123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

Accidental Tech Podcast

Jun 24, 2015•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 123

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Episode description

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.