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I wonder -- if they were to restart from scratch today, would they do the same thing? If not, which stack would they choose?

Exactly.

Too bad Microsoft only cares about enterprise customers and never made the Surface line attractive to regular consumers. They could have been very interesting and competitive alternatives to MacBooks.

Have you had luck with Google's AI Studio with regard to text extraction?

i5-1135G7 is from about 4 years ago. If you look at the latest offerings from Intel/AMD the gap should be fairly small.

Your comment might win you the argument on a random non tech forum but not here.

much more efficient in what? mops the floor by what? which year's i7?

Don't get me wrong, I 100% believe what happened, but if you mean "my macbook is faster than my i7 thinkpad" you should use those exact words, but not bring RAM into this discussion. If you want to make a point about RAM, you need to be clear about what workflow you were measuring, the methodology you were using, and what the exact result is. Otherwise your words have no meaning.

Well, if Apple really wanted to do more, they would have implemented new APIs sooner and be in sync with Chrome and Firefox regarding features they support. (Currently Safari is often 1 year late in supporting lastest features.) I would not count on them.

Haven't tried it, but I guess if you were doing this again today, ChatGPT would help a lot.

As a reminder,

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Not once, for one second, did I have any motion sickness.

See the problem here?

Well, yes, but to lots of people they use it for the same thing. You can find projects people post online that uses raspberry pi to control a basic motor, which is a bad use of raspberry pi and a horrendous waste of resources. But people do that. You understand the difference but not others.

Not sure how meaningful this is. Try looking at base model MacBook Air, and it is a very different story.

I would guess most consumer purchases of pi's are setting in a drawer gathering dust. So less RAM is less of a waste of money.

(Don't ask how I know it)

Sounds like this is a use case where none of size, power & cost matters very much, and faster development is desired. It may even prefer "heavier" libraries if it makes development easier. Which is completely different from most consumer devices and many commercial devices.

Well, if that's true, have to agree raspberry pi may be better than esp32.

So why does HN text look so small under default settings on the desktop, and I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size on other websites (that require no special treatment)? Am I using the browser wrong, or something is not quite right with HN? I am inclined to think the latter.

And I just want a reasonable font size. On desktop it is miserable -- I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size I see on other websites. On mobile it is ok.

can't read? parent clearly says "ARM macbook".

That's the point, isn't it?

expecting a lot of insightful counterarguments from a musician and educator with such experience. got hand waving instead.

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exactly. Those who think VR headsets are good music teachers probably have never taken any serious music lessons or master any instruments themselves. If you have just taken one month of lesson and have been practicing daily, these things will start to prevent you from making progress, not help you.

(coming from someone who has been taking piano lessons for the past 8 years and have a Quest 3)

May I ask if you play any instruments and taken music lessons for a serious amount of time?

My guess is not, because to me it is obvious you don't understand how this works and are just imagining things.

Speaking as someone who takes private piano lessons and have been practicing daily for the past 8 years:

If this were possible, music teachers would have already been replaced to some extent. But that has not happened yet. AI is not new. VR is not that new. Even without this, just talking about non-personalized, non-VR instructions. Have you seen those websites that "teaches" you piano just by connecting your keyboard to a computer and following instructions? Where are they now? It does not work like that. Maybe for an absolute beginner who has trouble finding a key or fret, but as soon as you get a little bit better it won't work.

Music learning is an extremely personalized experience. People pay 1-1 private lessons because it needs to be done that way. A teacher, especially a good teacher, can tell you exactly what you did wrong and what you should do to get better at it. Plus different teachers often have different opinions of music -- how a piece of music should be interpreted or played. As you get more advanced, you spend even less time on technique itself. Theoretically you could train an AI tutor that does the same thing. But no, it hasn't happen yet and will not happen. Did I mention hallucination? Do you want a teacher that hallucinates?

Plus you need lots of practice -- routines, repetitions, all those scales. AI or VR is just useless. Effective practice strategy is important, but you don't need AI for that.

Looks like you are talking about two different things in one sentence. About security updates -- while it is true that Apple provides security updates much longer than Android phones and this is something I care a lot about, I need to point out that the vast majority of people (outside HN or similar "tech forums") don't upgrade phones due to lack of security features but lack of latest features, missing nice cameras, or if the battery has bad battery or damage.

I have had Android phones with USB-C and other USB-C devices like iPad Pro for many years now, and "dirt and sand can get into it" never even remotely crossed my mind. And yes they have been working just fine -- current phone is 3 years old and still doing well.

eh, aren't you just repeating "Over the long long term it will be enormous, but they're many growing pains until then"

> anyone with experience has their pick of job offers right now

I have to say that this is absolutely not true, especially for those with less experience -- new graduates or people with few years of working experience (and without a PhD or many papers)

limited Windows support -- I am surprised that this is hardly mentioned. People here may not admit this, but Windows-based developers are a huge group, and probably more than Linux or Mac (e.g. look at stackoverflow survey). If you tell people "You can't really use Bun as intended unless you use Mac or Linux or spend half an hour setting up WSL first", people are going to be turned away, especially for new developers.

It may not matter to you personally, but if it is used in a project with developers working on different platforms, it is going to present some hurdles.

> single language applications are single build applications

I don't know your background but most teams don't view "single language" as an advantage over other options. People choose a certain language because of internal infrastructure, libraries/ecosystem, performance, and whether it is the best suited for a project etc, rarely because "we use that language for backend so we should also use it for frontend" or vice versa

I am surprised that this topic keeps coming back and gets attention. I thought in the year 2023 this is a settled topic.

Lots of hype from people who obviously never managed a real website or a real-world software project.

On the non-technical side, traditional server/client separation is well understood by everyone and has all the tools any team ever needs, while SSR takes some learning -- it is added cost that does not transfer in many places.

On the technical side, SSR only has clear advantage for very specific scenarios, e.g. e-commerce site where rendering time and responsiveness across different devices is a top priority. For the vast majority of websites out there, SSR likely only increases your server load and cost when you could leave all the rendering to client which is free resource. As browsers and computers themselves get faster, you don't even need to do anything to get better performance on client machines. Otherwise, this does not matter any more than Pepsi vs Coca-Cola or vim vs emacs.

If SSR is clearly the better choice for a team/product, go ahead, otherwise don't waste time on it.

"Android doesn't"

Does it occur to you that there are so many different variants of Android and they all do their own thing regarding background processes? It is so complicated that you can find websites like this https://dontkillmyapp.com/

You'll be surprised how many scientific papers published in reputable journals are not "properly reviewed". In many cases there simply isn't enough time or knowledge to go through every detail of a paper. One example -- if a paper says go to a github repository to look at our source code, guess how many people actually review the code as part of the peer review process? Very few. There could be serious bugs in the code that would affect the results, or maybe the code is difficult to set up and run, but nobody would notice them for a long time.

Not true. Every (decent) journal has someone who goes through the typesetting process again is very time consuming. Whether that plus the review process, website maintenance etc it is worth £2,700 is a separate question.