aparashk

Upon completing the Safari upgrade, I was forced to upgrade to 1Password 7.x, which forced me to upgrade my Dropbox password storage to a new file format… an avalanche of changes and I am afraid I may corner myself into having to spend more on 1Password.

An honest question — this or a mint condition iphone 7, they should be at comparable price points?

Does not work in Safari for me (latest Mojave version).

Happily works in Chrome and Firefox.

Here is my 2c: don't use Chrome on Macbooks, use Safari instead.

My late 2013 top-of-the-line Macbook Pro has been recently overheating, with battery life that has become very short. My battery health indicator dipped below 79% with less than 600 charge cycles (Apple says it should last at least 1,000 before reconditioning.) I have almost started to convince myself it is time for an upgrade, but then...

In a hunch I decided to give Safari a try, and stopped using Chrome. The result? Laptop is almost always cool to the touch, battery lasts for 5 hours with my typically light use. It has been a great experience overall, highly recommended despite the costs of such a switch.

I will of course, take Marco's advise and make my laptop even more efficient with energy.

Larger sensors are better in respects other than megapixels: diffraction limits hit at much higher f/stops, there is higher dynamic range and less noise, much better microcontrast as a result.

Aero 15x runs Windows, and the Windows version of the software is much better optimised. The software load is quite different, which is misleading.

It is according to Intel (otherwise it would not be labeled as i9-8950HK): https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/gaming/overclocki...

That, and also battery life (and the extrapolated time left until empty) takes a severe hit when doing CPU intensive task for more than a minute.

Does anyone know if thermal throttling is so much of an issue for iPads?

The Intel processors that have the suffix “K” are unlocked, and can be under or overclocked: https://www.intel.com.au/content/www/au/en/gaming/overclocki...

The i9 CPU is a K part, therefore, I would think one could conceivably undervolt/underclock in order to change the thermals on the machine to their liking. Is there such a tool for Mac OS X?

I would have thought the vector capabilities of ARM and Intel architectures would have been useful here, in addition to any multi-threadedness. They can be used to add fast GPU like functions, e.g. alpha blending.

IMHO, being productive and creative are two almost incompatible things for us mere mortals:

- Being productive requires focus and energy to get things done. Typically, the "obvious" decisions are being made and implemented;

- Being creative, or even thinking out of the box, requires one to relax, get their mind wandering, wait patiently for that creative spurt to come...

OP here (not Paul, the blog author): I am surprised by the amount of attention this has had!

I understand the iPad can be a useful dev environment if one is using one of the Web IDEs, e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/?origin=c9io

What about an IDE that runs natively on the iPad using asm.js or Web assembly, with remote storage for files, and ssh for running on a remote dev machine? Even better, what about a complete local Linux environment, including gcc, using something like: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?cpu=riscv32&url=https://...

Does this exist, or still a pipe dream?

There is Command-Tab for that, I think.