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Actually metal's pretty bendy when compared to plastic (most anyway...mmv based upon formula).

The metal construction is what prompted me to switch over to macbook pro's back in the day. The plastic dell laptops i used to use couldn't handle the abuse that it took during all of the travel i was doing at the time (cases kept cracking). I switched to a pro and was rewarded later with it surviving a 5 foot fall from a car rental counter. It bent part of the corner, but the screen was still in tact and it continued to work well enough to get me through the trip. I suspect the plastic alternative would have been toast.

Having kids today and seeing how rough they are with their toys, I'm not confident that a plastic laptop would survive them long.

Was a trend?

This is the way

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From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.

Given the running narrative that closing down TikTok is more of an effort of American social network platforms, it's probably more a form of protest than anything.

Tend to use blind for the inside scoop these days anyway

Is that more or less efficient than a heat pump water heater driven by solar though? A quick search shows that the heat pump option can be upwards of 3x more efficient. Plus, you can use the extra electricity generated to power your fans or heat pump cooling system.

That's an interesting attempt to deflect from the income disparity between those in executive positions to those that work for them. Even in tech, while the salaries of tech workers is high it's nothing compared to the execs.

But let's follow the deflection. Instead of monetary disparity, lets look at energy waste disparity. It was recently shown that the top 10% wealthiest Americans contribute to 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country. As you said, we are all on the same planet. just because they have managed to grab a bigger piece of the pie shouldn't mean that they get to pollute the planet more than anyone else. In both cases the mindset needs to change and those at the top maybe need to be a little less greedy overall.

source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230817163849.h...

Skepticism on this was called out in WaPo's article on the same subject:

Other experts on the AMOC also cautioned that because the new study doesn’t present new observations of the entire ocean system — instead, it is extrapolating about the future based on past data from a limited region of the Atlantic — its conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/2...

I buy a book and give it to my child

how about they become a therapist and sell access

what if they sell access to lectures

I fully agree. But in all of your examples someone is purchasing the right to access the information in question. Did Meta or OpenAI purchase the books (or lectures) with the intention of feeding them into the training for their respective LLM's?

The Minority Report movie probably set the industry back by a decade or two. Waving your hands around to control stuff seems logical but is quickly exhausting.

There was an operations center I worked at that had a large touch screen (think cnn wall), that always sat in the corner of the area collecting dust, but whenever some higher up would visit it would get pulled out and used just to provide a wow factor. It was always the unlucky one that ended up having to use it during this time. The fatigue was horrible.

I always find it interesting that objects like these must have had to have a purpose. Why couldn’t it have been a piece of art simply for decoration?

I’ve known two people who have had kidney stones and I don’t think either of them would have been able to withstand the pain from the stone enough to go on a rollercoaster. Then again, maybe the promise of ending the pain will give enough motivation to grit it out.

Call me naive then. While I agree that a fair amount of academic research funding is defense/military related, it’s certainly not all of it. If said research is funded by organizations like DARPA, then yes, absolutely. There are other sources of funding out there though that isn’t defense backed: NSF, NIH funding comes to mind among others, including corporate backed academic research. When i was in academia, I worked on research funded by grants from NSF, Intel and Microsoft to name a few.

Not to mention that Apple, in general, isn’t really known for their multiuser-friendly ways.

Nothing to imagine. That's the way it was before the pandemic and the way it will be once my company adopts this strategy as well

I can only imagine the overhead expenses saved by a company embracing the full wfh option in this manner.

Of course, so many large companies were in the process of building large new buildings / campuses as the pandemic hit, so I can also see this as a way to ensure those large investments aren't seen as a waste.

The hand is to mimic that of a traffic cop. When they want you to stop, they hold up their hand to indicate that you need to stop.

It used to be that you had to know english in order to understand them as well...many of the signs used to use the words "walk" and "don't walk"

This really only applies if shooting at a target behind you that is either stationary or moving much slower than you.

If the target is moving at (or nearly at) the same speed as you then those velocities effectively cancel out

Two things:

1) Is there anything stopping them from simply blocking all of Texas from visiting their sites? Keeps them from violating both texas law as well as federal law

2) Does this translate to any business operating in the state of Texas or is it simply online companies?

I mean that the viral loads they'd be exposed to in year 3 (post lockdown) would be the same as the loads they would have been exposed to in year 1 if there had been no lockdown.

You would need to counter-balance this with the likely models of death and long covid if lockdowns _hadn’t_ occurred as well.

You cannot look at the actual stats without taking those mitigating factors into account.

It’s not as if kids coming out of lockdown are suddenly exposed to a disproportionately higher number / load of virii than if they were exposed at a younger age.

I was using a mobile phone and it was still difficult to swipe between pictures as well. Though maybe my iphone simply didn’t want to see the needless carnage.

Remote work seemed to be declining in the Bay Area pre-pandemic. My company and many others were pushing for more in-office work over remote work as they felt that employees were able to be more creative and productive if they were able to collaborate spontaneously which in their eyes could only happen if everyone was in the office. This really seemed to take off in the area after Yahoo had implemented their no remote work policy.

The average person (whatever that means) does not have the first clue about the machines that run so many parts of their lives.

Sadly, I would argue that this is also true of many developers.

I think they were referring to reverting the work of the employee that left that put the organization in a bind, not someone still on the team.

I had the same thought—revert the changes to get the rest of the team back on track. The problem could be that the changes could be over the course of many commits, so rolling back is complicated and almost as difficult as moving forward.

a large utility is not like a private company. We cannot let a large utility fail, and therefore they are more like a government organization than a private company.

I see no way utilities provided by a for-profit company make sense. They are monopolies for services across entire swaths of the population. I can’t select which company I receive power from. In this model paying dividends to shareholders simply means that there was either some service/maintenance cut, or they set their rates too high for their customers.

At best, utilities should be government ran. Their “shareholders” should be those that foot the bill at the end of the day. At worst, at least make them nonprofit entities so that they’ll focus their efforts on bettering the product rather than doing what they can to improve shareholder dividends.

That’s the very definition of conspiracy:

“a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.”