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Alas1

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    Comment #20517568

    >These are not just ‘increasing numbers’. These are fucking witchcraft, and if we didn't live in a world with 5 inch blocks of magical silicon that talk to us and giant tubes of al…

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    Comment #20503147

    >no results to many incredible results What exactly is incredible (relatively) about the current state of things? I don't know how up-to-date you are on research, but how can you b…

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    Comment #20502785

    I see your point, but you're simply contesting the definition of intelligence that I assumed we were operating with, which is humanlike intelligence. Regardless of its extent, I th…

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    Comment #20502486

    No, interpreting "continual" the way you did would mean I should believe that we can't conclude our friends to be intelligent either (I don't believe that). Maybe I should've said …

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    Comment #20500309

    What exactly does that 96% mean, though? It means that on some fixed dataset you're achieving 96% accuracy. I'm baffled by this stupidity of claiming results (even high-profile res…

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    Comment #20395384

    As I said it's difficult to see on a high PPI screen unless you're looking for it. High Sierra, I think, is the first version where this bug was introduced, so you most certainly h…

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    Comment #20393475

    Some of the many reports: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/295427/what-causes... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8531638 https://twitter.com/deivi_dragon/status/93866…

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    Comment #20393446

    This has nothing to do with that. In fact I am a "Mac user" driven to Windows solely because of this issue. Aside from blurry PDFs, I also used to like font rendering in OS X and p…

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    Comment #20389284

    It is no longer great (it used to be so around Mavericks). Current pdfkit is broken, and renders PDFs blurry, with the effect enhanced on low PPI screens. This holds for iOS as wel…

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    Comment #20389267

    Are you serious about the PDF viewers? Windows has Sumatra, Xodo, Drawboard all of which are fine and the first two are free. Mac OS on the other hand, has had a broken pdfkit impl…