This is quite an assertion. I am not privy to jobs vision for the iPad because I haven’t seen much written specifically and it’s evolution is pure speculation as he’s dead now. But you can’t extrapolate from the iPhone and call it a day. And the iPad and the Watch as well are not practically products that have matured under the jobs umbrella. Critical consensus has been pretty positive about the progression of MacOS under Jobs (it was quite a rocky road but look by 2008).
You are overgeneralizing. Also I quite enjoyed working with students about 14 years my junior, so that’s like just your opinion, man. (I also have a suspicion you’re much younger than me, which I find amusing).
> I don't think anyone needs a degree anymore to get to where they're going.
There are plenty of professions outside of tech where formalized education is held in the same regard as 100 years ago. The “times have changed” thing is very much a tech bubblethink. Good luck entering medicine or academia without a degree. There are outliers in these fields but that isn’t anything new.
Dear lord sounds like you got lost from comp.lang.c. How did it get into the spec? Because Unix did it that way. Just like gets made it into the spec. It’s not like that was some willful good design. The history of C and it’s standarization is inextricably ties to the history of Unix.
Luckily this is really not a problem in practice on iOS. Main reason I switched after years of frustration with Android. I use a ton of apps and the worst offender for background use is Hangouts of all things (I guess not surprisingly). So I guess I’m giving up a little bit of battery life but it’s really just one poorly designed app (I do not use hangouts nearly enough to justify its share of background draw)
This trope is like 2016 (or whenever the hell it was) either way it’s old and it’s dumb. Buy a dongle, attach it to your headphones and leave it or get air pods. That is what the market is doing. I mean I’m not thrilled with lack of a headphone jack but the overall market for iPhones doesn’t really care.
I think the point they were making is that if you were going to build something like this you would use a digitizer. That would probably be a cheaper build at this point.
At commands are used for many nonmodem things too.. Bluetooth adapters, zigbee adapters, HC12 transceiver, other various proprietary devices tied to a UART in addition to LTE, GSM/GPRS (I guess technically some of those are modems but they’re pretty far removed from the original design)
> Any time you call a blocking function that the system provides, it should immediately yield the fiber, which makes it look preemptive.
In the old days we would call this cooperative to contrast it from preemptive. This is the essence of cooperative, yielding at explicit points be they IO request, timers, or waiting on a message queue. Preemptive used to mean a certain thing and this is not it at all.
Indeed there will be some piezoelectric effect and some EM emissions on the order of micro watts compared to the 10s of watts burned by the CPU. But the poster I was replying to seemed quite confused about the fate of power in a CPU used for computation: It’s dissipated as heat.
All output power is thermal though. This is basic thermodynamics. A negligible amount of input power will be distributed outside of the CPU die which will be dissipated as heat a short distance away. Pray tell, what other energy form do you think this input is becoming anyway?
I reread and it didn’t make any difference. MacOS may have 1/10 the Windows base but that is not having “very low userbase”, while I think it is quite reasonable to say that about Haiku. Reread what I said, the MacOS base is large and it is a general base of highly technical and non-technical users alike that are not all hobbyists. This does not describe Haiku in the slightest.
There is a valid point to be made about verifying usability and the need for a large and diverse userbase.
How much you want to bet that the Haiku userbase is overwhelmingly male? And this is not to make some concerned sexism argument but to illustrate that the community is more representative of the IT crowd rather than the general population.