supernes

Bought an XPS a couple of months ago and had to return it because of the inexcusable ghosting and slow refresh on the 4K panel and the frankly inadequate thermal design. Outrageously bad for the asking price.

Wondering how far they can take this. How long before we read that "Google will replace URLs with the Google search terms you can use to find the page you're viewing"

Helper agents are an integral part of said security controls, e.g. for XPC, privilege separation, etc.

I have that exact model, website says it's not eligible and/or already fixed. Manufacture date is listed as 8 May 2015, 84% health at 615 cycles. Still not feeling very reassured, though.

I downloaded it, gave location access and tapped Generate. Nothing happened, tapped a few more times and a fullscreen ad popped up. No, thanks.

Direct quotes from the article:

| If the next-gen CPUs live up to the hype ...

| if Navi ends up being a worthwhile solution ...

| [a] 24 percent year-over-year [decline] ...

| single-digit percentage revenue growth [...] could end up being conservative ...

| depending on how things play out ...

| It's all speculation at this point ...

| though that bit is less clear ...

| There are plenty of "ifs" ...

... there is nothing BUT ifs in this piece.

I somehow managed to miss that, thanks. It looks exactly like what I needed.

Firefox still has some UX deficiencies on macOS, I do use it on Windows though.

What really turned me off is how long it took them to implement video autoplay blocking. I sent them about four dozen requests, reports and outright pleas, and they didn't even add it to the roadmap until after I had given up hope. They were about two to three years late on that one.

Chromium's dev tools are still ahead by a mile as well, the Performance inspector has saved me days worth of debugging time.

With regards to the bit about plugins, will Apple make exceptions for their own software like Logic Pro X? I'm not entirely sure what the hosting/execution model is for AudioUnits and VSTs, what I do know is that many of them will never be updated to meet any new security requirements. I bet we're in for a few more years of terrible advice like "run this command that disables security in the Terminal, then reboot in order to use the product you bought."

I feel bad for Opera, seems they stand to lose the most in this battle of the Chromium forks. They have a really good product that I use as my main driver after being fed up with Safari on macOS, but Microsoft is well poised to deliver a compelling experience across platforms (fingers crossed for Linux support at some point.)

Can't wait until reddit decides to ban porn as advertiser-unfriendly, à la tumblr. They're heading steadfast in the direction of sanitizing the site until it's nothing but gifs of puppies yawning.

I recently had an idea about an app and a clever way to hook it into fairly modern, user-facing parts of Windows and macOS (Search/Cortana and Spotlight, respectively.)

I did some feasibility research on Windows first, and very soon hit some ancient win32 interfaces I had to implement, used by parts of the shell that have existed since the earliest days, something I have no intention of wasting my time on.

I was under the impression that macOS would be much better, but was surprised to find that there's no public or documented API, just a 3rd party open source framework implemented as a hack that combines javascript and python somehow, but seems to get the job done.

This got me thinking that you need a serious amount of expertise to implement new experiences on modern operating systems, never mind crossing platforms. Puts the appeal of technologies like Electron that do platform integration for you in perspective.

I cannot understand why people insist on hating Telegram for their choice of tradeoff between convenience and privacy. People who care enough about the subject should know when and whether to use it for their communications. For everyone else, it's an outstanding alternative to Messenger/WhatsApp and Viber.

Edit: I'd also like to add that maybe we need to make a distinction between the notions of privacy and secrecy. Privacy as understood by the majority of people is a broader concept than what more technically inclined people associate with the matter. I believe that then Telegram's decisions and use case can become clearer.

This would have been awesome about four years ago. We were porting our popular iOS app to macOS and had to rely on frameworks like TwUI that were outdated and already abandoned by that time.

Executing code selections in the interactive window is a major QoL improvement for me. The extension is great when paired with a remote jupyter server, happy to see it improving still.

Julia is probably the next best bet, according to the Swift for Tensorflow team - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/blob/master/docs/WhySwif...

This has been going on for years, I've experienced it firsthand and have read dozens of reports from other people in the same situation.

If this was an error, it would have been fixed long ago. At this point in time I'm convinced it's a deliberate tactic - terminate an account once they start to get popular and see if they can pull enough strings or raise enough of a stink to have a human look at it.

Blaming an "algorithm" is becoming a very convenient way to abdicate from any responsibility for shitty business practices and biases against certain groups of people.

Really cool concept, love the split view. The voiceover feature is nice, but I think an inline dictionary would be even more useful - maybe something along the lines of macOS' built-in lookup (https://i.imgur.com/qGTQ80a.png)

It's a fun problem to reason about mathematically, but it's totally irrelevant to the case in my opinion.

· Becoming an adult at 18.00 (vs. 17.98) years of age is a vague and somewhat arbitrary threshold. If we define it as "knowing right from wrong" and "knowing that your actions have consequences" in the context of the code of law, then a couple of days are not going to have a considerable impact.

· If the major distinction between being tried as a juvenile or an adult is the severity of the punishment and the amount of lenience applied, then it's telling for the attorney to argue for the former, since it indirectly implies that their client will likely be found culpable. Furthermore, if the defendant is found guilty there is a likelihood that their punishment will not be appropriate for their current age, which may seem unfair to some.

If it were up to me to decide, I would treat them as an adult for the purposes of the trial, but take into account their young age as an extenuating circumstance when sentencing.

Can you please elaborate on your GPU passthrough setup? I was under the impression that NVIDIA have explicit checks to see if you're trying to virtualize a consumer brand GPU and throw an error in that case.

I have a PC with a GTX 970 that I wanted to try a similar install on, unfortunately the i5-3570K in there doesn't support VT-d from what I can tell.

"My recommendation? If your work doesn’t involve long-running tasks that are CPU- and GPU-intensive (such as Premiere) then the new MacBook Pro should provide a considerable increase in performance."

So it's perfectly fine as long as you don't use it for Pro-grade workloads. Seems about right.

Every post by a prominent figure such as Elon Musk, Pavel Durov and many others are immediately spammed to hell by copycat accounts pushing these scams. I've spent a good amount of time reporting them to no avail. Twitter just doesn't care.

Rumor has it that it'll work seamlessly with your Apple Car and Apple TV set as well.

My Surface Pro 4 recently tried to commit suicide by installing a feature update while having 2% battery left, after I explicitly postponed it. They are never going to learn.

Flight search UI is janky as fuck, recommended I spend €4,000 on a hotel for a six night "budget" trip, and the FOMO notifications are infuriating. Hard pass.

I get what you mean, but why not? Having a well-established, dominant player doesn't mean there's no opportunity to make a living solving similar problems. "Word" is a huge target, it covers so many use cases that it's possible to focus on a few of them and provide a tailored solution that enough people find valuable. This was the status quo when Google Docs was being developed as well, and OpenOffice for that matter.

Doesn't work on Safari/macOS due to autoplay restrictions. The unnecessary intro video is blocking the entire site from displaying.

Sampling at 48kHz seems like overkill. If you record at a lower sample rate (e.g. 22k) you will still be able to detect the bubbles, but the files will be about 4 times smaller, and as an added bonus it will function as a sort of high cut filter, which may help with stray high frequency noises or thermal noise (to some extent). Additionally, you can apply a band pass filter around the frequency of the popping, if you aren't already cleaning it up before processing. Given a clean recording, you can trim the silence and still have full sample data for re-running algorithms on later if you preserve the timing metadata.

You could match the spectral signature to a known sample to distinguish between bubbles popping and other types of noises, if there were any, but the recording conditions seem good enough not to warrant it.

You could also possibly use an array of two, three or more mics and do some fancy triangulation to get a 3D map of the pop locations and better distinguish between individual pops, but I doubt how useful that would be besides a few cool visualizations.