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I'd flip it around and ask how Gnome and KDE have existed as full-blown DE's for as long as they have considering the amount of work required.

I'd expect to see one DE for mainstream users, one DE for business, and a plethora of less well maintained options for power users (I don't use a DE at all).

The 'user' and 'business' DE I'd expect to coalesce into the same thing because they have fairly similar use cases.

The existence of multiple DE's strikes me as an anomaly, if anything.
Author here. Yeah you're basically right. GANs vastly improve the situation though because being safe with "green for grass, blue for sky, brown as default" doesn't work in the Generative-Adversarial setting. The critic will assign lower scores if the generator keeps outputting brown. Now I'd think the generator would get more creative than going for blue constantly but that might just be a matter or more/better training (...?)
It should be possible to do the same thing on anything that supports CPU frequency scaling. Tell the OS that the core the browser is running on should only run at the lowest supported frequency. Or only allow it to run at higher frequency if it hasn't been active for more than 15 of the last 60 seconds.
Not at all. A PC has a defined hardware interface that allows software to be created and ported easily between PCs. Arm is in a less-good position with this. There are newer efforts that make portability easier, but is still nowhere close to what can be done on PC.
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Start by asking yourself whether you like static typing.
The negatives were mainly concerning their desktop / laptop designs and business model of said desktop / laptops.
I wonder how this affects CentOS users though.
Best bet is probably Ubuntu.
At my Uni in Germany there is a lot more KDE user than gnome user.
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I would assert that the genders could be reversed, say, for a husband's handsomeness, or any other quality in any person, and the metric would apply. And of course persons could be removed altogether – that's the point – we started out talking about cell phones.

The purpose of my anecdote, and the reason I chose something with such sentiment, is to highlight the semantic difference between words by placing them in a more emotionally charged context. One likely doesn't think too hard about the praise they bestow upon their iPhone. One hopefully thinks harder about the praise they send their lover. The heightened importance of word choice in situation B makes it easier to understand situation A.

If degrading sexist tropes are your mind's first destination in in the context of this conversation, I believe you are a hammer in search of a nail.
What competitive advantage does Microsoft gain by having a non GUI server OS? That just becomes a more expensive server OS than Limux.
I partially agree; I see value in both.
Come on. Wireless is a hugely important feature. The PC market is dominated by laptops. Because they are wireless. The phone market is dominated by cell phones. Because they are wireless.
> I'm not sure if KDE was ever very popular

Back in the days of KDE 3, every survey showed KDE being the most popular Linux desktop by a very wide margin. I have no idea what the numbers are today.
Exactly, to ensure critical vulnerabilities do not get patched in your app when one patches the machine! One would have thought Microsoft would have learned from the experience of java...
Yes, but it's an assumption on which many decisions across the industry on predicated, because it has held fairly consistent for a long time, until recently.

Moore's Law truly ending would cause a lot of upheaval. Is causing, but luckily a lot of the industry has shifted focus to mobile anyway, where advancements continue to accelerate for now.
> Granted, the model isn't always perfect. This one's red hand drives me nuts because it's otherwise fantastic

Plot twist: It was actually red in reality.
Hey, I would love to write a tool to manage this! Do you have any documentation on how to access the TI chip?
Yeah no, unless you work on a project with 100 other people. Even if peer discovery, nat traversal and whatnot would be solved, what am I supposed to do if both my project members are currently offline? Synchronizing progress would be a nightmare in a three people project where everybody is located somewhere else. You could pretty much consider git peer to peer already, but everybody is too lazy to open their firewall and instead talks to the always-on supernode that is github.
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You probably need an enormous GPU (24GB RAM) as well to make as large model as possible for as good generalization as you can (there are so many different types of objects/surfaces/fabric and their compositions).
Putting conditions on the use of the hardware is distinctly harmful to consumers in a way that otherwise good design cannot ameliorate.
Tinfoil hat theory: Is apple holding back their x86 offerings so that their in-house arm processors can catch up performance wise? Perhaps in preparation for an all-arm line up?
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Fedora KDE has always been supported primarily by the volunteer community.

It was an outgrowth of the original "Red Hat KDE" work that Rex Dieter and other community members did for the original Red Hat Linux.

The fact that KDE was in RHEL for so long was a blessing that is sadly no more. :(
This exactly. Allowing violent speech to fall inside our definition of "free speech" has a net negative impact on speech.

Put another way: why would I paint a target on my back by trying to debate people who actively advocate for my murder? I'm much more likely to shut up and stay safe.
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"When the lighting conditions aren't good"

Huh? Face ID uses infrared. It doesn't need external light.

You're right about the pillow thing, but the way I see it, if you can't lift your head off a pillow you probably shouldn't be using your phone!
This is the way I actually started using Nix in deployment. You can run a full Nix installation from within a home directory without any special permissions. Frustrated with the inflexibility of a shared hosting provider running CentOS, we decided to usurp most all of the provided OS & libraries and ran everything thru Nix, giving us fully reproducible control over our dependencies.
I think we may soon be entering a post smart phone era but the replacements just aren’t ready yet.

I had hopes that the Apple Watch 4 would be the iPhone 3g moment, but it’s not enough faster, smaller, or long running to make that logical leap.

For instance, if I could make calls from my watch and have an iPad mini 5 without also carrying a phone around with me, I might be tempted by that. But neither the hardware nor wireless plans are there for that. Yet.
> I think their biggest innovation is making devices where everything just works.

Unless you're holding it wrong.

Or trying to use it in some way contrary to corporate policy.

Or trying to fix it.

In the last two cases, you realize the rest of that aphorism: It Just Works For Apple.
> Since Apple has historically focused on executing extant ideas well...

> I disagree, when apple released the iphone, they changed the face of what smart phones would ultimately become.

It looks like you're actually agreeing: They (Apple) executed on an extant idea (smart phones) so well that they changed the face of the industry (app stores, etc etc).
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This reeks of both-sides-ism and enablement.

"Where does it stop?" is the same slippery slope garbage peddled by #HimToo and #BlueLivesMatter acolytes. But even engaging with the question at face value, the answer is very simple, and the author of this piece didn't try very hard if he couldn't find someone who is able to answer it. In fact, the best answer was given by Karl Popper in 1945.

> In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

That's it. Platforms like Gab are themselves intolerant, and we must continue to be intolerant of them.
Author here: It's early, and currently resolution is limited primarily by model size. Which drives me nuts. It's one of my top priorities to address because that would be a great improvement. Adding super-resolution to the pipeline should also be pretty easy but I want to at least output a reasonable base resolution on the photos first before I go that route.

Oh yeah to answer your question- super resolution does indeed make up details as you describe there and arguably does blur the line with restoration/story telling. But so does colorization- not all the colors added by the model are going to be what was actually going on there, of course.
Fascinating, I hadn't considered a lot of these. I appreciate the reply.
Unfortunately you have it exactly backwards. Watson's conjecture is indeed supported by studies and evidence. Why don't you start with the Minnesota adoption study:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Transracial_Adoption...

The fact that so many believe such evidence does not exist just further demonstrates the danger of suppressing science due to ideology.
what Oracle client is being used in the screenshot of an Oracle Explain Plan?
Yeah I mostly agree, but I'm not suggesting to leave calls to violence in the open. Rather, replace the tweet in question by a notice saying basically

"User XY called to violence against people here. We find this dispicable and totally oppose this kind of ideas. Signed, Twitter CEO. PS: To publically document what kind of person XY is, you can click [here] to read their hateful statement in original."

I'd much rather have Nazis behind a content warning and publically pillored and shamed on twitter, than ban them and let them fester unbothered on Gap.
But Microsoft themselves is now the one putting candy crush ads on the start menu, and forcing everyone into a two-major-upgrades-per-year cycle that's causing so many headaches.
Yes yes, I agree but it's also tiring and distracting at the same time.
Anecdotally...I'd say "hell no". I programmed in Haskell before Clojure, and starting out I was never like "this is dynamic Hasell!!" or something. The standard library never gave me Haskell vibes whatsoever. Functional programming? Sure. I don't think anyone has the market cornered on "map" or "filter".
That's why a team should have code reviews; and everyone should keep an eye on what's changing.

This way if someone decides to rearrange something, the stakeholders can hold up the review until they're happy.

I've certainly blocked code reviews because of planned changes.

That being said, you only "own" code if you own the business. If you think you "own" code, you might need to re-evaluate your ego.
And TouchId. And FaceID. And Apple Watch. And Airpods. And Apple Pencil. And TrueTone. And Swift. And the new file system.

Anybody who thinks Apple isn’t innovating is an ignorant jackass.
Macros are expanded by a correct tree walker: the macro expander. It recognizes all special forms, and maintains an environment representing information about the lexical scope (at least in any Lisp dialect worth a damn, with lexical macros that can shadow lexical functions and variables and vice versa).

Macros can also receive that environment as an argument, which provides the possibility that there can be an API by which macros can query the lexical environment.

Furthermore, if macros are given an API for fully expanding an expression, with detailed information about what free references occur in that form, that creates a lot of possibilities for macros to do all sorts of clever things correctly, far beyond just "sticking pieces into a code template with a sprinkling of gensyms".
"Wait-states" is the term you're looking for.
> A year before that, they announced face detection for the purposes of identity

Somewhat like Windows Hello, that also existed, based on technology from the Xbox Kinect?

> Two months ago, Apple announced an ECG sensor for your wrist.

Okay, so this is cool. But, putting on my paramedic hat for a moment, there is _SO_ much disinformation about what this does and what it is capable of detecting, what the difference is between FDA _clearance_ and _approval_, etc.

It can detect A-fib. This is a common, but usually not life threatening medical condition. It's good to have it diagnosed, but even undiagnosed, many people live happy lives blisfully unaware of it. Another way you can potentially recognize A-fib? It's not quite as fancy as the Apple Watch, though: put your fingers on your radial pulse by your wrist. Feel yourself skipping every fourth beat? That _could_ be a problem (though there are other diagnoses).

The Apple Watch does not and _cannot_ (despite ill-informed articles by Cnet and others) take the place of a "12 lead" ECG (random detail, in the medical field, ECG usually refers to an echocardiogram, an ultrasound imaging, and EKG, for electrocardiogram, is most commonly used for what the Apple Watch and other devices are doing).

From Cnet[1]: "Traditional EKG machines have 12 leads with electrodes that are attached all over your body to measure the electrical signals. Apple compares what the Apple Watch Series 4 does to a single-lead EKG, which research shows is just as effective at measuring the heart's electrical signals as a 12-lead machine."

This is flat out and factually wrong. The linked research shows nothing of the sort, and tries to walk someone through using a single lead system multiple times (up to 10), to get the full results of a 12 lead (if you've ever wondered why a 12 lead EKG only requires 10 physical leads, think of them more as 'axes', measured multiple ways, i.e. from lead 1 to lead 4, lead 1 to 5, etc), and then being able to aggregate them manually. For one, this requires moving the end points of the leads multiple times, something you could not do with the Apple Watch (or, to be clear and fair, any other watch), unless you're planning on holding it in many different spots in sequence (which then has issues of being more a time lapse, than a snapshot).

What does that mean? It can't diagnose impending heart attacks, nor heart disease, valve problems, circulatory disorders, and it likely never will, especially with current hardware.

This is also why it's obtained FDA clearance, not approval. To use a metaphor, it's more like a fitness device on steroids, so to speak, with some minor overlap into general health. But not that much more.

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/apple-watch-ekg-what-is-ekg/
I bought a second hand Lexus the other day.

Whilst Apple and Googles map display might be leagues ahead, the voice and visual navigation in the Lexus hybrids or similar feels like it’s easily decades ahead of both Apple and Google. Both in the quality of instruction given, visual cues and even the sound of the voice.

Which really surprised me, because the last place I expected to find the best navigation system I’d ever seen was a little closed system that hasn’t received software updates since the car was built (2013).
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Google "colorize manga neural" and you'll find many projects for AI-assisted manga colorization.
>A year before that, they announced face detection for the purposes of identity with enough accuracy that it can be used for financial transactions.

considering a random scribble on a receipt or check is enough to authorize/authenticate a transaction, that bar is pretty low.
> We run the risk that the act of deplatforming can become as extreme as the hate speech it seeks to banish.

Let us cross that bridge when we get to it.
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I've always found it interesting that, in my opinion, Gnome has always felt better to use as a user, but KDE had consistently and vastly better user applications than the Gnome counterparts.

That said, I've come to love the layout of Gnome 3 (with many extensions, by default it's nearly unusable). However, its performance is awful. While it's better than it used to be, it's still a leaky mess. I for one hope KDE continues to exist and be supported for no reason other than having a viable alternative when I finally become tired of performance.

As a developer who looked into the two a few years back, I chose QT as it was much easier to work with than GTK. This was before QML, however, so I don't know if it still holds true.
I beg to differ. Gnome is simple and gets shit done.

I don't care about all the tweaks and config options as much as I used to 15 years ago when I started using linux.

To each his own.
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There is a HN discussion about a similar model from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403653
The airpods I used a couple times fell out when I was running.
Doesn't this essentially put you back to the bad old days of style attributes? Sure, the "styles" you are using are much more clever and they adapt to screen sizes, etc., but you are still putting the specific style you want an element to have in the element itself and not getting any redirection.

Say you have an entire application with a dozen primary pages, plus several dozen modal windows and other sub-pages. If you want to make a global change, like, "Change all the OK buttons in my entire application to have rounded corners and a gray to red gradient" then you have to go back and make a change to every button you have in the application. The whole idea with changing the CSS was that I defined a semantic CSS (e.g. "OKButton") which I used in all the places that had a common meaning, and then I could change the look of the entire application in one place.
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Author here. Easy to answer that one- altering the training photos with random lighting/contrast changes (yet keeping the color targets the same) really helped to deal with varying qualities of photos. But also neural networks are just particular good at picking up on context, so that has a lot to do with why the results are so robust.
This sounds like the kind of argument people made when the iPhone had a software keyboard and every other smartphone had a physical tactile keyboard.

What I think you're missing is that the world will evolve in ways to accommodate a mouse-light interface or evolve to include it if it becomes obvious that it's mission-critical (it's not at all obvious today, despite legacy thinking). Neither version of the future precludes the iPad at all. Just look at the new gestural interface on the new iPhone X/XR/XS devices. It makes navigating the OS effortless and super fast in ways that it simply wasn't before. Before it, people were saying that it's too slow to navigate on a mobile device. How many other innovations like that are coming down the line? We don't know.

I say this as someone who's used an iPad Pro along with the Keyboard Cover for quite some time. No, you won't be able to type on it for hours and hours. But you'll be able to type on it for an hour or so consistently. That's a BIG deal, and changes A LOT. It's only going to get better from here. There are a lot of apps that support countless keyboard shortcuts, including Google's whole G Suite, Office 365, Lightroom, and the upcoming full version of Photoshop in 2019.

If you asked me 3 years ago if I thought the iPad would replace Laptops, I'd tell you probably not. Apple had done little to differentiate it from the iPhone lineup in terms of iOS or even hardware features. But with the iPad Pro specifically, I think things have taken a real turn and Apple is signaling that they're ready to focus on taking it from a media consumption device to a more productive, mission-critical device.

120hz refresh rate, full digitizer, Apple Pencil, the new integrated keyboard cases, a new focus on pro apps, and a ton of improvements to the actual UI/UX to make multitasking and app-switching easier....etc etc. These were all the things that were missing for a long time. But Apple is finally doing all the things needed to move iPad in a direction where people will choose it over laptops at an increasing rate.

The kicker is this: Apple announced recently during WWDC that iOS apps will work on MacOS. Many of their new stock apps in MacOS Mojave are just ported iOS apps. They are truly and confidently doubling down on iOS and iPad.

That's my personal prediction and belief anyway.
Something amusing about needing a ridiculously large model to claim good generalization. Analytical models typically go the other way, right?
I would say financial freedom is not having to trade labor to survive. From that perspective, responsible spending doesn't lead to financial freedom, but ownership of capital that pays for living expenses.

For example, someone who pays their living expenses by collecting rent from property they own is financially free. A software engineer who has to go to work 9-5 or starve is not financially free, even if they are responsibly spending and free of debt.
> But even engaging with the question at face value, the answer is very simple

If you think that, you're not engaging with the complexity of the problem, and, instead, trying to shut down discussion.

This problem is one philosophers and legal scholars have struggled over for millennia, all around the world. If you think you have a simple answer, you're lying, you're unbelievably arrogant, or you don't understand the problem.
Many people probably don't recall that the Android interface Google was working on about the same time as the iPhone was released was a Blackberry clone. They adopted Apple's style afterwards. Of course, Apple's interface wasn't totally novel. A fullscreen (no keyboard) touch device already existed (to some degree, Palm Pilots reserved the lower portion of the screen for some input stuffs). The novel aspect was the multi-point touch support, where previous touch screen devices had support for a single touch point at a time, and often relied on a stylus (or fingernail) and were non-responsive to finger presses.
A significant proportion of HN comments lately have been apologist about the nature of headlines.

I can’t help feeling like we should stop apologizing. They suck, they’re inflammatory. I think it should be okay to complain about them.

No, I really believe we must complain about them. Loudly, and in numbers.
I bought the cheapest possible Bluetooth dongle (says "Griffin" on it, whoever they are) and paired it to my Android phone.

One day I wondered what happens if it can see two paired devices - does it forget one? Is there some unusably awful UX? Does it brick them altogether?

So I paired the Linux laptop. The dongle (which says "Connected" when I turn it on normally near the phone) now says "Second. Device. Connected" when it can also see the laptop. It appeared as one of the output options in the laptop's audio settings. If you play music on the phone, or receive a call, the music on the laptop stops, and you can take the call (or listen to music) instead.

Essentially, with the cheapest available product it appears to be as you say "completely painless". What exactly are Airpods / Apple doing here that makes it worth the extra? Maybe the voice telling you what's going on is nicer?
> all the Linux experts I read and listen to (many of whom actually work at Canonical or Red Hat) are talking about how great KDE Plasma is, and how troubled Gnome Shell is

People who are happy about the current primary/default environment don't often go out of their way to talk about it. People who are happy about a non-default environment, or who are not happy with the default environment, talk about it more. It's a form of selection bias.