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by symfoniq 8y ago
The ThinkPad P1 trackpad is centered.
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Be aware that Lenovo has removed an ACPI sleep state from the 6th generation Carbon X1 that is causing sleep issues on Linux. There is a workaround but it looks pretty gnarly.
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Ubuntu 18.04 is pretty buggy on my Thinkpad P50, too (graphics problems, trackpad issues, poor battery life, no backlight adjustment, etc). And Gnome is just ridiculously slow compared to Windows and macOS. I’m still not sure there is a Lin
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by symfoniq 8y ago
I’d say that not even being able to maintain the advertised base clock is a pretty key issue. Being slower than last year’s model just adds insult to injury.
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Indeed. What ever happened to product differentiation?
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by symfoniq 8y ago
I noticed a big regression in battery life (25-35%) between my 2013 and 2017 MacBook Pro. I don't know how much the Touch Bar had to do with it, but the 2017 was definitely worse.
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by symfoniq 8y ago
I completely understand where you're coming from. If you aren't a developer, then some of what I'm about to say won't apply to you, but here's one switcher's perspective: In 2016, I refused to buy a MacBook Pro
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Now if they’ll just rebuild the MacBook Pro from the ground up...
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Same boat. Against my better judgement, I bought a 2017 MacBook Pro about 6 months ago to make it easier to work with a client. I sold it this week at a big loss. Between the terrible keyboard, the useless Touch Bar, and the dongle hell, an
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Sure, iOS developers. Apple just deprecated OpenGL and told everyone to use Metal instead. Where is the non-iOS, Metal-using audience for a supposedly 3D/VR graphics-oriented machine like the iMac Pro?
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by symfoniq 8y ago
How is the article hyperbolic? I'll grant that Apple probably does care about "professional Mac users," so long as they are professional iOS developers. Outside this narrow group of professional users, it's hard for me
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by symfoniq 8y ago
Anybody here fly commercially? I always wanted to, then 9/11 happened in my 18th year and caused a lost decade for the aviation industry. Thinking about a mid-life career change now, but it’s going to be a very expensive endeavor.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
This can also happen when holding your upset child and they scream near your ear. Be careful, parents!
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by symfoniq 9y ago
My wife and all of my children are dealing with the flu right now, too. It's the first time my kids have caught it, and according to this article, maybe there's a silver lining... I had a B strain last February, which was the sick
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by symfoniq 9y ago
Apple is still selling "new" Mac Pros with Xeon E5-1650 v2 CPUs for $3K. I just picked up a like-new refurbished HP workstation with the exact same CPU for $350 on NewEgg.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
^ Correct.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
EPB in Chattanooga charges businesses quite a bit more for fiber, too. One of my clients has a 150 Mbps connection with a routed subnet and pays close to $400/month. There are service level guarantees, though. On the other hand, I pay
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by symfoniq 9y ago
I made the jump. It didn't even hurt.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
I can't help but remember what an amazing value my 8-core Mac Pro 2,1 was (at least in US dollars). Those days are long past.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
As a former Mac user, I can say Windows 10's 4K support is getting better. The Fall Creators Update improved some issues I was having when running multiple monitors with different scaling. At Microsoft's current pace, I expect the
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by symfoniq 9y ago
Honestly, as a Rails dev, this just seems more complicated than creating a Rails app in API mode and using #{React||Vue||Ember}} for the front-end. It's extremely easy to get started with a front-end app using vue-cli. This article spe
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by symfoniq 9y ago
4K Blu-Ray can have bit rates in excess of 100 mbps. There's likely a lower bit rate (and far more compression) with most streaming services.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
Rumor has it that he decided to take up writing as a hobby, which resulted in a movie script called "Rogue One."
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by symfoniq 9y ago
If the current MacBook Pro is any indication, I’m not sure how much Apple cares about experience, either. I’m still trying to figure out who that machine is made for: Horrible keyboard, gimmicky Touch Bar, worse battery life than the previo
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by symfoniq 9y ago
I'm generally pretty conservative, and I support net neutrality. I believe much of the opposition to it on my side of the aisle is based on the flawed assumption that any policy instituted during the Obama administration was a bad poli
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by symfoniq 9y ago
Ditto. My new NAS has HGST drives because of Backblaze.
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by symfoniq 9y ago
With ECC support, these are almost certainly Xeons, not Skylake-X.
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Ubuntu Unity is dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year(arstechnica.com)
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I'd be interesting in knowing, too. I'm in the market for a new workstation, but not sure I yet trust the Ryzen platform to give me the stability I need.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I think something that gives life meaning is to discover and live up to one's potential, even with the full knowledge that our potential is almost certainly less than someone else's. I will probably never write code as well as Joh

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