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I know nobody reads the articles but what about reading the title?

Looks like they’re killing off the beats brand…

They said ISO, so that’s one file.

Anything the cache doesn’t have, causes a cache miss, which passes it through.

So when you request the large file, the CDN (cache) doesn’t have it, so it immediately passes through to the original source. The details of how this is implemented don’t really matter in the sense that they are not going to host the large file(s) in the CDN, so they will always fall through.

Apple is in FAANG. For some reason (likely related to 2015-17 era SWE compensation) FANG just includes Netflix (with amazon facebook and google) and not Apple.

This is useful to increase plays by reducing “ladder anxiety”

Texas Instruments still sells graphing calculators with 68k processors (TI-89 series, most commonly)

The hacks were not the problem. They engaged in financial shenanigans because they had a bankrupt management culture.

Their decline and fall were the direct result of their human problems. And, briefly, their human problems stemmed from their human problems.

Culture and management matter.

Completely insane behavior. How do you wake up one day at a corporate environment and think any of this is OK?

They did not try to lower the gear on their first landing. It would have lowered. They raised the gear. It was in the commanded gear up (stowed position) when they landed and the indicator would have shown it was up.

And it was even easier before VPC, just public instances with RDP (obviously a big security issue, but a decade ago not uncommon)

No AVX is fairly brutal

Bitcoin is a pretty reasonable story for how this occurs - first you start on CPU, then GPU, then custom ASICs.

If the financial motivation is there, companies will build custom hardware. Companies like Apple and Google (TPUs) are building custom processors for various purposes.