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Touchscreen Mac, or double your RAM or SSD size – what’s the better deal? [Poll]

We’re just a week away from the official announcement of the first ever touchscreen Mac . The upcoming MacBook Pro will also have an OLED screen, which may include a Dynamic Island, and is said to be lighter. We don’t yet know the price of the new model, but we can be sure it will carry a significant premium over the existing one. My guess would be somewhere in the $500 to $700 range … more…

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Touchscreen Mac, or double your RAM or SSD size – what’s the better deal? [Poll]

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How a HEIC file becomes a JPG inside your browser

Someone sends you a photo from an iPhone. You drop it into a web form. The form says "unsupported file type" and that's the end of the conversation. The file is a .heic .

  • HEIC files are container format for HEVC-encoded images, not standalone image formats
  • Most browsers lack HEIC decoding capability due to patent-encumbered HEVC codec
  • Ship decoder on demand after confirming file is HEIC to convert to supported formats

·dev.to

Airflow and Dagster Can't Backfill ML Experiments Right

TL;DR — Airflow and Dagster both partition work along a single axis: time. ML workflows need backfills along two axes at once — time window and code/config version — and neither tool's partition model…

  • Airflow and Dagster partition work along a single time axis.
  • ML workflows need backfills along two axes: data time window and code/config version.
  • Current orchestrators can't track code/config version as explicit dimension.

·dev.to

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