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Like Visual Studio Code uses 12% CPU in idle due to cursor blinking? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13940014
In comparison the Windows Shell (up to Win7) is a lot more efficient and coded in C/C++.
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>On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? for timing things. For example, it's super easy to check a heart rate if you don't need to provide timing or rhythm. Or waiting on ramen , or steeping tea. Lots of reasons.
Just click on the clock, it will pop a window with seconds in it.
And on current systems, updating every second would decrease battery life by preventing your system from sleeping. Modern systems can easily sleep for more than a second at a time, even with the screen on (and not updating). I also, personally, can't stand to have distractions like that on my screen away from where I want to focus.
Good luck with that with quadrillion services chugging away in the background including file indexing service and all the spying bullshit.
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Can't watch on either Chrome or Firefox. Apple are real gits.
Neither Chrome or Firefox support HLS on the desktop despite providing support on mobile (since Android 3.0 I believe). They have categorically refused to add desktop support, if you have any complaints I would take it up with them.
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Why would they support a closed, proprietary format when there exist better, open ones?
What is a better one? A patent pool has formed around DASH and you need to buy a license to use it: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/MPEG-DASH/Pages/Intro.as...
Otherwise, include a js player with HLS support for other browsers.
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>On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? for timing things. For example, it's super easy to check a heart rate if you don't need to provide timing or rhythm. Or waiting on ramen , or steeping tea. Lots of reasons.
Just click on the clock, it will pop a window with seconds in it.
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The Windows 95 hypetrain was truly something to behold. The Empire State Building lights in Windows colors, Friends castmembers appearing in a (truly lame) promotional video... Windows 95 was the release that put the phrase "operating system" on the common man's lips -- for better or worse.
I'd never heard of this "Friends castmembers" video, so I did a bit of YouTubing... I have no words (nearly an hour long, and I think there's a part-two): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc This led me to a few other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2owaKucyU1Y Sigh. The 90s.
I wonder if there's a parallel universe out there where Windows 95 never happened and Microsoft went out of business somehow. That would be the universe where the 90s were a truly wondrous age.
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> Starting a phone interview on time Down to the second?
Not a second, but a minute is too coarse
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You must not work in an organization that insists on installing security software for you. If I have >2w uptime on my machine I generally have to restart for some reason or other. It's like people have forgotten that computers can and should have more uptime than that. A faulty update from one of our security software vendors caused a once-per-hour kernel panic and forced reboot for a day or two. It was really nice.…
I feel you there. It got to the point at one gig where engineering folks--who were given root on their preconfigured laptops--often spent their first day figuring out how to kill and extricate Sophos from their machines. For developers who weren't seasoned jerks, it could be a real challenge until somebody took pity on them and helped them find single-user mode, yank out the kexts, and manually delete everything. (Th…
On a more practical note, why would you want to have seconds on the clock? I find that most of the time I don't want to know the time to a precision of better than 5 minutes. That may just be me, but when someone asks the time and I read it off my phone as 3:56 it really bothers me and sometimes I convert that to 5-to-4 just to avoid what in most cases is arbitrary extra precision. Sure there are times when minutes c…
Some years ago, I would set the clock of my linux (ubuntu? gnome? don't remember specifics) to display a "fuzzy time". It would tell time in that way : a quarter to eleven... two and a half... And it was very good, instead of worrying if I was being productive by checking the time twice every minute, I would just let it go.