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@ooedotech https://youtu.be/urGmmkUDi20 etc.

See also “information desert” and ask yourself why a survival-oriented species might behave in this fashion. Or don’t, it’s why they do.

“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 lea…

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.

It would never have worked. So many of the things that owning xnu has made possible would never have happened on top of Linux. The things you can do when you know each and every cu…

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.

One does not "hone in" on anything. To hone a thing is to make it sharper or more acute by removing parts of it with an abrasive. The word you are looking for is "home", as in a ho…

Responding to a TCAS RA is not "overly cautious".

It's not inoperable; warnings are still issued, but the RA (resolution advisory, i.e. "climb", "dive" etc.) functionality is inhibited.

This makes some very naïve assumptions about the relationships between entities in a program; in particular that you can make arbitrary assertions about the representation of alrea…

You mean “can’t resist the name placement kickback promises”, surely.

Worth reading his son @snakesofself's comment below that video for additional context. As a fan of the show, and what it did to advance the art of visual storytelling, learning mor…

It's always a compromise. Part of the exercise, whether it be making an existing codebase amenable to verification, or standing up a new one designed for it from scratch, is to ide…

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 rev…

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 wh…

... and the open-source clone (EmuTOS) has been widely ported since.

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 …