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Thanks. I suspect the same since I don't see too much complaints online. It is most probably just a weird timing when I got fed up with slow MBP while we see all the iPhone slowdown reports.

> or terminal

How?

I asked the same yesterday in another topic. I have mid 2012 MacBook Pro that behaves terribly with High Sierra, while it was fairly snappy with Sierra. Now it takes about 5 seconds to start any app, even for simple apps like iTerm2.

Since I can't find too much complaints on the web about laptop slowing down and the reply to my yesterday question was that some users don't see much difference, I am now downloading Sierra and will install it on another partition. This should answer this question precisely.

I can't leave High Sierra as is because it made my MacBook Pro unusable.

I am arguing that you can't create the system where only 100% of speed can be achieved by having 100% non-degraded battery. iPhone must have 10-20% security margin in battery capacity so when battery degrades it doesn't require degrading performance. That can be achieved by 10% thicker phone, right?

Sorry I wasn't completely clear. When I say 'by design' I don't really mean 'planned obsolescence', I mean 'system design problem' because somebody wanted to shave another 0.01 mm of thickness. I would be surprised to see any other reason than stupid form over function that causes this.

Maybe. I hope so but we can't really tell if new batteries have security margin or not. It will show in 12+ months.

Seriously, isn't this discussion of the wrong topic altogether? CPU is not too strong, battery is too weak by design. Am I missing the point in this and other articles arguing about everything else but not about battery capacity? What if we had 10% more battery capacity and (oh horror) 0.1 mm thicker phone?

This is another very good question that didn't get proper answer yet.

I have noticed significant slowdown on my 2012 Mac Book Pro, after installing High Sierra. Up to the point of not being to start any app for several seconds, which wasn't the case with Sierra or before. So in this new light it may as well be throttled down too. Anybody else noticed this?

If it is only one hiccup I woundn't react half as much but we could see exactly the same 'form over function' flaw with Mac Pro recently. Mac Pro has no cooling margin so it often fries graphic cards as soon as you try using it for (surprise) pro stuff.

I really dislike gimmicks over reliability, and I count race to thinness there too, that can be seen with Apple in last couple of years.

There is a lot of gymnastics this days, from people like John Gruber and Rene Ritchie to downplay what just happened. Truth is their 'explanations' are disturbing to watch and extremely unhelpful to Apple.

Plain and simple, battery is shaved so much that there is no surplus left (in the name of thinness), nothing to amortize normal battery degradation, so iPhone only works beautifully during initial review and couple of months after that.

I really love Apple and some of my daily living depends on it, but this crap has to stop already. Three years back until now there are many missteps in the name of fad and profit, couple of years more and it won't matter since I won't have any market in that ecosystem.

I spend at least one month in Greece every year, they are _almost_ as relaxed as 20 years ago.

Is there a chance that mass media tries to push one specific narrative, which does not reflect actual state?

Have you been in Greece or Spain? Experienced quality of life is way above statistical or expected.

Proud moment in most of the Europe is being able to take relaxed coffee and think, which is possible in most countries. I am always puzzled when somebody proudly tries to explain to me how having two jobs is great.

While unfortunate it is good that this happened. It will help some 'more creative' individuals in marketing feel the boundaries they didn't understand.

Comparing FF and Chrome security/privacy wise is ridiculous, I really don't understand that anybody tries to compare those two.

I am very curious to see how cooling holds after couple of months of use. I did use iMac and fan didn't work silently as soon as I actually used processor. Maybe it works better now, that's a lot of cores and a lot of heat.

It is also plain bad but even more important is lock in that you mention. Bugs can be fixed but wrong philosophy can't.

This explains a lot and makes sense with what we are seeing on the outside.

WHY that happens is much less clear to me.

> Seems like you’re talking out of both sides of your mouth too... this is from your website: “Constantly on Top 100 Grossing Lifestyle apps list in US Mac App Store since 2011”

It takes very few copies per month to reach MAS top lists, please google it if you don't know that, especially in less crowded 'lifestyle' category. I never said in the entire app store, I said in lifestyle category. So both claims are true but you are too blinded with rushing to prove 'other guy being wrong'. Being both constantly on top grossing lifestyle list and making almost no money is topic on its own, but the fact doesn't make any of those two claims less true.

Great majority of the Subliminal user base was reached trough https://stacksocial.com/sales/the-mac-freebie-bundle-4-0 several years ago. As you can see it was free bundle. StackSocial did 'pay' for all the free copies, it was mutual promotional move, with earnings of exactly whooping 1.3 cents per copy. Even paying customers never had to pay for any update, so far it was always one-time payment (if not free), since 2011. When you mention money as motivational factor it looks really funny on this side.

> hogwash, snake oil, both sides of your mouth, I don't believe a single word you say, profit off gullibility...

That's pretty strong wording to cover ignorance. You did first choose what to believe in, then put an effort to make it sound true?

I am now really curious to hear (at least short or yes/no) answers to the part you skipped:

"Out of curiosity, you _are_ aware that all major players use subliminal messages in their commercials? Or not? If you know about that, why would they use them that way if there is no effect? If you don't know about that why we discuss the topic then?"

> Sure... and it's also so advanced that even double-blind researchers can't reproduce it.

I have no idea who and how performed studies, so it is not impossible to imagine if you don't really understand the process you can't use the tools properly and results will be questionable. I did research the topic probably ten or more years before I dared to write an app. At least 60% of the success is depending on how you phrase the message, so if it is not respecting mechanic you can flash messages all day long with no results. There is also _a lot_ depending on how you present the message -- if you are curious you can download app trial and check settings. Don't use the app, just see what options are there.

> I'm sorry that asking for rigorous science sounds like being righteous to you.

Righteous as in "church claims earth is flat, this guy disagrees, let's burn him". It is perfectly fine if you expect official dogma to tell you if something produces results -- please wait for that then.

Out of curiosity, you _are_ aware that all major players use subliminal messages in their commercials? Or not? If you know about that, why would they use them that way if there is no effect? If you don't know about that why we discuss the topic then?

> I am not taking anybody's hard earned money with empty promises. You are.

You really have no idea if they are empty, right?

Money is of no importance here, since it doesn't make any meaningful percentage of my earnings. From any angle it is no profit pet project of mine.

On the other hand number of 'thank you' emails, from real people all over the world, greatly compensates for development hours.

Mechanics is very different from what you imagine it to be, placebo being only small part of the entire process. However it is very tiresome to explain it to somebody who is righteous about topic he doesn't know much about.

All of the comments on MAS are real user comments, read a few. I don't care if you are ignorant, but ignorant and rude makes dangerous combination.

In general, mechanics that works for subliminal messages is different than one used to hypnotize somebody. Level of 'agreement' between those two techniques differ and in my experience success rate is better with subliminal messages.

Reading comments, it is not as black or white as it initially looks. There is definite effect that can be observed, with say 80+% of users.

I can't overstate the importance of properly phrasing messages, wrong intention or phrase can be harmful. I am always very careful when trying to help customers how to phrase something.

Either way it is not all shoddy and shows results.

Author of http://smartcodehq.com/subliminal/ here, sorry for the shameless plug.

I love org-mode but I don't use Emacs. Here is (almost complete) vim equivalent: https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

With vim-orgmode I can quickly edit stuff in familiar editor.

I have tried various other formats, including taskpaper and various to-do lists but org-mode stands out by far.

It is made up profession. Of course they have to make it sound and look like there is any value is HR hiring. Sure younger interviewers don't know all the tricks yet to make it sound like it all makes sense. More than once I was talking to a guy (different ones) and when they proudly say they are in HR/interviewing people I feel genuinely sorry. Bragging to be a parasite and being proud about the fact. I've been nice in this post in case anybody is wondering.

I _knew_ I was contributing something by smoking.

Ultimate disappearing trick was performed by Apple in Mac Mini design.

This is fantastic news. I expect to see some reliable and easy to apply (usb?) solution to wipe and tame ME.

Greatest news is that it works for latest Intel processors so even if they change protection (they certainly will) we at least have very good processors that can work without spyware. All the previous tests I read about only tackled first few generations of Intel ME, for processors/boards over 8 or 10 years old.

Works beautifully with w3m which has become my main site test lately. Another great example is HN itself.

If it doesn't work well with w3m something is wrong with the site philosophy or execution.

Uptime is nice, that's new.

Exactly as other post says, kdbus and the way he tried to push it raised a few warning flags. Kernel is all about trust and I just don't trust Greg after that episode.

It is all off topic since I really admire zx2c4 and this is about his product.

Edit: since Greg KH got removed from the thread title any mention of him is off topic...