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by greendave 6y ago
I think what makes this inherently harder with notebooks is that everything is integrated. It's not like you can decide to upgrade the keyboard or screen if you don't like the one it comes with. As a result, you're constrai
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by greendave 6y ago
Right. What's weird is Anandtech themselves don't seem to have the common benchmarks in their 'Bench' tab - e.g. to compare Cinebench R20, the 4900HS isn't even shown: https://www.anandtech.com/benc
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by greendave 6y ago
I misread the title as 'Redefining the business notebook...' This looks like a very good CPU. At some point it would be nice to see a well-cooled laptop with an 8 core CPU benchmarked against an 8 core desktop. AMD seems to be d
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by greendave 6y ago
I think the response would be that most of these governments* are not spending the money to keep the businesses open - they're spending it to keep employees solvent. To accomplish that, not all businesses need to be saved. *The USA is
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by greendave 6y ago
Everybody has their pet peeves. Mine is upgradeability. You can't get a Mac laptop where everything isn't soldered in. You can't get a Mac desktop with built-in expansion options under $6k. I don't begrudge Apple their
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by greendave 6y ago
And it goes well beyond Marc. The list of socially valuable things VCs are responsible for helping to build in the past 10+ years is pretty darn small. Considering their outsized influence and wealth, if they want to know why the future is
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by greendave 6y ago
It's nice to read a well-thought-out piece that both critiques and enlightens. That said, I do think it bears some mention that a substantial amount of the early Coronavirus discussion was being poisoned by people who were not arguing
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by greendave 6y ago
This sort of dynamic is something I feel the Free Software/Open Source world often misses. Yes, security, openness and ideally freedom are desirable and in some cases essential, but if the software doesn't fundamentally work well
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by greendave 7y ago
I never understood why we should be expected to subsidize ranchers by giving them nearly-free* access to vast quantities of land. If they want to keep cattle, let them buy their own land and graze on that. (And by 'nearly-free',
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by greendave 7y ago
They lost $276 million last quarter and still had >$2 billion in the bank. Will be interesting to see if after this additional raise, they have enough to survive the epidemic.
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by greendave 7y ago
Exactly. There are also a couple of articles floating around that look at total deaths in certain regions. Unfortunately there's a lot of variability but e.g. in some areas in Italy, non-Covid-19 deaths are >4x what they were at si
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by greendave 7y ago
Seems like an extremely obvious thing to do, and yet so few places are willing/able. The food kitchens in the bay area are being hammered right now and we're barely 3 weeks into the shutdown. This is not something that private c
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by greendave 7y ago
Remarkable. Today the fastest Mac is also a hackintosh, so some things have not changed so much. That said, the first PowerPC Macs shipped in March of 1994 and Photoshop 3.0 for Mac in November. While the application was not native, a num
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by greendave 7y ago
Unfortunately there is no evidence to suggest that the US will get out of this anywhere as quickly or efficiently as China. On the contrary, so far it appears US cases will peak much higher and later than in China, and a lack of resources a
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by greendave 7y ago
Thanks for this link - I found it a much more technically interesting and insightful description than the TC article.
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by greendave 7y ago
Disclosure: Zebrium employee. The ability to export from prometheus to a full-featured SQL database is definitely one aspect. In addition, for scaling, efficient transport from the scraper to the data store becomes pretty important. Beyond
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by greendave 7y ago
Disclosure: Zebrium employee. We've had a great experience with prometheus - both the community and the project. Building what we did would have been immeasurably harder without them. That said, this has been a rapid process for us.
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by greendave 7y ago
Wow. Even persists data across reboots (like the full emulator).
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by greendave 7y ago
The analytics seem pretty benign. "We send events to our Amplitude instance to be aware of the number of people who use MeiliSearch. We only send the platform on which the server runs once by day. No other information is sent. If you
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by greendave 7y ago
Apple has really done a 180 degree turn from back in the early OS X days, when they actually did quite a bit of work to keep existing applications functional. Forget binary compatibility, now even existing APIs are disappearing left and ri
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by greendave 7y ago
I also found it difficult to suss out the general point connecting the two events, but I suppose broadly speaking the outsized role of largely unspoken (and undiscussed) choices in both seems significant.
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by greendave 7y ago
Looks pretty nice. A pity there's no option for the 6-core Comet Lake CPU (10710U). I assume the 40GB RAM limit is from 8GB soldered on, plus 2 slots. 16GB soldered would have been great too. I wonder how Linux's support for US
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by greendave 7y ago
The language has a lot of really nice stuff and the introduction of threads and support for them in the standard libraries (beginning in 1.3) has helped us a lot. That said, the tooling is still frustrating. Generating compiled binaries is
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by greendave 7y ago
A timely reminder (was that really only 12 years ago?). But (maybe a big but), recessions are not all created equal. Seems the unknowns are a lot different this time around.