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by mstade 7y ago
By the same logic, my comment to the original post is currently the top of all comments – does that mean the majority have rebutted in favor of the current design? Of course not. Point being: whether a design is good or not is mostly subjec
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by mstade 7y ago
> An iphone out of the box cannot be connected to a new mac laptop. It's complete insanity. While I disagree with pretty much everything else you said, this is 100% on point. That they haven't moved iPhones and iPads to usb-c y
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by mstade 7y ago
Well, mileage may vary and all that but my keyboard has a 0% failure rate so far. Knocks on wood.
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by mstade 7y ago
I really don't worry about dongles though, what gave you that idea? I have a few cables, and I do have a couple of dongles but never really use them so mostly they're spending time in a box somewhere.
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by mstade 7y ago
I work pretty much exclusively on my 13" laptop. I carry it with me pretty much wherever I go. It being thin and light is crucial to fitting it in my bag, and not being uncomfortable to lug around. The current form factor is pretty muc
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by mstade 7y ago
Keeping with the car metaphor: your mileage may vary I guess. I'm getting great mileage out of my MBP, with none of those issues you mention, so I guess the sports car edition is fine with me. That's why I'd love to see a pro
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by mstade 7y ago
Happens all the time with any cables really. I've had many cables succumb to the good ol' lemme just adjust may chair right over your cable there type situations. Particularly when you have to run the cable to an awkwardly placed
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by mstade 7y ago
> So, if it is divisive, why not make both kinds? Why does there need to be a single compromise across the entire line? I’m guessing because it’s probably cheaper and easier to produce fewer models, and not enough benefit to producing mo
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by mstade 7y ago
That’s cool, I wouldn’t mind that either because there’s nothing killer about the Touch Bar. It’s not useless either though. I use zoom daily, and the ability to just tap mute on the Touch Bar is pretty nice. Not can’t live without it nice
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by mstade 7y ago
> Mag safe was nice, but I recently took a trip where I needed a single power brick and cable for my MBP and iPad. Once the iPhone goes USB-C it will make traveling even that much easier. I didn’t even realize how much this would matter
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by mstade 7y ago
Well, my point is that design is opinionated and my opinion is clearly contrary to yours – in the past five years (and more) Apple has set the standard for what laptops should be. Thanks for proving my point! :o)
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by mstade 7y ago
Screen cast dongles are pretty much a dime a dozen these days though. Maybe I’m lucky but in he past two years or so I haven’t been anywhere that still relies on hdmi for presenting on big screens. Except conferences.
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by mstade 7y ago
But the MagSafe cable would serve exactly one purpose, whereas the usb-c cable does not. And now I can charge from Either side of the box too – great stuff! When my cable broke it wasn’t a big deal, I had an extra (shorter) cable I could us
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by mstade 7y ago
> Maybe you don't ever need to present anything from your laptop [...] I do, almost daily. I even bought the HDMI dongle thinking I might need it when doing presentations outside of my usual workplaces but I have literally never use
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by mstade 7y ago
It’d be interesting to see the results of a survey on this I think, I and I know many of my peers are of the exact opposite opinion. I like the move to usb-c, I like the new keyboard, I don’t mind (but also don’t really use) the Touch Bar b
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by mstade 7y ago
You're probably being downvoted for the time of your post but I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually true. E3 demos are notorious for being pre-rendered moonshots far removed from reality once the game hits the market. Some
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by mstade 7y ago
> Curious, do you own a car, or are you renting them? I rent. Living centrally in a major city owning a car is more trouble than it's worth I find. Consistency is definitely one of the prime reasons I prefer CarPlay. I feel CarPlay
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by mstade 7y ago
I think your assessment is spot on. CarPlay is the best all screen car interface I've used, and these days it's all I ever use if it's available in the car I'm driving. The only car interfaces I like that aren't Car
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by mstade 7y ago
This hits the sweet spot for me as well. I think CarPlay is the best all-screen interface I've seen, but having to touch the screen is borderline useless. Even the most minuscule bump in the road usually results in a miss-touch for me,
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by mstade 7y ago
I don't actually know the answer, but my guess would be it's because of scoping. Web workers aren't a language level feature, so they can't really dictate that the function body can't have access to the outer scope
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by mstade 7y ago
Presumably, if you really want short names, a local hosts like config with aliased names would do the job just fine. This has the added benefit that everyone can have their own aliases.
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by mstade 7y ago
> That’s twice as long as it took the United States to defeat the Axis powers, twice as long as the Civil War, longer than the time that elapsed between John Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech and landing Americans on the moo
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by mstade 7y ago
I've read the explainer but I still don't think I understand what this toast element is supposed to do. Also, am I correct in understanding that it is pretty much useless without javascript?
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by mstade 7y ago
I'm currently watching game seven of the Stanley cup final from a questionable source, simply because I have no way of doing so legally in my current locale. I would gladly pay for the privilege of watching a high definition stream of
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by mstade 7y ago
I found this linked video about using 747s as aircraft carriers quite interesting as well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=drnxZlS9gyw
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by mstade 8y ago
Seems to me that both 8k and ray tracing capabilities fall into the category of better to be prepared than not, because upgrading consoles beyond the HDD isn't really much of a thing – you just replace the whole thing. Maybe they coul
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by mstade 8y ago
If it is fraud, then at what point is it not? If I used it for a day/week/month before bringing it, is it ok? Intent matters I suppose, but how do you prove intent to circumvent import duties, versus just bringing my stuff? I genu
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by mstade 8y ago
Open the box and plug it in while in the states. Now it’s just property you brought along, not imported goods, so no duties to pay. I ain’t no lawyer though, and this is just advice I’ve been given in the past, so mileage may vary etc. (I w
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by mstade 8y ago
Bats, shellcheck and jq has completely transformed the shell scripting experience for me. To the point where I’ll reach for bash much more often than other languages these days, for anything terminal based.
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by mstade 8y ago
Actually, my experience with bats is that it forces you to modularize and keep things small. Easier to test things that way. Bats is truly an indispensable tool when doing shell scripting – I even use it to test CLIs built in other language

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