I have an M2 Air with 24gb and it has no problems running Brave with 800-ish tabs, development workloads (a bunch of VSCode projects, several docker containers, lots of iTerm terminals), low-end CAD and 3D printing apps, CaptureOne and a bunch of Electron apps in parallel with room to spare. I've found I can fit more into those 24gb than into the 32gb of the Intel Mac I had before that (however that's possible).
> For instance Lenovo or Asus definitely care about pushing laptops' limits and design. A lot. IMHO more than Apple.
It's a bit more nuanced. Lenovo/Asus seem to be experimenting a lot more, but more like by throwing (relatively) easy-to-build variations at the wall to see what sticks, then release a few more polished SKUs. Apple doesn't really do that, but they do attack those limits and design aspects they care about very aggressively and with a ton of resources (e.g. battery life pre-M1, manufacturing tolerances).
> Just don't ever use a metaphor on Hacker News. People will always misinterpret it
I've always wondered why that is. No other community I'm active in insists so much on explicitly spelling out everything and very literal language – most will actually reward playing with language, if done well. Writing as if targeting Commander Data seems to work quite well though.
Commutes can be very different, too. Someone who walks and uses public transport will feel differently about the weight of their laptop than someone who just has to lug theirs to their car and across the parking lot. Same with travel: Flying with just a carry-on bag and crossing big airports on foot makes lightweight laptops a lot more attractive.
> But the upside is that those companies want to make repairs/upgrades easy for themselves, which in turn makes them easy for the saavy consumer to do.
Do they? At least for the slimmer models, I was under the impression most have copied Apple and transitioned to soldering and gluing everything into an unserviceable mess.
To me the 14" Pro feels like a brick, the 16" is a veritable paving slab. I want something I can toss in a backpack and not feel it's there, which the Air is still just about light enough for. That may be because I live in a very walkable and bike-able area in Europe, and I do lots of both, I'm sure the trade-offs are different if you drive everywhere.
As for the screen, I think "gimped" is not doing it justice. I regularly use both, the Air's is a very nice screen in its own right and while there is a difference, it feels more like a relatively small increment on something already very solid, at least to me (I don't do any pro photo/video work). Same for the other differences, the Air's speakers are already pretty good, connectivity is fine (for me), I like not having a fan, it's way powerful enough for what I do.
I don't think there are any space-based EMPs, at least no publicly known ones. There have been and perhaps still are plans to detonate high-yield nuclear weapons at high altitude above enemy territory to cause an EMP, but that is a very different situation from a CME solar storm. We're able to spot a CME hours in advance vs mere minutes for submarine-launched ICBMs, and the latter would only ever be deployed in the opening minutes of an all-out nuclear war, in which the electric grid and all grid-level precautions against solar flares are likely to be irrelevant, because most of its critical components would be vaporized or torn to shreds by attacks on ground targets anyway. Even just forcing the other side to keep burning money on military countermeasures that do work might be worth a few launchers and warheads.
Security is well achievable, absolute security is not. Somehow almost everyone seems to grasp that intuitively, but a subset of IT keeps pretending they're the same thing.
I don't think they're saying that. I read their statement more like "someone might build an insecure browser", which isn't that invalid a concern I think. I'd like Apple to be a bit more daring and just open up those APIs too, but I kind of get their incentives point the other way. Apart from some landmark design decisions, Apple is an extremely conservative company, and stalling on an issue like this is just what such an org would do.
Not Linux, so it's probably not going to help you much, but the OsmAnd iPad app seems to work just fine on macOS and afaik those run as native apps on M1/2/3 machines, and this particular one feels very similar to the macOS-native Maps app. I guess that's pretty close for those on a Macbook, though turn-by-turn navigation is going to suck with no onboard GPS. I just got it from the App Store to test this and I think I'm going to keep it, it's actually pretty neat.
Their cultures are (more or less) survivors from a time when their mode of subsistence was the norm even on (most of) the best productive land. We know majority hunter-gatherer lifestyles have been incredibly diverse, but almost all detailed records deal with people on very marginal land that have all been influenced by industrial societies in more or less direct ways, because those were the only ones still available when people started recording them at least semi-properly. Our window into that past is more like a single discolored piece out of a huge intricate stained-glass window. Judging by the impact that indigenous societies and indigenous philosophy from the Americas had on contemporary European thought in the 18th century, it's not a stretch to assume that we've lost a ton of hard-won and almost irreplaceable data on what makes humans function as they do when part of a society and what alternatives to our modern societies work as well or possibly even better.
I'm in Germany, not in Spain but I have family there. My impression is that young people in Spain do face quite a lot of insecurity and pretty dismal outlooks. Focusing on GPAs and the like is one way of dealing with that (that may be most prevalent in GP's bubble), but there are others. Lack of purpose and agency and a hopeful narrative for one's own future is pure poison to the mind though, and I think that's at the heart of GP's comment. Social media may very well just be the sniffing glue that makes misery more bearable, and indirectly fuel that misery, but not act as the (primary) cause of said misery.
That's signaling intention to uphold NATO by that particular congress, not something that would prevent a US government from bringing it down. If a US president were only to make it known that he or she would actively resist giving the required orders to fulfill NATO commitments in a crisis, I think the alliance in its current form would be walking dead from that point forward. There is considerable public doubt already as to whether the US would honor their commitment to wage a nuclear war over NATO matters and that's the keystone of the whole alliance. If Russia were to attack a NATO member and win the gamble, I'd expect a massive shift of power on the continent and a great loss of US soft power in Europe (at the least).
For now. A NATO left behind by a hypothetical second Trump administration might be a much less effective deterrent. With two nuclear powers on the continent and one latent nuclear power (Germany) and none in the east save Russia, things might get very interesting for a while if that came to pass.
They could be construed to advocate for more decentralized power production in order to be less vulnerable to targeted strikes in times of conflict. That doesn't rule out decentralized nuclear power production, though that has its fair share of trade-offs and unknowns. Depending on how one weighs those it might end up implying less nuclear.
Won't they evolve around this too at some point? I feel like the only truly effective way to eradicate pests long-term will end up being swarms of little robot predators that wipe them out by force.
I think if you're in the 99.96 percentile for low height in women, that additional foot would be pretty difficult. You'd have a very hard time reaching all of the controls, and it's not like you can stand up to do so.
But then we often have nothing for millions of generations and absurdly large amounts of biomass for species that we know well enough to know where to dig – but nothing was preserved there, and we can't dig in more than a few tiny spots. The crust's top layers are an immensely big volume and very hard to penetrate and not sure there would be a reason to dig right into an oil well that was emptied millions of years ago. Also, there is a strong aversion to sensationalist explantations in the sciences, so such scratches might even be known but attributed to some ill-understood kind of volcanic activity or earthquake scarring just because speculation towards a Silurian civilization isn't conducive to swift career progression.
There could have been a much larger amount of fossil fuels in the ground that was almost used up by the Silurians and now we believe what they left us with is all there ever was.
There was Homo floresiensis, a relatively close relative of ours, also called the "Hobbit". For modern humans, there simply are no known populations that have been isolated for long enough on a small enough island to exhibit dwarfism. We're pretty good with boats and we supposedly have been very mobile for most of our history, and even if stuck we're capable of controlling our numbers and exploit our environments very well. I believe there are adaptations among Pacific Islander communities that increase metabolism efficiency and similar traits so we're not immune to this kind of pressure.
But back then their loss was more localized. the Ancient Egypt state came with a much-changed cultural base, but outside of the reach of that empire lots and lots of people kept their ice age customs. Nowadays much of the world is so uniform that cultural loss is often absolute and final. There are no more barbarians on the fringes of the Swiss state.
I have a 2xAA Magic Mouse that I still use occasionally. Feels a little heavier than the later models, can't tell them apart otherwise without looking at the bottom.
I absolutely loved _why's guide, not the least because it made certain very serious, over the top professional people very uncomfortable. Bullshit in the guise of Very Serious Business Software Engineering is still bullshit, but if you present something like it's a big joke to you, and it still shines, there probably is something to it. I feel a lot of present-day IT wouldn't pass that test.
I remember fondly when RoR was the hottest thing, so elegant and easy to understand, but I haven't touched it in ages. Is it still good compared to the more up-to-date stuff? Is it still relevant?
Both notations are in use in different parts of Germany too. It can be quite challenging to catch these kinds of misunderstandings because even many Germans aren't aware of the possibility.