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seanismorris said:

Wow.

Shazam had a ton of crap included...

I probably would have banned Microsoft's HockeyApp on principle.

A “beta testing and management service deployed through Azure” is named HockeyApp?  That’s not suspicious...

HockeyApp dates back to the earliest days of the app store. Dev app sharing is referred to as "ad hoc distribution", and HockeyApp existed to make ad hoc key sharing easy. "ad hock key" == "hoc key app"

Damn. Those are cool. I'm nearly positive they are in violation of the USB 3.1 spec, but I'll be grabbing a couple anyway.

[edit] Here it is, courtesy of some wonk:

This adapter does NOT comply with the USB Type-C specification version 1.1 section 2.2 of the specification which states the following :
"USB Type-C receptacle to USB legacy adapters are explicitly not defined or allowed. Such adapters would allow many invalid and potentially unsafe cable connections to be contructed by users."

This is because if you combine this adapter with a USB Type-A to Type-C cable, you may create a dangerous condition where two power supplies may be connected together opposing each other using the combined cable.

Furthermore, this adapter violates Section 2.3.1 :
"Power is not applied to the USB Type-C host or hub receptacle (VBUS or VCONN) until the DFP detects the presence of an attached device (UFP) port."

In my testing, even when no UFP device is attached, this receptacle port's VBUS line is powered on at 5V. It should only be at 5V when a UFP device is present.

This adapter and port violates Section 4.5.1.2.1 - Please see figure 4-5. A correct DFP receptacle must use two distinct Rp resistors. According to my testing, the CHENYANG adapter leaves the CC lines completely floating, with no Rp at all on either CC pin.
This means that the Chromebook Pixel 2015 does not detect a charger device at all, as it depends on the presence of Rp to start charging.

Finally, this adapter also claims to support USB 3.1 SuperSpeed, but because it is only a passive adapter, there is no way to support both orientations of a potential USB device as that requires a mux on the receptacle end. Indeed, when I tried it, it would only ever enumerate a USB-C thumbdrive as high speed (usb 2.0).

Long story short : This adapter is a type forbidden by the USB Type-C specification, and should NOT exist. It gets my lowest rating of 1-star because there is no simple thing that the manufacturer can do to make this adapter correct.

They did all that years ago. I've built out three server side projects using the Swift Vapor framework. 

(Natively in browsers, not quite here, but coming to WebASM sooner or later)

I for one think it’s really nice that they pulled a bunch of goddamned retired Compaq Computer graphic designers from the 1980’s out of retirement to craft these informative logos.

> And, Apple tells us that individual keys can be replaced. We didn't get any information on what this entails, but at this juncture, it still looks like a complete disassembly is required to do so.

 No, they can be popped off just like the old 20xx-2015 models. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+16-Inch+2019+Teardown/128106#s249714

I just walked out of an Apple Store. The adjustable-height stand is much nicer than I expected! Huge fun to play with.

Screen picture is visibly brighter than my LG 5k, even "feels" bigger. Definitely disappointing that it's not HDR or mini-LED, but… I dunno. It's not disappointing. 

Beats said:

I wonder why? Is it more accurate or?

Normal weather apps will give you pretty-good predictions over 5-7 days.

Dark Sky gives you very, almost frighteningly accurate predictions over about an hour. I use it during rainstorms to determine where there will be, like, a ten minute gap in rainfall to bicycle home. It's amazing.

Take a closer look at that screenshot for Cape Canaveral, FL. That graph shows moderate rain for about twenty minutes, then a light drizzle, then no precipitation. Whenever that screenshot was taken, you can bet that's exactly how the next hour panned out.

sflocal said:

MplsP said:

Fatman said:

Tht - I thought the same thing. For the younger crowd ... older PC towers (circa 386, 486 era?) had a turbo button - I believe it simply overclocked the processor. I always wondered why you would want it off - to work slower? LOL

The first computer I owned was a 486 tower with a 'turbo' button - when I opened it up to install a new video card I found out that the turbo button actually wan't connected to anything! 

I remember quite a few PC's that were mainly by independent sellers building their own rigs that never had that "turbo" button connected to anything.  Now that I think of it, I don't ever recall the Turbo button ever working on anything.  Any insights?

yeah I had a 286 with one of those.

A lot of games written for 8088-series CPUs were timed against the speed of the CPU, not the internal clock. This would render an arcade game on a faster game as unplayable.

The effect was unnoticeable on non-game apps (word processors, whatever) because those old DOS apps really ran pretty fast on anything, as there was no GUI to update. Some sort of complex WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 function would probably be visibly slower if one did a side-by-side benchmark, but not enough people has spare computers lying around to even do a comparison like that.

One would probably never notice unless they tried to play a game like King's Quest I on a 486, and games were improving at such a rapid clip that nobody cared, definitely not surprising that many buttons weren't hooked up.

I was all set to jump on the “holy shit Spotify is completely inept” bandwagon (I personally ignored Spotify in favor of Beats Music because of the latter’s superior Mac software back in the day), but these tweets by Marco Arment — creator of the Overcast podcast app, Instapaper, and some social network called Tumbling or something — made me think twice.