how much % of your HD is free?
― Nhex, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
oh i can't totally remember, at least 50%-60% though.
― marcos, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
ok just checkin, that should way more than enoughcheck your browser extensions/add-ons in Chrome/Safari/Firefox, a family member recently had major problems due to spyware hijacking (yup, it's come to Mac OS)
― Nhex, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:25 (nine years ago) link
yea that makes sense, i am not surprised it's come to mac OS
― marcos, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Regular HD or SSD? Upgrading my recent MBP to An SSD made a world of difference.
― schwantz, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
RAM makes a world of difference, too. The 2012 MBP I'm typing this on came with 4 GB stock, and absolutely crawled along until I upgraded it to 16. Night and day.
― Millsner, Monday, 5 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah, 4GB is definitely not enough anymore for current Mac OS X
― Nhex, Monday, 5 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
4GB is some bullshit
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
can't wait til my macbook dies and i have to buy another one
it's the brave design choices they made
like non-replaceable RAM
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Monday, 5 January 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
upgraded to 8 GB but I've always got some mysterious "kernel_task" eating up my free RAM
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
if macs are like linux then they use any free memory to cache files rather than just leaving it pointlessly empty. perhaps that is this.
― koogs, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
i wish i had known about the "iOS8 is slow as balls on the ipad2" before upgrading -- i only use that thing for casual web browsing / netflix-in-the-call-room and it runs like a dog now
― gbx, Monday, 5 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I am pretty sure the memory you see allocated to kernel_task is your free memory
― valleys of your mind (mh), Monday, 5 January 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realise how much I was starting to resent OS X until reading that. I don't think I'd mind the efforts to streamline with iOS if iOS itself hadn't become so stale. There aren't enough vital innovations and developments to justify annual releases which leads to all this annoying tinkering with perfectly functional software and annoying gimmickry.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 5 January 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
They need to do another Snow Leopard-type release
― ιΎ, Monday, 5 January 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Unrelated: Why after all these years does preview still not support gifs?
― tsrobodo, Monday, 5 January 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
mh, i no longer do academic science. i am a data scientist now. but yeah, all python, all the time. i know it's made a lot of progress in the HPC/compute cluster world, although that was never really my thing. e.g. ipython makes parallelization trivial(ish), blaze gives you an python frontend for a lot of serious distributed backends, etc. it's certainly the default language in a lot of data science, at least at the prototyping/research/exploration stage, which is mostly what i do (they often switch to scala or whatever for production implementation).
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 5 January 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
yeah linux on the desktop is still dreadful afaict 10 years after i last seriously used it, but when i talk to the other engineers about stuff like "how do i get spark installed" they are like "no idea, i just did apt-get install". i miss that.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Monday, 5 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
it's cool, I think half of the data crunching we do is statistics, the other half is genomics, and python is used a lot
― valleys of your mind (mh), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
at my job, that is. at home I don't do a lot of programming and my cat doesn't know anything.
my 6+ is bent and i have no idea how it happened. it bent the opposite way it sits in my pocket
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 January 2015 06:48 (nine years ago) link
Just think of it as curved.
― Alba, Saturday, 10 January 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
'A problem occurred with this webpage so it was reloaded'
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 January 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
minor shitness: having to go into image capture to stop iphoto opening every single time I connect my phone or ipad.
― woof, Monday, 12 January 2015 11:35 (nine years ago) link
I experienced my first frayed power cord as others mentioned above. The Apple Store replaced it for free even though it was originally for a MB Air I haven't had for years.
― a girl with colitis (Je55e), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
had a morbid thought the other day when replacing the batteries on my trackpad that my mac mini (mid-2011) was designed and built when steve jobs was still alive
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if the standalone trackpads are going to get force touch eventually. It's pretty neat.
― mh, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
force touch does sound pretty cool but i can't believe they signed off on calling it 'force touch' ffs
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
it's that apple/pixar/disney/star wars connection
― mh, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
show me on the doll where you were force touched
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
damn so the mail app on iPhone blows huh
― marcos, Saturday, 4 April 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
I think it's fine
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
I use outlook.
― Jeff, Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
I mean I really shouldn't have to scroll down to manually refresh the inbox, there are always sync problems with gmail, for a while it wasn't syncing at all and I had to reconfigure everything, somehow it is hard to delete things from my inbox even if I really want to but I acvidentally deleted things from sent folder without trying
― marcos, Sunday, 5 April 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
http://roadlesstravelled.me/2015/04/06/why-steve-jobs-motivated-me-to-quit-apple/
― ιΎ, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
I spent two years in the Apple camp managing customer service improvement for their technical support contact centres
tbf all of the soft-skills improvement process areas I have had the opportunity to work with all had really weird dynamics
if your job is coming up with graphs showing shortened call lengths and a higher number of resolved issues and presenting results of customer surveys it becomes a life force-draining exercise
― mh, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
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― Jeff, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
These rehearsals β called βdry runsβ (to me it sounds like something youβd pick up from South East Asian street food) β
― pplains, Wednesday, 8 April 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah...
― mh, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
Yo YT people, keep your eyes on the prize
― ιΎ, Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fEqBYq6.png
Someone tell me how I go about booking an appointment today to tell Apple to fuck themselves.
― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
I could get up from my desk, drive over to the Cadillac dealership and test drive the latest model on a moment's notice. But to try on a goddamm watch? Oh nooooo...
― pplains, Friday, 10 April 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
They have cars just sitting on the lot, though. Supply and demand, man.
― mh, Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:32 (nine years ago) link
How's Cadillac doing these days? Paying an Apple founder who doesn't even drive a Cadillac to be in their ads for notional cachet?
― mh, Saturday, 11 April 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
Those weren't the only unusual things about the Watch shopping experience. Thanks to his appointment, the reporter got a one-on-one session with an Apple salesperson who allowed him to try on multiple watches.
IT'S. A. WATCH.
― pplains, Saturday, 11 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RbFPO1APOg
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 11 April 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
http://bandswapper.com/statement.html
This page needs to be archived and put in the Library of Congress
― ιΎ, Saturday, 11 April 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
New Macbook seems pretty awesome, and the keyboard absolutely fine for touch typing on, much to my surprise. Not so happy to be waiting 6+ weeks for my order to be delivered, though.
― toby, Sunday, 12 April 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
Fuck it I'll do it myself xp
http://i.imgur.com/L7lvT2L.png
― ιΎ, Sunday, 12 April 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I hope you put it in the library of congress
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 12 April 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link