Mac owners, in general, aren't expected to do jack. Mac owners with the technical knowledge required to contrive the setup you describe are expected to be able to support their own inventions.
"Argh, what do you mean this doesn't support the custom CPU microcode I wrote?" Well, if you're doing that then you should be able to figure it out yourself.
I didn't trust my Vizio not to connect itself to Wi-Fi without my asking, and it didn't provide a way to flat-out delete Wi-Fi networks. So I temporarily created a randomly-named guest network, connected my Vizio to that one, disabled Wi-Fi on the TV, then deleted that guest network. Now the TV has nothing to connect to even if it wanted to.
I mean, I know I'm missing out on its shitty, ancient, unmaintained versions of the Netflix and Hulu apps, but I think i'll manage.
My kid has a Xbone because that's the predominant platform at his school. All his friends have that, so to play online with them he got the same thing. By axing cross-platform compatibility, they've cut the odds of us switching to PlayStation to approximately 0.00%.
Which is a pity because Sony has a lot of great properties that I'm sure we'd enjoy. But if switching - and no, we're not buying into both platforms - means that my son can't play with his friends then it's just not happening.
I agree with you, up until the point that I pay out the ass for unlimited data. If their network can't handle it, they should stop advertising and selling it.
Your team at work should probably be using perforce
LOL. There's no compelling reason why I'd use a proprietary version control system for anything trivial or important. If nothing else, none of them have ecosystems that hold a candle to git. Every editor supports it. Every build system supports it. Every CI/CD pipeline supports it. Every ops tool supports it. 95% of open source packages are hosted in it.
Feel free to use whatever you want, of course, as long as you understand that what you're giving up by not playing in the Git ecosystem is unlikely to make up for any perceived advantages over Git.
# Clone it. $ git clone repo.git test_dir && cd test_dir Cloning into 'test_dir'... warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. done.
# Create a file and add it to the repo. $ echo foo > foo && git add foo && git commit -m 'Added foo' [master (root-commit) 1813607] Added foo 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 foo
# Modify that file and add the change to the repo. $ echo foo2 >> foo && git add foo && git commit -m 'Modified foo' [master 6cb6f22] Modified foo 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
$ cat foo foo foo2
# Push the change to the repo we made earlier. $ git push Counting objects: 6, done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 421 bytes | 421.00 KiB/s, done. Total 6 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) To/tmp/repo.git * [new branch] master -> master
# Go back to the first version of foo. This simulates the case where # we pushed the first commit, then someone else added the second # commit. $ git reset --hard HEAD^1 HEAD is now at 241f76f Added foo
# Now change that file in a different way. $ echo foo3 >> foo
# See? It's different from that second commit. $ cat foo foo foo3
# Try to pull in that second commit that would overwrite the # uncommitted change we just made. Git has your back. $ git pull Updating 241f76f..3a175e4 error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: foo Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge. Aborting
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Basically, Cloudflare isn't responsible for anyone else's data, even if they sometimes reject serving other traffic.
Really, isn't the best way to fight such complete stupidity to keep it in the open?
I don't believe that anymore. That policy has been an abject failure, and seems to have served more as an enabling support group than as a disinfectant.
I'll play devil's advocate here. What right do you have to take money from somebody and give it to somebody else?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. That's actually irrelevant. Enlightened self interest says that wealthy people receive an enormous personal benefit in shoveling sufficient money at the starving classes that they don't rise up and revolt. I'm not wealthy, but I still don't want to be on the receiving end of the French Revolution so I support spending my taxes on basic life support for my neighbors.
You can be a complete sociopath and still support basic universal income for your own selfish reasons.
I'm typing this on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro. I gave them a nice chunk of change upfront when I bought it fully loaded, but not a penny in the 6+ years since then. You need to update your complaints.
No, I'm not a cheapskate who refuses to upgrade. I'm just having a hard time justifying an upgrade from a perfectly-working 4-core i7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD that still runs all my development software - including lots of Docker VM stuff - just fine. If/when this thing eventually breaks, I'll shovel much cash at Apple and be done shopping for another 6 years.
If it is something you can fix yourself in software then it's not a hardware failure
That's completely untrue if the "fix" is just disabling the non-working part. That's not hyperbole: that's not an exaggerationthat happens a lot. So say you pay $1000 for a CPU with lots of FLOPS you use for machine learning stuff. It turns out that the CPU is very unstable when crunching lots of numbers, so a new stability patch comes along that disables half the FPU. Voila, your computer stops crashing now! Of course your workload runs half as fast now, but at least it's stable!
If "fix" means "coerce into working at full spec", then I'd agree with you. Too often that's not at all what it means, though.
There are any number of cheap amplified antennas, most of which are powered by the USB jack that most modern TVs have in back. Adding this to our TV bumped it from two or three sketchy-at-best channels to upward of 70 crystal clear ones. If you're at all interested in trying out OTA again, you might have better luck with something like that.
That's a speculated price for the rumored "iPhone Pro" (speculated name) model. It's speculated that the anticipated iPhone 7S and 7S Plus models will be in line with their predecessors.
It's all just guessing until they make the formal announcement.
You're right: a portable charger serves my needs better than a removable battery would, for the reasons I describe.
As much as I've heard the clamor for removable batteries in iPhones over the years, I've yet to see a scenario where they're actually the best solution for the task at hand. It's a classic XY Problem to me, where people really want to do things a certain way even if there are alternatives that may be better for them.
I bought my removable battery from Anker, and I take it (and its short tethering cable) along with me on my 1% of excursions that aren't near an electrical outlet. My removable battery is so clever that it can also charge my watch, tablet, and my buddy's Android. It also has the amazing design characteristic of adding zero additional hardware to my phone in the 99% of trips when I don't want or need it. How cool is that!
I'm meh on the headphone socket. Yeah, it was nice. But yeah, I prefer Bluetooth audio so that my headphone wires don't get snagged on the bus I'm trying to deboard. There's also the significant headphone jack problem that there's absolutely zero standardization for circuits more complicated than left audio / right audio. Every company that supports extra stuff like mics or volume buttons has come up with their own way of doing things. In the PC world, this manifests in my gaming rig's headphone + mic not working with our Xbox. Yay standards! At least Bluetooth has this stuff written into the core protocol instead of everyone going a different path, so we have at least some chance of Company A's widget being compatible with Company B's.
I don't claim that I've proven Snopes to be wrong. I even agreed with their conclusion in the case I mentioned. But it does make me wonder how much other feedback they've ignored over the years, and it gave me the strong impression of "we're never wrong"-ism. When they write about other subjects where I can't turn to an expert sitting next to me at dinner to check their conclusions, did someone try to correct their facts on those subjects, too? I don't know. At least Wikipedia gives you a history of edits if you're interested in digging into them.
Side note: I don't know if Snopes has a political bias. They might, or it could be that they ignore factually incorrect "different opinions". They wouldn't have to be flaming liberals to say "the Earth is more than 6,000 years old". Either way, I want to make it clear: I have no intention of weighing in on their politics. I don't know enough about it to have an opinion.
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Or are Mac owners expected
Mac owners, in general, aren't expected to do jack. Mac owners with the technical knowledge required to contrive the setup you describe are expected to be able to support their own inventions.
"Argh, what do you mean this doesn't support the custom CPU microcode I wrote?" Well, if you're doing that then you should be able to figure it out yourself.
This abomination of a summary is as bad as I've seen in my time here.
I didn't trust my Vizio not to connect itself to Wi-Fi without my asking, and it didn't provide a way to flat-out delete Wi-Fi networks. So I temporarily created a randomly-named guest network, connected my Vizio to that one, disabled Wi-Fi on the TV, then deleted that guest network. Now the TV has nothing to connect to even if it wanted to.
I mean, I know I'm missing out on its shitty, ancient, unmaintained versions of the Netflix and Hulu apps, but I think i'll manage.
My kid has a Xbone because that's the predominant platform at his school. All his friends have that, so to play online with them he got the same thing. By axing cross-platform compatibility, they've cut the odds of us switching to PlayStation to approximately 0.00%.
Which is a pity because Sony has a lot of great properties that I'm sure we'd enjoy. But if switching - and no, we're not buying into both platforms - means that my son can't play with his friends then it's just not happening.
Existing iPhone users can enable the feature with a hole punch.
I agree with you, up until the point that I pay out the ass for unlimited data. If their network can't handle it, they should stop advertising and selling it.
Your team at work should probably be using perforce
LOL. There's no compelling reason why I'd use a proprietary version control system for anything trivial or important. If nothing else, none of them have ecosystems that hold a candle to git. Every editor supports it. Every build system supports it. Every CI/CD pipeline supports it. Every ops tool supports it. 95% of open source packages are hosted in it.
Feel free to use whatever you want, of course, as long as you understand that what you're giving up by not playing in the Git ecosystem is unlikely to make up for any perceived advantages over Git.
Prove it.
We have literal Nazis, wearing swastikas, carrying Nazi flags, giving the Nazi salute, in Charlottesville.
(Feelings don't count.)
You're right. No matter how much the alt-right snowflakes cry about it, objective facts disprove their worldview.
by taking actions based on viewpoint, they potentially forfeit their ability to claim legal protections as common carriers.
This is, of course, utterly untrue per (ironically) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act:
Basically, Cloudflare isn't responsible for anyone else's data, even if they sometimes reject serving other traffic.
Really, isn't the best way to fight such complete stupidity to keep it in the open?
I don't believe that anymore. That policy has been an abject failure, and seems to have served more as an enabling support group than as a disinfectant.
I'll play devil's advocate here. What right do you have to take money from somebody and give it to somebody else?
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. That's actually irrelevant. Enlightened self interest says that wealthy people receive an enormous personal benefit in shoveling sufficient money at the starving classes that they don't rise up and revolt. I'm not wealthy, but I still don't want to be on the receiving end of the French Revolution so I support spending my taxes on basic life support for my neighbors.
You can be a complete sociopath and still support basic universal income for your own selfish reasons.
Apple's business plan summed up in one line
I'm typing this on an Early 2011 MacBook Pro. I gave them a nice chunk of change upfront when I bought it fully loaded, but not a penny in the 6+ years since then. You need to update your complaints.
No, I'm not a cheapskate who refuses to upgrade. I'm just having a hard time justifying an upgrade from a perfectly-working 4-core i7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD that still runs all my development software - including lots of Docker VM stuff - just fine. If/when this thing eventually breaks, I'll shovel much cash at Apple and be done shopping for another 6 years.
If it is something you can fix yourself in software then it's not a hardware failure
That's completely untrue if the "fix" is just disabling the non-working part. That's not hyperbole: that's not an exaggerationthat happens a lot. So say you pay $1000 for a CPU with lots of FLOPS you use for machine learning stuff. It turns out that the CPU is very unstable when crunching lots of numbers, so a new stability patch comes along that disables half the FPU. Voila, your computer stops crashing now! Of course your workload runs half as fast now, but at least it's stable!
If "fix" means "coerce into working at full spec", then I'd agree with you. Too often that's not at all what it means, though.
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Whoa, APK forget to check "Post Anonymously"!
Fair enough. I was hoping (for your viewing enjoyment) that it'd be like "huh, I should try that... OMG IT WORKS!"
There are any number of cheap amplified antennas, most of which are powered by the USB jack that most modern TVs have in back. Adding this to our TV bumped it from two or three sketchy-at-best channels to upward of 70 crystal clear ones. If you're at all interested in trying out OTA again, you might have better luck with something like that.
Tried a 7, kept wanting to listen to music only to remember, wait, I don't have the adapter on me.
...but forgot to look in the box it came in to find the adapter that it shipped with.
That's a speculated price for the rumored "iPhone Pro" (speculated name) model. It's speculated that the anticipated iPhone 7S and 7S Plus models will be in line with their predecessors.
It's all just guessing until they make the formal announcement.
My pet analogy: I don't have anything to hide, but damned if I want a camera in my bathroom.
You're right: a portable charger serves my needs better than a removable battery would, for the reasons I describe.
As much as I've heard the clamor for removable batteries in iPhones over the years, I've yet to see a scenario where they're actually the best solution for the task at hand. It's a classic XY Problem to me, where people really want to do things a certain way even if there are alternatives that may be better for them.
I bought my removable battery from Anker, and I take it (and its short tethering cable) along with me on my 1% of excursions that aren't near an electrical outlet. My removable battery is so clever that it can also charge my watch, tablet, and my buddy's Android. It also has the amazing design characteristic of adding zero additional hardware to my phone in the 99% of trips when I don't want or need it. How cool is that!
I'm meh on the headphone socket. Yeah, it was nice. But yeah, I prefer Bluetooth audio so that my headphone wires don't get snagged on the bus I'm trying to deboard. There's also the significant headphone jack problem that there's absolutely zero standardization for circuits more complicated than left audio / right audio. Every company that supports extra stuff like mics or volume buttons has come up with their own way of doing things. In the PC world, this manifests in my gaming rig's headphone + mic not working with our Xbox. Yay standards! At least Bluetooth has this stuff written into the core protocol instead of everyone going a different path, so we have at least some chance of Company A's widget being compatible with Company B's.
I don't claim that I've proven Snopes to be wrong. I even agreed with their conclusion in the case I mentioned. But it does make me wonder how much other feedback they've ignored over the years, and it gave me the strong impression of "we're never wrong"-ism. When they write about other subjects where I can't turn to an expert sitting next to me at dinner to check their conclusions, did someone try to correct their facts on those subjects, too? I don't know. At least Wikipedia gives you a history of edits if you're interested in digging into them.
Side note: I don't know if Snopes has a political bias. They might, or it could be that they ignore factually incorrect "different opinions". They wouldn't have to be flaming liberals to say "the Earth is more than 6,000 years old". Either way, I want to make it clear: I have no intention of weighing in on their politics. I don't know enough about it to have an opinion.
Only if they have six of 'em.