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by matwood 2y ago
To paraphrase MKBHD, only buy devices for the features they have right now. Otherwise you will often be disappointed.
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by matwood 2y ago
Apple is marketing to everyone and not just the HN crowd. For many people their phone is their only computing device and for them an iPad is likely a big upgrade. When I have to proof photos or do a bunch of office type work, an iPad has be
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by matwood 2y ago
> iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work At the risk of invoking no true Scotsman, I think you need to define 'real' work.
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by matwood 2y ago
> Many factories are only used 8 hours a day despite the high costs I don't have a lot of direct experience but my dad worked in factories most of my childhood. Every single one ran nearly 24/7. Was that a chance occurrence of
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by matwood 2y ago
It's hard to convey just how revolutionary the original voodoo cards were. There aren't many times in my life where there was a clear line of before and after, but this was one of those times.
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by matwood 2y ago
> actual goal is cost reduction For many companies the largest cost is labor. Also in many companies, managers amass power by the number of people they manage. If the C-suite doesn't explicitly push for layoffs they will likely not
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by matwood 2y ago
Sure, but will it have anything to do with the modem feature set? I guess there could be a second order competition effect where people buy iPhones for the C1 instead of a different phone with a qualcom modem.
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by matwood 2y ago
Unfortunately it’s not a real challenge since Apple probably won’t sell their modems for other phones, and Apple will use their own modem even if it’s lacking in some way.
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by matwood 2y ago
1P family sharing and 1P cli also work well. I check BW every so often but it always feels less polished UI wise. For all the complaints people had about 1P moving to electron, it’s UX is still the best out there.
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by matwood 2y ago
I'm over 40 and even though I mostly manage/lead now I have time to do programming and plenty of math. I still see improvement mentally (not so much physically anymore), but also a lot of improvement in skills I neglected when I w
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by matwood 2y ago
> I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work This so much. When I was in my 20s I never forgot things, but I didn't ha
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by matwood 2y ago
> all effects are first order Basically they are mostly below average intelligence. The ability to think about second, third, N order effects is a sign of intelligence which is clearly lacking here. Those in power are leveraging that lac
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by matwood 2y ago
Don't forget cutting NOAA right as hurricane season is kicking off. The IRS thing was particularly stupid. OMB has a report that said for every $1 put towards tax fraud enforcement they received some $4-$7 in return.
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by matwood 2y ago
Add in Trump implementing isolationist policies that only help China by allowing them to fill those gaps left by the US. Then there's Musk who Tweets nonsense 24/7, but somehow never says a bad word about China. Propaganda victory
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by matwood 2y ago
I mean, Trump said on covid, 'if we stop testing, we'd have fewer cases'. People who deal in a steady stream of lies don't want the inconvenience of facts like scientific measurements. Same reason all the climate data is
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by matwood 2y ago
I bought an M1 Max with 64gb of ram at release. I'm still not sure what will get me to replace it other than it simply breaking. Maybe an M5 will finally make me want to buy something new. I'm debating getting a cheaper Air and ma
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by matwood 2y ago
> I'd watch a movie about a killer using statistics properly. At the start of the movie Heat, one of the hot head robbers kills one of the guards. De Niro, the leader of the robbers, immediately kills the other guard and says someth
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by matwood 2y ago
I was able to run and use the DeepSeek distilled 24gb on an M1 Max with 64gb of ram. It wasn't speedy, but it was usable. I imagine the M3/4s are much faster, especially on smaller, more specific models.
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by matwood 2y ago
> What stops the countries you are trying to drain from offering better incentives to stay? Nothing! And that is sort of the point. If the US can provide freedom, rule of law, education, good salary, etc... and the other countries do the
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by matwood 2y ago
> I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do. A better word might to 'appreciate' what you do. I'm mostly a manager/leader/vision person now and occasionally still code. Even though I've w
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by matwood 2y ago
“Americans have had democracy for so long they now take it for granted.” - an EU friend of mine. The peaceful transfer of power is not common in human history. It’s a miracle it’s gone on as long as it has in the US.
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by matwood 2y ago
Exactly. People act like if the US steps back there will suddenly be peace and everyone will get along. What will happen is someone else will step into the US position or multiple someone’s will fight for that position. Neither are probably
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by matwood 2y ago
> Brain-draining the world is really the key to cementing American Hegemony in a post-Cold War world. One of the keys. Others are the USD as the defacto world reserve currency, the ability to project military might anywhere, and the US&#
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by matwood 2y ago
Depends on the person. The CEO position is about setting a vision and hiring the right people to execute.
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by matwood 2y ago
Part of the issue is that people who don’t use Mac’s think it’s only about the looks. The looks are secondary and it’s about all the little pieces of functionality that have been a part of macOS for decades at this point.
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by matwood 2y ago
> And I haven’t not even started on its services like iCloud. I feel like a lot of the Apple issues come from the fact they keep building on top of iCloud. It’s only very recently that people started trusting the sync. It’s like MS, wher
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by matwood 2y ago
I think it would be an open question as to which side ends up owning most of the military. Bases are all over the US along with national guard. The people in the military are also a pretty diverse group. In a civil war situation I don’t thi
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by matwood 2y ago
> Numbers mean nothing when the guys who own the guns are not on your side. Not saying it will turn out differently, but there are more guns circulating in the US than there are people. Nearly everyone has or can easily get access to a g
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by matwood 2y ago
Without knowing more about the numbers, the only one I have an issue with is the number of students. These universities should be doing everything they can to increase enrollment and let in more students. I went to a smaller school in my ci
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by matwood 2y ago
I knew a sysadmin at a different job who did that. And since MUDs were text, many in the office at the time had no idea what was on his screen. And to your point about high-demand/high-stakes, at the same job as the MUD guy there was

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