Accidental Tech Podcast

123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

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  • Follow-up:
    • Bitcode is specific to its originally targeted CPU architecture
    • Bruce Hoult tweet 1, tweet 2
  • C data types
  • Endianness
  • Data structure alignment
  • Steve Troughton-Smith
  • S1 analysis by Chipworks
  • The (un)likelihood of ARM Macs
    • Apple's transition from PowerPC to Intel CPUs
  • Intel Skylake
  • Swift 2 and compiler self-hosting
    • Mono's compiler history
  • Oculus as "the Palm Pilot of VR"
  • John, his watch, and his nose
    • Myke was right again
  • Myke was originally right about the iPhone 6 Plus
  • Safari Content Blocking API in iOS 9 and El Capitan
    • WebKit Content Blockers
    • Session video with John and Marco
  • Safari View Controller to kill minibrowsers
  • GlimmerBlocker
  • YouTube ad settings
  • Ad-banner blindness
  • The ethics of running ad-blockers
  • AdBlock Plus accepts money from some ad companies whitelisted as Acceptable Ads
  • John's Reload Button extension for Safari
  • TRIM) on non-Apple SSDs
    • New trimforce command in El Capitan
  • After-show:
    • Casey, John, and Marco attempt to modify their houses.

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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa