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Apple Intel laptop + a butterfly keyboard was the absolute gutter tier experience. Not only it was slow and ran hot, but after a few months a random key would get stuck and stop working.

I think the laptop hardware pre Apple M chips was just terrible and has pretty much stayed that way. There’s a reason why Apple moved away from Intel.

Before M chips an Apple Intel laptop was just a shiny wrapper for a PC laptop experience: fans turn on to full blast all the time, battery lasts <3 hours under any regular usage beyond just browsing (say having an IDE open, and frequently switching between apps). Laptop would get hot to the point where you need padding if you keep it on a lap so you’re not boiling yourself. Made for a good leg warmer during the winter though haha.

With an Apple M4 laptop, the only time I’ve heard the fan turn on is when I almost 100% filled the memory with some local LLM model. I can’t recall any other times. Battery life is finally as advertised, can last many hours, laptop is consistently fast, never gets hot and any CPU throttling is not perceptible under medium to high CPU usage.

^^^ This.

What can the Erlang / Golang runtimes do that the JVM can’t?

Yes, he’s throwing himself. Aikido is often practiced solely as a non-competitive art.

If you want to see what competitive throws/takedowns with a kimono/gi look like against live resistance, watch Judo. Example https://youtu.be/fLD87nqwp3Y

For the same but without kimono, watch Greco-Roman. Example https://youtu.be/4Xc-wxNSsTk).

Boeing and others do complete in that area.

A reminder that both things can be true at the same time:

1. Trump is a bad president

2. The Islamic Republic of Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons

The US Navy has quite a few more tricks up its sleeve apart from aircraft carriers. Just one publicly known that immediately comes to mind: amphibious assault ships, which can launch/land F35s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMSKTxgQI4

>> SpaceX is an amazing success story

100%, and something that is underappreciated and often taken for granted nowadays, especially on our little forum here.

>> It would benefit even better by having many SpaceXs around.

That made me chuckle, sounded to me a bit like "our house would benefit from having a few cats around". Perhaps the reason why there aren't too many SpaceX-like companies around is that it's truly among the hardest companies to ever create.

I’ve rented many different brands and the BMW interface is by far the best and quite consistent across generations. It hasn’t changed all that much since early 2000s. What exactly do you think was “user-hostile”? If you want to see bad UI/UX, try a Range Rover. Unfortunately all brands collectively (even BMW) have taken a step back with the latest generation of cars and the touch-screen-all-the-things craze.

Exactly. Unfortunately, it seems like the ship has sailed towards exploitation of the current local maximum (I got GPUs and Terawatts, let’s go!) instead of looking for something better.

I live in SF, and drive alongside Waymos every day. Also, they park in my buildings garage, where they frequently cause major delays and blockages inside the garage.

I am pretty sure Waymo does not disclose how many human interventions they get. It would destroy their magic aura. A fancy RC car with self-driving experimental features is not very futuristic after all. By all the evidence, that’s what we observed when the internet went out. I don’t buy the 4-way stop explanation. Waymos handle 4-way stops just fine on an average day. I drive alongside them daily.

I’ve long suspected that they get many human interventions on the road, frequent enough that when the internet connectivity slowed down to a crawl across the city, Waymos could not get themselves unstuck from a variety of situations and simply just blocked the roads. That’s not a paragon of safety, nor is it “self-driving”. Self-driving cars were 10 years away in 2015, and in 2025, they are still 10 years away.

Because almost no one (outside of accessibility needs) truly needs or wants to use voice to control their device. It’s one of the few UX fetishes that refuses to die.

When someone realized that the inheritance glass castle is doomed to always get shattered upon contact with the real world.

Inheritance might be OK for formally finite domains but I can’t envision other cases where it should be favored.

Inflation, at minimum, needs to be factored into such calculations.

Just one data point to illustrate: in 1950, a bottle of Coca-Cola cost 5 cents.

“Talk”, no, but a scary number very much think like this. It’s an easy pseudo-intellectual high ground to take.

Some of the highest birth rates are in relatively quite poor countries. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rat...

Just some ideas:

- Drone-bombing an embassy in downtown London does not look good on social media

- He's too famous and has many supporters in the Western world to be publicly assassinated, regardless of location (example: Lady Gaga visited him while he was stuck in the embassy)

- He's more useful as a deterrent, i.e., "see what might happen to you", to the people who might decide to go a similar route. Some will go that route regardless, but chances are at least a few have been persuaded otherwise.

For all the ridicule of the government, the Intelligence Community seems to be doing a fairly intelligent job most of the time to satisfy its objectives.

React Native apps can be made to feel native but it takes some knowledge and skill. In certain cases, a bit of native code might be required instead of off-the-shelf libs.

For example, I was looking for a way to perform certain computations on a stream of frames from the camera. Most libraries available I found would send the image frames to the JavaScript side first and do the computation there. Unfortunately, that was never 60fps because the amount of data being copied/serialized was too large. The solution was to write a bit of custom code that performs the computation on the native side and only ship the computed result (tiny JSON) to the JavaScript side. The end result was easily 60fps and felt 100% native.

React Native is pretty good at cross platform but yes, it must be tested right away on all platforms.

Retrofitting an iOS-only React Native app to Android later is possible but can be of a pain, at least initially.

Yeah… It’s like NFTs with 100% centralized supply and control, if I’m understanding this niche market correctly.

Control, as in, tomorrow Valve might decide that some of those items are “unusable” in their game which would presumably also crash their value.

Don’t they also 100% control the supply though?

02:34 Pacific: Things seem to be recovering.

Probably building a spotlight index or something of that sort.

I think your intuition is correct: you probably don’t.

That’s also very likely changing. Lookup “project Valhalla”. It’s still a work in progress but the high level goal is to have immutable values that “code like a class, work like an int”.

PS When I say “changing”: it’s being added. Java tries hard to maintain backward compatibility for most things (which is great).

iOS 7 “UIApocalypse” all over again.

Liquid Glass has a few bugs to iron out but as a whole is quite good.

> Don’t say things that might cause you trouble like “wish we could have kept you”

If I actually think that, I wouldn't shy away from saying it.

Humans have been shown to solve problems and discover things that "no human has" up to that point. So I wouldn't even call it "superintelligent". But it would definitely be truly useful at that point!

The marketing speak of some companies goes into effectively fantastical territory. Some claims that are made effectively imply P = NP, which is like bad TV-series-level science fiction, but some people fall for it.

What caveats specifically?

I understand the problems of measuring cross-platform performance but anecdotally even on things that it's not specifically optimized for, for example running a Java Virtual Machine with 10s of GBs of memory, it's really fast, efficient and competitive to most non-Mac/ARM setups.

What is "novel results"? A random UUID generator also gives "novel result", every time.

Even if we're to humor the "novel" part, have they actually come up with anything truly novel? New physics? New proofs of hard math problems that didn't exist before?