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Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by martin1975 »

briandear wrote: post #484
martin1975 wrote: post #413

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the notch...no 3.5mm aux...no OpenGL... the hits just keep on coming. Is this what passes for "invention" today? What's next, deprecating USB?

You can add CD ROM, the diskette drive, SCSI, ADB, FireWire and the LaserWriter to that. How dare they!

Notch decreases function and is aesthetically displeasing.

3.5 mm = 1) there is no way a wireless medium will ever have better throughput than a wired medium over a superb DAC - ever, 2) dongle, 3) extra battery worry now for BT.

OpenGL, I will grant you that one, since both Metal and/or Vulkan are a vast improvement on OpenGL.

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Post by jonhendry18 »

jlarocco wrote: post #367
Tehchops wrote: post #127

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Aren't most people running those kinds of workloads doing so on Linux already? Doesn't seem cost-effective at scale to run on beefy Apple machines.

Not necessarily. Many media editing apps use OpenCL to speed up processing. I know Capture One uses OpenCL, and I think Adobe's Lightroom and Photoshop use it also. At this point even Pixelmator and less well known alternatives use OpenCL, too. Sadly, most companies won't have any choice but to port their app to Apple's proprietary APIs. It's really a net loss for consumers because most of these devs have better thin…

"At this point even Pixelmator and less well known alternatives use OpenCL, too."

Pixelmator, at least, is based on Core Image, which Apple has probably already moved from OpenCL to Metal.

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

fdye wrote: post #382
engi_nerd wrote: post #112

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How is an emoji a whole new way to communicate? EDIT: I meant this as a genuine question, not as a "how could you possibly think this" response.

It amuses me to think we have moved from the printed word back to hieroglyphs (emoji). Not in a derogatory way, communication is communication, but in a awe of older cultures. I like the thought experiment of imagining a fallen advanced civilization in Egypt. I imagine them stuck... watching their batteries drop to 0%, and turning to stone and emoji as the only way to persist communication. What if printed words were…

To a certain extent, one could consider Chinese characters to be more like emoji than words constructed via a phonetic alphabet, in which case there never really was a transition period, just some backwater outliers.

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ChuckMcM wrote: post #366
overcast wrote: post #207

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How exactly did it not work well? Windows is THE gaming platform for PC.

It kept a lot of commercial software off the Windows platform and left it on Workstations like SGI and DEC had. The movie houses that were rendering movies were using OpenGL on their renderfarms and its lack of availability on Windows kept windows off those desktops. The key being that if you've got a technology that works on both server farms for production and workstations for development, you support that so that…

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Post by rainbowmverse »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #485
rainbowmverse wrote: post #480

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HN doesn't support emoji, so here's an example: https://cybre.space/@Riley/100149464360818801 The meaning is immediately clear to anyone familiar with the reference. It's basically a pictographic language that leans heavily on a shared culture that's largely internet-based.

Ah, I get it, it's value is making the people use it feel special because only "the right kind of people" will get their jokes. Just a new generation of children using slang. Why was that so difficult to use words to describe?

>> "Ah, I get it, it's value is making the people use it feel special because only "the right kind of people" will get their jokes. Just a new generation of children using slang."

You sure do have some text there.

>> "Why was that so difficult to use words to describe?"

The medium is the message.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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PakG1 wrote: post #486

The complaints here about how the new macOS does not have anything exciting or interesting is weird. I thought the best thing about the new macOS (and iOS) is that it's supposed to be Apple focusing on stability, rather than new features. Given all the bad things that have happened with macOS in the past year, I thought this was going to be appreciated. https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/30/apple-focus-on-software...

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Post by jonhendry18 »

Klonoar wrote: post #98
nxc18 wrote: post #19

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Hope significant are the differences between cocoa and uikit? I don't have any experience besides some light source browsing and it seemed the big difference is the NS to UI prefix change. Anyone care to summarize for the unenlightened?

The differences are more in implementation than anything else: - AppKit isn't layer-backed by default, requiring you to handle this. Something as simple as setting the background color for an NSView is far more of a ritual than it is for a UIView. - NSColor/NSImage under the hood are different than UIColor and UIImage. - NSTableView and NSCollectionView have big differences (NSCollectionView is more subtle, I should…

"Something as simple as setting the background color for an NSView is far more of a ritual than it is for a UIView."

Or you just use an NSBox as the rearmost subview of the NSView, and set its fill color.

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Post by aikinai »

mason55 wrote: post #192
bwang29 wrote: post #52

I feel the system wide dark mode is the next step from Night Shift mode to acknowledge or encourage people to work more toward late night/evenings. Eye fatigue has been one of the reason my body reminds me to go to sleep, now I can maybe deal with some more emails before I head to bed.

Hopefully they don't fuck it up like they did when they changed from high contrast to Smart Invert on iOS. I used high contrast accessibility as a de facto night mode. In iOS 11 (or maybe 11.x?) they changed it to "Smart Invert" which tries to be smarter about inverting by not inverting the colors on images. Unfortunately it has all kinds of problems. Safari will randomly crash when viewing images. Sometimes is shows…

Classic invert is still an option. If you hate the smart version, just use the old one.

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Post by greggman »

PakG1 wrote: post #486

The complaints here about how the new macOS does not have anything exciting or interesting is weird. I thought the best thing about the new macOS (and iOS) is that it's supposed to be Apple focusing on stability, rather than new features. Given all the bad things that have happened with macOS in the past year, I thought this was going to be appreciated. https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/30/apple-focus-on-software...

did they announce all the fixes? if not then I'd assume that's why people aren't focusing on them.

I too would appreciate stability and fixes. I know they are listed in the notes for each release. Still if that really was the focus that needs to be communicated

note I didn't watch the announcements so if they did emphasize that great!

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by jonhendry18 »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #20

MacOS will not be replaced by iOS, but they will bring UIKit to MacOS so you can port apps. That sounds like they are unifying the two OS's to me, or I am mis-remembering the question Tim Cook answered with a definitive No?

The UIKit apps on macOS will require a pointing device like a mouse or trackpad. macOS is not becoming a touch-oriented OS.
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