This project got momentum by trashing on MacPorts, although MacPorts has always worked fine for me. Homebrew will never be on my system, simply because of their shabby treatment of a good port system written by very good people.
Not only is this poor form to trash the competition - I don't know that the competition even deserve this trashing. I've been using MacPorts since it was DarwinPorts. I've never experienced it not working, or doing anything that I didn't expect it to. In the early days there may have been some software that simply wasn't ported over, but it's always behaved itself when I've been using it.
OK, so it's just a TV. And the R is not even a totally new concept; I saw an earlier prototype of a rollable OLED display back at CES 2009. But that display was 13-inches, had major limitations, and did not yet look like a consumer product. This time, we're looking at a full-featured, 65-inch TV that's actually coming to market this year.
If you thought that your i7 is less responsive than a C64... Then you might actually be correct. Have a look at this guy's research on latency and input lag. Granted, some of the machines he has tested on are fairly dated by now, but the general concept remains that a newer machine, while being essentially infinitely faster than a C64 or an Apple 2e, they all generally take longer to put a character on the screen once you've hit a key on the keyboard. Granted, they're also doing a lot more to put that character there, but the fact remains that overall latency has increased as computers have got faster.
The issue is not that the error is only a few dollars or even a few cents. The issue is that there is an error at all. If something doesn't balance, even if it's a few cents out, that means that there's likely an error in the logic that calculates everything.
It's basic maths. You can't say when you're calculating 100 + 100 = 199 and call it a day because it's close enough. There is something fundamentally wrong if you're not getting the exact correct answer.
Some other students say that having to clean their room and do homework before playing video games is an unreasonable burden for those with phat loot to grind.
Seriously, I hated speaking in front of the class, being forced to do it made me a better person.
Communication skills are critical in today's world, public speaking is a part of this and it's a vitally important skill. You need to learn that others rarely judge yourself as harshly as you do - everyone else is wrapped up in their own lives. Those that judge you don't matter and those that matter don't judge you. The sooner you realise this, the better your life will be.
At the moment it's pretty easy to identify a deepfake video. The AI's don't "know" that people regularly blink, they see this as a glitch in the data set. If you look at pretty much any deepfake video, no matter how realistic it is, the person who's been deepfaked will never blink.
My passwords are stored in the cloud with 1Password.
I'm confident in their security that this is as safe as any other alternative. Agile Bits, the creators of 1Password, do not have access to unencrypted passwords. If you were to somehow obtain my password vault, you'd have a heap of AES encrypted passwords. They're not going to do much good to you.
Unless you have my account key and master password (and the account key is a 40 character alphanumeric code, not a simple password) you're not getting at my passwords.
The passwords are only decrypted when I access them on my individual devices.
They are no less trustworthy than any other registrar offering domain verified certificates. Given the short lifespan of the certs, they're slightly more secure.
I know plenty of developers, and even more operations / administration people. The skillset for one is not necessarily applicable to the other.
Some of the best developers I know, I wouldn't trust them to set up a basic PC for me, I've seen the mess they made of theirs. Some of the best operations people I know can't write code that's anywhere near the quality of a full time developer, but they can definitely set up a secure firewall, or configure a bunch of servers to work reliably.
sure, great for a single purpose appliance. for a modern smartphone or tablet not so much
So, obviously iPhones and iPads are no good then as they run the Mach microkernel. I mean, it's clear by their marketshare that it's a dead-end system.
Aside from the fact that you can't clearly define any simple set of tasks as being indicative of "real world performance", you also can't dictate to manufacturers what they call their products. As soon as you come up with a suite of tests that is your "real world" benchmark, then you can guarantee that manufacturers will optimise their designs specifically for the suite of tests you're running and game the benchmarks.
Re: the numbers, this would be like telling Audi that they can't sell a car called an RS3 that is faster than an A4 because the number at the end is smaller. But what defines better for "real world" use in an automobile? Some people would say that a bigger car is more useful because you can fit more stuff in it. In this case, the A4 would be better than the RS3. Some people say a smaller car is better as it's more manoeuvrable and easier to park. Some would say a faster car is better. Some would say a cheaper car is better. Some would say a more fuel efficient car is better. Some would say a larger engine is better. Who is right and who is wrong?
What does the number at the end mean? It's simply a model identifier, a family name. Intel follow a fairly strict naming convention for the model names, they're not simply plucked from thin air (well, in part they may be, but that's a minor part of the name). https://www.intel.com.au/conte... https://www.intel.com/content/...
Street addresses work when there is a street to address. In some countries, the streets literally have no name - Japan springs to mind. In Japan, the blocks have names and the streets are just the space between the blocks. Asking someone what street they live on is the same as asking someone here what is the name of the block you live on? Then the numbers sometimes go in order around the block, except there are often gaps where two properties have been merged, or numbers out of order where one property has been subdivided. In other countries, there are no streets. There are paths, there are tracks, but there may not be a street with a name.
Maybe it's just me, but I struggle to see the point of Optane as compared to a regular flash-based SSD. From what. I can see, it's optimised as a high speed but small SSD that can then be used as a cache for a spinning HDD. In the benchmarks I've seen however, it doesn't seem to be markedly faster than a fast M.2 NVMe SSD.
The vertical tick used as an apostrophe was a temporary measure put in place to simplify keyboards and to simplify the character set when every bit and byte was counted. Even the Unicode consortium recommend that a curly apostrophe be used for printed materials. http://www.unicode.org/version...
Encoding Characters with Multiple Semantic Values. Some of the punctuation characters in the ASCII range (U+0020..U+007F) have multiple uses, either through ambiguity in the original standards or through accumulated reinterpretations of a limited code set. For example, 2716 is defined in ANSI X3.4 as apostrophe (closing single quotation mark; acute accent), and 2D16 is defined as hyphen-minus. In general, the Unicode Standard provides the same interpretation for the equivalent code points, without adding to or subtracting from their semantics. The Unicode Standard supplies unambiguous codes elsewhere for the most useful particular interpretations of these ASCII values; the corresponding unambigu- ous characters are cross-referenced in the character names list for this block. Apostrophes U+0027 apostrophe is the most commonly used character for apostrophe. For historical reasons, U+0027 is a particularly overloaded character. In ASCII, it is used to represent a punctuation mark (such as right single quotation mark, left single quotation mark, apostrophe punctuation, vertical line, or prime) or a modifier letter (such as apostrophe modifier or acute accent). Punctuation marks generally break words; modifier letters generally are considered part of a word. When text is set, U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred as apostrophe, but only U+0027 is present on most keyboards. Software commonly offers a facility for automatically converting the U+0027 apostrophe to a contextually selected curly quotation glyph. In these systems, a U+0027 in the data stream is always represented as a straight vertical line and can never represent a curly apostrophe or a right quotation mark. Punctuation Apostrophe. U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred where the character is to represent a punctuation mark, as for contractions: “We’ve been here before.” In this latter case, U+2019 is also referred to as a punctuation apostrophe.
As you said, language evolves and we've reached the stage where the systems we use have evolved beyond their original constraints that dictated a single character be used for apostrophe, single right quotation marks, prime and an acute accent and now we have the ability to use the correct character without resorting to overloading a single ASCII code point. Most people, in the software they use on a daily basis, will end up using the correct unicode character without even knowing it as commonly used software will automatically and by default substitute curly quotes in place of straight quotes. Of course text editors used for programming where semantics are critical will not perform substitutions like this but they're not the most common use case - general purpose word processing is far more common.
The apostrophe has been around a lot longer than computer and typewriter keyboards. The character called an apostrophe by ASCII is named that for (recent) historical reasons and it is not a typographically correct apostrophe. The Unicode consortium recommend using U+2019 - the Right Single Quotation Mark as an apostrophe however U+0027 is the character that exists on most keyboards.
Apostrophes U+0027 apostrophe is the most commonly used character for apostrophe. For historical reasons, U+0027 is a particularly overloaded character. In ASCII, it is used to represent a punctuation mark (such as right single quotation mark, left single quotation mark, apos- trophe punctuation, vertical line, or prime) or a modifier letter (such as apostrophe modi- fier or acute accent). Punctuation marks generally break words; modifier letters generally are considered part of a word. When text is set, U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred as apostrophe, but only U+0027 is present on most keyboards. Software commonly offers a facility for auto- matically converting the U+0027 apostrophe to a contextually selected curly quotation glyph. In these systems, a U+0027 in the data stream is always represented as a straight ver- tical line and can never represent a curly apostrophe or a right quotation mark.
The character that ASCII (and therefore Unicode) has called an Apostrophe is rarely, if ever, drawn correctly as an apostrophe in fonts. When an apostrophe has been typeset correctly, it looks like the top image on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
With the invention of the typewriter, a "neutral" quotation mark form ( ' ) was created to economize on the keyboard, by using a single key to represent: the apostrophe, both opening and closing single quotation marks, single primes, and on some typewriters the exclamation point by overprinting with a period. This is known as the typewriter apostrophe or vertical apostrophe. The same convention was adopted for quotation marks.
Both simplifications carried over to computer keyboards and the ASCII character set. However, although these are widely used due to their ubiquity and convenience, they are deprecated in contexts where proper typography is important.
Whatever - the fact is that typographical quotes do work on/. so how come some posts are rendered as per the parent post of this long and useless thread - “Now itâ(TM)s just causes”?
Well, I’ll be fucked - that seems to work. I haven’t tested typographical quotes on/. for years as “everyone” knows that they don’t work. Quite clearly they do.
What unicode char is OS X using? If it was using apostrophe, it would be perfectly fine.
Here it is again: '
That's a prime character you've used (and that I've used in this sentence too)
The apostrophe character is when you have text substitutions turned on, or something like that. It uses the key on the keyboard which has the single and double quotes on it. The curly apostrophe (smart quotes or typographical quotes) is Opt + ] for the opening single quote and Shift + Opt + ] for the closing single quote, or curly apostrophe: ’
“Here’s the curly apostrophe used in a sentence enclosed in typographical quotes and an ellipsis at the end”
Because macOS / OS X sends a proper apostrophe character, not a prime character. It's an informal standard that's evolved since the 70's that a Prime character is used as an ppostrophe, but the prime character (which is a vertical or near vertical tick) is not an apostrophe, not is it a single quotation mark (ask smart quotes, or unicode characters) - although from a typographical perspective, using a single quotation mark as an apostrophe is a lot closer (or even identical, depending on the font) than using a prime symbol.
Slashdot Mirror
Can we build ethics into Human decision-making? Only once we have done this do we have any hope of building it into AI.
This project got momentum by trashing on MacPorts, although MacPorts has always worked fine for me. Homebrew will never be on my system, simply because of their shabby treatment of a good port system written by very good people.
Not only is this poor form to trash the competition - I don't know that the competition even deserve this trashing. I've been using MacPorts since it was DarwinPorts. I've never experienced it not working, or doing anything that I didn't expect it to. In the early days there may have been some software that simply wasn't ported over, but it's always behaved itself when I've been using it.
"Hey, they put a dongle in the box, I must be supposed to use it!"
And, then they ask IT for a VGA cable so they can use their HDMI to VGA dongle.
And don't mock the warm, fuzzy picture or else hipsters will cotton on to it and start preferring VGA over DisplayPort.
Also, the DB15 VGA connector - introduced in 1987. Dropped out of standard usage but still not uncommon yet.
From TFA:
OK, so it's just a TV. And the R is not even a totally new concept; I saw an earlier prototype of a rollable OLED display back at CES 2009. But that display was 13-inches, had major limitations, and did not yet look like a consumer product. This time, we're looking at a full-featured, 65-inch TV that's actually coming to market this year.
Chrome is repeating all the tricks that Microsoft used in the 90's to ensure browser dominance.
Don't be evil. Yeah, right. Sell eyeballs at any cost.
If they don't have the customer's contact details, then their personal details weren't stolen and they don't need to notify them.
If you thought that your i7 is less responsive than a C64... Then you might actually be correct.
Have a look at this guy's research on latency and input lag. Granted, some of the machines he has tested on are fairly dated by now, but the general concept remains that a newer machine, while being essentially infinitely faster than a C64 or an Apple 2e, they all generally take longer to put a character on the screen once you've hit a key on the keyboard. Granted, they're also doing a lot more to put that character there, but the fact remains that overall latency has increased as computers have got faster.
https://danluu.com/input-lag/
https://danluu.com/keyboard-la...
The issue is not that the error is only a few dollars or even a few cents. The issue is that there is an error at all. If something doesn't balance, even if it's a few cents out, that means that there's likely an error in the logic that calculates everything.
It's basic maths. You can't say when you're calculating 100 + 100 = 199 and call it a day because it's close enough. There is something fundamentally wrong if you're not getting the exact correct answer.
Some other students say that having to clean their room and do homework before playing video games is an unreasonable burden for those with phat loot to grind.
Seriously, I hated speaking in front of the class, being forced to do it made me a better person.
Communication skills are critical in today's world, public speaking is a part of this and it's a vitally important skill. You need to learn that others rarely judge yourself as harshly as you do - everyone else is wrapped up in their own lives. Those that judge you don't matter and those that matter don't judge you. The sooner you realise this, the better your life will be.
At the moment it's pretty easy to identify a deepfake video. The AI's don't "know" that people regularly blink, they see this as a glitch in the data set.
If you look at pretty much any deepfake video, no matter how realistic it is, the person who's been deepfaked will never blink.
My passwords are stored in the cloud with 1Password.
I'm confident in their security that this is as safe as any other alternative. Agile Bits, the creators of 1Password, do not have access to unencrypted passwords. If you were to somehow obtain my password vault, you'd have a heap of AES encrypted passwords. They're not going to do much good to you.
Unless you have my account key and master password (and the account key is a 40 character alphanumeric code, not a simple password) you're not getting at my passwords.
The passwords are only decrypted when I access them on my individual devices.
They are no less trustworthy than any other registrar offering domain verified certificates. Given the short lifespan of the certs, they're slightly more secure.
I know plenty of developers, and even more operations / administration people.
The skillset for one is not necessarily applicable to the other.
Some of the best developers I know, I wouldn't trust them to set up a basic PC for me, I've seen the mess they made of theirs. Some of the best operations people I know can't write code that's anywhere near the quality of a full time developer, but they can definitely set up a secure firewall, or configure a bunch of servers to work reliably.
sure, great for a single purpose appliance. for a modern smartphone or tablet not so much
So, obviously iPhones and iPads are no good then as they run the Mach microkernel. I mean, it's clear by their marketshare that it's a dead-end system.
Aside from the fact that you can't clearly define any simple set of tasks as being indicative of "real world performance", you also can't dictate to manufacturers what they call their products. As soon as you come up with a suite of tests that is your "real world" benchmark, then you can guarantee that manufacturers will optimise their designs specifically for the suite of tests you're running and game the benchmarks.
Re: the numbers, this would be like telling Audi that they can't sell a car called an RS3 that is faster than an A4 because the number at the end is smaller. But what defines better for "real world" use in an automobile? Some people would say that a bigger car is more useful because you can fit more stuff in it. In this case, the A4 would be better than the RS3. Some people say a smaller car is better as it's more manoeuvrable and easier to park. Some would say a faster car is better. Some would say a cheaper car is better. Some would say a more fuel efficient car is better. Some would say a larger engine is better. Who is right and who is wrong?
What does the number at the end mean? It's simply a model identifier, a family name. Intel follow a fairly strict naming convention for the model names, they're not simply plucked from thin air (well, in part they may be, but that's a minor part of the name).
https://www.intel.com.au/conte...
https://www.intel.com/content/...
Street addresses work when there is a street to address.
In some countries, the streets literally have no name - Japan springs to mind. In Japan, the blocks have names and the streets are just the space between the blocks. Asking someone what street they live on is the same as asking someone here what is the name of the block you live on? Then the numbers sometimes go in order around the block, except there are often gaps where two properties have been merged, or numbers out of order where one property has been subdivided. In other countries, there are no streets. There are paths, there are tracks, but there may not be a street with a name.
Maybe it's just me, but I struggle to see the point of Optane as compared to a regular flash-based SSD.
From what. I can see, it's optimised as a high speed but small SSD that can then be used as a cache for a spinning HDD.
In the benchmarks I've seen however, it doesn't seem to be markedly faster than a fast M.2 NVMe SSD.
The vertical tick used as an apostrophe was a temporary measure put in place to simplify keyboards and to simplify the character set when every bit and byte was counted. Even the Unicode consortium recommend that a curly apostrophe be used for printed materials.
http://www.unicode.org/version...
Encoding Characters with Multiple Semantic Values. Some of the punctuation characters in the ASCII range (U+0020..U+007F) have multiple uses, either through ambiguity in the original standards or through accumulated reinterpretations of a limited code set. For example, 2716 is defined in ANSI X3.4 as apostrophe (closing single quotation mark; acute accent), and 2D16 is defined as hyphen-minus. In general, the Unicode Standard provides the same interpretation for the equivalent code points, without adding to or subtracting from their semantics. The Unicode Standard supplies unambiguous codes elsewhere for the most useful particular interpretations of these ASCII values; the corresponding unambigu- ous characters are cross-referenced in the character names list for this block.
Apostrophes
U+0027 apostrophe is the most commonly used character for apostrophe. For historical reasons, U+0027 is a particularly overloaded character. In ASCII, it is used to represent a punctuation mark (such as right single quotation mark, left single quotation mark, apostrophe punctuation, vertical line, or prime) or a modifier letter (such as apostrophe modifier or acute accent). Punctuation marks generally break words; modifier letters generally are considered part of a word.
When text is set, U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred as apostrophe, but only U+0027 is present on most keyboards. Software commonly offers a facility for automatically converting the U+0027 apostrophe to a contextually selected curly quotation glyph. In these systems, a U+0027 in the data stream is always represented as a straight vertical line and can never represent a curly apostrophe or a right quotation mark.
Punctuation Apostrophe. U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred where the character is to represent a punctuation mark, as for contractions: “We’ve been here before.” In this latter case, U+2019 is also referred to as a punctuation apostrophe.
As you said, language evolves and we've reached the stage where the systems we use have evolved beyond their original constraints that dictated a single character be used for apostrophe, single right quotation marks, prime and an acute accent and now we have the ability to use the correct character without resorting to overloading a single ASCII code point.
Most people, in the software they use on a daily basis, will end up using the correct unicode character without even knowing it as commonly used software will automatically and by default substitute curly quotes in place of straight quotes. Of course text editors used for programming where semantics are critical will not perform substitutions like this but they're not the most common use case - general purpose word processing is far more common.
The apostrophe has been around a lot longer than computer and typewriter keyboards. The character called an apostrophe by ASCII is named that for (recent) historical reasons and it is not a typographically correct apostrophe. The Unicode consortium recommend using U+2019 - the Right Single Quotation Mark as an apostrophe however U+0027 is the character that exists on most keyboards.
From: http://www.unicode.org/version...
Apostrophes
U+0027 apostrophe is the most commonly used character for apostrophe. For historical reasons, U+0027 is a particularly overloaded character. In ASCII, it is used to represent a punctuation mark (such as right single quotation mark, left single quotation mark, apos- trophe punctuation, vertical line, or prime) or a modifier letter (such as apostrophe modi- fier or acute accent). Punctuation marks generally break words; modifier letters generally are considered part of a word.
When text is set, U+2019 right single quotation mark is preferred as apostrophe, but only U+0027 is present on most keyboards. Software commonly offers a facility for auto- matically converting the U+0027 apostrophe to a contextually selected curly quotation glyph. In these systems, a U+0027 in the data stream is always represented as a straight ver- tical line and can never represent a curly apostrophe or a right quotation mark.
The character that ASCII (and therefore Unicode) has called an Apostrophe is rarely, if ever, drawn correctly as an apostrophe in fonts.
When an apostrophe has been typeset correctly, it looks like the top image on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
With the invention of the typewriter, a "neutral" quotation mark form ( ' ) was created to economize on the keyboard, by using a single key to represent: the apostrophe, both opening and closing single quotation marks, single primes, and on some typewriters the exclamation point by overprinting with a period. This is known as the typewriter apostrophe or vertical apostrophe. The same convention was adopted for quotation marks.
Both simplifications carried over to computer keyboards and the ASCII character set. However, although these are widely used due to their ubiquity and convenience, they are deprecated in contexts where proper typography is important.
Whatever - the fact is that typographical quotes do work on /. so how come some posts are rendered as per the parent post of this long and useless thread - “Now itâ(TM)s just causes”?
Well, I’ll be fucked - that seems to work. I haven’t tested typographical quotes on /. for years as “everyone” knows that they don’t work. Quite clearly they do.
What's wrong with using a regular unicode apostrophe?
https://www.fileformat.info/in...
What unicode char is OS X using? If it was using apostrophe, it would be perfectly fine.
Here it is again: '
That's a prime character you've used (and that I've used in this sentence too)
The apostrophe character is when you have text substitutions turned on, or something like that. It uses the key on the keyboard which has the single and double quotes on it. The curly apostrophe (smart quotes or typographical quotes) is Opt + ] for the opening single quote and Shift + Opt + ] for the closing single quote, or curly apostrophe: ’
“Here’s the curly apostrophe used in a sentence enclosed in typographical quotes and an ellipsis at the end”
Because macOS / OS X sends a proper apostrophe character, not a prime character. It's an informal standard that's evolved since the 70's that a Prime character is used as an ppostrophe, but the prime character (which is a vertical or near vertical tick) is not an apostrophe, not is it a single quotation mark (ask smart quotes, or unicode characters) - although from a typographical perspective, using a single quotation mark as an apostrophe is a lot closer (or even identical, depending on the font) than using a prime symbol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know Unicode only dates back as far as the late 80's or early 90's...