Episode 94: 94: Shrink, Shrink, Shrink!
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2012
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the topic of voting technology, then discuss the possibility of Apple using ARM processors instead of Intel processors in its Macs: RISC vs. CISC, process nodes, the x86 burden, and…sewing machines.
Links for this episode:
- Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac - Businessweek
- RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era (1999) - Ars Technica
- Reduced instruction set computing - Wikipedia
- Complex instruction set computing - Wikipedia
- RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era (2008) - Ars Technica
- x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia
- Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1 - YouTube
- Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2 - YouTube
- How a Sewing Machine Works (animation) - swiss-miss.com
- Micro-operation - Wikipedia
- x87 - Wikipedia
- SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) - Wikipedia
- SSE2 - Wikipedia
- SSE3 - Wikipedia
- SSE4 - Wikipedia
- x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lithography - Wikipedia
- 22 nanometer - Wikipedia
- Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
- Apple A6 - Wikipedia
- Understanding Moore’s Law - Ars Technica
- Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors - AnandTech
- Intel 8086 - Wikipedia
- Haswell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
- TSMC - Wikipedia
- Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC (2005) - Ars Technica
- Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - Real World Tech
- eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen (video) - events.ccc.de
- eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen - events.ccc.de
- Luddite - Wikipedia
- Why You Can't Vote Online Yet - On The Media
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You can't thread this thing through until the needle comes down, |
| 0:02.5 | but you've got to make sure the needle is all the way down |
| 0:04.4 | before you grab it, then you have to start and stop |
| 0:06.5 | a piece of machinery from moving. |
| 0:08.6 | It's, there is a limit to how fast a sewing machine can operate. This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is it wrong? |
| 0:19.0 | The world of Apple and related technologies and businesses nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. |
| 0:24.5 | By my friend and yours, John, Syracusea. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:28.4 | Today is Friday, November 16, 2012. |
| 0:31.1 | This is episode number 94 of our beloved hypercritical show. |
| 0:35.0 | We would like to say thank you very much to our sponsors today, |
| 0:38.0 | Squarespace.com, hover.com and Linda.com |
| 0:42.0 | who are collaborating to make this show possible. |
| 0:45.0 | We also want to thank Mutual Mobile. |
| 0:46.4 | These guys are super passionate about iOS as a platform. |
| 0:49.2 | They have a large dedicated team. |
| 0:51.3 | All these guys do is conceive, deliver, and support mobile solutions for global brands. |
| 0:55.6 | And you know what? |
| 0:56.6 | They want some help. |
| 0:57.6 | They want some help. |
| 0:58.6 | They trust our engineers the freedom to make technical decisions by hiring smart, people to their team and that's you. |
| 1:04.8 | They want you. |
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