cosmotic

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by cosmotic 2y ago
I actually disagree with the assessment that fonts 'look better' on macos. They are blurrier and inconsistent. The linked tweet explains all this. I don't know how the conclusion can be 'it looks better' when it&#x2
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by cosmotic 2y ago
When I used to use brew, most of the time was brew doing housekeeping. You could see the title bar change processes twenty times a second, often ruby, as it did whatever it was doing, even for simple commands like search or before upgrade c
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Macports might be worth considering https://www.macports.org/
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Using actual throughput would be a nice improvement over using link speed. In this case, just detecting the current throughput is a tiny fraction of the link speed and falling back to another link would be a huge improvement.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
If running native ports of server software isn't your cup of tea, you can run Linux containers on macos.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
And it seems like Apple and the courier company have managed to externalize this risk to the customer (assuming the OP's story is true).
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by cosmotic 2y ago
At some point, I'd hope the result of zooms code quickly becomes something that can be hardware decoded. Otherwise the CPU, battery consumption, and energy usage are going to be through the roof.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Why decode to then turn around and re-encode?
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Sometimes all you need to do for something to feel super snappy is to disable all the animations and effects.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Wikipedia has a good table to compare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Comparison_of_M_...
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by cosmotic 2y ago
> you don't stand in opposition to it, instead, if appropriate you prepare a contingency That's what I did =/
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by cosmotic 2y ago
It would be $2,199 for the highest end CPU and the 64GB of memory but I think you're point remains: the Studio is not a great buy until it receives the M4 upgrades.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
I was fired from Microsot a year ago because of a "lack of growth mindset" because I was critical of using ChatGPT in a healthcare (direct patient care) setting until hallucinations were under control.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Yes, but I suspect the 64GB of memory in the studio compared to 24GB in the mini the is going to make that studio a lot faster in many real-world scenarios.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Power consumption is a good contender for reasons to stick with rpis. The rough, quick search numbers I'm seeing for idle power are ~6w for the N100 SCB and ~1 to 2w for the pi. Max performance is like ~15w to ~4w.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
It's not just DDL that isn't transactional, there's a whole bunch of other things that aren't. And they break the transactionality silently. It's like an obstical course where bumping into something might be fatal.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
This article also points a finger at macos for having bad rendering too.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Even worse for a consultant, their job is serially build-and-leave.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Bing chat does something similar. It suggests going to the settings for the unrelated, now-defunct product also called bing chat. These settings no longer exist and there is no way to turn it off.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
I took zero that didn't fulfill a requirement. I presume anything else would have been cost more in time and money than value I'd get from it. It would almost certainly delayed graduation and sucked up free time and added stress.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
I was asked this numerous times I college and it gave me anxiety every time I had to answer it. I simply could not understand why anyone would be interested in my response, so I couldn't synthesize anything to my audience (the person a
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by cosmotic 2y ago
"say what you're hoping to get out of this class" is an invitation for bullshit, something LLMs are good at and at least this human (me) is bad at. This makes a lot of sense. Who's taking that class for a reason other th
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by cosmotic 2y ago
The juice is acidic. Are the peels?
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by cosmotic 2y ago
I think the point is that, after everything is said and done, there's no evidence that supports dark mode. Personal anecdote goes both ways. Dark mode usually has lower contrast ratio (gray-on-gray text instead of black-on-white), and
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Another positive point for wireless headphones: you never have to deal with detangling a cord, getting caught in it, or it pulling on you.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
I used to criticize every hacker news post's use of the term 'modern' and was downvoted every time.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Wouldn't the hard part be grabbing the shirt from the pile and spreading it out flat?
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Why not?
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Engineers don't decide how things are moved or changed, that's product and maybe ux.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Also consider the size of apps have dramatically increased, as have the size of photos and videos. Maybe it would be better to measure how 'crazy' something is by looking at how many normal users are hitting 'disk full'

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