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by spronkey 7y ago
I wonder how many other people detest stickering as much as I do...
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by spronkey 7y ago
Oh the glued hinge right behind the hot air vent is hilarious. I forgot about that one. Yes, glossy screen had an anti-reflection coating added for Retina models that then proceeded into staingate. To make matters worse they took away the m
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by spronkey 7y ago
I generally agree. I've also defended Apple a lot in the past for usually "getting most things right" where other manufacturers just don't. And you're right, they deserve to be cut down for stupid solved-problems-a-
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by spronkey 7y ago
Haha, never pick up a base model ThinkPad then. Some of those displays are just ridiculously bad. I measured the contrast of my 2013 MBA at ~800:1 with my Spyder3 back in the day, which is pretty OK for TN. It got somewhat close to 60% sRGB
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by spronkey 7y ago
The 2012 Retina displays are no less sharp than the best display on the T490. Are you sure you aren't just comparing macOS to Windows? I'm the biggest critic of modern Apple notebooks there is, but I can't fault the quality o
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by spronkey 7y ago
There are other issue with almost every ThinkPad, X1 Carbon included. Speaker quality is a lottery with every model, and none of them are as good as the 2013+ MacBook Pro. Coil whine and electrical noise is almost a given from either the ma
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by spronkey 7y ago
The attention on Apple really isn't unfair when you a) compare their 2016+ machines to their 2015 ones, and b) dig a little deeper into some of the design flaws of the machines beyond the keyboard. For example: * The trackpad on 2016+
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by spronkey 7y ago
The Air's display isn't that bad. It's a good TN panel with a good non-retina resolution (1440x900 on the 13"), decent contrast, and good (for TN) viewing angles. It's certainly a big step up from the frankly abys
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by spronkey 7y ago
Turn off haptics and use tap to click. Once you go tap you'll never go back?
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by spronkey 7y ago
Battery will last its longest if it's reasonably frequently used. Ultimately if you want the longest battery longevity, keep it between 50% and 85% charged, and keep the machine cool.
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by spronkey 7y ago
I never really liked the 500 series - I preferred the 1400 (I know, weirdo). The Intel MacBooks have had their moments (glass trackpads, SD card readers, quad core in the 2011 15"), but almost all of them had design defects of some kin
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by spronkey 7y ago
Agreed. F Keys + additional touchbar would have actually been useful.
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by spronkey 7y ago
I wonder whether they'll turn back on their choice to solder RAM on basically all their ThinkPads... One can only hope.
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by spronkey 7y ago
It's 6 years old, it's perfectly acceptable health for a battery that gets use.
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by spronkey 7y ago
Personally, Mojave has caused my 2013 rMBP 15" to go from a near-silent machine most of the time to one that has fans spinning noisily at all times. Have tried everything short of a complete reformat - NVRAM, SMC reset. Nothing in acti
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by spronkey 7y ago
Now that I have children of laptop-using age, I'm almost at the point where literally every single day I'm thinking about how useful MagSafe is. It was such a good invention for notebooks. I really don't care about the &quo
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by spronkey 7y ago
I really do wonder whether Apple is running afoul of consumer law here. Surely $1300 is not a reasonable cost for a battery replacement. Last time I looked I was quoted somewhere in the neighbourhood of $600 for a rMBP battery replacement -
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by spronkey 8y ago
Forms are where web standards are most lacking. HTML5 took us from the stone age to the bronze age by adding some still-basically-useless inputs for e.g. colours and dates. Everyone is reinventing the wheel over and over here and it's
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by spronkey 8y ago
You have my upvote for that electric witticism.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Many of these points highlight OOP of 15 years ago, not OOP as practiced by many today. The others are highly contentious. As for UIs, React is OOP. It borrows many ideas from FRP, but at its core are objects that have behaviour and sta
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by spronkey 8y ago
I'm very much in OOP-land when it comes to architecture at large, but a good portion of my code these days could be summarised as: using a 'classic' OO language to namespace pure functions.
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by spronkey 8y ago
If you force your types to only ever interact with primitives at certain boundaries of your app, you can test for the "what if it's not an integer" stuff at the boundaries only. I.e. the core APIs never see a magic string, an
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by spronkey 8y ago
Anecdotally, every video chain store I have ever visited, from Blockbuster to Video Ezy, Civic Video, Channel X, United Video (here in New Zealand) has had at least one movie buff employee. I've also never experienced a long line at a
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by spronkey 8y ago
Good words. I attended university with Atta many years ago and we remained (distant) friends since. He was a legend back then as a CS:S player and a BMW enthusiast, and pretty good at our regular "Quake Breaks" as well. His compan
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by spronkey 8y ago
And now Steam is under attack from Origin, Gog, Epic games' store, Blizzard, and all the other integrated storefronts that seem to be popping up. Sigh.
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by spronkey 8y ago
Oh Windows 95... the last MS OS to feel completely uniform in aesthetic design. And that teal... gets me every time. I used to think it was hideously ugly, but these days there's an understated elegance to it that just can't be de
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by spronkey 8y ago
I personally feel like micro services don't necessarily assist in allowing multiple disconnected teams to work on different codebases. In my mind the reason is similar to why it's so difficult to reuse code - requirements are sli
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by spronkey 8y ago
Not to bag on Rockwell, I appreciate his reviews and viewpoints, but do you trust that he has the requisite expertise to correctly analyse the quality of such an adaptor? I... don't. His write-up doesn't inspire confidence either
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by spronkey 8y ago
The S9 is also very expensive. Only a few years ago the ~$300 phones were awful. These days they're far better, and the flagships are well into the realm of diminishing returns.
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by spronkey 8y ago
I like the clickiness, and initial feel is very positive, but after a few minutes I find it really frustrating to type on them.

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