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by xsmasher 6y ago
I have the same feeling when listening to Feynman, who has a strong New York accent. He sounds like a cab driver, not a physicist! The city vs country accent has a long historical precedent. In the time of Lysistrata, the Spartan accent was
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Chicken and egg problem. Gamers will come if the games are there, games will appear if the gamers come. Unless Apple makes some investment in courting developers I don't expect an influx of games. Very few developers will take the chan
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by xsmasher 6y ago
There is the dictionary definition of essential services - power, water, etc. But somehow Burger King is being called an essential service as well.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
That's the same question being asked - have they been recompiled as universal apps?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
An EV doesn't waste power when sitting in traffic. Slow traffic will be better for range than going fast.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"universal binary" is just a binary with multiple executables for multiple CPUs inside. Hardly unusual, it's been used for 32+64 bit before, and to package multiple flavors of arm. Rosetta 2 is emulation in once sense, but it
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by xsmasher 6y ago
They're available refurbished. https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/macbook-air I've bought a lot of Apple refurbs, they are like new in every respect.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Most games that survived the 32 bit -> 64 bit change and run in Catalina should run under Rosetta2 with no changes. Performance? Who knows.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Applications for intel macs will still run by way of Rosetta 2, so I wouldn't say " App support [is] extremely limited."
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by xsmasher 6y ago
iOS doesn't use swap, it just kill background apps when it needs to devote the whole RAM to a single app; iOS apps are designed with that in mind. MacOS doesn't get to use any of those tricks.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The slide doesn't say it, but the speaker said "in the same price range."
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Maybe the platform has leverage to get better advertising payouts for the same content?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Am I reading that wrong or was it a DIFFERENT document, not the "evidence" on the laptop, that is attributed to an AI-generated persona? Both the Aspen/Typhoon document and the laptop hoax documents involve Hunter and China,
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by xsmasher 6y ago
my wall sockets, car chargers, battery packs and power strips are still USB-A
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"Don't compare your insides with someone else's outsides" is a good maxim, but there's a sort of "just world" assumption in your post that everything balances out. The world isn't that fair. Some peop
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Yeah, sometimes you use crunch for business reasons in order to use it to shift time around - when you need to make a particular date for contractual or other reasons. E3 demo, releasing for Christmas, etc. It's when crunch is used as
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by xsmasher 6y ago
> the police gave me a case number to satisfy my insurance claim This is the purpose of the visit - to verify that it was a real break-in and not someone scamming their insurance company. Catching the thief is nowhere on their priorities
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by xsmasher 6y ago
The average number doesn't speak to the impact on individual districts. I'm sure the impact of federal spending cuts will be small on schools whose per-student budget is already large, and large on schools whose per-student budget
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by xsmasher 6y ago
I don't understand "may providing relational" - can you fix or explain?
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by xsmasher 6y ago
>How are we able to shift a cow to and from the milk shed with the click of a button? A fence can't move a cow from one location to another at an assigned time.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Citation? I have heard about rejection for in-app mentions but not for out-of-band messages.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
This is amazing, especially compared to the way my machine is brought low by Inkscape. (I know Inkscape has a lot more features, but just loading one image + adding text on top should not lag a 2 GHz Quad-Core / 8GB machine.)
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by xsmasher 6y ago
In the iOS camera you can point at something white, like white paper lit with white light, and long-press to get an auto focus and auto exposure lock. Then you can take a picture of the orange sky / landscape and it will use the locked
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by xsmasher 6y ago
https://i.imgur.com/kWr50Wl.png Auto white-balance vs manual, taken seconds apart. The second one is closer to reality (but still too bright).
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by xsmasher 6y ago
There are many; VSCO and camera+ for example. Even in the default camera app you can point at something white, like white paper lit with white light, and long-press to get an auto focus and auto exposure lock. Then you can get a picture of
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by xsmasher 6y ago
> (Also neat, I didn't realize the Mac Preview app supported 3d models.) I had the same pleasant surprise browsing through STL files for 3d printing; it's nice to be able to view them right in the finder.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
Yeah, that might be the price to be 3d printed by a service. If you have the printer, the cost of materials should be ten bucks.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
That doesn't sound right; the slicer outputs paths, and the firmware isn't going translate flat paths into diagonal paths. The head can not travel in a plane parallel to the base plate, so it can't use paths calculated for a
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by xsmasher 6y ago
If I see a motorcycle go behind a billboard and not come out, I can reason that there is a motorcycle behind a billboard. I assume that's what they mean.
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by xsmasher 6y ago
"Fix it in the documentation" is a terrible solution to a UI issue. Fix the UI. When the user makes a mistake it's the user's problem, but the designer's fault.

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