I've had two USB-C phones now and it's a crapshoot if a cable will actually stay in the phone. And if you have half a millimeter of lint stuck in socket you're screwed.
It seems like tolerances within the spec between the plug and the socket are too loose.
The upcoming versions of.NET Standard and C# will not be supported by.NET Framework either.
They state difficulty in maintaining feature parity between two separate codebases as the reason for doing this, especially when the Framework has a much slower release cycle.
To make Core a more viable replacement, they're porting over Windows Forms and WPF and bringing the exe back for desktop apps. Obviously these will continue to work on Windows only, though they'll be open source.
Nearly every method of storing video or photos has taken advantage of this - the old NTSC broadcast TV standard, color film composition, JPEG compression, digital camera sensors, even the latest h.265 video codec. All of them stored red and especially blue at a lower resolution than they do green.
This is not true. You're thinking of luma vs chroma, with chroma (color information) typically being stored at 1/4th the size.
It's absolutely possible to have portable hi-fi. LG's line of high-end phones comes with a stellar audio stack that measures better than most desktop audiophile gear.
And you don't need FLAC. 256kbps MP3, 196kbps AAC, 160kbps OPUS are audibly transparent for basically any music.
It sounds like Google has reinvented obfsproxy, which disguises your traffic to look like innocuous requests. People have been plugging obfsproxy into Tor and OpenVPN for years now.
Maybe less brainwashed knee-jerk deflecting outrage and instead more outrage at any politician who does something shitty. Stop being part of the problem.
Stop trying to make the thinnest phone. Make them thicker, use the extra space for a larger battery, and make them durable enough to not need a case. They'll still be thinner than you end up with today.
Yea, I had one of those 15+ cycle ones just last week. Where it starts slowing down the loading of images because it thinks you're cheating.
"Click any boxes with stop lights"
So... only the lights? The whole light box? Does the pole they're mounted on count? What about just a 1-2px sliver of one of those parts in an adjacent box?
Yea... whatever they were expecting, it wasn't meshing with my interpretation. Can't be more excited to never see another one of Google's failed turing tests.
What matters is cache size, L2 and L1. Losing a few cores and bolstering cache will improve performance in quite a lot of cases.
Do you have any links researching this? Outside of CPUs cache very quickly has diminishing returns, and I'd be curious to know what effects it has on CPUs.
I think one of the best things Threadripper has done is to finally introduce NUMA to consumer processors. It's going to take a hit because a lot of code still hasn't updated to support it, but it's a smart long-term add.
Because Oculus has had the same thing -- called asynchronous time-warp and then a new version asynchronous space-warp -- for two or three years.
Welcome to the future!
In seriousness --- even high-end PCs can often not maintain a perfect 90fps in all scenes of many games. This is useful for them too, because changes in framerate are very easy to see and can be disorienting. This allows full motion, rendering rotation etc. while it lerps between frames. It works great.
If it is Russians, influencing ridiculous things like this is a great way to weaken the response to "it was Russians". Sowing more and more doubt at any mention of them, so that when someone does have something credible, voters will be quick to call that credible person a liar, which will cause further divide.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. — George Carlin
In corporate America, so much of being part of a business involves learning to suffer fools. In some way I am envious that, for this little small corner, someone gets to run the experiment of what happens if you stop playing the participation trophy game and refuse to sugar coat things to idiots when they do something really wrong.
But, it's one thing to tell people they're wrong and wasting your time bluntly. It's another to rip someone a new asshole, making sure they know you think they're being an idiot, which is very much Torvalds' style. I'm sure most people have met someone who rules by fear rather than leadership. These overly-emotional assholes are often fools themselves, but Linus is the rare form of asshole who happens to be smart and have solid logic behind the emotion. That makes me think twice about it, but doesn't exempt him from criticism for shitty leadership. I'm glad he's acknowledged the err of his ways -- there's a lot of room for him to improve while still offering blunt efficiency.
Can you give some examples of videos they've removed that you believe should have been kept? I feel like I can't really give an opinion on it until I actually see the kinds of things they're removing.
The high-end Snapdragon processors come with a very good DAC built in. Probably better quality than these cheap dongles and also capable of higher output power.
You can even use USB-C Audio Accessory mode to route analog audio through the C jack, meaning cheaper $1 adapters, but Google is one of the last holdouts in supporting this.
I'd actually love to see a study into this -- how do you walk the fine line of broadening your toolset versus reeling in over-excitable young devs, without seeming like "that old guy who doesn't like to learn new things"?
The company's future is a bit unknown at this point, but I've been curious to take a look at the Essential Phone -- a pure android experience, unlocked, runs on most networks, and while not the highest of specs it seems reasonably good.
Most web sites don't need https. Most web sites don't take payments, don't transmit user data, etc.
Bbc.com doesn't need encryption.
Do you want your ISP to be able to see and use your browsing history? Do you want them to be able to block websites they deem inappropriate? Do you want Comcast to start injecting ads into websites like they've been caught doing before?
What if your bbc.com login is the same as your bank login? What happens when you get hit by one of those router worms that are popping up all over the place? Hopefully most people on/. will not have this issue, but I guarantee you that this is the case for most users.
Yes, Google has an ulterior motive. They want to knock your ISP out from being able to mine your data, to further their own monopoly. But as a whole... the change is still good for the user.
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I've had two USB-C phones now and it's a crapshoot if a cable will actually stay in the phone. And if you have half a millimeter of lint stuck in socket you're screwed. It seems like tolerances within the spec between the plug and the socket are too loose.
The upcoming versions of .NET Standard and C# will not be supported by .NET Framework either.
They state difficulty in maintaining feature parity between two separate codebases as the reason for doing this, especially when the Framework has a much slower release cycle.
To make Core a more viable replacement, they're porting over Windows Forms and WPF and bringing the exe back for desktop apps. Obviously these will continue to work on Windows only, though they'll be open source.
Time to start upgrading your codebases.
Nearly every method of storing video or photos has taken advantage of this - the old NTSC broadcast TV standard, color film composition, JPEG compression, digital camera sensors, even the latest h.265 video codec. All of them stored red and especially blue at a lower resolution than they do green.
This is not true. You're thinking of luma vs chroma, with chroma (color information) typically being stored at 1/4th the size.
It's absolutely possible to have portable hi-fi. LG's line of high-end phones comes with a stellar audio stack that measures better than most desktop audiophile gear.
And you don't need FLAC. 256kbps MP3, 196kbps AAC, 160kbps OPUS are audibly transparent for basically any music.
If we tax them they'll expect more in return. I'd rather not give them any excuses to add censoring or other content filtering.
It sounds like Google has reinvented obfsproxy, which disguises your traffic to look like innocuous requests. People have been plugging obfsproxy into Tor and OpenVPN for years now.
My guy did something? Your guy did something!
Maybe less brainwashed knee-jerk deflecting outrage and instead more outrage at any politician who does something shitty. Stop being part of the problem.
John Carmack still works for Facebook, who was a party in the ZeniMax case.
This argument also doesn't work, because Carmack has very obvious ongoing value while Luckey had already made his major contribution.
Stop trying to make the thinnest phone. Make them thicker, use the extra space for a larger battery, and make them durable enough to not need a case. They'll still be thinner than you end up with today.
Yea, I had one of those 15+ cycle ones just last week. Where it starts slowing down the loading of images because it thinks you're cheating.
"Click any boxes with stop lights"
So... only the lights? The whole light box? Does the pole they're mounted on count? What about just a 1-2px sliver of one of those parts in an adjacent box?
Yea... whatever they were expecting, it wasn't meshing with my interpretation. Can't be more excited to never see another one of Google's failed turing tests.
What matters is cache size, L2 and L1. Losing a few cores and bolstering cache will improve performance in quite a lot of cases.
Do you have any links researching this? Outside of CPUs cache very quickly has diminishing returns, and I'd be curious to know what effects it has on CPUs.
I think one of the best things Threadripper has done is to finally introduce NUMA to consumer processors. It's going to take a hit because a lot of code still hasn't updated to support it, but it's a smart long-term add.
Because Oculus has had the same thing -- called asynchronous time-warp and then a new version asynchronous space-warp -- for two or three years.
Welcome to the future!
In seriousness --- even high-end PCs can often not maintain a perfect 90fps in all scenes of many games. This is useful for them too, because changes in framerate are very easy to see and can be disorienting. This allows full motion, rendering rotation etc. while it lerps between frames. It works great.
I look at it kind of like...
If it is Russians, influencing ridiculous things like this is a great way to weaken the response to "it was Russians". Sowing more and more doubt at any mention of them, so that when someone does have something credible, voters will be quick to call that credible person a liar, which will cause further divide.
But, maybe it's not Russians.
That's interesting, and seems kind of ridiculous but I don't have kids. What have yours experienced?
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. — George Carlin
In corporate America, so much of being part of a business involves learning to suffer fools. In some way I am envious that, for this little small corner, someone gets to run the experiment of what happens if you stop playing the participation trophy game and refuse to sugar coat things to idiots when they do something really wrong.
But, it's one thing to tell people they're wrong and wasting your time bluntly. It's another to rip someone a new asshole, making sure they know you think they're being an idiot, which is very much Torvalds' style. I'm sure most people have met someone who rules by fear rather than leadership. These overly-emotional assholes are often fools themselves, but Linus is the rare form of asshole who happens to be smart and have solid logic behind the emotion. That makes me think twice about it, but doesn't exempt him from criticism for shitty leadership. I'm glad he's acknowledged the err of his ways -- there's a lot of room for him to improve while still offering blunt efficiency.
Can you give some examples of videos they've removed that you believe should have been kept? I feel like I can't really give an opinion on it until I actually see the kinds of things they're removing.
The high-end Snapdragon processors come with a very good DAC built in. Probably better quality than these cheap dongles and also capable of higher output power.
You can even use USB-C Audio Accessory mode to route analog audio through the C jack, meaning cheaper $1 adapters, but Google is one of the last holdouts in supporting this.
Why force people to buy two DACs, Google?
If a variable is so badly named that the type is not clear
Never fear, I've brought my LPCWSTR.
I'd actually love to see a study into this -- how do you walk the fine line of broadening your toolset versus reeling in over-excitable young devs, without seeming like "that old guy who doesn't like to learn new things"?
These Titan keys are the same hardware as the Feitian FIDO keys, but supposedly with a custom firmware so not a simple rebranding.
I'm curious to know how these compare.
I think the idea for UBI is that, while you may not be eating out buying filet mignon, you can at least survive on it.
Is $1,000 survivable? It is significantly less than minimum wage, which people already struggle with.
The company's future is a bit unknown at this point, but I've been curious to take a look at the Essential Phone -- a pure android experience, unlocked, runs on most networks, and while not the highest of specs it seems reasonably good.
Man, way to bring me back to /.'s hayday. All we need now is for Netcraft to confirm it.
Most web sites don't need https. Most web sites don't take payments, don't transmit user data, etc. Bbc.com doesn't need encryption.
Do you want your ISP to be able to see and use your browsing history? Do you want them to be able to block websites they deem inappropriate? Do you want Comcast to start injecting ads into websites like they've been caught doing before?
What if your bbc.com login is the same as your bank login? What happens when you get hit by one of those router worms that are popping up all over the place? Hopefully most people on /. will not have this issue, but I guarantee you that this is the case for most users.
Yes, Google has an ulterior motive. They want to knock your ISP out from being able to mine your data, to further their own monopoly. But as a whole... the change is still good for the user.
Nobody talks on the phone anymore. Does the radiation affect fingers?