pmjordan

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by pmjordan 6y ago
This reminds me of the time we wanted to ride the Amtrak Coast Starlight from Seattle to San Jose on our trip to the US in 2014. It's supposed to be a scenic route, and takes about 24 hours for that leg. (The train carries on to LA IIR
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by pmjordan 6y ago
While unfortunate, this has been the case since Ryzen launched. Ryzen 2000G(E)/U series were Zen-based like Ryzen 1000(X), Ryzen 3000G(E)/H/U series were Zen+-based like Ryzen 2000(X), Ryzen 4000G(E)/H(S)/U is Zen2-
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by pmjordan 6y ago
Of course, modern iPhones and iPads actually come with fully fledged NVMe SSDs. So it's not really clear why that decision hasn't been revisited - or why Apple hasn't at least introduced some kind of process hibernation which
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by pmjordan 6y ago
Anno 1800 might float your boat? Or any of the previous games in the Anno series for that matter. The campaign does very much have a story and specific objectives, but the interesting bit is the regular sandbox game: Turn off pirates and co
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by pmjordan 6y ago
Sorry, can you elaborate? Apple's "A" series CPUs have been out-of-order for years and at least a few years ago had a similar superscalar/ooo structure to Intel's Haswell chips. (Apple poached a bunch of Intel proce
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by pmjordan 7y ago
> Does it though? It’s a rare edge case that should be trivial to solve with minor human intervention. Apparently[1] centenarians make up 0.02% of the UK population; how well this statistic transfers to EU nationals in the UK I don'
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by pmjordan 7y ago
If by most, you mean >50%, then you're probably right, but but especially within EU countries, having >10% foreign nationals among the population is common. Those foreign nationals will frequently give birth to equally foreign ch
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by pmjordan 7y ago
> This is bizarre, blame the passport for only having the last two digits and not the computer reading it. I mean, the passport only showing 2 digits is worth mentioning. But I doubt this 101-year-old got much choice in exactly what form
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by pmjordan 7y ago
DriverKit has only been around since 10.15 so currently it's not easy to correctly support a range of versions with everything so massively in flux and Apple's aggressive deprecation schedule. Writing and maintaining macOS system
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Someone else on the project experimented with FileProvider during the Catalina beta, so this is all second hand, but it wasn't really suitable for the job - it seemed more designed for having a special folder like the iCloud Drive, and
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by pmjordan 7y ago
If you are relying on the ability to develop and load specific types of kext in macOS in future, I recommend getting in touch with Apple DTS. (Note that communications with DTS are unfortunately typically under NDA.)
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by pmjordan 7y ago
VFSForGit is/was not a true file system, it just intercepts file I/O events to dummy files to lazily fill them with content and to log writes so that 'git status' does not have to scan the whole repo for changes. The mac
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I was the external contractor brought onto the project as the project's macOS kernel extension expert; my contract expired in November after the port was put on ice. As far as I'm aware it's no longer being pursued, with spar
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by pmjordan 7y ago
DriverKit has support for building ethernet drivers: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkingdriverki... I could imagine this being used for implementing a layer 2 VPN.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
There is NSFileProviderExtension, but last I heard it was still a very immature API.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Why can't someone slap the XNU api onto Linux Probably because importing Mach messaging and VM APIs into the Linux kernel, and recreating IOKit and similar from scratch is a pretty major undertaking; the APSL isn't GPL-compatibl
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Only reselling already implemented stuff is neither software engineering nor what I love. $240k would be a highly respectable income pretty much anywhere in almost any field. In most of the world, doctors are paid less than that while routi
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by pmjordan 7y ago
the whole comment section was insisting that per-project billing is the only viable way to make money in consulting. Generally, when someone gives you advice that's supposed to be 100% right in all cases, they either stand to gain fr
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Additionally, you have artists and level designers working on these files. These people tend to be semi-technical, and confronting them with the full details of git is usually met with a lot of resistance. I know some smaller studios that u
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Giving them the benefit of the doubt here - could they have been counting you blocking off dates for bookings made through other channels?
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by pmjordan 7y ago
For what it's worth, crows in Central Europe have been doing this for decades. They (carrion crows) used to do it outside my childhood home in Austria ~25 years ago. (Very light traffic, so no traffic lights; they just put some nuts in
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by pmjordan 7y ago
macOS and iOS do this too. iOS doesn't even use any traditional swap and gets away with it by putting the onus on developers to make sure their apps never go OOM when in the foreground and to deal seamlessly with apps being OOM killed
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by pmjordan 7y ago
In addition to the sensible question of whether Google even would need to link against any GPL code raised by other commenters, there's also the question of whether the GPL would even make any sense for a kext, considering the kext nee
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Thanks for checking! :-) Oh, I’m not complaining about the voice acting. The fast-talking mission briefings are a little odd at first, but they work. And yeah, they put a lot of effort into idle animations and chatter; putting more effort
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by pmjordan 7y ago
So, an enemy might have just walked into an animal? Possibly! They normally take flight when they notice a human nearby[1] but as the player you can certainly bump into them if you sneak up. And I think they just fall over and die if yo
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I haven’t used this or any other micro-borrowing service. But we’ve got over a decade‘a worth of failed microtransaction services in the West. I’m going to guess that this is a fantastic way to encourage traction with such a service. Want t
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I think they've started doing those for the Assassin's Creed series, so you never know, future iterations might bring something like that.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
Try increasing the difficulty level. When you take as many bullets to die as the enemies do, and there are typically more of them, it very much becomes a challenge to survive, and the whole atmosphere becomes more convincingly menacing.
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by pmjordan 7y ago
I guess for many of us, the controls have become second nature (mouselook in my case) so they do not break immersion for me for that kind of game. Something like Far Cry 2 in VR would be amazingly immersive but also terrifying. The main oth
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by pmjordan 7y ago
It’s funny how you can’t please everyone. My take on Blood Dragon is it was a cute gimmick that was unnecessarily dragged out over 10 hours of gameplay.

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