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by n9 2y ago
I have been using an iPad Pro as my primary computing device for more than a year now. It works pretty wonderfully for my use case. I just finished writing my dissertation on it last week, actually. I have an old MacBook that I use for spec
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by n9 2y ago
You know that RAM in these machines is more different than the same as "RAM" in a standard PC? Apple's SoC RAM is more or less part of the CPU/GPU and is super fast. And for obvious reasons cannot be added to. Anyway, I
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by n9 2y ago
Worked in an engineering lab at the time of the G4 introduction and I can contest that the G4 was a very, very fast CPU for scientific workloads. Confirmed here: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/question299.htm (and elsew
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by n9 2y ago
Your comment is literally more subjective, dismissive, and full of FUD than any other on on this thread. Check yourself.
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by n9 2y ago
... I think that the more correct assertion would be that Apple is a sector leader in privacy. If only because their competitors make no bones about violating the privacy of their customers as it is the basis of thier business model. So it&
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by n9 2y ago
The first major piece of code that I ever wrote was a publishing workflow management system for a major newspaper. It routed page images to presses and generated pdfs of each page in each edition of the newspaper and made pdfs of each day&#
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by n9 2y ago
wow. just so, so many things that I didn't say and do not believe. Amazon fixed their DRM issues to a great extent and the gap is narrowing, Apple's Book DRM is currently unbroken, Overdrive's DRM bypass is only available via
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by n9 3y ago
the logical conclusion here is that generation of reproducible content for profit or even for sustenance is innately impossible. this is neither true not desirable. enjoy pedantism on the internet!
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by n9 3y ago
The technical solution in this case is to not allow the ADE files to be downloaded -- they are not even available in the IA GUI -- there is a well-known backdoor that to my eye isn't needed to support any of the available features on t
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by n9 3y ago
This is not simply a legal issue. As an author of books myself I have very little problem with libraries and online lending and I feel there is mutual benefit. I do not feel the same way about the way that IA is hosting commercial titles, w
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by n9 3y ago
It is basically the same with the books. The IA's book hosting system has DRM, yes, but it is Adobe's ADE which has been well and truly cracked. If you have a bit of patience and tech knowledge you can pull a full PDF of any book
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by n9 3y ago
Specifically of issue in this case -- there is a wide-open hole in the IA's book hosting system that allows anyone to easily download an Adobe Digital Edition of any book in the archive -- ADE's DRM has been broken for a long time
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by n9 3y ago
Moderation is expensive and difficult and failing to do it well will kill your community dead. The evidence of this is pretty obvious today... only niche communities have active and positive engagement so far as I can see.
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by n9 3y ago
Cost: the demand was made to let the human moderators and the community team go after one of several aquisitions. The SEO advantage of having these threads had evaporated by that time so there wasn't a good argument against going with
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by n9 3y ago
I worked at Huffpost through all three of these phases in a technical capacity adjacent to comments and moderation, as director of technical operations and eventually as head of engineering. This study has significant questions to answer ab
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by n9 3y ago
I don't think so. Here is the first sentance of a highly-cited (secular) piece on the same kind of data: "Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why." That last part makes all the difference in the world. https:
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by n9 3y ago
agree -- all this reminds me of a study that indicated that people that used LSD even one time were like 5x as likely to suffer from depression later in life. I've always thought that it was very interesting that the conclusion drawn w
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by n9 3y ago
I would like to see these stats compared to the average age of marriage by state. The top states regarding divorce are, overall, rural and relatively poorer (except for Delaware.) I'd also like to see the marriage rate by state for com
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by n9 3y ago
Conservative leaders are very likely to only cynically perform their supposed values. For money. People that authentically hold conservative values work differently. I suspect that the lower divorce rate among this cohort has a lot to do wi
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by n9 3y ago
causation? correllation? one will never know from reading this article.
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by n9 3y ago
I think people (and the market) make this assumption but the correction isn't Apple doing something differently it is the market and public assumption seeing that when you sell something that lasts longer than a year and works really w
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by n9 3y ago
Something's not right. I say "hey siri 10 minute timer" or somesuch like five times a day. I'd play with your timing and word order. For instance my kid has trouble making music work with siri in the car, but if I say &q
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by n9 3y ago
Not sure what you're needing that you're note getting -- there is certainly a lot that it doesn't do -- but Siri works like a champ for me these days for maybe 70% of the things that I would do with my phone or ever computer
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by n9 3y ago
i don't think that I'm alone is wishing very much that there was a setting to make spotify into a streaming music app. I hate having podcasts and now books shoved into my POV when I want to listen to music. It sucks.
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by n9 3y ago
they are saying that you can literally install the OS start to finish it (and configure it for sightless use to boot) without being able to see at all. As in blind. This was part of the point they were making about accesibility features and
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by n9 3y ago
sure, there are inconsistencies, but with some global shortcuts in your muscle memory and a few years of using spotlight under your belt... OSX out of the box is fast and efficient as hell. But I will relent and acknowledge that your argume
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by n9 3y ago
Also... Preview is not available on any other platform and is, imo, the single best executed application of all time.
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by n9 3y ago
that's a pretty wild assertion. I'm immediately thinking of music software: 99% of all plugins, the #1-4 DAWs, drivers for 2/3 of all hardware, at least... not on linux.
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by n9 3y ago
click on app, command-c, shift-command-A, command-V if you find yourself looking for faster routes to an end, MacOS almost always has several levels of shortcuts waiting for your muscle memory.
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by n9 3y ago
testing how a DAW handles 300 identical low-CPU consumptive tracks is not at all appropriate for a music CPU workload assessment. No one except Charlie Clauser or Hollywood cinema post production uses projects with 300+ tracks -- it is a re

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