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by spronkey 7y ago
Such a ridiculous stance for Apple. I am 100% convinced that the xMac would double their desktop computer market share.
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by spronkey 7y ago
And replace them yourself without catching on fire, or whatever "safety" issue they keep blabbering on about... Ho-lee sheee-yt
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by spronkey 7y ago
The screen bezel was symmetrical enough to keep my OCD in check.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Ignorant comment. Very easy to design a) a dual power circuit and b) charging hysteresis to not mame the battery. There simply is no good reason for the port placement.
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by spronkey 7y ago
2-3 years later when your proprietary LiPo dies, you'll pat your younger self on the back for choosing a standardised battery. You will repeat this over and over again for every time you choose a standardised power source over a propri
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by spronkey 7y ago
Remember that the thermal efficiency of an ICE is far lower than that of an electric motor, plus electric cars can use kinetic energy recovery so get even higher efficiencies.
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by spronkey 7y ago
> This is only really the case where the prototype was fundamentally solving the right problem in the right way to begin with and the subsequent changes are incremental in nature. If the design of, say, a microcomponent is flawed from th
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by spronkey 7y ago
Both Dell and Lenovo are getting worse when it comes to easy repair though. Newer Thinkpads have been nightmareish for keyboard replacements.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Time machine is glacially slow, and it is finicky to use with network storage, and doesn't play nice with non-macs. Newer portable Macs had been annoying to use with most existing external storage until rather recently because of Type
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by spronkey 7y ago
The contrast effect at play. Make the stand $999 to make $200 seem like a reasonable price for the VESA adaptor, when in fact it should be built in to the display like it is on basically ever other pro-level display.
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by spronkey 7y ago
They can justify the performance to a point. If it costs twice as much as a competing system offering similar performance, reliability, and service, it becomes much more difficult to justify.
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by spronkey 7y ago
I think you're onto something, but I don't think it's as simple as just having a "light theme" and a "dark theme". I think that if we're going to have toolkits that support custom, nested widgets, tho
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by spronkey 7y ago
Well said. The Firefox/Thunderbird example is absolutely ridiculous - it's not up to these application developers to decide what icon or colour the user sees. It's up to them to provide defaults. As you say, it's clearly
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by spronkey 7y ago
Web Fonts are a bit different - it's still semantically just text, and you have the option to override with a user stylesheet. For many websites, web fonts have been an improvement, especially considering the sorry state of "web-s
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by spronkey 7y ago
I respectfully disagree for the large part. My own brain seems to have no issue coupling functionality to visual design. Yes it's probably less optimal for novice-to-expert transition than having colour variants, but conversely it also
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by spronkey 7y ago
As strange as it may seem, blind people can be quite good at resizing images.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Plenty of good reasons - sometimes people like to shift common controls to be more familiar with their habits. Sometimes it's handy to shrink things like title bars. Sometimes the awful text rendering on Linux systems needs a bit of tw
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by spronkey 7y ago
I hear many people continuing to say that Intel are "cutting security corners". Are they really? I don't have an extremely deep understanding of Intel's implementation of x86 ISA, but I do know enough to say that so fa
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by spronkey 7y ago
We're not really sure yet whether TSMC have leapfrogged Intel in the longer term though. Intel's 10nm issues seem to have delayed their smaller process nodes in the medium term, but by how much is yet to be seen. It seems, for exa
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by spronkey 7y ago
They can compete in certain workloads. As a computational tool however, desktop Intel CPUs can be optimized far, far beyond the capabilities of any A-series CPU. Don't forget that Intel CPUs have things that A CPUs are missing like Qui
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by spronkey 7y ago
It's certainly better at multithreaded workloads than single threaded. But performance per watt is nowhere near Intel or Ryzen parts.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Anandtech went downhill when they lost Anand. Not sure what the hell he could possibly be doing do that's useful to Apple, but the conspiracy theorist in me wants to think it was Apple getting him out of the media.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Personally I believe this is one of the major gaps in Scrum, and there is no prescripted way to solve this problem. XP's focus on technical aspects is much better in this regard, but the possibility of runaway technical debt still exis
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by spronkey 7y ago
AFAIC, the only thing that works with a fixed deadline is a variable scope. Which is basically a tenet of Agile. The alternative is some sort of sub-iteration hybrid where you attempt to fix deadlines for much smaller units of work and cons
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by spronkey 7y ago
Hmm, it's possibly more the font, your system's font rendering, and/or your display than the colour. It's an easy pass for WCAG AA with 5:1 contrast ratio, but I think it's marginal for WCAG AAA as it's about 2
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by spronkey 7y ago
I don't get it - what's wrong with the colour pairing?
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by spronkey 7y ago
If you think about it, the emissions already occur when trucks drive goods to the shops, then people drive to the shop then drive home.
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by spronkey 7y ago
SSAI - you write your own player and do it that way?
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by spronkey 7y ago
Even better, haha! Seriously impressive work though - one of these projects that show just how absurdly bloated and slow mainstream OS development has become. Also for reference for those unfamiliar with the difference in greys: http:&#x2F
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by spronkey 7y ago
May I suggest using the Windows 2000 warm grey instead of the Windows 95 grey? It does a lot to make the UI feel less dark

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