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Only on desktop.

In case you missed the news, only DirectX is supported on UWP and store apps.

To the point that Microsoft has their own port of Angle.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/gaming/compare-...

https://github.com/Microsoft/angle

So unless they change their mind, say goodbye to ICD drivers on Windows as well.
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It looks like dark mode is not a global option like on Linux, but rather needs to be adopted by individual apps. That means when opening old apps at 2AM, my eyes are really gonna be hurt..
Anecdotal but I’ve gone through two major versions and a bunch of point releases at $dayjob and the worst that ever happened was a failed database migration that didn’t actually break anything.

It’s probably the easiest thing to upgrade in our entire app stack.
Their definition of 'Pro' stretches much wider than developers. Traditionally, their Pro Apps were Aperture (raw editing), Logic (audio workstation) and Final Cut (video editing). Of course, the Adobe suite fits that moniker as well. For most people doing video/audio/photo editing, macOS and Windows are the primary choices (though you can obviously do this on Linux as well).

Note: macOS is not using Linux underneath. It uses the XNU kernel, which is based on Mach and BSD.
Surprised these guys are still around after the chrome password dumper fiasco last time. Slimeballs.
Interruptions are the biggest downside of mobile devices, and this update still doesn’t address them correctly. The fix is simple: a big “OFF” switch at the top of the Notifications Settings Screen.

In my mind, the only reason my phone should ever make noise on its own is when a phone call comes in from one of my contacts, or an alarm I set goes off.

Notice that neither of those things are “Notifications”.

Feel free to keep a list someplace of emails and texts that have come in. But I’ll check that on my time, so don’t ever interrupt me to tell me about it. Apps that want permission to appear on that list should have to explicitly ask for it, rather than getting it by default and forcing me to fish around in the notifications settings to turn them off for ever single app that I install.

It’s amazing that no phone (or computer anymore) has anything approaching this.
I feel the response is similar to Apple's antenna-gate. Using competitors along to prove their point. Could have communicated better. Good that they took steps couple of months ago to close their legacy APIs. That's the only key takeaway from the post.
Not on UWP or store apps.
Literally in marketing 101 (okay, 301) one of the first things you learn is that marketing is not necessarily about directly selling things, but about brand recognition and subconsciously instilling it, and implied quality, in the consumers mind. For instance Coca Cola spends an obscene amount on advertising each and every year, even though they have no significant competition. A big part of that is because it creates an image in your mind the next time you go to buy something, that Coca Cola is higher quality more desirable than alternatives.

So for instance for your AC unit, perhaps you see a Samsung and GE. Your decision between which to buy is the purpose of marketing and advertising. For instance this is also why companies don't really like running discounts. Discounts can produce immediate increases in sales, but they simultaneously can also subconsciously diminish the perceived quality of a product in the consumer mind. Places where discounts, across all brands, are ubiquitous and independent of the manufacturer are presumably a game changer here since it's not the product being discounted per se but the site itself running a discount.

Apple's 1984 ad is still probably one of the most famous ads. Check it out [1]. It doesn't really make you think, "Yes I must go immediately buy a Macintosh." Literally no details are given about the product at all, and 90% of the commercial is a cinematic that has nothing to do with the product. Nonetheless it instills a image, and one of perceived higher quality, in your head of the company and the product. So the goal of advertising is not necessarily to immediately make you buy a product, but to change your perception of a product.

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This is about marketing in general and not digital market exclusively, but it's relevant since for instance the vast majority of people also don't think commercials are effective on them - yet companies spend billions of dollars running them. Somebody's wrong, and it's not the side that can directly quantify the cost:returns of the marketing.

And one other final point here. Even in 'naive' marketing, it's a numbers game. For instance did you ever buy viagra back in the day when viagra spam was everywhere? Probably not. In fact, almost nobody did. But if each of those impressions cost a company $0.001 and their profit margin on a single sell (let alone return purchases) was $15 then they only need to get 1 out of 15,000 people to buy the product for it to be a profitable endeavor.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
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Indeed, this was still the result of 'legislating democratically'. It was a self-imposed limitation by elected officials, it didn't come about arbitrarily but as a response to some political environment or consequences of actions.

All bad laws were started with good intentions. That should never be what defines a law's value, only cause & effect to the best of our current understanding (and hopefully backed by data).

Note: I'm not saying this is a bad law as I'm not familiar with the local political environment which motivated this nor the particular negative consequences it objectively has.
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1. Not monopoly. That is like saying Walmart has an monoploy of its own selection in store.

2. What ?

3. MFi? The greatest invention ever. Now I am assured every single MFi Lightning cable is of quality and decent, instead of the crap USB-C has true into.

4. Industry standards of what? May be Playstation, Nintendo , or Xbox should all forced to be using OpenGL?

Yes apple should be fined for slowing down iPhone. Absolutely! But this. calling of B.S ... is just ... wow .....

And if you don't like or even hate Apple to bits, You can always buy an Android phone. Oneplus, Samsung, and the Vizo are all fairly good in Hardware spec. You have a choice.
OP said he's 20, not 9, and we're talking about IT, not politics, a whole different issue. Taking it to the extreme is not helpful to the discussion at all. I never said that judging is bad in general; I said that judging [adults'] capabilities based on age is bad. Context matters.
This is not an accurate way to view the situation.

Here's the situation. The user has purchased a device (such as a smart phone) from a device manufacturer (such as Apple). The device runs an operating system (iOS) and a whole boatload of software, including telecommunications equipment necessary to operate cellular radios, the higher level OS, then user-installed applications and such.

If you don't trust the device manufacturer, then that's the ball game. If you assume that the device manufacturer is untrustworthy, then you should assume that it can steal the user's data just as easily from a web browser (when the user visits facebook.com) as it can from a native application.

When the user decides to sign into Facebook (or any website or application) from their device - the manufacturer-supplied device - the user is trusting the manufacturer with their data. Whether the application is delivered through a web browser, or is a so-called 'native' app installed through an app store, doesn't substantially change the trust relationship between Facebook and the manufacturer. If you believe the manufacturer is doing nefarious things, then you should assume the manufacturer will install a spyware web browser that siphons data out of every web page that you visit. Partnering with the device manufacturer to allow them to distribute a Facebook-branded mobile app does not substantially grant them more trust than they would have already.
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I can. Microsoft has been spying on anyone willing to hold them accountable, and have plenty of blackmail material at this point. They are huge, politically connected, global in reach and have 0 scruples. I can't imagine that they wouldn't somehow use their position of power over its competitors, as it has in the past, to thwart them and force them further into the Microsoft system.
If you want the world to be equal.

Do not help someone succeed.

Do not join startups where founders get 50%.

Employees of this startup just made the world more unequal.
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> Technology's cyclical.

Cannot wait to get back to horses.
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PC gaming is growing and thats where mostly the trend for self-built PCs comes from and most of the growth in PC market. It is still dwarfed by Laptop sales though.
As an anecdote, today i know hardly anyone who owns a desktop PC while 10-15 years ago almost everyone had one.
Oddly enough we went exactly the other direction. Atlassian user tiers are huge (almost geometric in size) with the result that you end up paying for a ton of unnecessary head count.

The CI obsoleting Bamboo and the collab tools obsoleting the dev features of Jira were icing on the cake. And a true up license model that doesn’t immediately bring all work to a screeching halt when you add one user too many to the app access group in your directory was just the cherry on top.

Normally I’m a huge fanboy of everything Atlassian but the Jira/Bamboo/Crucible/Bitbucket stack just feels very clunky and outdated with Gitlab as something to compare against.
Again, no. Just because you can dump a bunch of roof accessories and floor mats into a C300 doesn't qualify it for a $30K increase that you are mislead to believe.

Also, I don't know if you've ever bought a car, but you just can't add all the options up on a car's build page and obtain the highest possible price. Many of those options are redundant and cancel each other out when you run down the line and click on them (packages). What's your $100K C300 build link?

You have to be very naive to think that even a $40K BASE model car options to a hundred grand "easily".

Remember, we're discussing the lie that the Model 3 is. That it's a $35K vehicle that will ship mid to late 2017.
> The common understanding seems to be that Facebook is allowing device manufacturers to download user data the same way that Cambridge Analytica and other third party services did.

>"Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers"

In other words, the "common understanding" is correct and Facebook has confirmed it.
One can be developed without donations, one can't. See GNU, they haven't ever been able to sell software as a product.
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Exactly, this seems to be coming from people who don't fully understand or appreciate the history or social/technical/economic environment from which it came about. Then they are retroactively applying our relatively recently evolved demands for fine grained control of data.

This type of thing in journalism really concerns me with the recent moral panic against 'fake news' and the attempts to create systems which define it. When what is 'true' or factual or not is so often subtle and easily spun/twisted. Which is ironic in this context because Facebook and NYTimes are both leading players championing these efforts.
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It is cheaper to install solar than run electric. For under $2,000 I have built solar systems that power an efficient fridge, led lightbulbs, normal electronics, and the occasional power tool (even stick welding). Thats only ~2 years of power bills.

I've also made a well drilling auger and manually dug a drinking well for only a few hundred dollars in parts. Many offgrid people collect rainwater into a cistern and meet their water requirements. If these plots were small enough it wouldn't be unreasonable to have one well that supplies 10+ houses.
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Am I not allowed to disagree with a statement that implies emojis are some groundbreaking form of communication? I never said the concept was not useful; I said that images provide nothing text cannot aside from aesthetics. Why are you people so defensive about this?
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I dont find his tactic always admirable nor his positions that great. He is quick to claim superiority without there being any real evidence for it. While that thumping of chest feels good and inspiring when I was younger, the older I am the more suspect it is and the more it looks like self serving lie. Not a lie in something big and important, but a lie that no one checks and thus works even better. It makes me loose respect for such people now. I get that zealots often achieve more success, but I find more admirable people who don't do everything just because they want something.
I wanna see a realistic benchmark that compares it against intel's x86 i"X" (6th, 7th, 8th gen) to decide if it can be called a laptop class processor in first place... BTW, it's interesting to see how good apple is in designing their custom Arm processors.
The excel bit is likely because multi core support isn’t on Mac just yet. If you opt into their latest beta channel for updates, it gets way better.
Something to do with the 2018 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)? Maybe to get people to blindly click on it expecting a new Power Mac has been released.
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>And neither of you tried to address the core argument I made in the parent, that emoji reflect the inherent messiness of personal communications and for that matter personal relationships

And exactly zero people, including yourself, have been able to provide a single gle example where text fails to convey what an icon can. And, you, that was the entire subject of this discussion if you haven't noticed.
An incredibly good source, isn't it? That on top of the consistent details provided by his unnamed sources, and the corroboration that's surfaced since.
The FSF explicitly states[1] that the MIT licences (e.g. Expat, X11) are free software licences.

This means software written under the MIT licence is both open source _and_ free.

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In that post he says "we need a state" and states quite clearly why we need it. I was surprised. I expected another Stallman rant, but that was .. quite coherent and insightful for a change. One of his better articles.
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I had a project where I had to build a tool to relocate customer data to another database (for customers who had grown large enough to prevent them from sharing db resources with other customers). This was on SQL Server. I used NTile to help create constant size batches to feed into my etl tool. Worked great for that. Haven't used it for statistical bucketing purposes.
This is why as a new programmer you should choose Go.

There is so much less in the language to learn over heavy weights like Java, C#, Python, Ruby etc...

And no one can blame you for mediocrity.
>"I drank too much at the Christmas party.

>Not as much as Bob. He puked in the restaurant sink before appetizers were served.

>[Dancing eye-rolling T-Rex]"

Ummmm... Points for trying I guess? You lost me at "person who drank too much == T-Rex"
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In Europe type 2 is the standard EV connector, and the cars can charge on 3 phases, when charging from AC.

Fun Fact, first and second generation European Model S, dont have autoclosing charge ports, because the cargeport is bigger.
I don't really have a problem with this. Declaring a "fiscal emergency" doesn't allow the city to enact new taxes, it just lets them put new taxes on the ballot for people to vote on. They're just using a loophole that let's them get around what is IMO a silly law.

(Then again, if this loophole didn't exist, perhaps this would encourage them to fix the actual problem with the law.)
You can easily install ChezScheme by git cloning and following these instructions on the github page: https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/blob/master/BUILDING

You do not have to wait for your package manager to catch up.
I used to Uber in the morning and take the bus home in the evening. Came out to less than $350 a month, including the bus pass. Not sure how that compares to a car payment plus insurance and everything else since I've never owned a car.

What I will say is that I was in a car incident while I was taking a ride share (competitor of Uber) and for me it'd be worth it just to not have to deal with the aftermath of something like that.
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Probably a single 5Ghz Intel core i9 - Extreme Edition. If its serial, only 1 core can run at a time. I don't know of many faster than 5ghz.
The discussion is not "are emojis in any form useful?", it's "do icons provide a new and before unrealized form of communication". Literally every person here missed the statement in the first comment.
People are 3D. Photographs are 2D. If you want a photograph to convey what someone looks like in person, you can't ignore the dynamics.
To me this looks like the difference between "real" and "fake" smile (smiling with the eyes - or predator grin vs friendly smile). I have a friend who's a theathre actress - she smiles a lot wider than these models, but the eyes behave similarly.

Interesting video, thanks for sharing.
The Bureau of Compatibility should demand that all major platforms support Vulkan or have their tax loopholes closed.
Perhaps try sleeping at 2AM.
I’m less skeptical about this than I was about the blockchain bubble, but I’ve yet to see AI or ML actually work on a smaller scale.

It’s a big hype in the public sector in these years, but it’s really all talk. We did a project where we used ML and 1000 server instances in Azure to go through millions of employee cases, to flag cases that didn’t have a certain document. Because the the is new, and this wasn’t something that could be delayed, we also had 10 employs do the same task to make sure it got completed.

The ML project took 2 really expensive employs and 3 months to train the algorithm, then 5 hours to go through all the documents + we had to spend 1 week of 5 employs to clean up the stuff our algorithm had marked as “unreadable” due to terrible scans. The human employs did it in the same amount of time, but made a few more errors.

Over all the ML was more expensive and our politicians won’t favor it again.

On other things where ML might work, our datasets are turning out to be too small, unless we work together with other municipalities and then we’re facing GDPR violations that may be hard to pass through our legal team. Legal is a big issue on a lot of things, it’s not currently legal to automate any sort of process that require any form of validation (as long as it has to do with case working).

That being said, I’m sure stuff like facial recognition will change the world.
Third-party apps already have to ask permission to notify you in iOS, pretty sure they always have. Sure you have to turn them off for Messages and Mail, but I don’t think most people would be happy with a default where you’re not notified for those.
We got dark made in return.
>I don't know how to describe the niche they fill with text. They're not a stand-in for emoticons.

So you can't explain it, but it's I who "doesn't get it". Ok then. I'll excuse you for a bit as it's going to take some time to untwist your brain from that logical contortion.
Hah! Last week I was doing some research on a typeface I had found. I was getting visibly excited while looking at my screen. My partner looks up and asks what's got me worked up. I spent about 30 seconds explaining what I found and why I was nerd happy. The response? Cool [https://bit.ly/2sHXrH8]. Goes back to the book.
I prefer working with UIKit too, but there are reasons for some of the differences. Jeff Nadeau, an AppKit engineer, wrote a bit about them a couple of weeks ago: https://gist.github.com/jnadeau/9321a22b19301215e25401ffd1f1...
You are being offered the chance to claim the titles of NSA and NASA shill here.
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Yep also I think there are incentives to look like you are investing in this space ... and for the vendors who are selling these tools, not many marketing managers are going to be happy if you make their placements or creative choices look stupid
Oh, so inside jokes. Yeah that's totally new and groundbreaking.
> What are the other costs associated with it?

Anything that has a non-remote labor component, since the people doing work in a region have to pay the local cost of living, including housing costs.

> Also, isn't that exactly the point of Prop 13?

Yes, crippling local government this way is exactly the point of Prop 13.