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by ndr42 6mo ago
Interesting that in that time all kind of external storage solutions emerged: I used Zip drives, the follow-up "Jaz drive" (1GB) and Syquest disks (270 MB?). The latter two chained together with thick SCSI cables to a PowerMac 720
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iPad at 16 – Redundant or Post-PC?(asymco.com)
3 points by ndr42 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ndr42 6mo ago
Why replace oil dependency with uranium dependency (presumably from Russia)? Costs are not the only consideration.
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Tesla has an P/E Ratio of 332 (in comparison, Apple has 31.3) - the stock price is not based on measurable numbers so I don't think that the unsold EVs will have any consequences for the valuation. When reality finally sets in it
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Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them(psychologytoday.com)
100 points by ndr42 7mo ago|91 comments
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There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40(arstechnica.com)
6 points by ndr42 7mo ago|2 comments
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Nice, except it doesn't work in Safari. Some are hidden in the Edit menu but most are still there.
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I think the target demographic is also young people raised with iPhones. So for them the new interface design is good for similarity (not for older Mac-people). As if apple planed that all along...
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by ndr42 7mo ago
They announced a sales record where the metric is "sold to somebody that never ever had a mac before" combined with "in the first week of availability". The headline is worse than Cook's tweet quoted in the article.
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I don't think that apple will be affected more than their peers.
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I agree - I just would like to know what a "best launch week ever" means in numbers
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Well, I remember a time where I had to restart my PowerMac 7200 a lot because of some bug in MacOS 8... Edit: Apple turns 50 this year
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Cook: "Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers." I don't doubt that it will sell well (I ordered one myself) but I really dislike this kind of marketing. I would like to get some numbers not "
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Apple Wanted to Buy Halide to Boost iPhone 18 Pro's Camera App – Lawsuit(macrumors.com)
6 points by ndr42 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I agree, but boy does it look beautiful!
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by ndr42 7mo ago
The link does not work in germany - it gets lost while redirecting to the german part of the apple website.
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The biggest surprise of the MacBook Neo(asymco.com)
6 points by ndr42 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Interesting calculation: "This means that the average PC is more than twice the cost of the MacBook Neo."
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by ndr42 7mo ago
There is also the opposite trend in Europe, e.g. the European Court for Human Rights has ruled in 2024 that Switzerland violated human rights due to insufficient climate protection. So there are constitutional human rights that have courts
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No accountability: Bills would ban liability lawsuits for climate change(insideclimatenews.org)
7 points by ndr42 7mo ago|1 comments
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by ndr42 7mo ago
What does "best" means? Which population size would you consider comparable to the US (i assume you don't meant it in a way in which Germany would be the best 83,6 mil population country in the World)?
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I'm not certain that a already observable negative impact of AI on some areas of education could be offset by "high quality individualized tutoring for free".
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by ndr42 7mo ago
Good point! At least the build-in remote desktop on Macs makes it very easy to provide help. I don't know if Windows has something similar build in. Phones are more of a problem as I can't have a look at their screen remotely.
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by ndr42 7mo ago
And it's even more painful for me to do the remote tech support for my (80+ years old) parents so paying the difference is a kind of preservation of my mental health...
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I agree in general with your first point. Regarding gaming I disagree: my gaming needs (using a Mac for everything else) are fully satisfied by an additional steam deck, a "console" running linux. Of the top of my head I know only
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by ndr42 7mo ago
I think the problem of responsibility will come for many more companies sooner than later. It is possible that some of the alleged efficacy gains by using ai are not so big anymore when someone has to be accountable for it.
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After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes(arstechnica.com)
659 points by ndr42 7mo ago|485 comments
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by ndr42 8mo ago
Just in case someone has some time I recommend this scientific article: Assessing the best hour to start the day: an appraisal of seasonal daylight saving time https://www.proquest.com/docview/3187599695/fulltext?s
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by ndr42 8mo ago
Well, at least thats the way I would have responded to the question when interviewed. Maybe I'm dumber or more mindless than the average german. There were say some 100s of people called by phone, asked a lot of questions about a lot o
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by ndr42 8mo ago
My "very dishonest take" is the result of the polls after the EU parliament voted to stop the time change. The question in these polls had been which time the person would prefer. A big majority in Germany chose "summer time&

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