mendocino

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by mendocino 11y ago
> NO signing keys preventing firmware modification Not really a "secure" workstation if you can't have a secure bootchain. An open, secure platform would allow you to fuse your own root key.
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by mendocino 11y ago
Looks more like an issue with the VM rather than xhyve. Serial console does not seem to get respawned.
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by mendocino 11y ago
Not sure how useful OS X containers would be. Are you deploying on OS X?
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by mendocino 13y ago
If your objective is to sell a stolen iPhone then you still have to know the owners Apple ID and password due to activation lock. Being able to bypass Touch ID isn't going to help you.
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by mendocino 13y ago
The last SoC where this has been the case is the A5 (using the the ARM Cortex-A9 MP). The Apple A6 and A7 don't use ARM cores and neither does Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.
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by mendocino 13y ago
"so what's left to steal?" The CPU? ARMv8 isn't a thing, it's an instruction set specification, just like x86, implemented by various micro-architectures. Samsung doesn't do that (yet).
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by mendocino 13y ago
The GPU is a design from Imagination Technologies, the CPU is an Apple design. What part of the SoC is "mostly designed by ARM"?
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by mendocino 14y ago
> Learn the engineering skills needed to build a technology startup from the ground up. "Learn the engineering skills needed to build a web startup from the ground up." FTFY
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by mendocino 14y ago
Strange, seems to work fine on iOS.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> I have no idea how anyone who isn’t working in a high tech role that pays an above average salary can live here. I wondered that too. Anyone care to share how to get by with a non-tech salary in the bay area?
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by mendocino 14y ago
> You could create a new account for each kid. At a mininum, this means that you have to re-purchase all the paid apps from every account. Not necessarily, you could have separate iCloud accounts for each family member and one shared iT
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by mendocino 14y ago
Apple didn't discontinue mac.com and me.com domains for existing accounts.
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by mendocino 14y ago
Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?" Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> I assume this mojang app uses markers too? No! That's what makes it so awesome. It analyses the scenery and infers your position as you walk around.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> Not computer users, just the windows users. Well, on a new Ubuntu installation the first thing I have to do now is: sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping But still way better than the crap windows users have to put up with.
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by mendocino 14y ago
The Galaxy S II has a proper RGB matrix. Galaxy S and Galaxy S3 are pentile though.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> we see a critical need for a truly open, high-performance computing platform > FAQ: Will you open source the Epiphany chips? > Not initially, but it may be considered in the future. Well, that makes it a lot less interesting t
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by mendocino 14y ago
Oh, I see. Thanks!
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by mendocino 14y ago
> Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 00
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by mendocino 14y ago
> Has any company in history been so large and yet so reliant on a single product? Google? (AdWords)
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by mendocino 14y ago
Oh yes, absolutely.
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by mendocino 14y ago
It is interesting to note that Apple now designes their own programming language, the compilers, the operating system, the processors and the products all that tech goes into. That's a pretty rare configuration of a company that hasen't exi
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by mendocino 14y ago
> So i maintain that Apple would have needed Samsung to enable them to use an A15. I would guess if Apple is capable of designing their own Microarchitectures they would be perfectly capable of compiling a bunch of HDL code they can get
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by mendocino 14y ago
Verix: Dimensions: 15.6" (w) x 10.5" (d) x 2.2" (h) Weight: 7.10 lbs MBP: Dimensions: 14.13" (w) x 9.73" (d) x 0.71" (h) Weight: 4.46 lbs A plastic monstrosity. For me, this is a non-starter at any price.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> While you still can, while the market is still hot, why not aim for something better like creating the next instagram or dropbox? I guess not everyone wants to build yet another website/app. A lot of interesting/hard/capital-intensive
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by mendocino 14y ago
Nokia already has something similar up ( http://maps3d.svc.nokia.com/webgl/index.html ). Looking at NYC or the Bay Area is pretty impressive.
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by mendocino 14y ago
> Yes but, in the case of android, the assembly work is rather trivial if they wanted to offer a standard android rom. Only if you want to ship an SoC already supported by Linux. (Even then, there is tons of board specific code.) If not
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by mendocino 14y ago
Google bought X. X being pretty much everything they do besides Search. Not sure if that is much of an argument.
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by mendocino 15y ago
So it is OK for your employees (that you share your code and data with) to distribute it among third parties as they please?
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by mendocino 15y ago
> Apple makes $2,000,000 per employee. Most of their employees are not engineers, but work in retail. Which makes it a bit of an odd case among the other tech companies :)

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