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In some ways, this is Apple pushing things forward... but in other ways, it's just them catching up. Until this update, there was no way to get 10-bit displays working with Apple products at all, even third-party monitors that were 10-bit capable. The OS simply wouldn't support 10-bit display. I know you could get it in Windows, and almost certainly in Linux with the correct voodoo.

My post guys wanted to stay on the Mac platform, so we dealt with 8-bit displays (color wasn't a huge part of our workflow -- but 10 bit would've been nice). But it was one of those head-smacking moments for a platform that was supposedly media-friendly.

Note, there's some confusion in the comments so far -- 10 bit is a professional display, and is extremely uncommon. Pro cameras and software can usually handle higher bit depths -- 16 for DSLRs, 10-12+ for pro video cameras -- but you're probably not seeing it unless you've carefully set up your computer. Those bits are still useful: they're the raw material for generating your 8-bit final image, so you don't get banding when adjusting color or exposure. And they're essential for containing a wider range of possible values, letting pro cameras represent a wider dynamic range than is possible in 8 bit systems.

And 8 bits is more typical -- it's literally baked into many file formats, like JPEG. Some crappy screens on consumer electronics can't even represent the full 8 bits per channel; 6 bits + dithering is sadly really common, even in screens that advertise themselves as 8/24-bit. Also, color depth can be reported both in bits-per-channel and total bit depth; a 10 bit-per-channel display is 30 bits of color information per RGB pixel, 10 each for red, green, and blue.

(Some of the confusion is probably intentional; I had a hardware partner brag about their '15 bit display,' which sounded very weird to me... until I realized it was really 5 bits per channel, which is roughly bad-ATM-screen quality.)
You’re right that if you have small pixels (200+ DPI), and especially if your content doesn’t have too much dynamic range, you can use dithering to make your content look pretty smooth on an 8-bit display.

A non-dithered 10-bit display should look better than an 8-bit dithered display though, and if you add dithering to the 10-bit display, you should be able to get a pretty darn nice view of 12 or 14-bit content. For instance, 10-bit displays should be great for looking at smooth gradients (e.g. defined with CSS) over a large area of the screen, for which 8-bit displays still often get fairly posterized.

One thing about recent displays is that they’re very bright, and have impressively dark blacks (with a smooth glossy glass surface with some kind of anti-reflective coating on it).

For instance, the Macworld UK review measured the 5K iMac with max brightness of 445 lux, with a 1160:1 contrast ratio. That’s really damn impressive, better than you’ll find in a movie theater. (It’s hard to tell exactly what their test methodology was though. I can’t tell if they measured in a typical room, or in complete darkness.)

Such a high contrast ratio lets you start to look at images with more dynamic range than you could get in a typical photo print, or an order of magnitude more than you’d get in e.g. a magazine. But if you start looking at such images, you really start pushing up against the limits of an 8-bit display, and you are forced to choose what part of the brightness range you’ll posterize. A 10-bit display is very helpful for those types of images.
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So either (a) the engineers did no QA, no MPG-testing/no environmental testing at all with cars that shared an engine, but differed in significant ways (car body, shocks, weight and AERODYNAMICS) and so they had no idea, which means (b) VW must have known that other divisions of the company had the same problem as the TDI because they were literally using the same engine without testing it. Either way, it's bad or it's very fucking bad.
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Aparently a mobile game is worth $2 billion more than the Star Wars franchise.
You're talking about a mythical shop which already has all the tools - very few shops have them all. Similarly, there are plenty of physical tools which are not obvious to use; my housemate tinkers in the shed with wood and he's got a variety of tools, some of which I'm nonplussed in how to use. Plenty of the tools are hidden, whether 'hidden' is defined as 'not present' or 'unclear usage'.

Likewise methodology. As a carpenter you might wonder how to curve wood. You might even hear about steam being involved. But unless you're finding out from someone who's already done it, it's not that simple to just steam a bit of wood and usefully bend it from first principles.

Hell, even just using a chisel for a novice is easier if you talk to someone first - especially a metalworking chisel.
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Short-term vs long-term investment. If the plan is to buy in the morning and flip in the afternoon, the dividend ratio does not matter. If the plan is to buy and hold for years ahead and generations to come, the piece of paper you paid some cash for better kick back some cash in the process.

This is, of course, pure academic abstraction. The reality kicks in and you see both unhealthy companies producing healthy dividends (for their private equity funds, usually by raising debt) and healthy companies paying no dividends at all but reinvesting into growth (AMZN).
If you have the RAM to spare, you can up the [JVM allocations](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/increasing-memory-heap.h...). The setup instructions should be adaptable to other IntelliJ based products.
The people most interested your shares are people who agree that company is a unicorn. Usually existing shareholders with some money (angel investors, VC, advisors, founders, other employees) or potentially new shareholders that want a piece. Your ideal time to take money off the table is while they are raising the next round.
Don't lay the blame at his feet. Just as Bushies can't blame Perot for Clinton.

No, everyone deserves the votes they get (earned). He deserved those votes as much as Gore or Bush deserved the votes they got. Lest we forget, the congress with lots of Dems voted for the war. So, no, no politician can claim another "stole" "their" vote. They only get the votes they deserve by which I mean the ones they win fair and square. Nader won his votes fair and square.
On the downside, it appears that the newest iMacs still won't do Target Display Mode. This is a bummer -- I like the iMac but hate the idea of having this big beautiful display on your desk that you can't use to give your laptop more screen real estate when you want to.
The article focuses on filtering, which honestly doesn't sound that impressive.

Something I really need is a way to search articles that talks about the subject I'm looking for, but uses completely different key-words to describe that subject.
Yeah, I can google too, just kernel developers can find what the function overflow_usub does. That's not the point.
Just so I have it straight, I borrow 1000 shares of KING from you and sell them all at $15 each. At some stage, I have to give you back those 1000 shares, so I have to re-buy them. If the price of KING goes down to $12, I can get 1000 shares for $12000, and because I sold the original lot of shares for $15000, I've made $3000. But if KING goes up to $18, then when my loan comes due it costs me $3000 more than what I sold the shares for.
I am wondering why you are getting downvoted when what you said about 30 bit is precisely correct; 10 bit is 10 bits per display plane, which has traditionally been called 30 bit as per AMD[1] and NVidia[2], as supported since 2006.

[1] (PDF) https://www.amd.com/Documents/10-Bit.pdf
[2] (PDF) http://www.nvidia.ca/docs/IO/40049/TB-04701-001_v02_new.pdf
I think your last statement says it all "for free" being the keywords. They aren't making money off of you and you are actually a cost center. So someone decided it is better to reduce that cost. I think it is a horrible PR move but I always get a little chuckle when "free" users complain and say they are switching to another "free" service where they will pay them no money as well. The purpose of the free service is to hook you in an upsell you and it sounds like Microsoft is betting that they can turn some free customers into paid ones with this move without hurting their service/brand too much.
Cars are life-critical systems. If GM half-assed it by putting...

> a potted Beaglebone Black (for its real-time subsystem)

...into an actual production car, what happens when the thing breaks down and kills someone? Death, recalls, lawsuits, and massive brand damage.

> This point is actually kind of moot because for a long time the ECUs of cars were located in the passenger cabin with wires fed in through a grommet in the firewall.

Even in the passenger compartment, cars aren't exactly friendly environments for electronics. They have large temperature swings (from a controlled climate to very hot in summer or very cold in winter). So putting it in the passenger compartment doesn't necessarily moot concerns over withstanding extreme environments.
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Dividends is just one way of returning money to shareholders. It's preferred by investors buying stocks for recurring income, as it allows for a simple buy-and-hold strategy that kicks back some income on a regular basis.

Stock buybacks is another mechanism, and is preferred by growth investors buying equities out of taxable accounts, as it gives greater control in regards to capital gains, tax loss harvesting and various other tax events.
They've actually done it before - SkyDrive (back when it was called that) used to offer 25GB. They reduced it to 15GB, but gave everyone already using it a 10GB "loyalty bonus".
I guess they found that when it comes to internet, those who DON'T live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Activision still refuses to release VtM: Bloodlines on GOG. That's about all I care in their context. May be Paradox should buy the rights for it from Activision, like they did with CCP and White Wolf in general.
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Understanding Human History is one of my favorite books. I finished it and immediately reread it. This was especially instructive given that a decade ago I read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel twice as well, quite innocent of the political subtext.
The Beginner's Guide is... Uncomfortable. It's an unusual game that kinda needs to be experienced and, well, sat through. But yeah, I felt it was just barely passing muster for ten bucks. It felt incomplete or missing some critical piece of context, and so it seemed to fall short of whatever it was trying to be (unless that's what it wants us to think... But that way Dragons lie).

After playing it, I stumbled across a YouTube comment on Christopher Odd's play-through that linked to a talk the author gave to some college students a year or so ago. It fits so well, I'm calling out spoiler warning. But it's a fine chaser that - at least for me - cleansed the palette and let the game settle. Warning: it's pretty uncomfortable too, but I think it's a damn sight less gnostic.

[0] http://livestream.com/accounts/6845410/gamesnow/videos/83818...
Ageism still seems to be very much in play in technology, and a trap to avoid for middle-aged, skilled white men:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/02/google-agei...

This guy had eyelid surgery, shaved his head, and got a pair of Converse "Chucks" to look younger because he was worried about jobs (previous HN submission):

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/27/us-valley-ageism-i...

"Don't hire anyone over 30":

http://anewdomain.net/2014/12/11/dont-hire-anyone-30-ageism-...
From a comment in the article:

Hey guys, it appears it’s not just for the 5K iMac,
I have tested this on 2013 Mac Pro with an Eizo CS230
monitor and can confirm that you can get 10bit output.

http://www.lsdigi.com/2015/10/el-capitan-10bit-display-suppo...
Dunno Dropbox has really low friction in usage and a premium tier that's actually being paid by professionals.

Maybe will downsize, but competition doesn't look as good. Will not go away until people have a better featured, less costly replacement.
Given that a strength of Kotlin is that you can dumb-port Java straight to it without even thinking about it, I'm not really surprised it doesn't have much presence on Rosetta Code. It's not the right audience.
Just curious, do you have anything to do with whatever infrastructure the Apps Script scripts run on? I normally like the Google Sheets app and find it really handy to collaborate with, but just a few days ago, I wrote an utterly trivial script for the first time in Apps Script to do some formatting changes on a small sheet automatically. This is like a 20 line script with one loop that runs through like 5 times, the kind of thing you'd expect should run in under 1ms on pretty much anything. I didn't time it when I ran it, but I'm pretty sure it took over a minute to run, certainly much more than a few seconds. What's the deal with that?
Legalize it, and grow it in the valley like all the other crops. They estimate it would be about as cheap as tomatoes to grow, since it is cloned and planted by machines. I want to be able to hike in my back yard.
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If you have good products, try some of the trade shows first: http://www.modemonline.com/fashion/mini-web-sites/tradeshows

Thousands of wholesale buyers will be able to see your products here. You will find out quickly enough if your products are good or not, based on the actual quality of your product.

You'll also meet industry people that can help you with advice or offer to sell you your products. Learn from the fashion experts there.
An Office 365 subscription is still good value I think - $99 a year lets you share your subscription with up to 4 other people, each of whom get 1TB of cloud storage. Each person having a genuine version of Office is just a bonus.

The OneDrive client isn't as good as Dropbox unfortunately - for some reason it eats my entire downstream bandwidth when uploading files.
It's easy to forget if you run in geekier circles, but in fact not everyone is in love with the Star Wars universe. I think we underestimate how many people thought it was a great movie, but have no real desire to engage the universe deeper than that.
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I'm not sure why anyone would have expected a different outcome; of course people are going to try and push that "unlimited" to the limit. Lower the free storage and the photo stuff though? That makes OneDrive a rough deal. I had most of our photos backed up there but now it might be cheaper to move elsewhere.
He’s getting downvoted because of the snark. If he read the article, he’d see that even Apple themselves refer to it as 30-bit:

https://www.cinema5d.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/iMac-10-...

http://i1.wp.com/www.LSdigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/S...
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Reading about how optimization is handled in games is extremely interesting.

It really makes me appreciate some of the more well optimized games, it sounds like solving a very difficult puzzle.
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Firms Weigh Moving Data from U.S. To Europe
Came here to make a similar point about ionice and chrt. I'm amazed by the lack of familiarity with the power of the Linex schedulers.
Ah touche. That is something even I overlooked!
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iCloud is 5 GB, despite having to store a lot more data out of the box than a onedrive account, and apple pushes hard for people to buy more storage. Probably someone at microsoft thought they were just falling in line with the competition. Where they miscalculate is that people put up with apple's bad deal around storage because they love the other aspects of their products. I'm not sure there is as much love for the other aspects of microsoft's products.

Still, 1 TB for office 365 is a good deal, and with this change i'm more confident it will remain. I have the 30 gb of free onedrive storage mostly filled, and was doubting whether to get a subscription to expand my storage. Now they're giving me one. I feel like that's a good deal.
"Can I take the company at their word in terms of what the shares are worth at what they state is the current valuation of the company?"

You can. I wouldn't :)
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Any time you see Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Coatue or T. Rowe Price names in the funding rounds, 1x liqudation preference is usually a bare minimum for those guys to get involved. Their investors will get their money back, and even if after all is said and done it's 1x, hey, we're in a low-rate environment.

Funds tout access, investors have downside protection with a potential of upside surprise, few people that do get nasty surprises are employees of those companies finding themselves staring at the ever-increasing number of newly minted shares to satisfy ratchet conditions and subsequent dilution of everyone else (case study on this is NYSE:BOX).
I was going to say: "Ahh, they're just copying Apple's bizarre iCloud storage prices" except at $1.99/month for the 50 GB plan they're actually charging double Apple's. Given that Apple is just reselling various cloud storage services, this really is a combination of disabling the unlimited (fine) and a profit grab at the low end (sigh).
> Everything that's not manually and physically setting voltages on memory

If you're going to be that pedantic, then you should go all the way and note that there are computers that have neither memory nor use electricity.
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Summary: price going up.

Could be worse. They could offer "unlimited" storage, but as the usage increases, the upload rate decreases.
> I mean, hijacking system logging? What could possibly justify doing that in an init system?

DBJ's /service also hijacks logging. In fact, every decent init system hijacks logging -- you want your init to daemonize processes, and when you daemonize a processes you want its stdout to get logged properly.
Our electoral system is broken in that it doesn't allow voters to reasonably express preferences which aren't one of the two mainstream options because of this spoiler effect. I'm not sure what the correct answer is, to complain about how "both parties are terrible" and vote for the mainstream party anyway and get more of the same and know that it will never change or to vote how you actually feel knowing that the system is rigged against allowing you to do that. I can't really fault someone for doing either.
very few people are going to be playing anything for five years or ten years. few games last that long. activision's world of warcraft has defied all expectation. by all standards the graphics look extremely dated. ea has been making sports games with annual refreshes, and this other major studio that makes the assassins creed series are also doing the same thing - large AAA-level open world games with in app purchases AND annual refreshes, which seems to be the way forward now in video game profitability.
Docker doesn't 'magic' away the complexity. It just means that operational complexity is handled by fewer team members - the ones that handle the docker ecosystem and keep everything current.

And then on top of that, you have to train everyone using it in Docker bullshittery instead of commandline bullshittery.
Just in case you don't know, several modern IRC clients will automatically fetch links posted in the channel and, if they are images (or even things like YouTube videos), display them inline. I don't know if any of them support automatically converting pasted images to links, though; it sounds sinple enough that I wouldn't be surprised if at least one did.

Of course, what you mentioned is only one of many things that Just Work in Slack and are at best a pain on IRC, but still.
Then there's stuff like this. Where there just aren't that many games like it. Echochrome, Antichamber, Monument Valley, Oquonie, and Fez feel like they're in a similar category, and I would happily throw more money at clever games like that. I'm super stoked about The Museum of Simulation Technology and Miegakure for the same reason.

To go along with another commenter who notes that if you've fans, you're set: if you work in a sufficiently difficult or niche genre with a following, you've got a head start. I'll buy damn near any space-warpy game just on the off-chance I get that fix for a clever and unexpected plot twist; in this case probably a literal shift in perspective.

Edit: spelling and +1 game
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I had forgotten about chrt!

Man, its functionality probably should be folded into nice(1) and renice(1). I'm kinda on the fence about whether or not ionice should also be folded into nice/renice.
Have any of these devices included 10-bit displays? That's the interesting part.
Doesn't Kodi(XMBC) do all that, for free, and without installing any software ?
Love this quote: "Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers, a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings. In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average."
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if those pesky engineers are looking for a job after getting fired from VW, I heard there is a young intern position available with the Donald Trump campaign.
systemd depends on Linux-only kernel features. (Like cgroups.)

You'd have to patch the FreeBSD kernel first to be Linux-compatible.
Mind explaining why you believe Spotify, SpaceX, and Dropbox are all going to fail?