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As a web developer, what on earth does this mean?

> desktop sites are now the default in Safari

Surely it's not some kind of meddling with the device width to make responsive web design even more confusing. That would be very odd.

My hope is that it's some kind of user agent manipulation that thwarts device sniffing so you don't see a mobile phone stylesheet or get redirected to a mobile site while using your iPad.
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But everyone that I talk to is "slammed". It's interesting how the perception of working more hours is so powerful.
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It’s not very polite to suggest that someone might be th3j35t3r.
Single-expression functions can now return a value without the “return” keyword: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
> Is it possible to distinguish between someone who believes taxes are bad for society, or immoral, from someone who's unhappy about their tax bracket?

In the end, does it matter? We don't really know what each other is thinking. If we're debating social framework (like tax), we can only judge people based on their behavior. If their behavior is indistinguishable, how they arrived there is irrelevant, in a sense.
they can block it but when you have 90million people using it, why would you?
SwiftUI is not just for iOS, it's for MacOS, tvOS, iPadOS and WatchOS as well. That covers well over a billion devices with all kinds of apps.
I don't think any $5000 machine is a good choice for gaming.
They were priced like a low end Sun computer, so that must have been what they were after [1]. But it still didn't make sense. The near-identical Amiga 2000 in 1987 was 1495 dollars.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/Sun_Price_List_Dec88.pdf
Pretty easy to change, I think.

For everyone on salary, just say: "our new office culture is a 2.5 day week."

For everyone on hourly wages, just double their wages and they'll adjust their own schedules.

The trick is to do so simultaneously across the world to discourage scabs.
retina display, cinema display

I think pretentious is the right word.
Side note: checking in from Bonnet Shores here!
After using Airtable for some critical LOB applications, I'm beginning to think that Excel's biggest competitor is Airtable.
Like I said, the chats are stored (or are claimed to be stored) in an encrypted form. But I think I understand why it may count as "stored unencrypted" in your eyes. Still, Signal won't cut it. It's too inconvenient to use, and while maybe it provides better security it's like a very strong password policy in a company that entices users to just write down passwords on Post-it notes.

I couldn't get my friends use Signal, it's not there yet in terms of user friendliness (hell, I wouldn't use it). But Telegram works for me, and I consider it a substantial improvement over Whatsapp. YMMV.
>Same deal with office.

Excel? I'm in the finance world and I can say with confidence that they've got 100% market share.

We use google sheet too. Every day even....for tracking everyone's QuizOfTheDay scores. Great track but not even close to Excel replacement.
As soon as Keychain can abstract away passwords completely (rando generation, never need to show the user the password), so an end user cant tell if a site supports Apple SSO or if Apple is just emulating SSO, Apple deserves to be crowned the Identity Winner.
This all going to be fun and games until some uses one of these to kill some VIP.
Not even a lot, just a big enough percentage to sway things.
I worked at two movie studios (Pixar, Weta Digital) and they were both almost 100% Linux with a smattering of Windows machines here and there. Apple stuff was mainly iPads for story boarding and that kind of stuff.
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The color graders here run 10-bit/color HDR monitors that have a wide gamut. Apple doesn't have monitors that support this. (The new one _might_ do the trick; we'll see.) Everyone here doing professional color work is on PCs supplied by Thinkmate. This is standard in Hollywood, too.
The 580X is technically "new" but it's the same Polaris 20 GPU chip that has been around since the RX480 in 2016 and has seen several rebadges accompanied by slight clockspeed bumps. This particular rebadge is Apple-specific and debuted with the recent iMac refresh.
Where did you find the price?
I was hoping to hear more discussion about performance. At the root of this seems to be a flexbox-esque implementation in Swift. Yoga, one such flexbox implementation written in C, has touted much better performance over UIKit for a while. How do apps built with SwiftUI compare to their UIKit alternatives? How would it compare with some solutions already in the Swift OSS community that utilize flexbox? [Texture](http://texturegroup.org/) comes to mind but I'm sure there are others.

It must be so much fun to work on a project that impacts so many developers. Thanks again!
People are going to be leaning this thing on their wall or on a stack of dollar bills, that might even be cheaper.
iPhone 6 does not have an iOS 13 IPSW on the developer downloads site. iPad Air and the second and third generation iPad Mini were dropped as well.
And proprietary.
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I loved my single 21:9 LG display. I hated that it was not HiDPI by a long shot.
Why do users need to have a 3rd party managing their identity? It seems like it would be _safer_ if users could setup their own OAuth infra which would then be certified for use with other systems. For people who lack the expertise or will to roll their own infra then they can use something like Apple ID.
Maybe they laughed because it kinda look like a cheese grater.

Edit: My bad. Actually, it's the new mac pro that look like a cheese grater.
256GB SSD and base video card is fine.

I would definitely look at a Mac Pro for software development (every minute counts) and if you're in that group there is simply no need for more storage or decent graphics.
Can you show me an example of one? A google image search for "space frame" shows lots of triangles, and not a single thing that consists of a curved bar.
256G of SSD is also fine if you store all of your data on a enterprise file array. Then the 256G only is used for OS, Applications and caching.
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Depends on your definition of "old". From 2006 to 2009 they were nvidia, and then in 2010 they switched.
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While the rules of the Autobahn are not that different to U.S. freeway rules, the practice of them is very different (e.g. the use of blinkers). U.S. drivers could learn a lot from this.
Don't Fastmail aliases already work the same way?

That's $5 a month for 600 private email addresses, which (for me at least) is more than enough to cover all of the services I use.

Unless they're easier to re-associate with your main account for some technical reason I'm not aware of?
Which means they are legitimately too big and too powerful that affects every faction of the political spectrum.
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Pro tip: psychological manipulation is not a great strategy for a successful marriage. Just talk to each other like normal adults.
Then they are not vacation!
"Blamed users and failed to give a straightforward answer" sounds like more of a framing issue than a specific false claim Mohan made.
FWIW, I agree. The Ashley Book of Knots is the only book I've ever returned to Amazon.

It's expensive for what amounts to a coffee-table book of old drawings and a history of many superfluous, duplicate, or decorative knots.

A lot of the information is outdated with respect to newer materials and/or the "knot" industry.
Whoa. Apple is picking up where Mozilla’s ball dropped, but with a massively better chance of success.

Cheers to whoever is running this show.
You can type equations into the search field and it will give you the answer.
Water and sewage treatment is not what you'd generally call a "fixed cost" since it involves ongoing operational costs (labor, chemicals, etc.). On the other side, usage fees are split into a fixed-cost portion (the connection charge, which runs $30-70k) and a variable-cost portion (per-gallon charges).
Don't conflate the updater with the driver itself. Apple could have enforced a policy around integration with the system update functionality or something, but the driver supplied by the vendor will always be better/faster because it can exploit internal knowledge about the hardware.
It looks traditionally nice, definitely a throwback. Just not too conservative to where it looks like every other boring black PC case these days. But also not cylinder shaped like something out of a Sci-fi movie.

I don't really care about the specs because that's not really a concern one should have when buying an Apple product. It's more about being promised a solid experience, without having to be technologically conscious and do your own homework.
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The acquisitions were ridiculed mostly for their price, not for the logic behind them or for the additions to the userbase.
I've been through this before. Vacations never help and are only temporary blinders. I think the core of the issue, at least for me, is a hyper-realization that there is so much more to life than work. I don't think there's any way to get out of this type of rut without taking significant risks once you've mentally passed that checkpoint. It's an even harder problem to escape if you have financial issues or family obligations. If you have a strong work ethic and/or skills other than in your job, you could start your own thing and maybe it'll go somewhere, or not. The only other alternative that I've thought of is to work a 9-5 job that you are over-qualified for. At least with that option, you'll get the satisfaction of performing well, being completely free to pursue your passions outside of the 9-5 while still being able to pay your bills.
The copy about the lattice pattern front being inspired by nature for airflow and rigidity is pretty ridiculous.

It looks cool to have little spheres cut in the inside of a metal block but that's it. If you were actually optimizing for airflow or density you would do something entirely different (or you would look at the effects the grill has on airflow and realize the effect is minimal regardless of what you do and then move on to other priorities.

On the other hand it looks like it would attract dust and be obnoxious to clean.

Apple has lost it's way with design.
Is this Safari only or for all browsers?
The Republican government is finally too fed up with their brand of hate speech getting blocked on private platforms, then?
Interesting, thanks for the info! It's probably obvious I don't know anything about filmmaking, audio's my domain.
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For development, I'm actually perfectly fine with 256GB SSD. And I don't care about the video card much at all.

Still, I don't see this as a developer machine — I think an iMac Pro is a much better value proposition for developers, and in my case, where I really mostly care about single-threaded performance for interactive development in Clojure and ClojureScript, I'm looking at the iMac.
Or maybe Catalyst runs on (in?) SwiftUI?

@kylemacomber - can you provide some context here? I'm sure many of us would love to get a high-level understanding of this.
This one looks like a different type of trash can
Careful not to drink the koolaid here. How many times do you adjust your monitor once it's on your desk? Make one out of scrap wood to your exacting custom specs and use the $999 for your 1tb ssd upgrade.
The XCode 11 "whats new" page [0] says:

>To use the SwiftUI design canvas Xcode 11 must running on macOS Catalina.

Please let us know if you find that's incorrect.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/xcode/whats-new/
Apple doesn’t really care about you being able to run your UI code on those platforms.
That is correct. I derped and looked at total electricity consumption instead of household one.
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I was wondering why all the popular ‘private’ email services don't seem to have such a feature.
Only in the same way that Gmail and Android are "subsidized" by Google. They're sources of data and play directly into how they generate revenue.

I agree that without those motivations it would be hard to fund these projects without them going paid or taking donations, but I take issue with calling them "subsidized".
> Brave, Edge, Opera are just some of the WideVine licensed Chromium based browsers

Today I learned: the new Edge has both WideVine and PlayReady. I figured they'd just go with PlayReady and be done with it - does WideVine have any real advantages?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/chromium-mic...

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/04/03/chromium-based-microsoft-e...
How would that help with tracking? The domain you buy will be a unique identifier that's owned only by you.

What tracking will this defeat that couldn't also be thwarted by putting dots and plus modifiers in a Gmail address?
It's definitely done on the backend with Twitter. Probably HN, too.
True. Apple definitely playing the long game here, effectively. When iMessage came out I totally didn't see it ever becoming a viable identity play. But with all these privacy concerns, now it feels like the one to beat.
When I look at what's happened with other water systems that have been privatized, it makes me deeply fear privatization of water.
By comparing their private knowledge of 1) who they voted for and 2) the salt they were shown in the booth with 3) the public hash of the two.

In any case it was only meant as an existence proof, not a practical system. I like aeternus's suggestion much more, since it has the useful property that everyone can see all the votes - just not whose is whose. (Although I'm not sure what function the receipt serves)
As far as Apple goes, I'm not sure. But Facebook and Google have been walking in this direction from their own behavior regarding consumer data and omnipresence online.
From what I understand, the US has plenty of water problems even in populated areas.

And from experience, a lot of US roads suck, even in rich and dense area such as the Bay.

So while I agree with the logic of your point, I think the core of the problem lies elsewhere.
Depends. In this analogy is GM’s only other offering a golf cart that requires an external engine to perform like a car?
There's probably a wee bit of presumption in connecting the dots like this, but its an interesting set of dots to consider, and I wouldn't mind any supporting links you have on this, opinion pieces or otherwise.
Selecting the best architecture for artificial neural networks
Sure maybe that mobile-workstation card came out this year but the tech behind it is very old (GCN 4.0). In fact all of AMD's current offerings are fairly old now. Navi is the first GPU architecture since 2012 that's not based on GCN.
By doing like firefox, making money out of making google the default search engine. Which means their unique source of revenue (and client) would be google. Full circle...
Watch every keynote that Steve Jobs ever presented, and you'll find his idea of "pro" is a lot closer to Hacker News' than Tim Cook's.
I began to write a comment describing what madness this all is, but really what is the point? This is just madness, I don't know what else to call it.
SwiftUI isn't confined to Catalyst. It's available to native Mac AppKit apps as well as UIKit apps.

(At least it appears that way, going by the WWDC session descriptions. We'll know more in a couple of hours)
Probably user-agent plus better translation of touches into mouse events.

To some extent, though, I'm having a hard time understanding how this is useful. Most sites are responsive these days, and it's been a long time since I remember getting a separate mobile site on an iPad. They showed Google Docs as an example, but even if you could use the desktop version of Docs on an ipad, it seems like it would be really uncomfortable to do so (and I though that was the whole reason for not making a touchscreen mac in the first place)?
This is awesome, very cool! You mentioned OpenAI in another post - it's not that hard to use the GPT-2 model. Check out https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple for a quickstart. Would be curious to see how the music generation goes if you re-train your data set against gpt-2.
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I've driven in Germany many times and thought it was a lot less stressful than driving in the US. Autobahns are typically only 2 or 3 lanes per direction vs the 4 to 6 lane monstrosities that we get here. They are also very well marked, designed, and paved.
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Mobile Dashlane and Lastpass work much better on Android, where the OS allows you to set default apps. If Apple deserves any antitrust spankings its for not allowing user control of protocol handlers and default programs.
Reminds of Visual Basic, seriously nothing is even close to an invention there. It has been forever since Apple development experience is the most crappy and unproductive of all other languages.
The least they should do is replacing this shit Xcode, and allowing other company to build better IDE and language tooling for swift or whatever.
Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks.
It's almost like they assume everyone's going to upgrade the drive. Might as well just ship without any at all.
Sounds like just the sort of thing that 'lean startups' push back against.
Comparing the comments then and now is hilarious. It’s amazing how quickly people forget things.
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My understanding is that a Pro 580X is just a rebadging of the Pro 580, which is from mid-to-early 2017, and all the 5xx series is just minor spec bumps on top of the 4xx series.
The AMD ecosystem will always remain behind if application developers continue to choose single-vendor proprietary frameworks rather than standard APIs.
If it helps you, there's this:

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And a bookmarklet:

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The direct download is here:

https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/...

for some reason my account only shows "There’s currently no beta software available for download."
Genuinely curious: how have you found TouchBar useful for development? I think you're the first dev I've seen say that.
Wow this is totally cool, but also totally fucked.

Granted, anyone who's been unaware of the insane accuracy of inertial tracking (prevalent since the iPhone 4) is in for a rude awakening. In short, inertial tracking / positioning uses Apple's CoreMotion co-processor to figure out the relative direction and speed a device is traveling. This makes it possible to navigate for miles without cell service or GPS in maps (I've done this for over 30miles in google maps, while keeping the car icon on the road) and also works accurately enough to tell which floor or room of a building someone is in.

It's also been found that the co-processor can remain on for up to two days and stores info without needing the rest of the device to be on.
As most of us here are with the developer hat. I think it's worth reminding that the target audience of those machines are Pro creatives.
(those who didn't ditch Apple yet ;) )

It's also the second time I remember Apple revert a critical interface removal. (first one was FireWire from the first Unibody MacBook).

Apple lost a lot users when they've ditched PCIe. you can buy those Thunderbolt-PCIe cages and have a lot of external media drives outside your machine, but for pro people that meant new Mac Pro isn't well for putting in a machine room or stacking under the table.

Back when Apple announced the switch to Intel a lot of studios had to do an expensive upgrade not only replacing their old G5s but also additional DSP/Accelerator cards from PCI-X to PCIe. when Apple showed the trashcan (Mac Pro 2013) it was a hard sale that kept many folks with their Mac Pro 2010-2012.

While it's not stylish looking (imho) or ground-breaking modular deisgn as I've assumed, it's the first time in a while Apple is responding to their hard-core users.

price? I had macOS running on my AMD Athlon X2 back in the days (Leopard!) and even then Mac Pros were much more expansive if you've compared pure hardware. professional got Mac Pros because they've preferred their peace of mind. and I must admit, with exception of memory & gpus failures, I know many of those machines that are still rockin'.

Last thing Apple should do to get pros the freedom is sign Nvidia's drivers...
I expect Amazon to be next.
Most of the people that are buying this will attached very large external storage as it is most likely going to be used as a video editing workstation.
My guess is that you misunderstood the original word they used "歹徒", which is more like "gangster, villan".

And the clip you referred to, I think was the "tank man" video being aired by CCTV on 1989/6/5, with voice-over as:

"稍有常识的人都会看出，如果我们的铁骑继续前进，这个螳臂当车的歹徒，难道能够阻挡得了吗？摄像机拍下的这个画面，同西方某些国家的宣传恰恰相反，正好说明了我们的军队，保持了最大限度的克制。"

which roughly translates to:

"Any sane person can see that, if our 'iron horse' keeps marching, this 'gangster' wouldn't stand any chance, just like 'a mantis trying to stop a chariot'. In contrary to some western media had claimed, this clip showed that our troops remained utmost desciplinary."

So I would say the clip was used to reinforce CCP's official tone on the tragedy, which is something like "some gangsters colluded with foreign influences tried to overthrow Chinese government".

I know sometimes CCP's propaganda sounds dumb, but definitely not that dumb as "tank man was trying to rob the tank".
> (I climb with it and consider it incomplete without)

My "climbing" is all rescue related (so almost entirely rappelling/hauling, not actual climbing), but I don't think I've ever used a bowline for anything life-safety related, with or without a safety knot.