determined by three factors: Energy usage, thermal saturation, and cooling. A bath tub analogy…
> It shouldn't take horrific accidents for us to suddenly decide to care about structural safety. Building codes are written in blood, as they have always been.
I wouldn’t count on it. Apple is vertically integrated, but doesn’t do their own manufacturing. It’s not necessary when They can dominate the supply chain and hold a practical monopsony on the best production capacity…
It's been a decade since AirDrop was released. It's clearly a useful capability, and I would love to be able to share with any device this way. Nevertheless, no universal protocol has emerged, simple or otherwise, that…