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Well, actually I have a beastmode mobile workstation that gets maybe 3 hours of battery life on high intensity. And when the battery is depleted I find a table with an outlet and I plug it in.

Everything in the machine can be upgraded/fixed so it should be good for a while.

I’m not saying this to be snarky. I just want to emphasize that while M1 is great innovation, I put repairability/maintainability and longevity on a higher pedestal than other things. I also highly value many things a computer has to offer: disk, memory, CPU, GPU, etc. I want to be able to interchange those pieces; and I want to have a lot of each category at my disposal. Given this, battery life is not as important as the potential functionality a given machine can provide.

I’d like to point out that compiling stuff is usually disk/io intensive. Could this not just be that the Apple machine has a faster hard drive/memory?

I think these performance metrics are somewhat limited in their usefulness. A Ryzen workstation might not have the same single-core performance or energy efficiency—however, a ryzen workstation can have gobs of memory for massive data-intensive workloads for the same cost as a baseline M1 device.

In addition: let’s talk upgradability or repairability. Oh wait, Apple doesn’t play that game. You’ll get more mileage on the workstation hands-down.

The only win for those those chips I think is battery efficient for a laptop. But, then why not just VNC into a beastmode machine on a netbook and compile remotely? After all, that’s what CI/CD pipeline is for.

I had a bad trip and afterward I had anxiety. No anxiety before then.

I don’t have “Anxiety” requiring meds and such—the effects taper off over the years.

Believe me, I know the effects I felt and what it did to me—statistics and external “scientific proof” are not required.

Also, true there are many ways to manipulate people. It’s what you can make them do while they are on LSD that is scary. If you try LSD you will know what I mean—you could walk into a train without hesitation or fear. At least if the other methods are used to manipulate people their underlying emotions, hesitations, and consciousness is intact.

Again, I agree certain drugs should be legalized. And perhaps LSD can be therapeutic in a good way. But, it is also very dangerous stuff—more so than other drugs.

That is my opinion and not based on rigorous research. But I have done a lot of drugs in my day—and I can say if I went back in time I still would have done the natural stuff (mushrooms, cannabis) but never would touch the man-made chemicals.

I agree with all of what you’re saying, but the comment I reply to says it “harms noone.” I am saying it does harm people.

To be frank, I have taken a decent amount of LSD in teenage years and suffer permanent effects from it (all mental stuff like anxiety and paranoia). Granted some of it was probably made in someone’s garage (legal stuff could have some sort of standards). But still, LSD is dangerous and point being it has potential to make people do things without cause for concern, and cause damage to others. It also lasts easily 8-24 hours depending on dosage.

Another point: if LSD was legal, then it would be legal for a cult to use it in rituals and as a way to manipulate individuals. Think Charles Manson—that’s a lot more dangerous than run-of-the-mill narcotics.

Not sure I’d agree with “harms noone.” I have taken LSD and easily walk in the middle of the road with no cause for concern. Imagine a child accidentally eating some of it, etc. Could be worse than a loaded gun.

I’m all for legalizing natural stuff (mushrooms, cannabis, even coca plants) but once chemists start concentrating things or turning them into droplets it becomes extremely dangerous.

For instance, mushrooms grow on poop (and taste like sh*t), coca leaves are probably bitter to the taste (and not agreeable). So not much incentive to accidentally eat them.

One tab—the whole sheet even—of LSD tasteless and odourless, even hard to detect.

We used to tell children the truth. Just read the old fairy tales—Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood, etc.

Tree farming and automation: rm -rf /

On that note it is a great tool during development to get a piece working without connecting it to the broader application. Test driven development gives a nice debugging context that is easier to work with. The code coverage and regression part comes as a nice bonus feature.

I’d also like to add that if you contribute code to an open source project it is extremely beneficial to have iron-clad unit tests. Since there is so many devs it would be easy for someone to accidentally break something you fixed already.

Isn’t that a mapping? Because the primary purpose of the string of glyphs is readable by humans. Such representation is mapped to the numerical representation for storage in the computer. It may also be mapped to lines of ink written on a piece of paper for transmission

I like 1995 era laptops more than modern ones. I also like the the plastic casings of desktops back then—they feel solid, same with the mechanical keyboards!

Today companies so busy trying to “slim things down.”

P.S. why doesn’t apple release a matte display laptop? I would buy it.

Really it’s not because it’s a sequence of glyphs first and foremost. It can be mapped to a number though.

See your thoughts make no sense because you’re on the computer all day. Mammoths, anesthesia, and pens don’t do computations for people

Yes but you’ll know and remember the route after plotting it yourself—and spatial awareness increases making you a better driver.

Think of it this way: everything our phones/computers do for us reduces our ability to do the same task in the long and short term.

Yeah I agree the legislation would help—but the legislators mostly don’t know much about tech I’m guessing. And the experts they call in I’d wager are from big companies with their own interests in mind.

This seems like more a solution to open, transparent platforms. It’s a shame that we are going backwards: you used to be able to download software from the internet, direct from publishers with no limitations. Now everything’s all stupid requiring developers to beg the “powers that be” for access to distribute their work.

I feel like the Airline industry does this when they say, “only 4 more tickets left!” Or “2 tickets recently purchased!”

There’s probably some terminology for this in game theory (well, general salesmanship too)

AI can be conscious most certainly. Figure we can make bio robots in 100 years. All that needs to happen is building brains in the lab and bootstrapping them. The first versions will be somewhat mental but 2.0 most likely a better representation. After all, all species are quite mechanical and predictable—albeit complex.

Gotta love the headline

On the other hand doesn’t forward declaration make sense? The code is declaring it depends on the forward declaration defined “somewhere else”. In a sense it is documenting the the classes/structs better.

People don’t need new cars we need horse and buggies; they have low carbon emissions and high safety ratings.

I usually say duck it and dust off my shiny Perl necklace

They are referring to the George Jetson maneuverability

Well, the features in Raku ARE what would be (and was) Perl 6. Perl 5 most likely won’t inherit these features as the benefit of Perl 5 IMHO is that it is stable and ubiquitous.

Raku has some pretty amazing things going for it though. It is unique compared to any programming language with its grammars and such.

Well, it’s great to experiment. And gnome 2 for example worked really great. I guess I am thinking more in the realm of things like “force touch” gestures, multi touch swipes and such. They could be useful as an added bonus for power users, but I think the traditional paradigm for the OS should work by default: 1) on desktop, single/double click, drag and drop, tool tips, mouse wheel. 2) on mobile quick tap, tap and hold, basic swipe gestures (on mobile these work well but sometimes not intuitive).

I’m probably missing some stuff, but I think people out to at least be able to “feel” their way around a UI. Lately there’s been so much push for minimalism like omitting scroll bars and such that make it confusing.

But, again that experimentation will root out what works and doesn’t. And new devices like VR of course have yet to be discovered paradigms.

Honestly the problem with all software is people trying to “innovate” too much. They made this thing called a book once upon a time and those have worked for centuries. Same thing with UIs: the stacking window managers work well from Windows 95 and XP why change it?

My goatsac vibrates many oscillations

I think it would be great if you could invest in creating biodiversity more so than accelerating mono-culture agriculture with pesticides.

The real problem is that these folks (And all other cash crops) have rows and rows of the same crop and nothing else.

That’s not how nature works. Work WITH nature by creating bio-diversity and pests will be eaten by something else, etc.

If you haven’t seen it, I recommend watching “Biggest Little Farm” https://www.biggestlittlefarmmovie.com/

I haven't written any Java for a very long time, but I know that C# code I wrote back in 2004 targetting .NET 1.1 would still run substantially unmodified today on the latest .NET runtimes[1] - in fact I'm pretty sure some of it is.

I mean on the website dumbass.