I have a petty one:

1. Go to Settings and disable Apple Intelligence
2. use Siri voice control for a task
3. the Siri icon thing remains at the bottom of the screen because it’s listening for the next command.
4. tap elsewhere on the screen

Expected: Siri goes away

Encountered: the tap does nothing - Siri will continue listening until you say “thank you” or turn off the screen.

Workaround: restart the phone and the problem goes away.

I think this is just a picky optimization.

The first one runs the constructor to instantiate a new string, then gets its class (which is presumably a static property anyway). The second doesn’t have to run any constructor and just grabs the static class name from the type.

Maybe there’s more implementation nuance here but it seems like an opinionated rule that has zero effect on performance unless that code is being called thousands of times every second. And even then the compiler probably optimizes them to the same code anyway.

OH MY GOD I SAW A TIT

Wasn’t it Visual SourceSafe or something like that?

God, what a revolution it was when subversion came along and we didn’t have to take turns checking out a file to have exclusive write access.

This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.

The short answer is no.

You can do an easy experiment to see this using image files. Grab a random JPG file and open it in a graphics program and save it as a BMP format image.

JPG is already compressed, and BMP is absolutely not compressed. Then try compressing each image. You’ll find that the JPG doesn’t get much smaller, or might even be a bit bigger when compressed. Now do the same with the BMP - that one makes for a smaller RAR!

The main issue here is that compression is about removing empty space in a file (it’s a weak analogy but bear with me). If the file itself already had some kind of compression (basically every AVI or MP4 or MKV you download probably is already compressed), then there’s already a lot less empty space inside the file. RAR doesn’t have much empty space left to work with, so it can’t really reduce the file size any more.

It’s worth doing some testing on a single movie to see how this all works. You’ll probably find that it’s best to just leave the files exactly the way they are. No RAR. No ISO. No tricks. The gains simply aren’t there.

If you’re looking to save on some disk space with your movies, you’d get a lot farther by just deleting one movie you don’t really want that badly. The amount of space you get back from that will exceed your compression gains. It also means you don’t have to go and uncompressed the movies every time you want to watch one.

Guys I don’t think this is real. It’s possible AI was involved.

If you look very closely, you’ll notice that Elon Musk looks young and is ripped. I don’t think that’s right.

The rest checks out.

In a way I’m relieved. I thought the existing, laggy, unhelpful ChatGPT integration was the entire feature they’d been hyping so hard.

Little did OP know that while they were watching this strange performance unfold, the other guy was sneaking up behind OP and stole their wallet.

“Dad, I can’t do this anymore. You do you and I’ll do me and let’s touch base again in 4 years.”

They must have eventually wrote something in my file. A few years ago the nagging stopped and the dentist just says “I’ll take what I can get” after asking how often I floss.

Elon’s shock and fury about the database key sounds like he got a report from an out-of-breath 20 year old DOGE kid who thinks they’re hot shit and discovered some massive flaw.

Elon also seems like the kind of person that believes a database schema is all that’s needed to govern a population.

Technical education opens doors, or your child.

Please don’t open my child.

Guess how many bombs the TSA has protected people from.

nods

Star moose.

Dammit, don’t you dare tell me to do something I’m already doing.

Warnings? We’ll come back and address those later. Maybe once we’re feature complete. Or maybe shortly after that.

Uplemmingers? It’s called VALIDATION

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Oh. Great. 5 vowels in a row. The language needed that.

You mean FLOTUS?