asciilifeform: so, for instance, streaming audio apps can play in background
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it does, but app has to explicitly ask for it
asciilifeform: running more than one user app simultaneously was introduced in ver. 4 i think.
asciilifeform: this, according to the dev manual, is to save battery charge.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i recall, it uses an evil semi-cooperative task scheduler for user apps (vs system daemons) where 'non-essential' threads are suspended
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but apple's first version of os didn't support user task switching
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a normal unix box
asciilifeform: so it was never entirely clear to me why it exists, other than the fact that it wants to and the bezzlatron decrees it
asciilifeform: altera is more or less the 'worst of all worlds' - considerably poorer gate density, shoddier linux toolchain support, and not really winning on price either
asciilifeform: decimation: xilinx and altera both make tightly 'closed' chips, for reasons discussed in agonizing detail earlier
asciilifeform: 'LeGuin had told police he was part of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which believes the federal, state and local governments operate illegally.'
asciilifeform: chetty: cave man (or airplane man) is not an automatic born champion at saying 'no'. which is how we got 'the state' to begin with.
asciilifeform: ^ for non-usaians, this is a result of the peculiar custom of u.s. police using firemen as human shields
asciilifeform: 'When Dallas firefighters drove by the house, LeGuin allegedly started shooting at them. He hit the fire truck at least twice, police said.'
asciilifeform: with something more than 19th c. tech
asciilifeform: at some point, one or more of the folks lowered into bitcherasty by usg will have a logical, adequate response.
asciilifeform: ers tells which key was pressed... It’s corrosion resistant, impervious to the environment, and yes – it will work underwater.'
asciilifeform: 'This extremely rare type of keyswitch actually presses a fake switch, similar to the Cherry MX Blue ‘jumping bean’ mechanism... Underneath each row of keys is an isolated ‘transfer bar’, which the sliding ‘beans’ strike. On each end of the bar, a transducer (i.e. microphone or piezo) picks up the sound of the strike transmitted through the bar. The difference in arrival time between the two transduc
asciilifeform: machine wins. but three drivers sitting in front of it, sure
asciilifeform: pipetting liquids in a predefined volume all day long is not one of these cases
asciilifeform: sometimes human factor is a plus (soviet nuke subs, manual reactor controls)
asciilifeform: nah the other two-in-a-box. e.g. let's have kgb and gru play same field
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hard to see who else could have reanimated the corpse of the 2011-era human wave chump attacks
asciilifeform infers that, should a peculiar effect be seen and mircea_popescu is silent, then it must be truly interesting
asciilifeform wonders if the dump wasn't the work of an impatient man, but of a thinking one - trying to induce 'stress fracture' (what's the correct term?) via stampede effects
asciilifeform: so isn't it rather like saying 'volcano was a major point of support for pompei until day x'
