123: Imperfect Signaling Mechanism

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.

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