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Alphasite_··on Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good
You pretty much can use it like that, can you not? I just use it like that and then use the tailored playlists for discovering new (and old) music.
Alphasite_··on Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good
This was my experience as well, I found a couple of really good playlists on Spotify but most are crap.
Alphasite_··on Building an iOS App in Rust
I'm not sure I understand the relevance? Neither are rust libraries.
Alphasite_··on The top Google result for 'blockchain' is a scam ad
This matches my experience, keyword based searches no longer provide anything of value, but natural language sentences lead to far better results.
Alphasite_··on Flatpak: Standalone apps for Linux
It's mostly been 10MB apps, with games going larger and normal apps being significantly smaller.
Alphasite_··on Beware the UIKit Visitors
Ive had performance issues with UIColour and NSColour in the past as well, specifically to do with colour space conversion in my case.
Alphasite_··on HDD Shipments Down 20% in Q1 2016, Hit Multi-Year Low
Why not a hundred dollar ssd and a drive upgrade kit for $50, so you can keep your current drive as well? Or fit a new 3TB drive while you're at it.
Alphasite_··on Introducing power saving mode in Opera for computers
It does a lot more than lower brightness and cap clock speeds, it also disables night-shift and screws with all of the background process and predictive fetching, etc which the OS does.
Alphasite_··on Introducing power saving mode in Opera for computers
Honestly, Chromes UI for lots of tabs sucks as well. Safari has multiple allowances for it and never shrinks tabs down into a tiny, useless state[1] nor does Safari have a tab limit.

Frankly, Chrome sucks with a lot of tabs and sucks at conserving power, on a laptop it loses out on the two things that actually matter to me.

[1] https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg

Alphasite_··on The Power Of A Picture
Help customers find content they like and keep them around. If you run out of content, why wouldn't you cancel your subscription?
Alphasite_··on Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal
For Zen, they don't have to be the best, just good enough. Frankly, for consumer Intel has been good enough since the 2600 days (except on the mobile front). So Zen should be fine in that market.
Alphasite_··on Go upgrade Xcode. Fix your Git security hole
OSX was based on BSD, not open BSD to the best of my knowledge. They are siblings rather than parent child.
Alphasite_··on Myth: “CS Researchers Don't Publish Code or Data”
it doesn't bypass the paywalls. Frankly, without that, Scholar is far less useful than my universities search services.
Alphasite_··on Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
I have no doubt other universities offer this, but see if you can join a Universities library, for access to the papers?
Alphasite_··on An end to ‘bill shock’ as EU mobile roaming charges are slashed
€10 for 200MB is at least bearable.
Alphasite_··on Myths about Integer Overflow in Rust
Sounds like what swift does, checked and unchecked arthritic operators.
Alphasite_··on Apple ImageIO Denial of Service
It looks like this was fixed at some point, as it doesn't appear to crash any longer.
Alphasite_··on GPUCC – An Open-Source GPGPU Compiler
Just as a point of interest, is there any limitation to supporting CUDA on AMD hardware (were this to be compiled with the AMDGPU backend)? With the obvious lack of libraries, etc.
Alphasite_··on PyPy 5.1 released
Others have shown up and take the same approach, Graal and Zippy for example.
Alphasite_··on Tesla Model X owners finding car doors won’t shut, windows won’t close
It may happen, but it is not acceptable.
Alphasite_··on Differences Between the CLR and the JVM
But both speculative optimisation/specialisation and escape analysis can recover some of the benefits of those features, can they not?

And I don't know if it is possible yet, but for Java 9 Graal is an extension onto of the JVM and can run unmanaged C code alongside normal code, so it should be possible.

Alphasite_··on Differences Between the CLR and the JVM
How does something like Graal handle memory when emulating C? I imagine using JVM 1.9 will help?
Alphasite_··on MacBook gets a Skylake speed boost, 8GB of memory, longer battery life
I'm fairly sure the reason we don't have a second USB C jack is because it would necessitate a second thunderbolt chipset (as I imagine they would want one on either side of the machine) and that is a problem on several fronts?
Alphasite_··on When Lobbying was Illegal
Why not do what is done in the UK and put spending limits in place?
Alphasite_··on Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages?
Probably, but if pure runtime performance is a concern it should not be a huge issue and I imagine nail gin or something similar would help.
Alphasite_··on Hey Android, why no love for UTC?
Apple manages to do it just fine. Although the advanced settings are a little threadbare on iOS they are very powerful on OSX and still serviceable on iOS.
Alphasite_··on Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages?
ZipPy is damn fast from what I've seen.
Alphasite_··on Microsoft Build 2016 live keynote
Repeatedly throwing a question at users and being surprised that they eventually slip up and install it is probably a dark pattern.
Alphasite_··on $50B transit proposal would boost light rail throughout Seattle region
Well i'm not sure about outside europe but Italy's new trains run at ~400Kph
Alphasite_··on Boom (YC W16) signs $2B letter of intent with Virgin, $5B total
Was it not grounded due to Airbus ending their support agreements?
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