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by sjwright 6y ago
Or fuel in the tank. And it’s probably being blocked in by other planes. Those desert boneyards don’t park planes with random access in mind.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I’m talking about the basis of the analogy, not the analogy. If you’re processing audio signals, saturation (i.e. clipping) is of course preferable to the alternative.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Why would you want math errors to be less obnoxious?
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by sjwright 6y ago
I can only respond to what you said, not an endless list.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It’s true for converting liquid into gas.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Apple has consistently used “2X faster” language whenever they can, and ALWAYS when justifying a major product change. For them to not do this would be strange.
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by sjwright 6y ago
What do you mean "option of both"? I have both. I have Finder and I have Terminal. I have ways to jump from Terminal to Finder and from Finder to Terminal. I don't need or want a Termider or Finderminal.
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by sjwright 6y ago
This is correct. The driver is responsible when their actions—in contravention of the road rules—cause an accident. If a vehicle is L5, the only "driver" is software. This software would need to attain a driver license just like a
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by sjwright 6y ago
At L5 you can't "blame the driver" because there is no driver.
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by sjwright 6y ago
To be clear, I was referring to AMD/Nvidia mid-tier. And I don’t expect Apple to come close to that any time soon. But who knows—Apple have already exceeded all expectations on their in-house GPU tech. While Apple doesn’t need to be ch
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by sjwright 6y ago
Finder is, by default, designed for your grandparents. That’s fine, a few configuration changes fixes enough of these concealments, combined with memorising a few keyboard shortcuts. If I want to deal with the file system in a technical way
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by sjwright 6y ago
> I fundamentally disagree with that view of being an asshole as an important part of success It can be correlation without being causation. The things that make such people successful—corporate authority, self-confidence, intellect, hig
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by sjwright 6y ago
5) Treat the Mac Pro chips as a line item in their R&D budget for future iPhone and iPad CPUs. 6) Maybe Apple will never build "Mac Pro" class CPU. Instead the Mac Pro ekes out an existence with a higher thermal budget and mor
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by sjwright 6y ago
Interesting times ahead, that's for sure. In my mind the small wildcard is going to be how effectively Apple can scale up CPU performance as their thermal budgets are increased. But the big wildcard is going to be how their in-house GP
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by sjwright 6y ago
> this is about making Macs that support development of the next generation of software for iPhones. This doesn't sound right to me. You seem to be looking for ulterior motives where none need exist. Isn't it a sufficient exp
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by sjwright 6y ago
Absolutely. And I don't think it will be difficult at all for Apple to crush Intel in benchmark performance per watt—let alone real world performance with their more targeted silicon. The interesting question is going to be how Apple&#
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by sjwright 6y ago
Expense is related to chip size. Apple isn’t going to release chips that benchmark slower than the Intel equivalents. To sell the transition they’ll need to say something simple like “2X faster” on the big screen. So I expect to see 8+ core
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by sjwright 6y ago
> it was rarely practical to consider retaining database history for the first few decades of SQL That does make sense from a historical perspective and I don't doubt that's why. But still I find it unsatisfying because any c
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by sjwright 6y ago
I've been begging for exactly this for quite some time. Because of the way I use databases, I've always been bewildered why this wasn't a core part of SQL from the very beginning. From what I'm reading there's still
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by sjwright 6y ago
I'm not arguing for benefits or sanity. I'm not claiming it's a good outcome, or that it's an outcome I prefer. Far from it—I wish it was as you describe. I wish we didn't have to keep inventing new words as exist
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by sjwright 6y ago
I simply disagree that the group which coins a term gets to control its usage or its colloquial definition. That's not a reflection of my preference, it's just my own observation of reality. In reality, words mean whatever the rec
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by sjwright 6y ago
I think the point c3534l was making is that open source should be considered a generic term and should not have its meaning conflated with Open Source™ which is just one group with one opinion. And I agree, at least in part. I think the a
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by sjwright 6y ago
I wish people would stop using that image as an example. Not because of its content (what a stupid beat-up that was) but because the source file is of such terrible quality that it isn’t representative of the images we routinely handle toda
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by sjwright 6y ago
There’s a separate ambient light sensor.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Yes, nearly impossible... unless you spend $5 at Amazon on a screwdriver in which case it’s trivial.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If the Touch Bar was adjustable sensitive to force, it would be almost perfect in my book. My biggest objection to it is that it establishes a different UX between laptop and desktop.
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by sjwright 6y ago
> That's a lot of effort to do nothing. Only if you exclude the creative and entertainment value of this work. In which case you have described most art.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Unfortunately this is the dilemma of new construction: you have to entertain to survive, because nobody wants to talk in an empty room.
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by sjwright 6y ago
That's an astonishingly narrow interpretation of what ails social media, and I would submit are echos of problems that rest many layers above bedrock. Closer to bedrock is how the human psyche responds to the unfathomable scale and sig
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by sjwright 6y ago
I applaud the OP for experimenting with new ideas in this space, as every idea is worth trying. And honestly given how bad this space is, I actually wonder if the only bad ideas are the ones we've already tried. Still, the cynic in me

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