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medium.com 3y ago

Elon Musk-Backed Carbon Capture Technology Could Save the World

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

Apple wins appeal against EU’s $14.9B tax bill

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

The Zens Liberty is the AirPower wireless charger that Apple couldn’t make

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hackernoon.com 8y ago

AdTrader Is Suing Google and Why Advertisers Might Never Get That Chance Again

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www.nybooks.com 9y ago

Conciousness: Am I the Apple

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www.canalys.com 9y ago

Apple Watch has its best quarter and takes ~80% of smartwatch revenue

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www.sciencedirect.com 9y ago

An assessment of the technical feasibility of the Mars One mission (2015)

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www.digitaltrends.com 11y ago

Cornell University is Laughing in the Face of Moore's Law

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Bret Victor The Future of Programming

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

BigBang blunder bursts multiverse bubble : Nature News and Comment

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techpinions.com 12y ago

Necessary Death and the Strategic Plan

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12y ago

An Homage to Douglas Englebart and a Critique of the State of Tech

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www.techhive.com 12y ago

No Veto From Obama Administration Means Bans On Some Samsung Devices

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techpinions.com 13y ago

Android's Market Share is Literally a Joke

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news.yahoo.com 13y ago

Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

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www.schneier.com 14y ago

Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law

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gigaom.com 14y ago

What’s behind the price signaling between Verizon and AT&T?

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NAND card is replaceable in a proprietary socket. So you don’t have to worry. It probably is not upgradable but you can definitely replace it.

If the Apple II was the 70s and the Macintosh was the 80s and NeXTSTEP was the 90s and the iPhone was the 2000s, name the thing of this caliber they did in the 2010s.

Arguably, the iPod was 2000s and the iPhone was 2010s. The iPhone really didn't get started until the iPhone 3GS in middle-2009 so it started slowly but really defined the 2010s for Apple.

That was on a 700 MHz Raspberry Pi 1. On an 1800 MHz Raspberry Pi 400 NEON SIMD the difference was another order of magnitude.

[QUOTE] Comparison - The three 700 MHz Pi 1 main measurements (Loops, Linpack and Whetstone) were 55, 42 and 94 MFLOPS, with the four gains over Cray 1 being 8.8 times for MHz and 4.6, 1.6, 15.7 times for MFLOPS.

The 2020 1800 MHz Pi 400 provided 819, 1147 and 498 MFLOPS, with MHz speed gains of 23 times and 69, 42 and 83 times for MFLOPS. With more advanced SIMD options, the 64 bit compilation produced Cray 1 MFLOPS gains of 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times.[/QUOTE]

You can download LiViable from the article author's download page https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/

You can run in full-screen mode by doing the normal macOS click on the green stoplight button at the top of the window. The current versions of Apple's virtualization libraries para-virtualize the GPU which runs nearly at full native speed.

It sounds like you want a type 1 VM. Unfortunately none exist for macOS that I'm aware of.

Won’t work anyway. You can’t virtualize an Intel macOS on an Apple silicon VM. Unless you were just looking to transfer your data files. If so you can share a directory that is the external TM disk. (Not sure if you can do that with Parallels but the article author’s Viable works fine.)

Most of the software I’ve written has gone into hardware products. Currently working on an embedded Linux system and writing a UI in ReactJS. We are late but only by a couple of months and I have every expectation that the software will be completed. The product has pre-sold about $1M already.

If you want to be working on shipping products, work on embedded stuff.

I’ve done customer facing business software too. Still mostly successful but that is where I’ve seen a few failures. One project I did was writing automated functional/integration tests didn’t see release but I take no blame for that one. The tests worked. The product didn’t.

I’ve been doing ReactJS development with both the M1 and now the M2 MacBook Air for a year now. My app’s transpiler production build takes about 5 seconds and any development incremental is essentially instantaneous.

I can’t imagine most developers work even stressing an M2 unless you are compiling chrome or something.

Best thing as a contractor I don’t even bother to bring a power adapter. I work for 8 hours and leave with 20%-40% remaining every day.

Mjolnir 3 years ago

Too bad Apple's management was so timid. That could have changed the course of computing back in 1985. I had a Macintosh IIx and it was a great computer but I would have bought the Jonathon in a heartbeat back then. Thanks for the history, first I've heard of it.

I think you are missing the date it was written. The article is almost 9 years old. That is older than even most stack overflow answers. The software world has changed quite a bit in the last 10 years. You are less likely to find yourself in an environment where this analogy was more appropriate (thank the gods). But as someone who has worked in the software industry for 30+ years, this was more accurate than you think.