In summary, Apple messed up, they had nothing to present this year, so they came up with a bad design and passed it off as "revolutionary". This is the kind of thing a failing company does. I'm sad, I'm an Apple fan, but they are pulling scams for years instead of actual developments.

This seems like a minority perspective, but while (or maybe because) I was really prepared to hate Liquid Glass, I actually quite like it, all in all.

I can’t speak for people with visual impairments, but for me, many of the effects actually work, and I appreciate the on average larger hit targets.

Some things, like the little icons inline of some macOS menu bar items, actually make it easier to quickly spot a given option in a long list to me.

It definitely feels like they needed something, anything, to use as a marketing tool following the Apple Intelligence false advertising debacle.

I wish people would stop posting paywalled links.

We could build websites from snippets of paywalled links. Just using them as resource for something usefull.

I have the following bookmarklet saved. When I hit a paywall that can't be defeated by readerview I use this:

"javascript:window.open('://archive.is/'+window.location.href.replace(window.location.search,''))"

(Put "https" before the "://" - I couldn't work out how to prevent it being turned into a URL otherwise.)

I know how to bypass it, but websites should see a dropoff of clicks under paywall if it is to be discouraged. I do pay for writing that I know and like, don't get me wrong, but if the NYT want to have a member-only website, so be it.

You have a very weird way of doing those graphs.

For the author to clarify what's "weird":

1) Independent variable (thing you are changing) is usually on the x axis and dependent variable (thing you are measuring) is usually on the y axis. Having the two flipped requires a confusing in-head translation among people who look at graphs regularly.

2) Your plotting software is not plotting your line graph in monotonically changing fashion. This gives zig zags where the graph goes backwards. Addressing #1 could help or plot as a scatter plot ("." option in matplotlib).

3) A detailed description of parameters under the plot would also be nice.

Regardless this is a cool example of bloom filters in action. Thank you!

Kind of light on the details

Yep - he said that was intentional, so.

Can you imagine being the person at USPTO who has to actually read and understand that?

Well, the title is that, but the claim is a bit more specific. Still ridiculous. Anyway it feels like the system will change soon as everyone is fed up with this kind of stuff.

Does anyone know how it actually works?

The movie is pretty awesome.

A fun fact is that when the film got released, it was poorly received in the box office. Some time later, people started torrenting it and spread the word. The cast are said to be actually surprised when they get recognised from The Man from Earth since, as far as they thought, was fairly obscure.

Re portability with the Retina MacBookPro: I've had mine (15") for about 3 months now, and I have to say it's absolutely great.

The Air is very thin, and weighs in at 1.35Kg, but has a weak CPU and Intel graphics.

The rMBP is not that extremely thin, but it's amazingly thin as well, a lot thinner that the old MBPs and other laptops. It weighs only 2Kg which still makes it very light to carry around. I'd say that for portability, the new 15" rMBP is great. Light and small enough to carry but still powerful enough to work on. Given that it has a i7 CPU, GF 640 graphics card, 16GB RAM, a retina display, and almost the same battery life as the air, which is 6-7 hours.

You can host your VM's on a remote server if you like, but as far as choosing Air vs rMBP, the rMBP is an obvious winner, except if you mind the higher price tag.

You need a power source though once in a while. If you're a college student who walks around the campus all day, working on small desks and park benches I'd get an Air. For everything else, like working around the house or office, definitely go with Pro.

Thanks prody, thats really helpful. I've also got an awful habit of consuming media content on my laptop whilst lying back in bed and on the sofa etc. Do you ever do this and find the 15" cumbersome or heavy in these situations?

It's light enough to carry in bed, and is really comfortable to use. I actually do it very often, I even have a laptop bed table but I actually never use it since the rMBP has such a nice solid feel to it.

Even considering bed use, I'd still go with a rMBP over an Air, for the rest of the advantages.

The one thing you might find annoying is that the rMBP can get pretty hot when under stress, e.g. if you watch a movie in bed, it will get warm around the top rows of the keyboard. The way I hold it, it doesn't really bother me that much, though after I got it I took it to an Apple store because I was worried with how hot it would get. You can use something like smcFanControl to turn up the fans, which will make it cool down fast, but it's nicer to use it in bed without it making any noise at all.

If you'd like to see exactly how hot it gets, just go to an apple store, and stress it's CPU a bit

e.g. open a terminal and pipe yes to dev null in 16 processes:

for i in {1..16}; do yes > /dev/null &; done

It should get really warm in ~2 minutes, you can walk around while this happens. (when done, remember to kill the processes: killall yes)

My KDE4 solution was to set noborder and forced size and position plus a ignore requested geometry flag. KDE4 lets you specify these flags by windows class, window application, etc. It's right there in the KDE4 context menu on windows.

The other solution that I actually use was switch to awesomeWM (any other tiling WM works), this makes a lot of sense for coding since you no longer have window clutter.