JosephRedfern

That seems strange to me -- are you sure there's nothing wrong with your machine?

For reference, I just opened every application that's installed on my M1 MBP (16GB) and was able to switch between them with basically no lag.

> As long as no code is taken from macOS in order to build the Linux support, the end result is completely legal to distribute and for end users to use, as it would not be a derivative work of macOS. Please see our Copyright & Reverse Engineering Policy for more information.

This may be a dumb question, but are any of the Open Source components of macOS [0] useful for this kind of endeavour? Specifically stuff from XNU? Or are any useful hardware specific, driver-y bits excluded?

[0] https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-1101.html

I wondered the same. It looks a bit like Typora, but I think it's something else...

According to the FAQ, yes: https://unclack.app/faq/#/

> Specialty distribution is not something you can easily scale in a short period of time

That doesn't mean that you can't scale it at all, and one would assume that scaling over a super short period of time (like, weeks) is harder than scaling over a slightly longer time span (like months).

On that basis, is it not fair to assume that there'll be at lease some non-linearity in production and distribution rates over the next year or so?

Believe it or not, people used to physically borrow movies from shops and return them 2 days later!!! That doesn't mean that I can still walk to my newsagents and borrow a copy of Pulp Fiction on VHS.

Things change, and Facebook and Google are now the big players in online advertising, accounting for a large majority of the ad market. Other platforms exist, of course, but by cutting out Google Ads and Facebook you're going to be targetting a very different user base and are cutting out a significant share of the market.

To anyone reading: all these codes seem to have been used up :(

This was the Apple Silicon optimised Chrome. I tried Firefox on my desktop (9900k) and it have awful results, like 1fps. Downloaded chrome specially for this, and haven’t yet tried on Safari. I’ll do so now.

EDIT: 23-24FPS under Safari on M1.

(I get about 28-30fps on my M1 MBP, didn't get any fan spin but wasn't using it for long).

Oops, that was dumb. Fixed, thanks.

Maybe he composed the message using a machine with non-ECC RAM and suffered a bit flip, which through some chain of events, led to the ' being added. Best to give him the benefit of doubt, I think!

Any "hot spots" that have been optimised by writing assembler has to be re-written. Same applies to any dependencies with similar optimisations.

The blog post didn’t say whether they were given a reason for rejection, and if so, what that reason was.

I think it's important to know more about the reasons for rejection before jumping to conclusions.

Agreed. Sorry, I misread the original post -- I thought they were using current MBP cameras (rather than mics) as a benchmark. C920 is miles ahead of MacBook cameras, but as you say, nowhere near iPhone level of quality.

A year ago, you could easily buy a good webcam for very little. The Logitech C920 is, to my eyes, superior to the MacBook Pro webcam, and offered at least semi-decent audio quality. Pre-pandemic, it could sometimes be had for £25 (~$35).

Post pandemic, however, webcam prices seem to have at least tripled (if not quadrupled). As I type, the C920 is going for £140. I can understand this as a supply/demand thing, but surprised that things haven't started to level out yet.

A few years ago I could vouch for LowEndBox: https://lowendbox.com/. I've not frequented the site in a very long time though, so can longer be sure.

Perhaps even more painful is when you write the detailed answer, press submit, only to find that it’s been deleted as you were answering!

Could it depend on the state where it was recorded? Do laws vary that way?

Never say never! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ELkGqSCWYc

How is the service written? I'd look to compile it down to WASM or otherwise run it in the browser, if possible.

POCSAG and FLEX are still quite active, in the UK at least.

For science: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25392036

What an incredible piece of work. I can only dream of having the patience, skill and drive to make something so beautiful and informative.

You’re probably right, but could it also be that mainland China isn’t getting an update at all?

Very impressive work!

I remember that Joystick dialogue box from years ago -- maybe even Windows 98 days. Surprised it's not been updated, but I suppose it serves it's purpose.

Evidence so far would suggest that it's closed source.

The archive downloaded by the installer script does contain some source code, but it's mostly "generic" TensorFlow code, with some Python stubs that call off to native libraries (as you'd expect). It seems like all of the ML Compute stuff is contained within pre-compiled libraries (with some header files provided), but no source code.

I could be wrong here, and it might be that the intention is to open source the ML Compute components, but I don't think that's been done yet.

Bulk buying isn't always the solution though (perishable goods, for instance), and isn't always affordable. Your financial situation shouldn't dictate your ability to avoid unnecessary waste.

In my opinion, the move should be towards normalising reusable containers (where practical). Where I am, there are some more "specialist" shops who are doing great work in this area, but it's not mainstream and is often more expensive than just going to the supermarket.

It's taken me 10+ attempts to get Google Home to wake me up to a radio station on weekday mornings. Even with the alarm supposedly set, it works maybe 30% of the time, so I end up setting alarms elsewhere too.

I'm astonished at how badly it works compared to Alexa, but sadly, Alexa no longer supports alarms via BBC Sounds, so it's not an option for me.

Forgive me, but it's not clear what this actually does.

Is it a map that commits to disk? Does it operate on the filesystem level, or talk to the raw partition directly (as sort of suggested by the example)? What's it for?