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* Posts by hoagy_ytfc

7 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Aug 2019

114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

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Re: I was there

Except that they're not ARM designs. They are Apple's own designs. You either pay attention and know that, or you don't pay attention yet think your view is worth posting anyway.

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Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

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Re: Very.Big.Sigh

Not only a scarcity of jobs - but we have vacancies for Perl devs and can't fill them.

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Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'

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Next release is 5.34.0, not 5.3.4

Releases are usually in May, so hopefully next month.

ISTM that SawyerX threw a wobbly because "everyone" else said the inevitable cruft wasan't causing problems in practice.

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Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message

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Re: Getting it right

Glad to hear you’re bug free. Does that include unknown bugs?

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Talk about a control plane... US Air Force says upcoming B-21 stealth bomber will use Kubernetes

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Re: Open-source nuclear warplanes

3D printing is already used for a lot of aircraft components.

Power Metals + printers = aircraft parts

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Three is the magic number, unless you're Apple. That's how many million iPad shipments it was down in Q1

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Re: Overpriced

iPad is £349 for 10" model - that's about as low as it's ever been.

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Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

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I realise you may have been making a more general point, but FWIW neither Swift nor ObjectiveC have garbage collection.

ObjC _did_ have it for a while, but I'm pretty sure it's long gone.

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