This is the DUMBEST idea I've seen in a long time
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they'll need to port sooner or later,
Apple being who they are, they'll have to port it to the latest version of OSX within a year or two if they want it to keep running
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They should kickstart selling their custom rack designs to idiots.
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Apple being who they are, they'll have to
port it to the latest version of OSXupgrade to the latest hardware because it's not supported and you really, really should upgrade it's totally worth it trust me I'm a Genius within a year or two if they want it to keep running<!empty
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The "trash can computers" were the WTF in the first place, even by Apple standards. Really, what the hell, it doesn't make any sense. They don't look nice, they aren't more functional, it's like they just picked a completely random idea.
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It's the trend; everything has to be round ;)
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If I had the money, I'd run a study proving solar weather has more of an effect on audio than these stupid things they make a big deal over. But I don't, so I'll just pretend I did...
Cue audiophiles building electromagnetically isolated underground bunkers in their backyards to listen to music in...
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I have no idea what this image "rendering" is about, it sounds like something for websites... funny, cause this is what I see on my phone:
Maybe it's just my device but I thought this adds some WTF points.
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The inspiration?
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It's the trend; everything has to be round
No shit--at some recent point in Win10 builds, they switched to round avatars too.
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The inspiration?
<img src="/uploads/default/20925/df9b97af9f378f93.png" width="640" height="428">
I always thought the seats were a nice touch, but you'd think they'd've put in some armrests and/or little work tables.
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Did the seats vibrate? There were cooling pumps in there...
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Did the seats vibrate? There were cooling pumps in there...
Overthinking the joke is a to jokes.
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But will it have the graphics capability of the trash can Mac?
Good point, and probably not. But, for ~$25K you can buy a 4U and a lot of top end graphics cards. Or a 4U case, a commodity motherboard and a shitload of graphics cards with enough money left over to buy a used car.
Either way, I can guarantee that I could come up with a solution that would be as performant, for cheaper, with no downsides as compared to all the trash cans.
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No shit--at some recent point in Win10 builds, they switched to round avatars too.
Yeah I noticed that last time I updated Win 10. Stupid round avatars.
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Oh well, we can always override it with Styli- oh, wait…
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It'll bug me less because it'll be visible for like the 4 seconds it takes to put my password in - and as the avatar is the default "no avatar image set" avatar then it being round is a lesser issue.
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It'll bug me less because it'll be visible for like the 4 seconds it takes to put my password in - and as the avatar is the default "no avatar image set" avatar then it being round is a lesser issue.
It'd bug me less on the test machine I'm using if I didn't need a password so I could share a folder on the LAN: i'd just disable the lock screen entirely.
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With all those washing machines in the background, those seats look like a convenient place to wait for your laundry to finish!
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No dryers though, so you are going to need a clothesline.
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The compiler rejects variable names with emoji; I imagine it'd so the same with class and method names too
C# only allows letters, numbers, and "connector punctuation" in identifiers. But it allows them in any script!
Filed under: throw new Missing﹏TagCloudException(0xabadbabe)
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C# only allows letters, numbers, and "connector punctuation" in identifiers. But it allows them in any script!
Wow, so we can have happy and sad variable names?
FILE‿FOUND FILE⁀NOT⁀FOUND
What a wonderful improvement to programming.
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Having used Unity, which has no real debugging capabilities (such as breaking and stepping through code), I'm guilty of this:
[code]
Debug.Log( "WTF" );
[/code]Sprinkled throughout code as almost a sort of assert. Something wrong? It gets logged and I can follow the line number. Fugly, but it works.
However, after reading through this thread, I really want to replace that with:
[code]
public const string ಠ_ಠ = "WTF!?";//...
if( somethingVeryWrong )
{
Debug.Log( ಠ_ಠ );
}
[/code]
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public void x_x() { system.exit(-1); }
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public const string ಠ_ಠ = "WTF!?";
You can do that in Java. That doesn't mean you should.
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Visual Studio 2013 is enormously better than XCode
To be fair, vim + gdb is better than XCode.
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I haven't used XCode
Please, please, please, please go get a job at a shop that uses XCode.
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Thanks to people like these, the XServe will never be resurrected ...
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You can do that in Java. That doesn't mean you should.
Oh, woops, I said "const" didn't I? I meant "static" (const string is not valid C# I believe). D'oh.
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const string myString = "Foo";
is perfectly valid C#.
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const myString string = "Foo";
is perfectly valid Go. But I'd usually shorten it to just
const myString = "Foo"
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@Magus said:
Well, C# supports utf-16, so you can do all kinds of horrible things like that.
Oh, I imagine you probably can do it.
The point is, someone actually wrote an article about the fact you can do that in Swift. Like it's something to get excited about.
Sensible languages that support Unicode identifiers support them according to the TR31 §2 and that only includes letters and in non-first position combining marks, decimal digits and connecting punctuation. Which does not include emoji.
I am not sure whether C# rejects emoji because it is sensible or because it is stuck with Unicode 2.0 (= before surrogates).
I used an emoji from this set; no surrogate pairs involved
But it actually seems to be sensible (or both).
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const string myString = "Foo";
is perfectly valid C#.
Is it?? I swear I could remember VS barking at me for doing that, but maybe I'm just remembering wrong.
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Except I haven't used XCode so I can't make a fair assessment.
http://textfromxcode.com should give you an idea of how belgiumed XCode is. When you first see it, it looks like a nice and shiny IDE, trying to hide complex stuff behind a pretty, intuitive UI. Like the average Apple software product. When you actually try to use it, you'll notice that it's buggy as shit, though. Like the average Apple software product. Also, they'll randomly remove features in new releases and force you to upgrade both the OS and XCode every year if you don't want to use access to the App Store. To summarize: Apple treats its developers as it treats its customers.
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C# only allows letters, numbers, and "connector punctuation" in identifiers.
Yep, that's exactly what the TR31 says. Seems C# is actually Sensible™.
FILE⁀NOT⁀FOUND
Shouldn't that be
FILE⁔NOT⁔FOUND
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(on a side-note, the C# highlighter clearly does not understand that that is a signle identifier)
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Kind of like how playing the exact same audio file off two different brands of hard drive can sound different.
(I know this has been posted before, credit to whoever posted it first)
CAVEAT LECTOR: I am in no way an audiophile.It's not impossible that there might be a difference depending (as they hint at) on the electronics in the different hard disks. A PC is actually a horrible place to turn digital input into analogue signals to
then feed to speakers. There is all manner of horrible electronic noise in there, and some of it is capable of getting into the analogue part of the signal path, and some of that can be heard in the audio output. You can, I think, squelch at least some of it by carrying the digital signal as close to the speaker as possible, and then separating it electronically from the PC using some sort of opto-isolators. (In case anyone wants to criticise, bear in mind that I'm far from an expert on this, and what I just said is largely uninformed speculation.)I used to be able to hear, some while back, low-level noise from the guts of a PC I owned back then coming out on the audio channel, and it was possible to hear the different activity patterns of the PC in that noise.
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I used to be able to hear, some while back, low-level noise from the guts of a PC I owned back then coming out on the audio channel, and it was possible to hear the different activity patterns of the PC in that noise.
Well duh, nobody denies that. The problem is with believing that the data end up somehow different in the digital part of the circuit. Hearing the PC activities on the audio channel means that the analogue part of the circuit or the DAC is badly isolated from interference.
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These idiots are doing non-blind A-B comparisons of different hard drives in a NAS enclosure. And they're Golden Eared Audiophiles, so you can bet your last $5000 Ethernet patch cable they're not using a PC as a DAC.
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Why no timestamps? I'm interested in how many minutes ago that happened!
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Either way, I can guarantee that I could come up with a solution that would be as performant, for cheaper, with no downsides as compared to all the trash cans.
Well, maybe, but you're not as smart as they are....
They had the revelation that mounting them on their sides was the key to "making it work".
;)
The bizarre thing is that their site is so well done, it almost looks like a sane idea.
(Compare with the yahoos with the safer networking kickstarter in that other thread someplace.)
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Well duh, nobody denies that. The problem is with believing that the data end up somehow different in the digital part of the circuit. Hearing the PC activities on the audio channel means that the analogue part of the circuit or the DAC is badly isolated from interference.
Yes, I know that.The more I read these sort of things (I've just gone back and read the whole thing properly), the more I'm inclined to believe that the authors are just trolling the audiophile readers, and possibly also the tech-savvy non-audiophiles who stumble across the articles.
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These idiots are doing non-blind A-B comparisons of <em>different hard drives in a NAS enclosure</em>. And they're Golden Eared Audiophiles, so you can bet your last $5000 Ethernet patch cable they're not using a PC as a DAC.
OK, so you didn't read it properly either. No, they aren't. As I suggest above, they seem like they are trolling either or both of two audiences: the wide-eyed (eared?) audiophiles who are their apparent audience, or the skeptical tech-savvy non-audiophiles like the readers here.And this time, they've done a reasonably good job of it.
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Sorry, which bit of what I posted are you disagreeing with?
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Everything. He is cynical, after all...
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Except I haven't used XCode so I can't make a fair assessment.
Don't bother. It's abysmal in lots of small ways that adds up to a whole load of horrible. We don't really need that level of ranting. The only reason I've got a copy was to get the real developer tools that came with it (and which I used to bootstrap doing things in the classic Unix way); whenever I end up running Xcode, it's because I clicked on something by accident.
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Shouldn't that be
FILE⁔NOT⁔FOUND
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(on a side-note, the C# highlighter clearly does not understand that that is a signle identifier)
The letter has to be a connector. So you can't just use the smiles, but you can use the "undertie" ( ‿ ) for happy and the "character tie" ( ⁀ ) for sad. (We could use the "overtie" for sad if there was a glyph for it in Chrome.)
In fact, if we use all the characters in one name, we can drive everyone insane...
IT_IS‿THAT⁀THE︳FILE︴IS﹍NOT﹎FOUND﹏BECAUSE_NOT_THERE
And do note that there are two separate pure underlines, so even if we stuck to those...insane. Or maybe we can admit that C# designers were idiots for permitting every character in class Pc to be used in a variable name.
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Rendering on a Mac?
That's particularly ironic considering this little tidbit:
> Roosendaal recently reported that Jens Verwiebe, Blender’s long-time OS X platform maintainer, had decided to “abandon OS X as a serious 3D/graphics development platform” citing “lack of quality GPU support”.
Supposedly one of Valve's biggest issues when porting Source engine to OSX was the fact the drivers were so garbage and the video card vendors weren't the ones maintaining them, rather Apple who they had to go back and forth with fixing shit.