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The PS4 Pro had heat and noise issues so it looks like they've taken that feedback very seriously. Happy to see liquid metal there, too, instead of the usual blob of below-average grey goo you'd typically see in a mass market consumer product.

You can tell someone hasn't watched the Ratchet & Clank demo from the other day[0]. The SSDs in these consoles go far beyond short load times. They can radically change how games are made and designed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnG-3-r6-Q

Does that mean the new 2020 Macbook Pro I bought with 16GB just became $100 more valuable?

This is really well done and fun. Great job!

The most inept provincial government we've had since the last time to Cons were in charge. An absolute embarrassment.

Or no comment at all. This code is as self-documenting as you can get.

Can't wait to try it out in three years when I replace my eight-month-old phone that won't be getting an update.

“FeRAM's advantages over Flash include: lower power usage, faster write performance and a much greater maximum read/write endurance (about 10^10 to 10^14 cycles).”

This sound impressive until you get to the part where reads are destructive, and reads heavily outweigh writes in most workloads. Sounds like a pretty significant disadvantage.

US-only, of course.

It was a stupid and arbitrary decision to begin with. Glad support is back but I don't think I'll be back.

Still nothing on transparent compression? It's one of the main reasons why I keep a ZFS partition on the Macbook.

Any word on when zstd support will get added? Feels like I've been hearing about it for two years now.

Those retrieval costs, though...

If only they'd release a version of the XPS with a 16:10 or 3:2 ratio display. Getting work done on 16:9 is just so narrow and cramped.

> The paths taken by Apple and Google manifest alternative answers to one of the main questions facing capitalism today: What should public companies do with all of the money that they’re making? Even as corporations have brought in enormous profits, there has been a shortage of lucrative opportunities for investment and growth, creating surpluses of cash. This imbalance has resulted in the pileup of $2 trillion on corporate balance sheets.

Pay your employees.

Hm, it's almost like the iPad and iOS aren't suitable environments to get real work done unless you're an artist.

Thought it'd be the syntax. Maybe next year.

It has a lot of potential but the apps included with Mojave feel way too iOS-like and out of place in macOS. Hopefully it gets better integration before they open this up to developers.

Flatpak and Snaps are a great step forward for Linux packaging and usability.

I think there's a vocal segment of the Linux community that doesn't understand what a major roadblock it is for the general user having different distributions having completely different ways of packaging, distributing, and updating applications. Don't worry, no one's taking away your apt-get, pacman, rpm, eopkg, makefiles, etc.

Now make it an Electron app.

/s

Would this impact FUSE-based filesystems like EncFS?

As someone who still loves macOS but is getting really turned off by the rising costs of owning a Macbook and design compromises you have to put up with, I really hope solutions like these continue to develop and grow.

If I could slap macOS on a Matebook X Pro, I'd switch tomorrow.

Except for the 16:9 screen. I'm so done working with such a narrow aspect ratio.

The Macbook he's describing costs $8,379.00 Canadian.

$8,379.00

For a Macbook.

(All prices Canadian)

- A $2400 entry price for a quad-core 13" Macbook Pro. - Minimum $3675 spend for a Macbook with 32GB of memory (and still only comes with 256GB of storage). - Non-touchbar Macbook Pro stagnating with 7th-gen dual-core at the same exact price.

Looks like I'll be holding on to my 2014 model like grim death.

> Mail (super nice due to compression and big space savings (in my case 20% reduction of space needed)

Things will get even better once zstd is added[1]. Leaving transparent compression out of APFS was a real big mistake by Apple, imho, given how fast and cheap lz4 and zstd are. It's one of the reasons why I have a ZFS volume set aside myself.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenZFS-...

Nah. I like it, too. Everything about it on paper says I should hate it, but there's something about it I really enjoy.

About time. Laptops with 8th-gen Intel processors have been out for over eight months already.

Any idea why a macoS version isn't available? Where would I get it?

The author says setting a register like this is hard to read and maintain:

    *(volatile std::uint32_t*)reg_name = val;

And the author's solution is to replace that one line with this:

    struct DeviceSetup {
        enum class TableType : std::uint32_t {
            inphase = 0,
            quadrature,
            table
        };

        std::uint32_t input_source : 8;
        TableType table_type : 4;
        std::uint32_t reserved : 20;
    };

    volatile auto device_registers_ptr = reinterpret_cast<DeviceSetup*>(DeviceControlAddress);

I'm not really seeing the readability and maintainability advantages here.