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I don't think they use Virtualization for most launches now

> the sensor lives under AppleSPUHIDDevice in the iokit registry, on vendor usage page 0xFF00, usage 3. the driver is AppleSPUHIDDriver which is part of the sensor processing unit.

We know, the law requires you tell us of this if they’re for marketing purposes.

It’s actually a cookie experiment

This depends on the program.

There are intermediate firms that will get the exploits passed to the right people. They are not very difficult to find.

This would make for a neat poster.

Yes. And: Fabric.

Shirt.


> LLVM: Pretty much everyone who has created a programming language with it has complained about its design. gingerbill, Jon Blow, and Andrew Kelley have all complained about it. LLVM is a good idea, but it that idea was executed better by Ken Thompson with his C compiler for Plan 9, and then again with his Go compiler design. Ken decided to create his own "architecture agnostic" assembly, which is very similar to the IR idea with LLVM.

I suggest you ask around to see what the consensus is for which compiler is actually mature. Hint: for all its warts, nobody is writing a seriously optimized language in any of the options you listed besides LLVM.


Bringing up Rust as an obvious alternative is not toxic.

There's already a stereotype that Rust people will just carpet bomb any discussion with aggressively promoting Rust, people expect it to happen at this point and it just annoys people.

So I think it probably meets the threshold of "toxic", but more importantly - it's not effective. Everyone and their dog has already heard of Rust, aggressive proselytising is not going to help drive Rust adoption, it's just pissing people off


It's probably the same people who were proselitysing blockchain and now are proselytising "AI"?

I think that's more of a financial grift in a lot of cases (how many pie-eyed AI evangelists turn out to be running some "AI startup" or otherwise have skin in the game).

The rust thing is more like actual religious evangelism, like having Jehovah's Witnesses knocking on the door. They have seen the light and you haven't


it's toxic because of how it sometimes materializes:

- predictable

- incessant

- with belittling/reductionist/arrogant/elitist/combative phrasings

- handwaving rust shortcomings and tradeoffs


I’m not even sure he was at Apple when Swift came out. WebKit integration is very recent.

This isn't a production grade effort though.

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