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by knolan 9y ago
Spacechem was the best game I've ever played on an iPad, it suited the form factor perfectly. It's a real shame Zactronics dropped support for iOS [0]. FTL also works well and the touch controls are reminiscent of Star Trek's
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by knolan 9y ago
Yes, I already note that at the end of my post.
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But spotlight doesn’t search inside those bundles, that’s the main difference. Even the ability of MacOS to list applications when using the open with context is so much faster compared to windows which grinds for several seconds to populat
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by knolan 9y ago
I think a lot of it is helped by the way MacOS works. You’ve got an Applications directory in which each app is listed as a monolithic package (or in a sub directory for built-in things like the terminal). Windows has various locations wher
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by knolan 9y ago
Yes, but the correct search result will be usually be second or third in the list. Using the polyc string a few times will rank it top of the list. Windows search will often just refuse to give the correct answer until you type an exact mat
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by knolan 9y ago
Windows always strikes me as a mishmash of ideas with very little overarching vision. A somewhat superfluous example of this is the branding of basic system tools; you have things like Task Manager, Device Manager, Disk Management etc. On V
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by knolan 9y ago
High Sierra was lots of new changes under tho hood whereas Snow Leopard was lots of improvements to existing stuff. High Sierra switches solid state drives to the new APFS file system and the WindowServer is now rewritten to use Metal2. So
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by knolan 9y ago
Amp finally helped me make the switch to ddg. I’d completely forgotten about it until I saw this thread.
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by knolan 9y ago
Text selection on iOS can indeed be a pain, particularly in Safari where it seems to lock onto html divs ignoring your selection and jump to the entire paragraph. On iPads and 3D Touch iPhones things are generally a lot better outside safar
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by knolan 9y ago
One of the reasons I gave up on New Scientist. We would be much better served by more in-depth articles that don’t claim to ‘change everything’ but instead inform.
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by knolan 9y ago
> Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate “patriotic” comments. When possible, refer a
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by knolan 9y ago
GPU and CPU being run separately perhaps?
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by knolan 9y ago
There are various apps on the App Store. The data is available in a public API. I won’t recommend any particulat App because I don’t trust any of them.
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by knolan 9y ago
Geekbench CPU scores from the release iPhone 7 running iOS 10 show scores of around 3400/5500. My 14 month old iPhone 7 running 11.2 reports around 3500/5900. So no slow down on this model. Battery capacity it as 87%.
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by knolan 9y ago
They could easily mitigate this with a de-icing heater around the perimeter of the roof.
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by knolan 9y ago
Thank you, you articulated my exact feelings. The stereotypical manager is often classified as the failed engineer. I’ve certainly seen it happen where managers are the smooth talking bullshitters who can’t cross the street without help whi
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by knolan 9y ago
My parents had paid off their mortgage when they were my age. My father was self employed and my mother a housewife. I’m on a reasonably good salary but banks won’t loan us enough to buy an averaged sized family home even though we have a r
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by knolan 9y ago
First thing that crossed my mind.
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by knolan 9y ago
Maybe I’m being thick, and I apologise, but why not just bookmark tbe IPs?
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Did you report the error? I’ve done this several times and they do eventually fix it. Not justifying the mess that Apple Maps is just offering a path forward.
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> In my field of anthropology, the minimum acceptable number of pubs per year for a researcher with aspirations for tenure and promotion is about three. This means that, each year, I must discover three important new things about the wor
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by knolan 9y ago
I’ve dont something simple but similar to this with UV unwrapping in Blender directly. You can even export the UV map to SVG.
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Ah, interesting.
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I’d rather Apple hire him and give him the resources to make a native MacOS package manager. If Apple are serious about Pro users, and their recent round table on the MacPro suggests they might be, then allowing researchers to easily instal
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by knolan 9y ago
I was a big fan of World in Conflict back when it came out. Great take on the RTS genre! Between this and Freedom Fighters we had a fun look at ‘what if’ the Cold War heated up. I’ve never played The Division as I’ve not much interest in (o
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by knolan 9y ago
At least it’s something. But a few renders of dodgy looking goggles and some fake Weta demos don’t instill much confidence until we see hardware in our hands.
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by knolan 9y ago
It seems to me that the Voronoi diagram [0], the counterpart of Delaunay triangulation, is probably more useful as a general approach to this idea. The cellular nature is great for lots of applications. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia
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by knolan 9y ago
MGSV is also has comparatively low polygon count. Coupled with the clever shading, lighting and great art this it what makes it run so well and look so good. Similarity Super Mario Odyssey has lots of clever tricks to hit 60 FPS. For exampl
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by knolan 9y ago
That's great. It sounds like a practical and productive setup.
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by knolan 9y ago
Yes, but the researcher who can’t really code isn’t likely to go and learn Julia. A nudge is often better than pulling the rug out from under them.

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