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by SllX 6y ago
Bookmarked (well, saved to Instapaper). Thank you for link.
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by SllX 6y ago
It’s programmed to function as a ProRes and ProRes RAW video accelerator, so is more useful for video production. Apple has it locked down though, so while they can update it, 3rd party devs would have to find a way to hack it to do anythin
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by SllX 6y ago
Friedrich Hayek put the Austrian in Austrian Economics; the term was invented by the Germans and was meant to be disparaging towards him and others like him. Hayek has an extensive body of written work, the jewel of which is “The Road to Se
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by SllX 6y ago
Well here’s the relevant specs for what it does: > Compatible with Mac Pro (current generation) PCI Express x16 card > Accelerates ProRes and ProRes RAW codec in Final Cut Pro X, QuickTime Player X, and supported third-party applicati
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by SllX 6y ago
Is that including an FPGA?
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by SllX 6y ago
New, this configuration would be $51,599.00 before tax. EDIT: Ninja’d like 5 times over. I see I wasn’t the only one that rushed to figure out what kind of discount the buyer is getting on this.
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by SllX 6y ago
The idea of someone drawing lines is positivist bullshit. The Declaration of Independence was grounded on the bedrock of Natural law, and the bedrock of the Constitution was the common law. The context for both was American but the principl
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by SllX 6y ago
We can respect another nation’s sovereignty without respecting their authoritarianism. I very much believe we should be disrespecting the hell out of authoritarian States, much more than we do so now because authoritarianism doesn’t stop at
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by SllX 6y ago
Nation states have military, intelligence, diplomacy and police corps. They reserve the power to stop, detain, arrest, jail, try, sentence, imprison, and kill. That’s why how we go about those things is a Big Deal, and why we have so many r
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by SllX 6y ago
Decades is a pretty bold claim. It hasn’t yet been 3 decades since the USSR fully dissolved, and that was a bigger territorial loss from the Russian perspective than anything they’ve gained since. There were active political discussions abo
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by SllX 6y ago
At this point it’s a rumor and we don’t know the prices for the next batch of phones yet. Hopefully we see some reduced prices regardless, but it is hard to get worked up over rumors like this when I’m not lacking in charging equipment or h
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by SllX 6y ago
I myself do not know, but your question jogged my memory on something cool. Behold: The OmniGroup Mac OS X mailing list archive. https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/archive/macosx-dev/ There aren’t many develop
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by SllX 6y ago
The fact that I had no prior knowledge of this shows just how useful their exercise in rebranding was. Firefox is a browser. Saying “Firefox browser” is mere tautology.
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by SllX 6y ago
At some point a word becomes so overused it loses all meaning. The guy who created the word genocide also created the word vandalism. He intended for both actions these words described to be looked at with abject horror and thus applied as
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by SllX 6y ago
You could buy a 6s and 6s Plus new at the Apple Store just two years ago.
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by SllX 6y ago
Yes but given the same margin for error, a square would still be a bigger target. The stoplight was a pure aesthetic choice, I would have preferred more functional choices, but it was probably the right call at the time to go for aesthetics
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by SllX 6y ago
To add on and support this, I found this page: https://www.wordnik.com/words/master Not overly familiar with Wordnik, but a summary examination of this page shows a demonstrable variance in different senses and meaning
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by SllX 6y ago
Most Bay Area counties still aren’t reporting recoveries distorting the Active Case number, unless you believe 0 people who have had COVID-19 in San Francisco have recovered since the SFDPH started tracking cases. EDIT: Additional context:
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by SllX 6y ago
It was realized more or less in Mac OS X Server 1.0, which despite its name is more Rhapsody than Mac OS X, and enough people bought it to complain when Apple quickly moved ahead with Mac OS X as we know it and didn’t offer any kind of disc
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by SllX 6y ago
The family tree is slightly off, but it’s not completely chronological. A 40 year old man might still marry a 25 year old woman and have children with her and the tree would put them on the same line. Your chronology is correct though. I th
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by SllX 6y ago
I'm not going to defend Apple's work on this front, it's just they decided to consolidate the title bar and toolbar to free up some vertical screen real estate pressure and they're leaning hard on these slide animations
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by SllX 6y ago
A circle given the same height provides a smaller pointer target than a square. The stoplight was also a downgrade over the shapes, positioning and functionality of the Mac OS 9 window controls. Stickies still uses these controls by the way
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by SllX 6y ago
It’s easy to take every UI change as an affront, particularly when somebody changes something we liked. Just from what I’ve seen though, it appears the goal is a simply a more space efficient UI. It’s not a bad goal, even though I still wan
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by SllX 6y ago
That's been the trend for a while, but in the case of the proxy icon, the types of interactions you could perform with it were mostly undiscoverable and unknown to a lot of users. You had to actively explore the way the UI worked to fi
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by SllX 6y ago
Less breaking than going from 10.14 to 10.15, but they did drop support for my laptop (although I think the usual pattern is another year or two of security updates, so I guess I'll see when I'm replacing it).
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by SllX 6y ago
The proxy icon is still there, it seems you have to hover or click to show it though.
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by SllX 6y ago
Nah, I watch most of the WM-related threads because it's more interesting to me than I am willing to admit in public life. XFCE gets trotted out generally any time GNOME, KDE, MATE or Cinnamon does, but especially in the case of the fo
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by SllX 6y ago
In the case of git, Linus did what he did with Linux and named it after himself. EDIT: https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8 I didn’t watch through it again to confirm, but if my memory isn’t failing me, it was this talk where he me
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by SllX 6y ago
Apple actually built a way out, but they haven't advertised it, publicized it, nor marketed it under these terms. They probably don't even want people thinking about it. I have not just one, but three active podcast subscription
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by SllX 6y ago
Soon we shall find out. I'm actually feeling optimistic, I'm not sure we're going to get that particular signal on Monday, but if Apple doesn't decide to lock down the OS completely with an ARM transition, I don't t

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