NoLinkToMe

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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
> Levelized Cost of Energy for solar is 30-60$ and 100-200$ for nuclear. In the case of Spain, it is cheaper to build more energy lines with Morocco and battery storage than to use nuclear. But keeping nuclear open is an entirely differe
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Closing Groningen didn't leave fossil in the ground. It took LNG from US and gas from Norway out of the ground instead. The decision to stop using fossil fuels is not tied to the decision to stop one of the sources of fossil fuels. The
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
That's not so strange is it? With respect to Groningen: 1. zero deaths reported ever 2. quakes in Groningen maxed out at 3.6 which is considered light. By comparison NL's worst earthquake wasn't in Groningen (North) but in th
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
This hyperbole is not really necessary on hackernews. Apple alone makes 20 billion on a single product: airpods. This article notes 2025 saw a 3% increase of 15m. That means total sales are 0.5b, or 2.5% of Apple's airpods product. I
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
I think you don't know what you're talking about. For one the EROEI isn't 4 for renewables under ideal conditions, it differs wildly depending on the type and location and installation. It's true that for solar in Irelan
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Eh not sure what you're talking about. You can see here the electricity figures in Ireland: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/IE/all/yearly > We've graduated from providing cheap ener
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
True. But: EU is the only effective player in the world that drives energy policy outside its borders, by being a massive market with regulatory power regarding its imports. If you look at three figures: energy use per capita, emissions per
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
So why did Nadella not pour a few billion into buying the 50% capacity that the average coal/gas plant has spare, that they're not running due to insufficient demand?
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Interestingly it's cheaper than the iPad with the $250 magic keyboard.
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
I've seen Musk note in an interview that at year-end the bottleneck will not be CPU/RAM etc, but electricity. And new powerplants are backlogged for years. That's why he wants to go into space (10x solar potential because you
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Again it doesn't bother me for certain ratios of time thinking:writing. Like a hard sudoku puzzle is fine, you typically write one symbol every few minutes. But for notetaking where its a symbol every second, yes to me its terrible.
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
> If the Neo has the same size screen as the MacBook Air It's two things that explain the optics vs reality are surprising. One is bezels, they're quite large on the 11 inch. Two is rounding, the 11 inch actually undersells thi
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Seems like a strange take. It wasn't per se a luxury brand, it catered to providing cutting edge consumer technology. That's still the case. Which company makes better phones, laptops, tablets, headphones, smart watches and consum
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Differentiation is king. If you have 25% of the market just doing e-mail, taxes, youtube and news, and 25% of the market running local LLMs, you don't want one machine that offers an average RAM, giving one group too much and making th
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
No it isn't. It's 1.08kg vs 1.23kg, or 13% heavier. And indeed it's 13 inch but the dimensions are quite similar, there is a 0.8% difference in width (with the 11 inch being wider surprisingly, due to the bezels) and a 7% d
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
They already have! It's essentially what you wished for. Below respectively 11 inch MBA vs NEO in cm - Height: 1.7 vs 1.27 (thickest point) - Width: 30 vs 29.75 - Depth: 19.2 vs 20.65 - Weight: 1.08 vs 1.23 11 inch was thi
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Only if you want to take notes with a pen and prefer digital over paper. For me that's terrible, but some kids swear by it. I think if I grew up on it, it'd be different. Homework for things like algebra and later calculus definit
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Nah it's on there.
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
> This isn't for anyone to use for 6 to 8 years. Why not? I would.
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
The newest entry-level Air is $1100, this is $600, or $500 difference. It's significant. Apple released the M1 MBA for $999 and it was considered insane value, and it had 8GB of RAM as well. I don't think it's criminal, suffi
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Tbh the M1 sold at Walmart for $699 and BestBuy at $650 before. M1 is about equivalent in benchmarks to the A18. Both 8GB of RAM and similar storage. Only the M1 had a bit better battery life, magsafe and such. The budget market consists of
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Interesting that it's the same weight, less wide and less tall than the Air model, though it is a bit thicker. Seems like an amazing entry-level offer for kids and students. But to be honest for myself I also don't really much add
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Alright I guess we simply disagree, it's getting a bit out of hand to argue this case, and to be honest also a bit silly. Apple's best selling phones are the Pro and Max, which you want to scrap, and you advocate for a 4.3 inch sc
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Not saying a minority of users doesn't matter, just saying it's bad business to increase the price of an entry-level laptop by $200 for a minority user who has alternative solutions that are free or cheap. Apple traditionally keep
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Three things are probably true: 1. in the short term this development is great for users. LLMs trained for free on a universe of high-quality human stolen content, and returns relevant parts of it to resolve specific customer questions,
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Fair point, I think I'll eat my words then. The entry-level option however does constitute a forced bump in minimum-spend on the part of the customer of $100, even if in a spec-vs-spec comparison there is no bump. And you can argue thi
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Yeah not sure if it's so necessary. Everyone carries their phone. Power users (i.e. nomads who need connectivity in many different places) have lots of unlimited data plans available that are modestly priced (I've travelled asia t
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Not exciting at all, but a nice incremental upgrade. I always enjoy incremental upgrades from Apple as they're usually significant, and 4 years worth of increments add up to big leaps, to the point my 8 year upgrade cycle is usually qu
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Yes it was the iPhone 4 and it was $649, or $968 in today's money for 16gb of storage. That mean's today's cheapest iPhone is 40% cheaper than this base model you're referring to, as well as being tons better. If you don
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by NoLinkToMe 7mo ago
Come on, the iPhone had: - no app store - no video recording at all - no copy/paste function - no selfie camera - no GPS Just to name a few. I won't even go into things like touch/faceID, wireless charging, iCl

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