knolan

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by knolan 6y ago
The Air in the article is fanless.
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by knolan 6y ago
I finally think I found a fix for this, toggle off and back on the Calculator service in System Prefs > Spotlight.
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by knolan 6y ago
I’m Irish. We had a similar gypsy group in this country commonly referred to as Travellers and to say that there is utter hatred of them by the general populace is an understatement. The division between communities is extreme. It’s difficu
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by knolan 6y ago
If I do any simple math calculation in Spotlight it pegs all cores at 100%. Its easily reproducible and really annoying because I've used spotlight as a calculator for years.
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by knolan 6y ago
They showed this during the previous transition announcement. They flashed up a screen of various open source tools that they’ve tested. It even included Blender. Here is the image: http://www.cgchannel.com/wp-content/u
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by knolan 6y ago
Apple’s SSDs tend to be faster too, but also soldered in along with everything else.
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by knolan 6y ago
I’ve moved from a 5D mkIII to an R5. The autofocus is extremely impressive, the biggest win however is not the focusing performance but the coverage. The 5D, and most SLRs, cluster the PDAF points in the middle of the frame where as the mir
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by knolan 6y ago
I’ve always used Spotlight on my Macs for quick calculations. Just use CMD space and throw in an equation or unit conversion, get back to the task at hand and jump back into Spotlight and edit, it’s simple and streamlined. However, Catalina
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by knolan 6y ago
That’s not exactly a selection pressure. It would seem likely that there is no selection pressure here but in fact greater genetic diversity due to overall better survival of more and more people. Perhaps those that developed differently to
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by knolan 6y ago
We use OpenFOAM for a lot of our CFD needs in my University’s Engineering department. Most students have Windows laptops. When it comes to final year projects (especially in COVID times where we can’t guarantee lab access) WSL has proven ve
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by knolan 6y ago
No sign of it here yet. I’m curious if it fixed some of the unpleasant behaviour and bugs that were never fixed in iOS 13. Things like Mail not displaying new emails properly unless your went out and back into the mailbox. The keyboard auto
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by knolan 6y ago
It’s nowhere near as good tho. You frequently have to type the name of the entire utility. On MacOS I can open Disk Utility by using CMD space to open Spotlight and type du. I can do this all as one single shortcut without even looking. On
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by knolan 6y ago
Look at the Steamlink debacle. That time the excuse was about buying games through the app (even though you can buy games on the main steam app) and not about what content you stream from your computer to your iOS device.
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by knolan 6y ago
I can’t imagine how a company like that would let such an individual interact with customers.
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by knolan 6y ago
I’ve a 10 bay system populated with 4TB drives that I use as a dumb data dump in RAID6. They’re okay systems, but as others have said they come with a lot of useless complexity. At a previous job had an 8 bay system that had a dodgy backpla
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by knolan 6y ago
This reminds me of the obnoxious know-it-all that lives under the bridge on the QNAP forums.
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by knolan 6y ago
I love DDG, but the country specific search simply doesn’t work, which is a shame.
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by knolan 6y ago
They did show this in the keynote.
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by knolan 6y ago
It’s a new 16” that I set up new.
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by knolan 6y ago
I’ve a major 10.15 issue on two Macs where doing any kind of calculation in Spotlight maxes out all cores on the CPU for 10-15 minutes.
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by knolan 6y ago
Here is a Schlieren visualisation of the airflow from my 16” MBP. https://youtu.be/88mXfMm0M58
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by knolan 6y ago
I get that, but I would think that they would then avoid changing the text colour to white also if they don't render the blue highlight.
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by knolan 6y ago
I find it mildly interesting from a graphics point of view. MacOS has always had lots of attention to detail in its presentation and its interesting to see how the wheels can come off.
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by knolan 6y ago
I see it now, thanks for pointing it out. Just for fun I recorded it with the 240 fps video mode on my phone and you can see that the text colour is changing from black to white in response to the mouseover but the blue highlight does not a
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by knolan 6y ago
Here is my 16" doing what you suggest: https://imgur.com/v4HNhZY Moving frame to frame you see that the blue highlight lags the mouse by one or two frames. Seems okay to me, I don't see any flickering.
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by knolan 6y ago
Blender’s cycles renderer and some HDRIs would be an excellent way to produce stunning architecture rendering. Switch to the eevee renderer and use freestyle to outline edges (which you can also export to SVG!) and you can produce some exce
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by knolan 6y ago
As mentioned, enable the 3D printing add-on (it’s built in) it’ll check your mesh and highlight trouble areas. https://youtu.be/-y5r2mTlUWA
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by knolan 6y ago
I’ve used lots of CAD packages over the years and while F360 is pretty easy it’s also a pain with lots of tedious behaviour like having to upload an STL to import it.
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by knolan 6y ago
My OP was not intended to suggest that Blender and SolidWorks were somehow competitors, they fullfill very different roles, just like Word and Vim, the point was about the janky nature of SolidWords and also a lot of ribbon infested CAD pac
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by knolan 6y ago
I started using Blender around 2013 when we needed to make some exciting animations for a work project. I quickly grew to love it for its streamlined Jack of all trades approach to media creation and it’s breathtaking pace of development.

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