Betelgeuse90

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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
FWIW, the popping speakers are a software related issue, many users who updated to a recent version of Catalina have reported the issue has been fixed for them. Also, thermal throttling has not really been an issue with the new 16" MBP
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Likewise was skeptical about FaceID, but it is really much nicer to have than TouchID. I'm not a sweaty person at all, but whenever I picked up a DualShock controller for a minute and put it down, my hands were too moist for TouchID to
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Fair enough. I'm glad more states are following suit. Both of us appear to understand the differences between the systems and so I don't think we should be bogged down with semantics. Israel has a single-payer public healthcare s
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
It is, yeah. If you go to the ER and are admitted, you pay literally nothing, even if you needed an ambulance. Subsidized medication is extremely cheap, etc etc..
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Oh, but that's such a minor expense I don't consider it at all. It's an extra 10$ a month for the absolute majority. Top insurance is about 25$ a month. Practically negligible for the absolute majority of people and nothing l
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I don't know anybody here in Israel who pays for private insurance.
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I think a considerable amount of Toyotas are actually made in the US, ironically, so you might still call it American made :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Toyota_factories#Unite...
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Here in Israel the majority of large health providers are essentially contractors, are largely indistinguishable and don't compete on price at all. Everybody pays a health tax as a percentage of their income. You don't have to pay
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I actually love my MBP 2015's keyboard, and the trackpad is for me the ergonomically-superior choice. I don't have any wrist pain no matter how long I work on it, and the gestures are brilliant and useful. The screen size is the
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Assuming changes can be made in order to be approved while still being true to their goal (which is essentially escaping from law enforcement). Apple rejected the app explicitly because of what it was trying to achieve.
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Recently had a discussion with a colleague about JSON in C++. It's actually a big issue, because reflection isn't really supported in C++. It's not just a blocker for parsing objects as JSON, it's a fundamental limitati
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Spotify is 7th place for me. Apple Music is first. Maybe the country you're in makes a difference.
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I have a similar issue I think: I can't get YouTube to remember my Autoplay, Dark Mode and language settings at all, even though I'm logged in. EDIT: Maybe not 'not at all', but it's remembered for a very short whil
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
To be even more fair... ;) We don't know what Apple does when they replace batteries for customers. Maybe there's a calibration process or something of the sort. After all they're reporting battery health, which nobody else d
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
To be fair, you'll get the "service battery" message even if you place an original Apple battery in the iPhone. A used device that was serviced perfectly well but not by Apple will still display this message. All this means i
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
AFAIK, they cracked the San Bernardino murderer's iPhone.
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Yeah I've seen this page. I meant a policy which is a bit more specific, applying only to games rather than to all apps. Something akin to Steam's policy where you can get a refund no questions asked if you haven't played too
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
Woah, take it easy there, Satan! ;) Kidding aside, it's clear that the model for paying up front for something you don't know you'd like isn't ideal. I think it's simple and honest, which is great, but it's not
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Apple Cracks Down On Offerwall Ads(pocketgamer.biz)
3 points by Betelgeuse90 7y ago|4 comments
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
The sad thing is that it wasn't even fixed after they added those membrane, it only reduced the failure rate by a small margin. You can still find pretty much just as many reports online of the same failures.
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by Betelgeuse90 7y ago
I generally agree. I get that it's annoying to wait for Apple's review just for fixing critical bugs for example, but I feel like knowing the review block is there means you have to be more thoughtful about what you're deploy
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“Code Push” for Flutter is postponed indefinitely(github.com)
3 points by Betelgeuse90 7y ago|2 comments
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by Betelgeuse90 8y ago
My Location History and Web & App tracking are off, and I'm still able to use my Home and Work addresses on Google Maps. I see many people here have your same experience, which is pretty odd to me. I live in Israel, maybe there&#x
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by Betelgeuse90 10y ago
I'm not sure you're aware of this, but there's a distinction between wait-free and lock-free. http://rethinkdb.com/blog/lock-free-vs-wait-free-concurrency... This might be relevant to answering your ques
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
I'd wager a lot of people (myself included) who prefer one editor really do this because it's just easier to mentally handle. Because of that I wouldn't necessarily believe them (or again, me) if they told you they're m
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
Any CPU-bound application should see benefits as far as I understand it. Spending less time in the driver generally means spending more time doing useful things.
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
Exactly. And the fact that it's thriving in spite of its infrequent updates just goes to show you how much of a solid core it has.
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
I was thinking the same thing. It sounds like that name is implying science shouldn't be touching this, as if it's over science's reach and it's going for it anyway.
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
Good talk, thanks for sharing. I found the parts about lowering data dependency to achieve additional parallelism within the cores particularly enlightening.
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by Betelgeuse90 11y ago
I think a factor of importance is how much selective pressure there is that could lead to their creation. The sporadic and fairly arbitrary use in humans doesn't create a selective pressure strong enough to create these superbugs in me

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