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The quality of MacOS releases have been dropping since Snow Leopard. With Sierra, they dropped the accessibility setting for disabling scroll inertia. This is serious for someone who's getting RSI.

I use Elementary OS as a secondary OS, and I have to say I'm loving it more and more while the quality of MacOS continues to drop.

Just to add to your point: the titanium used to make the SR-71 Blackbird came from the Soviet Union.

It's interesting many countries such as the US, UK and NZ have banned rare earth magnets due to fear of people swallowing them. The data they used to back the banning included all products ingested, and vice wrote up an article here: http://www.vice.com/read/the-consumer-product-safety-commiss...

If a product is causing similar health risks, isn't it fair to apply the same ban to it too?

I can't find any evidence that nuclear testing causes any form of global health risks. The amount of material dispersed is negligible on the global scale, and while I've found a few sources that state this material can cause thyroid cancer, it's so small on a worldwide scale it won't really affect anyone.

Gasoline, lead, poor living conditions on the other hand all have well proven links with bad health.

I agree. Unless the CS major is planning on specializing in embedded software, things like complexity classes and database normalization would be of more use. Even that is overkill, as in my experience leveraging and utilizing software libraries in the correct way often has already solved the issue at hand. Nowadays even more high level skills as that such as networking, caching, and distrusted computing are of more use when it comes to optimization.

Soon we'll have neural networks taking care of most of the animation pipeline. Most animators work long hours for little pay, and in most western countries it's simply outsourced this the third world. There was a bit of drama late last year when the average salaries of Japanese animators were released public.

It would lead to a loss of jobs, however it would also lead to an influx of more diverse content. Flash for example was hailed as saving the western animation industry at the expense of quality.

These techniques will hopefully lead to an increase of both quality and quantity.

This is really cool. I might take this on for a project. Though it doesn't look like it's battery powered, which is disappointing.

Also their list of vitial articles give an interesting insight into what they'll want to send up (depending on the medium they choose): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles

I'll have to agree it's not a good fit. Seemly the only advantage brutalism has is ease of construction. Given that a site, just like a building, usability and aesthetics will pay off in the long run.

I have a VT220, and it's pretty cool apart from the high pitched whining sound it makes. I think I might have to recap it at some point

Google could easily take the initiative on the DNS query front and implement DNSCrypt by default on Chrome. It would booster client privacy and also block ISP from selling usage data. So it would be a win-win for Google.

I would gladly fork out the cost of a university tuition for CRISPR therapy to give my children the edge. But many would be adverse to this, probably to the extent of being a same sex marriage/abortion level of debate.

One thing I do like about msys over cygwin is that compiled binaries don't have a dependency on a dll. If msys2 is using cygwin libraries, does it have the same dependency?

I use deploynaut as my deploying tool, and I have to say it's made the process much smoother. Previously I'd simply use git to update a code base or sql workbench/pgadmin to update a database.

This is a very cynical and hostile view of Apple fighting for the privacy of its customers. If Apple were prioritizing defending their walled garden over privacy, they wouldn't have put strong encryption on iMessage and other services.

Apple's walled garden in itself is a privacy/ protection mechanism for their customers. iPhones and iPads were made to have the average in mind, so loading bespoke software removes the risk of spyware and adware that plagues devices without these protections.

I've often thought there's a massive market for ReactOS in legacy support. There's so many platforms (ATMs, flight controllers, banking software) that use unsupported windows versions. Many of these platforms would pay an arm and a leg for ongoing support and security updates.

From a societal perspective, is it better for us to go after one person who stole $100,000,000, or million people who stole $100?

I really like the cross section though. Currently conservatives seem to be obsessed about cracking down on welfare fraud.

If it's not broken, don't muck around with it.

Though I think the Apple bar is starting to show its age with higher resolution screens becoming popular. With the latest macs, moving the cursor all the way across the screen is a bit tedious. Apple seemingly introduced wonky mouse acceleration to solve this, but it seems like they've introduced an extra problem.

One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.

Could it be the hike in Federal Reserve Rates causing credit tougher to find?

>Turkey shoot doesn't even begin to describe it. If you bring a biplane to a modern dogfight, you'll end up a splat mark on the ground.

Kind of unfair example, the Israelis had a lot of time to prepare for that battle. On top of that the Syrians knew they didn't stand a chance given their resources.

Given any situation you have to fit the resource to meet the need. The United States deploys the EMB 314 Super Tucano to great effect, which is a WW2 style fighter fitted with modern electronics. The F35 in the modern context simply doesn't make sense, as it's simply over engineered and doesn't fit current individual needs.

Interesting, I've only ever known about Emscripten based asm.js compilers. TypeScript + LLVM have the benefit of being actively developed with a strong community backing.

I love TypeScript - it's my favorite precompiled language and I use it for a few personal projects of mine. But I can't help but feel it's an evolutionary dead end. asm.js / web assembly is what you want transcompiled languages to target

The thing that stuck out to me was the Geekbench score. 2,287 vs 6,350 over the course of a decade isn't that impressive improvement. Given it's reflective of what a computer can do, comparing metrics such as Ghz or gigaflops seems superfluous in the context to the average user. During the exponential improvement in 80's or the 90's, it seems like we have hit a brick wall.

Not to say there hasn't been massive strides of improvement over the last decade, SSD and GPUs in particular have been spectacular. But many consumers have the decision they'ed oven rather have a power efficient processor than a heavy duty CPU.

As developers it means being conscious of bloat and writing more efficient software. Already we're seeing many libraries that are closer to the hardware or 'metal'.

it sounds your processor can't keep up with your sound buffer. you can start Google chrome up with --audio-buffer-size=2048 to increase it

All audio technologies have buffer issues, it's a pretty basic problem. it's not unique to web audio.

It's happening in New Zealand to a similar extent. This current government is raiding journalists homes who publish things they don't want[1] [2]. Even more worryingly the government recently bailed out the other major broadcasting company, and replaced the CEO with a friend of the prime minister. It didn't take long before journalists who were sometimes critical of the government were replaced [3].

1 https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/hager-police-rai...

2 http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/290989/police-raid-du...

3 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_i...

    If documentation exists on how to build from source, but it doesn't work [ +10 points of FAIL ]
    Your source is configured with a handwritten shell script [ +10 points of FAIL ]

Most projects I've ran into fall under these categories. As soon as I see a Makefile I know I'm going to spend two hours hunting down libraries or hacking in macros. it's very frustrating.

    Your source builds using something that isn't GNU Make [ +10 points of FAIL ]

I've had less headaches with cmake, and it solves (most) of the first issue. In general I'd recommend cmake over make.

There's been many times I've wanted to submit a one line pull request, but I doubt my self too much to use gitlabs code editor. After a few hours of trying to compile I'd just give up.

I really enjoy when people take a fresh perspective on things. Climate change has been cited by Pew Research Center as the top greatest threat, and putting a different spin on things will always be nice to try and convince people.

The top reason to reduce carbon emissions is not to reduce global toxicity and prevent climate change. Saving the planet is a bonus. Energy independence creates a stable geo political environment, almost all wars have a root cause of fighting over resources. There's little point in saving the planet if we're going to kill ourselves by the time comes when need to save it.

After the heartbleed bug I checked out the openssl code to see what the quality was like. I was horrified from what I saw; single character variable names outside of loops, preprocessor macro soup, no comments for functions. I've told interns off for less.

Given the reliance on openssl I really hope companies that are using it are doing robust automated checking on the codebase.

Lexer.cpp: int X;

Interesting that they started with git, instead of even a very small section of working code first