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by mmcnl 6mo ago
I'm a tech lead and pushing back against accidental complexity is basically my fulltime job.
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by mmcnl 6mo ago
Ofcourse this has been tried, the highest possible resolution with HiDPI is limited to what the article says.
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by mmcnl 6mo ago
Yes, BetterDisplay offers this functionality and it kind of works, with some drawbacks.
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by mmcnl 6mo ago
Scaling up before scaling down is a sensible approach, especially when you want to run at a slightly lower scaled resolution. It worked fine up to M3 Pro. So whatever you think of it, it's something that worked fine for many years and
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
It doesn't. They take extreme use cases such as watching video until the battery depletes at maximum brightness where 90% of power consumption is the display. But in realistic use cases the fraction of power draw consumed by the displa
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
Decent package manager, brew is awful compared to apt. Window snapping can only be done on Apple keyboards not on external keyboards. No Alt+Tab, Cmd+Tab is not the same. No window previews when hovering over dock, ridiculous animation spee
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
True for Geekbench.
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
Agreed, macOS has hardly improved in the past decade. The only improvements are about ecosystem integration, which I don't really care about. Everything else is stuck in the 2010s. UI has regressed if you ask me.
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
I had high hopes for Surface as well, but the pricing is ridiculous. The Surface Laptop 7 is more expensive than a MacBook Air, with the added benefit of having worse battery life and performance. Pricing hasn't come down in almost 2 y
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
This still doesn't tell me how they differ. What are the factual objective measurable differences between E/L/T/P?
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
It's incredibly ugly, part of the value of Apple was esthetics. Also it's distracting, when I want to focus on something I want distracting elements to get out of the way.
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by mmcnl 7mo ago
I don't know, the majority of my colleagues have no idea how to do anything in a greenfield environment. They need guardrails.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
I don't get the fight against estimates. An estimate is an estimate. An estimate can be wrong. It likely is wrong, that's fine, it doesn't have to be perfect. There is a confidence interval. You can communicate that. Very oft
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
But very often the CI operations _are_ the problem. It's just YAML files with unlimited configuration options that have very limited documentation, without any type of LSP.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Personally I think this is an extreme waste of time. Every week you're learning something new that is already outdated the next week. You're telling me AI can write complex code but isn't able to figure out how to properly gu
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Why can't both be true at the same time? Maybe their problems are more complex than yours. Why do you assume it's a skill issue and ignore the contextual variables?
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Repairable laptops don't reduce e-waste. You replace the mainboard and then what? You have a spare mainboard that sits there collecting dust. The best way to prevent e-waste is to build durable laptops that last a lifetime. Like Dell,
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Not really, it's a nice tech demo at best.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
X13 is not that much bigger I believe.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
All MacBooks have Fn at the left bottom corner too?
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Nice for experimentation, but if you want a daily driver that lasts for years: Dell Latitude (now Dell Pro), HP EliteBook or Lenovo ThinkPad. Literally laptops built to last. Will last a decade with ease. Higher segments ofcourse better tha
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Agreed. Trackpads on Windows are very good (approaching Mac quality) but on Linux it's hit and (mostly) miss. Gnome gestures are borderline unusable. Sometimes Gnome forgets how many fingers I'm using and every single finger mouse
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Yeah, I don't even need a Markdown formatter. It's already in my head.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Now is not the time to take a principal stance on copyright. The harsh reality is that trillion dollar companies are taking the word of individual creators like Tailwind for free and monetizing it without any form of compensation. That feel
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Laws are not intellectual property of individuals or companies, they belong to the public. That's a fundamentally different type of content to "learn" from. I totally agree that AI can save a lot of time, but I don't agr
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
It doesn't matter what Tailwind your opinion is. It matters that they built something which definitely has market validation that people were willing to pay for. AI took their lunch AND their lunch money.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
They have more and better lawyers. But I know what feels morally unjust.
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
The business model is strong. AI is stealing traffic/money from creators. That's not a problem with the business model, it's a problem with AI. AI hyperscalers shamelessly monetize other people's work without compensatio
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Wow, this is a grim reality check: AI hyperscalers taking in billions of revenue, while at the same time putting honest business like Tailwind out of work, without any form of compensation. What happened to "you wouldn't steal a c
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by mmcnl 9mo ago
Let's hope 2026 will also have interesting innovations not related to AI or LLMs.

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