I find it almost unbelievable that people are still sold computers with old-fashioned HDDs. At the coffee machine, a secretary told me they bought a spanking new iMac. "But it's so slow", she asked, "is that normal?"
I told her to bring it back and get a model with an SSD. She didn't know what it was. I find it unbelievable that salespersons still sell this shit to consumers.
I've created PAR2 files for all my photos. I've got a kid and although I make multiple backups, I neither trust the filesystem (HFS+) nor the backup (Time Machine and CrashPlan). Especially with photos, it's really easy because it makes sense to put them in directories per time period (for example every quarter or month), for instance, "/Pictures/2017 Q1". When you create a new folder, just create par2 files in the old folder, like so:
$ par2create par2file *
To verify them:
$ par2verify par2file.par2
Big advantages of par2 versus other methods: - It works independent of file system - It can not only verify but also repair
I can't let a mentioning of Wine slip by without also pointing to the commercial version by CodeWeavers. I'm not currently running Linux on the desktop, but if you're a freelancer like me, it's VERY helpful to have Microsoft Office running reliably and out of the box.
No shares in the company, just love their product and the fact that they heavily commit to Wine.
The Razer Blade series have become the default coding machine for many out there
I didn't expect this to be true, but at my current client we have two guys working on maxed-out Razers. One guy wants it for his Windows VMs. And the other guy runs Android Studio. (As for myself, I'm an iOS developer so I work on a MacBook, and run my server stuff on a Linux VPS.)
No woman I've asked likes the way brown diamonds look- even if you call them "chocolate".
The weird thing is, I can't imagine why anyone would like a plain diamond. It just looks like glass. Rubies, emeralds and sapphires are colorful and can compliment ones eyes, or clothes or accessories, while diamonds just don't attract attention. Unless there's a dozen of them, in which case you're bankrupt.
Of course, I'm just a man and I wouldn't understand anything a woman wants.
I've already seen a bunch of posts mourn the whole bunch of addons that will stop working end of this year. Probably, I'll lose some myself.
But personally, I trust Mozilla to do the right thing here. They've probably weighed the pros and cons, and made their decision. I'll see what the end result is. There's enough browsers to choose from nowadays.
Firefox has some unique things why I use it, first and foremost "search in links". Try it, tap the single-quote key and type text that appears in a link. Then hit enter. It's the fastest way to surf the web without a mouse.
But if end of this year comes and it turns out they screwed it up, fine -- I'll go and use another browser.
I wonder how these guys would behave in real life. What kind of mind do you have, when you're one of the most productive in the area of spewing hate, anger and vitriol.
For some reason, I simply don't make the time to really dive into certain subjects. With a conference, I often come to the US and leave the family in Europe. So there's nothing else that draws away the focus. Lots of times with iOS conferences, you can book a day with an intensive workshop before the talks start, and that's really nice as well.
The GFXBench test is largely irrelevant as that is testing the GPU, not the CPU.
Yes, if we're talking about the CPU then it's not relevant.
However for real world usage in a laptop, it's very relevant. The current crop of 15" MacBook Pros has a discrete GPU. Why? Because Intel's integrated GPU can't handle big external 4K or 5K displays. The discrete GPU sucks up the battery so obviously you'd rather the integrated GPU handles everything. But from what I understood, Intel no longer has a clear roadmap for their integrated GPU. With the A9X chips showing they easily beat Intel's Iris/HD stuff, I hope this lights a fire under Intel's butt.
A9X has nearly double the raw clock speed, and barely beats intel on one test, but loses on the others. This isn't exactly a roaring endorsement.
You can't compare clock speeds like that. What it comes down to, is what can it do within the thermal envelope.
ARM has only been doing 64-bit out-of-order execution and branch prediction for two generations
In a single-core benchmark, Apple's A9X @ 2.25 GHz already defeats Intel's 1.3 GHz Core M7 CPU.
The idea is not to compete with a desktop Xeon but instead, to nibble at Intels feet at the bottom end. Check out this 2016 benchmark between the 12" MacBook (Intel @ 1.3 GHz) and the 12.9" iPad Pro: http://barefeats.com/macbook20...
A QA once pointed this distinction out to me. As she said, "You want to make beautiful things... and I want to destroy them."
Now I have this image in my head of a female QA engineer with tentacles, with a gruesome weapon in each one. And I desperately want to make love to it.
That is a great question -- "am I some kind of fucking moron" and I'd say it entirely depends on what you mean by "fucking" and "moron", for instance If one would interpret these two terms in the best possible light, perhaps while laughing out loud as a compliment to a joke well made, with a slap on the back, at the pub, after a good evening of dozens of locally brewn pilsners, then by all accounts I'd be delighted to be called a fucking moron and I'd gladly take it with a prize for the longest fucking sentence.
No phone comes anywhere near even a mediocre real camera.
That's true but I'm pretty happy with the camera on my iPhone 6 Plus. It's optically stabilized and makes pretty good pics as long as there's enough light.
My iPhone 6 Plus its battery died so while getting it repaired, I got a cheap Android phone (a second-hand LG Nexus 5). Since I took care to only buy/use apps that appear in both the App Store and Google Play, the shift was easy. I thought, when that expensive phone comes back I'll just sell it.
However, I didn't think it through because when it came to making pictures, I was a bit disappointed. Now shooting photos might not be the most important thing in the world for you, but I've got a three year old daughter and don't want to look at crappy shots later in life. So as soon as my iPhone comes back, I'll be happy to go back to an expensive phone again.
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I find it almost unbelievable that people are still sold computers with old-fashioned HDDs. At the coffee machine, a secretary told me they bought a spanking new iMac. "But it's so slow", she asked, "is that normal?"
I told her to bring it back and get a model with an SSD. She didn't know what it was. I find it unbelievable that salespersons still sell this shit to consumers.
I've created PAR2 files for all my photos. I've got a kid and although I make multiple backups, I neither trust the filesystem (HFS+) nor the backup (Time Machine and CrashPlan). Especially with photos, it's really easy because it makes sense to put them in directories per time period (for example every quarter or month), for instance, "/Pictures/2017 Q1". When you create a new folder, just create par2 files in the old folder, like so:
$ par2create par2file *
To verify them:
$ par2verify par2file.par2
Big advantages of par2 versus other methods:
- It works independent of file system
- It can not only verify but also repair
I can't let a mentioning of Wine slip by without also pointing to the commercial version by CodeWeavers. I'm not currently running Linux on the desktop, but if you're a freelancer like me, it's VERY helpful to have Microsoft Office running reliably and out of the box.
No shares in the company, just love their product and the fact that they heavily commit to Wine.
FTFA:
The Razer Blade series have become the default coding machine for many out there
I didn't expect this to be true, but at my current client we have two guys working on maxed-out Razers. One guy wants it for his Windows VMs. And the other guy runs Android Studio. (As for myself, I'm an iOS developer so I work on a MacBook, and run my server stuff on a Linux VPS.)
I'll do anything as long as it includes a trip to the site where Peter Jackson built the Hobbit town.
If you're lounging with 6 people in your underwear
I'm a severe introvert. I will have to recuperate for a week under a blankie after just your mentioning this.
No woman I've asked likes the way brown diamonds look- even if you call them "chocolate".
The weird thing is, I can't imagine why anyone would like a plain diamond. It just looks like glass. Rubies, emeralds and sapphires are colorful and can compliment ones eyes, or clothes or accessories, while diamonds just don't attract attention. Unless there's a dozen of them, in which case you're bankrupt.
Of course, I'm just a man and I wouldn't understand anything a woman wants.
There is no more news - there is only misinfotainment. With spelling and grammatical errors.
The only holdout is Slashdot!
I've already seen a bunch of posts mourn the whole bunch of addons that will stop working end of this year. Probably, I'll lose some myself.
But personally, I trust Mozilla to do the right thing here. They've probably weighed the pros and cons, and made their decision. I'll see what the end result is. There's enough browsers to choose from nowadays.
Firefox has some unique things why I use it, first and foremost "search in links". Try it, tap the single-quote key and type text that appears in a link. Then hit enter. It's the fastest way to surf the web without a mouse.
But if end of this year comes and it turns out they screwed it up, fine -- I'll go and use another browser.
I wonder how these guys would behave in real life. What kind of mind do you have, when you're one of the most productive in the area of spewing hate, anger and vitriol.
For some reason, I simply don't make the time to really dive into certain subjects. With a conference, I often come to the US and leave the family in Europe. So there's nothing else that draws away the focus. Lots of times with iOS conferences, you can book a day with an intensive workshop before the talks start, and that's really nice as well.
The GFXBench test is largely irrelevant as that is testing the GPU, not the CPU.
Yes, if we're talking about the CPU then it's not relevant.
However for real world usage in a laptop, it's very relevant. The current crop of 15" MacBook Pros has a discrete GPU. Why? Because Intel's integrated GPU can't handle big external 4K or 5K displays. The discrete GPU sucks up the battery so obviously you'd rather the integrated GPU handles everything. But from what I understood, Intel no longer has a clear roadmap for their integrated GPU. With the A9X chips showing they easily beat Intel's Iris/HD stuff, I hope this lights a fire under Intel's butt.
A9X has nearly double the raw clock speed, and barely beats intel on one test, but loses on the others. This isn't exactly a roaring endorsement.
You can't compare clock speeds like that. What it comes down to, is what can it do within the thermal envelope.
And it is an m-processor that has been intentionally crippled to be slow and use little power.
What do you mean crippled? It's a fine CPU for the thermal constraints of the 12" retina Macbook.
If you're saying that the A9X can only keep up with an m-processor, and not with Intel desktop class stuff, then sure I totally agree.
A cpu that runs at 2x the rate beats another CPU but not in all cases? Do go on.
:) Assuming you're not trolling, here's an explanation.
That intel is an 1.3 GHz dual-core Intel Core m5-6Y54 Skylake processor. It has Turbo Boost up to 2.7 GHz.
if you have a collective of approximately 300 women,
This is my ultimate dream.
they will produce 1 baby a day.
This is my ultimate nightmare.
ARM has only been doing 64-bit out-of-order execution and branch prediction for two generations
In a single-core benchmark, Apple's A9X @ 2.25 GHz already defeats Intel's 1.3 GHz Core M7 CPU.
The idea is not to compete with a desktop Xeon but instead, to nibble at Intels feet at the bottom end. Check out this 2016 benchmark between the 12" MacBook (Intel @ 1.3 GHz) and the 12.9" iPad Pro: http://barefeats.com/macbook20...
GeekBench 3 single-core, higher is better:
MacBook Intel @ 1.3 GHz: 3194
iPad Pro: 3249
GeekBench 3 multi-core, higher is better:
MacBook Intel @ 1.3 GHz: 6784
iPad Pro: 5482
GFXBench Metal, more FPS is better:
MacBook Intel @ 1.3 GHz: 26.1 FPS
iPad Pro: 55.3 FPS
JetStream javascript benchmark, higher is better:
MacBook Intel @ 1.3 GHz: 175.68
iPad Pro: 143.41
ACHTUNG!! Ziz is ze Kookle Krome team! You vill uze ALL extensiuns, ALVAYS!
Please excuse my ignorance, but I really only use macOS and Linux on the server. So when you get updates, macOS will display a prompt:\
Update available
[now] [tonight] [ask tomorrow]
I can't imagine that Windows FORCES you to stop your work right there and then, with no way to delay it. Is that really so?
Ninety percent of all bad reviews was about the fact that a crash occurred if you connected/disconnected with the lid closed.
They fixed that bug in the latest macOS update. It came out yesterday. Basically all the reviews wouldn't make sense anymore.
I'm not saying it's a good reason, but I'm guessing that's the thinking in the apple mothership.
A QA once pointed this distinction out to me. As she said, "You want to make beautiful things... and I want to destroy them."
Now I have this image in my head of a female QA engineer with tentacles, with a gruesome weapon in each one. And I desperately want to make love to it.
Are you some kind of fucking moron?
That is a great question -- "am I some kind of fucking moron" and I'd say it entirely depends on what you mean by "fucking" and "moron", for instance If one would interpret these two terms in the best possible light, perhaps while laughing out loud as a compliment to a joke well made, with a slap on the back, at the pub, after a good evening of dozens of locally brewn pilsners, then by all accounts I'd be delighted to be called a fucking moron and I'd gladly take it with a prize for the longest fucking sentence.
I got a cheap second hand LG G4 which is a more recent model and the camera is miles better.
Although I'm an iOS developer, I sometimes get kinda of fed up with using iOS all the time. I might have a look for the G4, so thanks for the pointer!
No phone comes anywhere near even a mediocre real camera.
That's true but I'm pretty happy with the camera on my iPhone 6 Plus. It's optically stabilized and makes pretty good pics as long as there's enough light.
My iPhone 6 Plus its battery died so while getting it repaired, I got a cheap Android phone (a second-hand LG Nexus 5). Since I took care to only buy/use apps that appear in both the App Store and Google Play, the shift was easy. I thought, when that expensive phone comes back I'll just sell it.
However, I didn't think it through because when it came to making pictures, I was a bit disappointed. Now shooting photos might not be the most important thing in the world for you, but I've got a three year old daughter and don't want to look at crappy shots later in life. So as soon as my iPhone comes back, I'll be happy to go back to an expensive phone again.
Hi Chris,
I just wanted to say that it's really great that libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
libsystem_c.dylib`__abort:
0x18131340c : adrp x8, 149589
0x181313410 : add x8, x8, #0 ; =0
0x181313414 : ldr x9, [x8, #8]
0x181313418 : cbnz x9, 0x181313428 ;
0x18131341c : adrp x9, 27
0x181313420 : add x9, x9, #1393 ; =1393
0x181313424 : str x9, [x8, #8]
0x181313428 : stp x20, x19, [sp, #-32]!
0x18131342c : stp x29, x30, [sp, #16]
0x181313430 : add x29, sp, #16 ; =16
0x181313434 : sub sp, sp, #32 ; =32
0x181313438 : add x8, sp, #16 ; =16
0x18131343c : add x19, x8, #8 ; =8
0x181313440 : movn w20, #0
0x181313444 : stp xzr, x20, [sp, #16]
0x181313448 : orr w0, wzr, #0x6
0x18131344c : add x1, sp, #16 ; =16
0x181313450 : movz x2, #0
0x181313454 : bl 0x1812c254c ; sigaction
0x181313458 : ldr w8, [sp, #24]
0x18131345c : and w8, w8, #0xffffffdf
0x181313460 : str w8, [sp, #24]
0x181313464 : str w20, [sp, #12]
0x181313468 : orr w0, wzr, #0x3
0x18131346c : add x1, sp, #12 ; =12
0x181313470 : movz x2, #0
0x181313474 : bl 0x18132880c ; symbol stub for: __printf_arginfo_n
0x181313478 : orr w0, wzr, #0x1
0x18131347c : bl 0x181467470 ; __pthread_workqueue_setkill
0x181313480 : orr w0, wzr, #0x3
0x181313484 : mov x1, x19
0x181313488 : movz x2, #0
0x18131348c : bl 0x18146585c ; pthread_sigmask
0x181313490 : bl 0x18146a908 ; pthread_self
0x181313494 : orr w1, wzr, #0x6
0x181313498 : bl 0x1814673e0 ; pthread_kill
0x18131349c : movz w0, #0x2710
0x1813134a0 : bl 0x1812efb3c ; usleep$NOCANCEL
0x1813134a4 : orr w8, wzr, #0xffffffe7
0x1813134a8 : str w8, [sp, #24]
0x1813134ac : orr w0, wzr, #0x3
0x1813134b0 : mov x1, x19
0x1813134b4 : movz x2, #0
0x1813134b8 : bl 0x18132880c ; symbol stub for: __printf_arginfo_n
-> 0x1813134bc : brk #0x1