Osmium

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by Osmium 10y ago
Would be curious to know if they tested the Touch Bar below the keyboard instead of above it. I wonder if, as the concept further evolves, the bar might become larger or migrate locations. The comparisons they made to the original PowerBook
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by Osmium 10y ago
Would be curious to know if they tested the Touch Bar below the keyboard instead of above it. I wonder if, as the concept further evolves, the bar might become larger or migrate locations. The comparisons they made to the original PowerBook
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by Osmium 10y ago
Sierra 10.12 (16A320)
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by Osmium 10y ago
> press Cmd+Shift+., why can't the same shortcut be available in Finder? FYI, I'd never heard of this shortcut before but just tried it in the Finder and it worked just fine (to toggle visibility of invisible files).
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by Osmium 10y ago
> how can one even manage to program in such flat keyboards Aren't keyboards that allow your hands to rest flat more ergonomic? I thought keyboards that slope upwards cause potentially harmful bending of the wrist?
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by Osmium 10y ago
A fair amount. I had a lot of math courses in university, quite a bit more than I needed for quantum mechanics and that sort of thing. But I'm also by no means a mathematician, and I'm definitely out of practice.
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by Osmium 10y ago
How about a book for a more technical, practical introduction? I'm (hopefully) just starting a new position where some of the team is using machine learning techniques in an applied sense (i.e. it's not a CS position, they're
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by Osmium 10y ago
> it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain That's amazing! I adore The Fountain, but I had no idea that's how they did the special effects. I did notice they were 'otherworldly' and quite
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by Osmium 10y ago
> but read some books on history of physics (and math) first. That's great advice. Do you have any more recommendations? As a working scientist myself, I find that a historical context really helps. This is especially true when a
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I'd be interested to hear everyone's strategies to combat this For me, it's all about latency: I try to introduce a barrier for being able to access typical time-wasting sites. If there was a way on OS X to reduce browsi
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by Osmium 10y ago
> it made a complete mess of my /usr/local/bin In that case you might be glad to hear that in v1.0.0: > Homebrew’s default repository installation location changed to /usr/local/Homebrew to keep your &#x2
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by Osmium 10y ago
> For the people that I know who have both Hangouts and Whatsapp, we prefer Hangouts consistently - even for just text. Speaking for myself, I've found Hangouts to be a noticeable drain on my battery (iOS), while WhatsApp seems negl
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by Osmium 10y ago
> single atomistically perfect crystal with no defects what so ever Nit-pick, but single crystals can (and do) still have defects. Your point about single crystal turbine blades being awesome I agree with completely though :)
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by Osmium 10y ago
Also in my late 20s, in the US temporarily and nowhere near six digits (academia, sigh) and I've found it okay. You just have to be selective where you apply. I got an unsecured $1000 from Discover (since been increased) and an unsecur
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by Osmium 10y ago
Honestly, I'd like to know too. I have no first-hand knowledge here, which is why I was asking about it. WebObjects has been discontinued, presumably for a reason, and while it was ahead of its time back in the day, it wouldn't be
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by Osmium 10y ago
Just to be clear, the dark pattern isn't the re-authentication itself, it's hiding the "Subscriptions" button behind a button that says "View Apple ID" where many people (myself included) may not think to look.
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by Osmium 10y ago
> "Tap View Apple ID", seriously? This has always seemed like a horrible user-hostile dark-pattern on Apple's part. When you subscribe, Apple says to go to Settings to unsubscribe or turn off auto-renew, but it's very
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I don't use Lumina because I don't use DEs [...] In fairness, that probably means your preferences will be very different from those people who actually do use desktop environments. I also think a lot of people (myself includ
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by Osmium 10y ago
> Can someone give some notes about the security of NaCl Secretbox using Poly1305 as authenticator and XSalsa20 for encryption? (Speaking as an unqualified outsider) Both Poly1305 and Salsa20 are creations of Daniel Bernstein / djb,
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by Osmium 10y ago
Thanks for this – I really appreciate the insight. That changing-input lag sounds like an absolute nightmare. Since I left my previous comment, I came across some Apple presentations on new work they've been doing in iOS 9 and iOS 10 o
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by Osmium 10y ago
Aside, but does anybody else find the switch from right-to-left to left-to-right really jarring in this screenshot? https://citizenlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/image13-76... It has the effect of in
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by Osmium 10y ago
> I am very curious as to how this works. I'd love to know too. Really like Duet Display, though I wish the output quality was a bit higher (there's a quality slider in settings, but even on maximum there're lots of JPEG-l
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by Osmium 10y ago
> Since there have been several reports of essentially nonexistent peer review from the journal, many people are a bit skeptical. Speaking from personal experience (from our own group and also from a colleague), their peer review is no b
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by Osmium 11y ago
Eventually we'll be back to being able to communicate the full breadth of human emotions! And then we'll need someone to invent another 'like' button, so we can sufficiently simplify our social workloads again... There s
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by Osmium 11y ago
For me it's "I'd buy an iPad Pro tomorrow...if only it ran Xcode [and had a terminal]." It can be heavily sandboxed as far as I care, I just need a proper Unix terminal. The trouble with Xcode is that it just needs so mu
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by Osmium 11y ago
> To me, OS/X's quality has been slipping, I'm amused to see the 'OS/X' typo still lives on, more than a decade since OS/2's been relevant :) On topic, I've just upgraded to the latest version
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by Osmium 11y ago
Absolutely. Lovely to see some innovation from Microsoft that's made it out of labs (the hinge alone looks fantastic). I'd be concerned about duplication of components between the screen and the keyboard though? I can't quite
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by Osmium 11y ago
> SpaceX [doesn't] really require day-to-day CEO attention Really? What's special about SpaceX that it doesn't require a full-time CEO? I'd imagine, considering the scope of their task and the scale of their ambition,
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thanks for your reply. I've seen an animated image of these salt deposits forming online. It's my understanding these images were taken over a period of several months. Now we know what to look for, would it be possible to watch t
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by Osmium 11y ago
> unless you're a student and your parents bought you your phone It's a bit tangential, but speaking for myself this actually matters. I was a student until recently, I bought my own phone, but I couldn't afford the develo

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