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In my experience, yes, the thermal and energy profiles are vastly improved. I went from an Intel MBP that was constantly throttled due to temp to a 2020 MBP with a M1 (13" 16G of RAM). I've done a bunch of development on it, mostly running Pycharm and Docker. I got the fan to come on once while editing/transcoding using iMovie or ffmpeg (I forget, it's been a while), running a few containers in Docker, and editing code in Pycharm.

The hardware also "feels" better to me. I had issues with the keyboard and video connection with the Intel MBP that I have not had with the 2020 M1 MBP which gets carried in a backpack pretty frequently.

Netflix Hollow is pretty great: https://hollow.how/

There may have been reservations…right up until Steve announced and demoed it.

Ironically, my Brother laser printer required a firmware update to get AirPrint to work well.

This page helped me: https://support.apple.com/guide/airpods/switch-airpods-betwe...

Agree. Yellow journalism is a term that was "coined in the mid-1890s to characterize the sensational journalism in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal." [0]

My take is that modern communications mechanisms have changed journalism just like they changed music discovery and distribution: tons of content suddenly available at a low cost or free with ads.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Yes, totally agree. We just got a 2020 and it’s really nice to have physical controls.

Having worked on both a project that used the main-only branch strategy without pull requests, and projects that use the feature branch strategy with pull requests, I prefer the feature branch with pull request strategy.

It's easier to provide feedback and make changes prior to merging. There is usually value in the feedback that improves the quality of the merged code, whether a reviewer is requesting a change to adhere to code standards (I know, enforcement should be automated), or suggesting a different way to implement the change.

I was so mad our 2016 Jetta was totaled in an accident last month for all the reasons you listed. VW makes effectively the same car, but the cost for a new one went up $10k since we bought ours.

If you're going to put everything in a single lambda function that's continually serving HTTP requests, you might as well look at ECS.

If this chip is comparable to a M2, then I would bet on Microsoft investing more in Windows 11 on ARM. There is value for them across all their product lines, from Surface devices where performance vs. efficiency is important from a battery life perspective, to Azure, where competitive products are rolling out ARM support that is really compelling from a cost perspective.

I think being forced to socialize/build relationships outside of work is a benefit of remote work, not a drawback. I say this as somebody who spent way too much time working when younger.

A great read about the importance of flour: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/baking-bread-i...

Yeah, a PHEV Sienna would be outstanding.

Chrysler makes a PHEV version of the Pacifica, but only in FWD and I'm looking for AWD.

It used to change so frequently that I didn't have to pretend.

That total compensation figure includes both salary and benefits (healthcare, retirement income, etc.) before taxes. A family healthcare plan could have an annual employer cost of $25k or more, plus the employee contribution.

UPS provides a breakdown for the previous $145k figure here: https://about.ups.com/us/en/our-company/great-employer/real-...

Wow, I had no idea that lineup existed. Just started going down the YouTube rabbit hole. Thank you.

My Pebble Steel was great. I've had an Apple Watch 5 for a few years now. It's comparable, except for the shorter battery life. I configured it for very limited notifications, and mostly use it for exercise tracking because it has the heart rate sensor.

I don't feel the need to upgrade to a newer version. The only motivator for me to upgrade an iPhone is usually the camera. I have the cell version of the watch, but have never used it because I have my phone with me.

I'm hoping to move to something like OrganicMaps [0], now that it supports importing GPX files.

[0] https://organicmaps.app

Yeah, even though I grew up looking at maps and even drawing them for fun on graph paper when I was a kid, it has taken me a very long time to get to the point where I can navigate by map instead of step by step directions.

Living in the Boston area for a few years in my 20s before GPS nav was readily available definitely helped, as one wrong turn might easily wind up with you being somewhere you've never been before, and the only way back is to look at a map. I had a few very dog eared pages of the same atlas that a lot of people used back then.

I've spent a lot of time on the bike and skis looking at maps in Trailforks over the last few years. That has helped as well. It's fun to spend a lot of time in the woods and start to build a sense of location based on your surroundings.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/living-wit...

I've had success using pyenv on Mac and Linux. If I had to use Windows, I'd probably try pyenv-win [0].

I have run into issues trying to use packages that were available for one platform but not another, due to native code, etc. Most of the time I could find a pure Python alternative, but not always. This can lead to using containers, which adds complexity, which is a drawback because one of the advantages of Python to me is the simplicity (assuming you have something like pyenv).

I've used Poetry in the past, but it added enough complexity/overhead that I probably won't again.

I've had some success putting a line in a README for an internal tool that other devs can use to pip install from a Git repo. Again, assuming you have pyenv or the like, starting from a clean venv and pip install from Git seems to be pretty straightforward.

[0] - https://github.com/pyenv-win/pyenv-win

Yeah. The value prop of the Quest 2 is really good as far as a hardware product, but the cohesive product vision for AR/VR that Apple just presented is far beyond anything Meta has shown to the public.

Agree. Here's hoping future iPhone/iPad models can capture Spatial Video, I'd much rather do that. That use case felt like one of the few "well, this is the way it works for now, ship it" moments.

It’s a different kind of viewport for interacting with people and content. The better the content, the more people. Content will differentiate itself via the traditional mechanisms (effective storytelling, using the new capabilities of the hardware, etc.).

There has been a crack in a wall in Gorilla Tag for two years. My son has been telling me they are releasing an update that lets you go in the crack and explore. It has been really interesting to contrast the flailing of Meta attempting to coherently describe their vision of the metaverse with the ability of the Gorilla Tag developers to build a community around their game.

You can buy Chloraseptic Sore Throat Spray with Phenol on Amazon, if that's the active ingredient you're looking for.

Cities and towns designed around the assumption that everybody is going to use cars for transportation is some of the most epic technical debt I've ever seen.

The Apple Watch will automatically install the watchOS app for each iOS app you install on your phone by default, if a watchOS app exists for the iOS app. I don't know if the auto installs count towards user visits to the watchOS App Store. I don't think I've ever used the watchOS store, and my watch is full of apps.

https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/get-more-apps-apd99e3c....

Interesting article in Wired this month: https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw-the-face-of-god-in-a-tsmc-...

Adding passenger traffic does not necessarily require displacing freight traffic.

Here's a document that contains a map of current rail density: https://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Freight/GeorgiaFreight/Ta...