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trollian··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
I wonder how bad the yields are and how long it'll take to get them up to being commercially viable.
trollian··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
Have you even met Americans? We're terrible at this kind of thing.
trollian··on Eazel, ex-Apple led Linux startup
I moved across the world (from Perth, WA) to work on open source software with some of my heroes (Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare) at Eazel. It was only a short time run, but I'm still in the Bay Area, still friends with many of the people I met there.

And I still use the software that I worked on at Eazel most days, which I can't say for anything I worked on since then.

trollian··on Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package manager
How is this not called "Byron"?
trollian··on Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map
I thought it might have been Square Kilometer Array interference but that's to the north of those spots.
trollian··on Fly.io has GPUs now
Lawyercats are the worst cats.
trollian··on Lobsters
Other people posting your stuff gets a lot of love though.
trollian··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Maybe the board members are worried about going to jail for running a 501(c)3 that's behaving like a for profit company?
trollian··on I accidentally a scheme
I think Eich intentionallyed a scheme.
trollian··on Auto Xylophone with Homemade Solenoids
This is something I've dreamed about doing in one form or another since I was a teenager almost 30 years ago.

But the best thing about this story is the video "Without the Xylophone" - a terrifying robotic bed of nails.

trollian··on 0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt
These exploits are weapons. Look at what governments pay for weapons. That's hard to compete with.
trollian··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
We were just talking about Kurt Cobain's death from suicide with my daughter with CF. We'll take the meds thanks.
trollian··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
There's a theory that having a single CF mutation can help combat the effects of cholera.
trollian··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
Not having to deal with insurance & copay shenanigans for my daughter's CF meds is one of the things that keeps me at the large tech company I work at...
trollian··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
No.
trollian··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
My 8yr old daughter has been on Kalydeco (one of the active compounds in Trikafta) since it was approved and it means she'll live a fairly similar life to her twin sister, health wise. We only have to do airway clearance treatment when she's sick. It's crazy for me to think what a different life shed have had even being born a decade before.
trollian··on Found in a Library Book (2022)
Hey that's my wife's project.
trollian··on The .zip TLD sucks
Standard PC executables end in .com, so we should probably get rid of that one too.

Maybe Poland should change its name so Perl programmers don't get confused.

trollian··on Ugly Gerry – Gerrymandering font
Who decided to call it Ugly Gerry and not Sans Democracy?
trollian··on Docker-OSX: Run macOS VM in a Docker
This should be called "Docker for Mac".
trollian··on Ohio vandals release 10k carnivorous mink into the wild
Mink can carry SARS CoV2 making them a great wild reservoir for mutation.
trollian··on Americans to Provide Biometrics and Pay Fee Traveling to the U.K. From 2023
The situation is similar trying to visit the US from most places. If your passport isn't from Western Europe, US, Canada, Australia, NZ there's quite a visa process. Citizens of 5 southern & eastern EU countries don't qualify for the US visa waver.
trollian··on Source Code for SunOS 4.1.3 (1992)
Microsoft did this with NT too, IIRC...
trollian··on Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet
If Ultralight is based on WebKit (the site says "Based on WebKit") how is it not LGPL? Isn't this basic software licensing?
trollian··on My business card runs Linux
It's a pity they never ported VMS to it...
trollian··on Achievement unlocked: rustc segfault
Getting LLVM to SEGV is depressingly easy.
trollian··on Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
The contracts that the record labels offer to streaming platforms are (or were a decade ago when I was in the business) set up to strictly control the prices seen by end users but I'm sure their lawyers believe they can do this without running afoul of competition laws. Even if the effect is price fixing...
trollian··on Tumblr has added more strict tag filtering for their iOS app
I think it's great that users have a choice of mobile platforms. Many people would rather not have any adult content on their phones and they choose iOS. Who are we to force it upon them? If they wanted a an uncensored experience they would have bought a different phone.
trollian··on Password Managers
If you install chrome on iOS you can use it as a password manager while you're using other apps, including Safari.
trollian··on An Unbelievable Demo
I worked at a company that was interfacing with the AOL Instant Messenger network in the early 2000s. Finally the business people got a deal and AOL made us sign NDAs to get access to the official API docs. We were excited because we were using the docs that one of the open source clients had produced from their reverse engineering efforts.

AOL's docs were the same ones from the open source project, with the GPL message intact.

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