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SourceKit is unbelievable! When using Xcode for most of the time (as in >50%) it causes very high CPU load and it's not uncommon for it to use >3GB of RAM.

Stackoverflow is the prime example for how a company can generate tremenduous value without making that much money.

It's difficult to estimate its contribution to the world economy quantitatively, but I'd definitely say billions, many many billions.

That's a great point. I see it in effect in my life in several indirect ways. Some people I might want to hang out with (because I find them interesting) give me the impression that I'm below their status level. I'm conscious about this and probably concerned about this too much. Another part of me really hates this attitude in people and then resorts to thinking that if they're that centered on status, maybe after all they aren't that interesting.

Of course I could try harder, but with social situations this usually just leads to the inevitable impression of being in need for something (which is majorly off-putting).

There's so much that could be said about this topic but in the end everyone's time is limited. So we decide: Do I want to spend time with person X or do I rather use that time to work on... my career, ... or maybe just read a book.

Since this applies to another person as well, this makes me afraid to ask: "Hey, do you want to hang out with me, or do you think the time spent with me will be less valuable than what you normally would do?"

The harsh truth might be that the other person deems us less interesting than doing whathever else they do.

And we ought to be ok with that. I'm quite aware of this and it's one of the reasons why I oftentimes don't engange in social situatioins in the first place. I've encountered dozens of awkward social situations where I left the party early on some pretense when in the end I just thought you're all boring as hell, I want to go home. Some of these situations were quite painful. However the risk of having to go through such a situation shouldn't keep me from enganging more actively. I'm writing this partly as a statement to make myself be more active again in that respect. Most of _ is crap and social groups are no different. But allowing the average to prevent the exceptional (great friendship) we might run into shouldn't be the case.

So I'm saluting all the weird interactions to come as the price to pay for finding friends close to my heart.

Sounds interesting. Does this introduce any latency for the UI? I can't stand using anything besides a terminal in normal VMs like virtualbox.

Apple inverted the previous Christmas-like feeling of "we have something new for each of you" to a "we've removed something you personally liked" that seems to cover many of us.

I haven't commented yet at all since I think several issues aren't actually as big as people are concerned about them, but overall, I'm frustrated with the situation for computing.

I don't know how Apple works internally, but for me the problem is clearly not Tim Cook, but rather Jony Ive. He seems to be obsessed with some sort of purity that I appreciate in design. However form vs. function is too much of a tension to be bearable within one person. I think Apple lacks folks who weigh in on the functionality side of things. Why? Becasue Ive is magically associated with Jobs, Ive is almost like some medium to get to Jobs, or at least that's how I think some folks perceive him.

In reality Ive seems to be the person who'd rather have a nice TouchBar that spans the whole width of the keyboard instead of keeping just the escape key, which is obviously used much more than the other function keys.

I thought about this a lot and by now I know I'll definitely be okay with it, especially since there's no other non-tactile key near it (meaning my body will know I've hit escape once it touches the flatness that doesn't give in).

Another personal thing for me is the Magsafe. I really liked it not just as a trip-proof charging solution, but also for the way you connect it. It's so effortless, it's fun again and again. It's one of these micro-reinforcements that makes us love products. And again I can see the conflict. The new beauty is that you can dock so many devices and charging with just one single cable. I think that's a pretty great feature.

If there was more functionally thinking folks with power at Apple, they'd probably suggested to keep a Magsafe and allow the MBP to be charged by either that or over the USB-C. But you see how "ugly" even this though is, right?! It's a compromise and so in the end I think the current MacBook Pro is the result of not making any compromise in any of these decisions and that yields the product they showed us.

So part of me hates this chasing of pureness since I see it almost as some neurotic obsession about the visual aesthetics. I guess it would take a lot of self-confidence for a company like Apple to be okay with things that could be easily portrayed as compromises by the press. On the other hand I realize I'm pathetic and I'm not really working on improving any of this, so I thank Apple for pissing us off because it's somehow stimulating as well. (Even if it's just stimulating as in "work harder", so I can buy one of these without thinking too much about it).

No. I had the Dell XPS 15 9550 and there were several issues.

• Trackpad much worse than on a Mac

• Coil whine

• Bad fan control means it was sometimes noisy in near-idle contitions (though in idle it was very silent)

• there were some flicker issues with the GPU (might have been resolved though)

• one key was bouncy, meaning it sometimes triggered twice

• it woke up from sleep randomly, sometimes while in my bag, often completely emptying the battery

In the beginning it also crashed very often, however this was resolved with an update.

So all in all the quality wasn't on the level of a Mac.

And I wouldn't even start speaking about the OS. If you're used to macOS, it's still such a day and night difference.

Connecting a normal low dpi display to the 9550 with HIDPI display lead to so many annoyances with Windows and all the programs that won't support this for the years to come. I'd barely consider it useful. Although the display itself was quite nice.

I can seccond that. Had an XPS 15 whichs sports an etched-glass trackpad that still sucks so much I barely used it.

Thanks! The various components of tire noise are interesting.

One other thing that came to my mind is that tire noise is usually concetrated in the high frequencies, whereas some cars, especially trucks, emit very low-frequency noises. The latter penetrate walls and windows much more easily.

Of course tire noise won't go away with electric cars, but in my opion there's a vast underestimation of how much quieter roads and cities could be without combustion engines.

I challenge this opinion. If you have any ressources to back your claim, please share!

My estimates for the velocity where tire noise will be substantially louder than the rest of the car are much higher, more like 60km/h.

With headlines like these I sometimes wonder if it's just a PR piece to make nation X seem progressive (if you think of a nation as a brand).

Reality is that Germany is very conservative and the car industry is too strong in influencing politics to follow their interests. This works particularily well because the policy-makers are very worried about unemployment - so much that they'd rather risk sacrificing our children's future.

There was a panel with Elon Musk and the German minister of economics, where the minister said something along the line of: We can't allow jobs to be lost, even if it means we're going to have to continue ruining our environment. (!)

So no, unfortunately nothing will happen in Germany, a country where subsidies for (partially) electric vehicles are available only since this year and are limited to sales prices below €60k, conveniently excluding the Model S.

including perhaps thermal docking

If I would pray I'd pray for Elon. He's been such a source of inspiration to me. He's so brave in carrying his burden. May the fruits of his work prosper soon. Then he can take a break.

My Hackintosh opened my eyes. It made me realize how sad it is that Apple doesn't offer sensible Mac Pros anymore.

Even most tech people think in terms like "do you NEED it?" and "a laptop should do it", etc., when the reality is still as simple as 4.4GHz > 2.5 GHz.

Of course a fast PCI-connected SSD is also very important. All new mainboards have an M.2 slot for this, it's just that most people completely underestimate how much you will feel this speed gain in everyday usage.

Anyways, money was also the main reason I built one. I absolutely don't regret it.

The quintessence is: don't get your teeth too deep into some problems that will arise. Onboard sound doesn't work? Buy a cheap USB-Dongle. iMessages doesn't work. Well, I ended up using iPhone for replying to these and if it's a longer conversation, I'll do it on the MacBook. Bluetooth is unreliable? Try another crappy dongle from Amazon and don't even bother about refunds. Sleep doesn't work? Well, see how little this thing draws in idle and postpone any action for some months.

You might be able to get rid of all the arising issues by fiddling enough, but in the end these are what make the experience unpleasant and the Hackintosh becomes a time-sink.

If you stick to the basics, you get a very fast machine.

I agree and also use ESC a lot, but I can highly recommend mapping Caps-Lock to Ctrl. Some of the time I use Ctrl-[ then.

This!!! I simply can't understand why the folks at Apple don't get this. But then again it seems to be all about the looks now. When I first heard a recent rMBP under load, I was shocked and embarrased how loud it is. I mean, I would actually feel embarrassed when using this in a library.

And yes, it's a matter of what you're using it for, but to me this noise was similar to an ugly sticker saying "Not for regular and prolonged use under high load"

I assume you read this from the post:

- Memory ownership model: Adding an (opt-in) Cyclone/Rust inspired memory ownership model to Swift is highly desired by systems programmers and folks who want predictable and deterministic performance (for example, in real time audio processing code). More pertinent to the goals of Swift 4, this feature is important because it fundamentally shapes the ABI. It informs code generation for “inout", how low-level “addressors” work in the ABI, impacts the Swift runtime, and will have a significant impact on the type system and name mangling.

Electric scooters are almost completely silent (at 40km/h). So I'd say there's a lot of potential for lower noise tires. I guess at the moment there's just no optimization towards low noise profile. And I assume it'll be with trade-offs.

On wet streets the noise from the tires is also a lot louder. Another thing we're completely used to. But once you pay attention to this, you realize just how much louder it actually is.

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Poor Ethereum now gets the bad press for TheDAO's hasty mistakes.

I couldn't agree more! An OS is so much more than just the bash shell. There are countless annoyances on Windows that constantly get in the way.

Some flaws you have to witness to actually believe. As an example, I'd go as far as saying that Windows doesn't support high DPI (retina) displays. It does, but it's broken to a degree that I considered switching the hardware. If you're running a setup with both high DPI and regular DPI screens, be prepared to constantly manage your windows because Windows fucks them up all the time. The bad support for multiple displays doesn't help there either.

In theory the OS might be able to support these setups well, but dozens of included programs fail to comply. Even major ones like the password prompt. For programs not included, I have yet to see any to scale properly.

This thing where the included programs serve as examples of how a decent program should look and feel like, I think this just never existed on Windows.

Any Mac user considering using Windows more I'd suggest to try it for some time. Even if it's just to appreciate Mac OS again. OS X is getting worse, but they're still worlds apart.

I assume you know that an economic approach is to make such sculptures from a softer material and then have the chrome applied. Not in your area but some examples: http://www.blach.de/blach-lackierung/chromlack/kunst/

I'd be curious to know what happens in a mixed-DPI setup, e.g. internal 4K screen and external 1080p screen.

Assuming reddit received a national security letter (NSL), what does it mean? What are the implications?

anybody tried cash [0] ?

[0] https://github.com/dthree/cash

Most likely you can fix the trackpad click quite easily yourself. There are some annoying 3-wing screws holding the battery but besides that there isn't much in the way.

There's one single screw that sets the trackpad's click sensitivity. I loosened the click even during the warranty period because it was too strong (and loud) for my taste. A tiny bit of rotation and ideally loctite to fix it.

Does anyone know the resolution? There doesn't seem to be any numbers out, but roughly, it's very much likely less than 4K, probably 1080p and not too unlikely less, right?!

Exactly. As an example: when using OpenCL, both the IGPU and the discrete GPU will show up as compute devices. Currently if an application uses the GPU at all, it would often pick the one it considers the most powerful. But even today you could theoretically run benchmarks and then use the IGPU if that is sufficient, or use both at the same time.

This Forbes article about the cultural influence is an interesting read! I wasn't aware of how investments into mining are that agnostic of the underlying technology.

Anchoring onto this, but with different requirements: Are there tightly condensed resources to learn the most important bits of HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript really fast for somebody who otherwise knows how to code and has written some HTML a long ago.

Or is it like with LaTeX that you just start and on-demand google the pieces?

This! I wonder whether this is part of some introduced obsolescence or also happens on recent models.