michaelmarion

...THAT was a big explosion.

Specifically, the Masters is the most elite napping weekend of the year.

IANAP, but a layman's understanding: the materials that we have available today to conduct electricity at or around room temperatures largely do so in an inefficient manner. As electricity moves through the material, some energy is wasted in the form of ejected heat.

To circumvent this, physicists discovered superconductivity: a state in which a material is a perfectly efficient conductor of electricity. Thus far, to create a superconductive material requires keeping that material at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure.

A room-temperature superconductor is a game-changer because we could get nearly-perfect energy efficient electric conduction without the additional energy overhead it takes to keep the material at such a dense pressure or extreme temperature. Such a material would have wide applications across a variety of disciplines.

Here's a useful article as well: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-2048/26/11/1...

Congrats on the launch, guys!

Yep—AROSE and then CLINT for me.

This. I want an M1 Max in a Mac mini, and especially an Apple-branded display or three that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

I agree on the recommendation piece, but Apple’s playlist and library management is atrocious, especially on desktop. Why can’t I drag-and-drop music into a playlist in the sidebar? Apple Music also feels (to me, at least) much slower than Spotify. Most likely this is due to the more aggressive client-side caching that Spotify does, but it’s worth the trade-off, in my opinion.

These are solvable problems for Apple, though. They need to more cleanly separate the legacy iTunes Store and pay-per-song UX from the Apple Music streaming paradigm. Maybe even have separate apps for them.

This! If I don’t get exercise in the morning I feel really sluggish in the afternoon. It’s counterintuitive but really helps.

As a proud owner of an iPhone mini, I agree with you. I wish this trend towards larger screen sizes would turn around.

They really need to unify the design language across all mobile devices. You need to have one iThing that is available the following sizes:

XS — 6.1" (iPhone) S — 6.8" (iPhone Max) M — 8.3" (iPad Mini) L — 11" (iPad) XL — 12.9" (Big iPad)

That's it. Same design language, same thing. Pick your screen size, storage amount, whether you want cellular or just Wi-Fi, and color, and you're good.

This completely unifies everything—iPads, iPod Touches, and iPhones. You could even do a second Pro line alongside this.

I'm sure there are manufacturing difficulties involved here, in addition to having a single chipset that conforms to each size, but this should be getting a bit easier as they move into the M-series architecture. Or you just keep the A-series in the XS and S models and put an M-series chip in the iPad mini eventually.

This looks awesome! Hope it works out for you. Could also see this becoming a B2B situation sometime down the road where engineering teams could use this as a knowledge base. That could also be really useful.

Can we bring back the time when there was no social media instead? I feel like that's what society desperately needs.

I’ve been using Monarch lately and I love it.

https://www.monarchmoney.com/

I already do this with Feedbin and Reeder on macOS.

He didn't just contribute the solo—he rearranged part of the song! [1]

Michael [Jackson] left to go across the hall to do some children's speaking record. I think it was "E.T." or something. So I asked Quincy [Jones], "What do you want me to do?" And he goes, "Whatever you want to do." And I go, "Be careful when you say that. If you know anything about me, be careful when you say, "Do anything you want!"

I listened to the song, and I immediately go, "Can I change some parts?" I turned to the engineer and I go, "OK, from the breakdown, chop in this part, go to this piece, pre-chorus, to the chorus, out." Took him maybe 10 minutes to put it together. And I proceeded to improvise two solos over it. I was just finishing the second solo when Michael walked in.

And you know artists are kind of crazy people. We're all a little bit strange. I didn't know how he would react to what I was doing. So I warned him before he listened. I said, "Look, I changed the middle section of your song."

Now in my mind, he's either going to have his bodyguards kick me out for butchering his song, or he's going to like it. And so he gave it a listen, and he turned to me and went, "Wow, thank you so much for having the passion to not just come in and blaze a solo, but to actually care about the song, and make it better."

I can't think of a more innovative and imaginative musician in history.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/showbiz/music/van-halen-jacks...

Seems like Panic is billing Nova as a text editor only—not necessarily an IDE. They’d have to add in functionality for a whole host of other things to make that a reality, including compilation, build, debugging, and so on. I doubt all of that can be done with their build scripts and extension framework alone, but, hey—I’ve been wrong before.

The state of the IDE landscape on Mac amazes me. It seems like there a $#!*-ton of Java/C++ developers using standard-issue MacBooks at Big Corp, Inc. who are staring at ugly IntelliJ windows for eight hours a day.

If there was a native-feeling, good-looking IDE for the Mac I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t print money. (Or if XCode ever decided to branch out beyond honest-to-goodness support for things other than Objective-C and Swift...)

I’m going to be that guy: I would kill for a Java IDE that looked like this.

I want this too, but I guess the folks in Cupertino would rather upsell us a watch.

I'm trying out the Oura ring right now. It's really nice, especially for sleep tracking, but it doesn't fill up my rings in Apple Health the way my Watch does. It writes calories, for instance, to the "Active Energy" category, not the "Activity" one which corresponds to the ring.

Really annoying. Apple needs to figure out if it's a luxury watch company or a fitness watch company, or design specific products for both of those categories. Nobody works out with a Rolex on and eventually push will come to shove.

Ben Thompson has argued for this, but more in the abstract: government is focusing too much on using preexisting legal frameworks to handle these issues. In reality, the right framework doesn't exist yet!

In the States, this is on Congress: we need new laws and a new process to sort out this flavor of antitrust issue. The current stuff on the books doesn't cut it.

Also of note: I'm also not saying we need more laws. It's not a question of to what degree we do regulate this sort of thing: my point is that we don't even have a process to think about the issues! It's totally archaic.

I'm in a similar boat, but I've found that most of my friends have moved out, so I'm doing the same.

If that social network was still around I'd likely stay, but it's hard to justify the expense when more of my friends are in one place back in my hometown.

It's all temporary, though—I'm planning on coming back once the city starts to open back up in earnest.

Stoop is awesome! Would definitely recommend.

I did this a while back. There are a number of really awesome services now that give you a one-off email address solely for signing up for newsletters, and an in-app reading experience that is markedly better.

I've used Stoop [1] for the better part of two years now, and it's a great product with a great model.

I'm working on using Feedbin instead so that I can get my newsletter emails in Reeder, which I use for reading RSS feeds. That's my main news source, really.

Feedly also provides a lot of this functionality in their Pro+ plan, but they go way above and beyond my needs at a higher price.

[1] http://stoopinbox.com [2] http://feedbin.com [3] http://feedly.com

Great point. Bloomberg's Matt Levine has been referenced elsewhere in this discussion, but he had this exact point [1] in today's newsletter regarding market reactions to COVID vaccine news:

"Signs of progress toward a coronavirus vaccine by Moderna propelled most corners of the stock market higher. … Most of the gains followed the release of a new study suggesting Moderna had reached a breakthrough with its coronavirus vaccine, setting the stage for a larger trial at the end of this month. Cruise-ship operators, airliners and other stocks sensitive to the coronavirus crisis led the stock market higher. Shares of Moderna rose $5.18, or 6.9%, to $80.22.

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. was up 21.2%. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. was up 20.7%. Carnival Corp. was up 16.2%. American Airlines Group Inc. was also up 16.2%. United Airlines Holdings was up 14.6%. The biggest gainers were the vaccine-sensitive industries, not Moderna itself."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-16/a-vacc...

Spaces versus tabs? /s

Durham represent!

Thanks for playing, Intel.

I was fortunate enough to be able to take a variation on Professor Christensen's HBS course through a summer program of study offered by Duke University; his son, Matthew, was himself an alumnus of both Duke and HBS and was our instructor for the course.

We were lucky enough to have Professor Christensen himself fly in for a few days for guest lectures. From the minute he walked into the door, his intellectual brilliance was obvious, but our class very quickly discovered what a kind person he was.

(This was right in the thick of the iOS-versus-Android wars and I recall having quite the spirited lecture about the nature of the market and which platform would eventually win out!)

I'll remember Professor Christensen as a brilliant thinker and, most of all, a good man.

Putting in a plug for Brooklyn Gin. It's turned my entire Southern bourbon-swilling family into gin drinkers. It's small-batch gin distilled in, well, you guessed it. http://www.brooklyngin.com/

If that were the case then there is no truth in society and/or the facts are so hard to find that there effectively isn’t a democracy.

Now you're getting it!

Ahh, I see your point. Good question.