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Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

vrijdag 5 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

OpenAI (via Hacker News, paper): We’ve discovered neurons in CLIP that respond to the same concept whether presented literally, symbolically, or conceptually. This may explain CLIP’s accuracy in classifying surprising visual renditions of concepts, …

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Accidentally Quadratic Parsing With sscanf

vrijdag 5 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

T0ST (via Hacker News): GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was released 7 years ago.[…]Ent…

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Apple Account Locked Due to Failed Trade-in

vrijdag 5 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dustin Curtis (tweet, Hacker News, 9to5Mac, David Heinemeier Hansson, John Gruber, Nick Heer): I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accou…

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Free Trials Aren’t Free Apps

woensdag 3 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cabel Sasser: It doesn’t matter how clear your terms are in your subscription app — and ours are CRYSTAL — some people will just breeze past them Until Apple starts clearly labelling subscription terms IN THE APP STORE ITSELF, I think we’ll keep get…

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Australia vs. Facebook and Google

woensdag 3 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Timothy B. Lee: Google says it would have “no real choice” but to shut down its search engine in Australia if Australia passes a new law requiring Google to pay news sites to link to their articles. […] You might think that Google would simply stop …

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Origin of macOS Poof Animation

dinsdag 2 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Hynes: It used to be that when you dragged an item off the Dock and dropped it, the icon would disappear in a puff of smoke and make a satisfying noise. The animation was strangely primitive against the backdrop of the slick user interface of …

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Apple Developer Forums Can Now Monitor Threads

dinsdag 2 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (also: MacRumors): And now, it’s easier to find and keep track of content you’re interested in. Take advantage of enhanced search and a new feature that monitors threads for you and sends you an email each time there’s a reply. The new forums …

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Be Careful With Obj-C Bridging in Swift

dinsdag 2 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bruno Rocha: While visually the same, this case is completely different from the view controllers one! String does not inherit or uses NSString in any way -- they are different objects with different implementations. The way this works is that as in…

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Apple TV 3 Losing More Content

dinsdag 2 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: Last week, the MLB app was removed from the third-generation Apple TV[…] A few other popular apps are being removed from the third-generation Apple TV as of this month, including YouTube and CBS All Access, the latter of which is bein…

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Apple Beige

maandag 1 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Zotto: Apple’s second computer — its first to have a case — launched in 1977, and that boxy beige Apple II was soon everywhere: in classrooms, living rooms and offices. At the vanguard of a generation of personal computers to come, it featured a…

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The Mac Price Crash of 2021

maandag 1 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Robin Harris (via Hacker News): The impressive performance and battery life gains of the new M1 MacBooks have created a historic discontinuity in the normally placid resale market. Should you spend $800 for a one year old MacBook Air when for $200 m…

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Weather Line Acquired

maandag 1 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Off Coast LLC (tweet): The acquisition means the app is going away. Today, we removed Weather Line from the App Store. For all existing Weather Line users, free and paid, the app will continue working for 13 months, until April 1, 2022. […] As an In…

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Downcast 2.9.61

maandag 1 maart 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

George Cox: This update contains a big improvement in Downcast’s macOS app that reduces the chances of running into the dreaded ‘inaccessible resource’ issue. Per Apple’s suggestion, Downcast stores security-scoped bookmarks for file system resource…

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Apple Documentation and SwiftUI for Mac

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alexander Grebenyuk: I wrote a post yesterday about triple-column navigation in SwiftUI. It felt a bit awkward posting it because this really shouldn’t be some obscure knowledge. This is hardly a challenging problem. But to me and to many other peop…

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Outdated Software Keeps Inmates Beyond Their Release Dates

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jimmy Jenkins (via Hacker News): According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release are being held in prison because the inmate management software cannot interpret curre…

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Clubhouse Wants to Upload Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Will Oremus: When you join the fast-growing, invite-only social media app Clubhouse — lucky you! — one of the first things the app will ask you to do is grant it access to your iPhone’s contacts. A finger icon points to the “OK” button, which is als…

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Excessive Mac SSD Wear

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): Across Twitter and the MacRumors forums, users are reporting that M1 Macs are experiencing extremely high drive writes over a short space of time. In what appear to be the most severe cases, M1 Macs are said to be con…

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Steve Jobs Stories

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and if he was still alive, today would mark his 66th birthday. Dave Mark: The Computer History Museum pulled together a Clubhouse visit with some Apple luminaries…

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Fry’s Electronics Closing

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bill Reynolds (via Hacker News): Fry’s Electronics is closing business nationwide effective tonight. Om Malik: We applaud fashion designers like Paul Smith for creating a unique look for their stores across the world, but this is one area where Fry’…

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One-to-One IP Targeting

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

El Toro: Specifically, El Toro offers: Targeting without having to use cookies, census blocks, or geo-location tools. John Gruber: Why doesn’t Apple build a VPN into its OSes? Or as an offering of paid iCloud accounts at least? At this point, if pri…

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Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5K Wireless Power Bank

vrijdag 26 februari 2021 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rossignol: First previewed at CES 2021, the PowerCore battery pack magnetically attaches to the back of any iPhone 12 model and provides 5W of wireless charging. With a 5,000 mAh capacity, the battery pack is capable of charging the iPhone 12 mi…

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