Same goes for carbon steel. Unless you’re frying sticks of dynamite they are practically indestructible.

don’t let apple tell you they invented it.

Why always the knee-jerk anti-apple reaction even if they do something good?

FYI: Apple isn’t telling anyone they invented this. In fact, they didn’t even tell anyone about this feature and declined to comment after it was discovered and people started asking questions.

I wish TLoU 1 gave you the option to sacrifice Ellie. Have an alternate ending where they find a vaccine and everyone lives happily ever after (except Ellie).

Yep. The best people will leave first because they have options. It’s called the dead sea effect

Or just install a door on your bathroom and hang the toilet roll over.

How is that even legal? How is someone who hasn’t examined the patient and isn’t their physician allowed to make treatment decisions? If they even have the necessary qualifications.

I mean, you have to explicitly give permission before apps can access the camera.

How can an app turn on the camera without your consent?

Showing it’s unsustainable is kind of the point of the original game Monopoly is based on: The landlord’s game.

Two arrows makes more sense in the context of sharing

Why? Are you sending it to two people?

It suggests something (the content) being sent outside your device.

As an Android user why does an arrow out of a square signify sharing something?

It’s sending something outside of your device (the box).

As an iOS user the Android share icon makes no sense. How does that icon represent sharing? The iOS one is much clearer.

Wow, it looks so much prettier today. All thanks to climate improvement.

Can’t believe no one has suggested this yet: Melodies of Life from Final Fantasy IX

Sounds like a case of X-Y problem

Fat binaries contain both ARM and x86 code, but I was referring to Rosetta, which is used for x86-only binaries.

Rosetta does translation of x86 to ARM, both AOT and JIT. It does translate to normal ARM code, the only dependency on a Apple-specific custom ARM extension is that the M-series processors have a special mode that implements x86-like strong memory ordering. This means Rosetta does not have to figure out where to place memory barriers, this allows for much better performance.

So when running translated code Apple Silicon is basically an ARM CPU with an x86 memory model.

it’s transpiling the x86 code to ARM on the fly. I honestly would have thought it wasn’t possible

Apple’s been doing it for years. They try to do ahead of time transpiling wherever they can but they also do it on-the-fly for things like JITed code.

I can imagine wanting to learn a newer, more modern language than python.

And yet, I’ve never run into RAM problems on iPhones, both as a user and as a developer. On iOS an app can use almost all the RAM if needed, as long as your app is running in the foreground. Android by contrast is much stingier with RAM, especially with Java/Kotlin apps. There are some hard limits on how much RAM you can actually use and it’s a small fractIon of the total amount. The actual limit is set by the manufacturer and differs per device, Android itself only guarantees a minimum of 16MB per app.

The reason is probably because Android is much more lenient with letting stuff run in the background so it needs to limit the per-app memory usage.

Those apps also use more RAM than an equivalent iOS app, simply because they run on a garbage-collected runtime. With a GC there is a trade-off between performance and memory usage. A GC always wastes memory, as memory isn’t freed immediately once no longer in use. It’s only freed when the GC runs. If you run it very often you waste little RAM at the cost of performance (all the CPU cycles used by the GC) if you run it at large intervals you waste a lot of RAM (because you let a lot of ‘garbage’ accumulate before cleaning it up). In general, to achieve similar performance to non-GC’d code you need to tune it so it uses about 4 times as much RAM. The actual overhead depends on how Google tuned the GC in ART combined with the behavior of specific apps.

Note that this only applies to apps running in ART, many system components like the web browser are written in C++ and don’t suffer from this inefficiency. But it does mean Android both uses more RAM than iOS while at the same time giving apps less RAM to actually use.

It basically comes down to different architectural choices made by Google and Apple.