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sim_card_mapon Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro

I've lost hope of getting a 4-4.5'' phone ever.

All companies are obsessed with these phablets.

sim_card_mapon MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

you get +8 GB of RAM, +256 GB SSD, a much faster CPU, and a 120 hz display for the extra $1000

sim_card_mapon Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infections, new studies suggest

It is true. There's an Oxford Covid risk calculator, and for an average 20 something person, the risk of hospitalization is ~0.002%.

https://qcovid.org/

sim_card_mapon Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

Improving its efficiency would mean re-writing it entirely, since it's an SPA app with 4 MB of JavaScript.

sim_card_mapon Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim

Doesn't work without JS.

Pass.

sim_card_mapon Asahi Linux for Apple M1 progress report, August 2021

yes, completely silent for one (no cpu fan)

also m1 is pretty quick

sim_card_mapon Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and planning

codegen, optimizations, ast transformations

sim_card_mapon The Framework Laptop is now shipping

Windows only, no option to use linux instead. Pass.

sim_card_mapon Compiling Rust is NP-hard

they got rid of that

sim_card_mapon Compiling Rust is NP-hard

How was the tooling dumb?

sim_card_mapon More than 30 states sue Google over 'extravagant' fees in Play store

> but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year

So it's much better to earn 999k instead of 1.1 million...

sim_card_mapon The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

340k of memory quote is a myth

sim_card_mapon Vinix – An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V

Do you have links to false claims about Nim?

sim_card_mapon Google can't pass its own page speed test

or Gmail for the last 10 years

sim_card_mapon Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs

it's because it was created like this 15 years ago, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it

I wish every website followed this rule

sim_card_mapon Booking.com to repay €65M Dutch State aid after €28M in bonuses for 3 US execs

nothing weird about HN

it's perfect

sim_card_mapon Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

Perhaps all countries should adopt 0% corporate tax then, if it's so beneficial.

sim_card_mapon WWDC21

M1 macbooks are amazing, and you are clearly very biased.

sim_card_mapon WWDC21

Companies exist to make money.

sim_card_mapon Sublime Text 4

Wait, older versions of ST were NOT rendered by GPU?

sim_card_mapon Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

hasn't like 99% of it been mined already?

sim_card_mapon Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Open web is dying...

sim_card_mapon Preparing for Pre-Orders! (Framework modular laptop)

Windows only.

sim_card_mapon Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

"Don't you guys have phones?"

sim_card_mapon The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think

emojis was a mistake

sim_card_mapon Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython

yes it could, but it's not webscale!

gotta use aws

sim_card_mapon Co-founder of Neuralink leaves the company

yes it was very successful:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525530/sweden-death-rate...

sim_card_mapon Excess Deaths in 2020

For some reason Europe saw a lot fewer excess deaths in 2020.

For example, in Germany it was only ~ +3%, and Sweden, which didn't lock down and had no mask mandates, had a lower death rate than in 2012:

https://i.redd.it/73x3fysmu7k61.png

sim_card_mapon Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

> they wont forever. They never do.

retina imacs and macbook pros beg to differ

8,9 years later still no good alternative