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by npunt 6y ago
Thanks for responding. I imagine many things are growing and changing there, and it's great to hear the team retains that kind of humility and self awareness. In our industry it's pretty common for companies to let success get to
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If you'll allow me to rant a bit about Obsidian, its never going to be a mainstream competitor to Notion because it's file-based. For modern tools like Notion, Airtable, etc the filesystem is just a fallback option for piping data
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I tried writing one of these laundry lists of how screwy and frustrating Notion's UX is, from the information architecture (mixing page, project, account, and presentation options) to the writing experience/feel to the weird block
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Yep, this is a worrisome thought.
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My point was that if you baselined how good or bad you thought humans were by the crime rates in the 80s, you'd come away thinking humans were way more violent than they are. I think the same holds for 2020 - if you assess human nature
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by npunt 6y ago
Whenever the high crime rates in the 70s-90s is brought up I like to remind folks this was likely an aberration with a specific environmental cause (lead), rather than representative of human nature. This [1] is an eye-opening roundup of ~2
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> Why isn't AMP a great web citizen? As far as I can tell, it's just a web component framework. To be a good citizen of anything implies an awareness of a broader context, as well as actions and intentions within that context t
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Thank you for the stories! The folks over at 68kmla would probably love to hear from you, if you're interested in reliving those times a bit.
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oh very cool! Must have been a pain to get the timing right to sync with the film. I assume you modified the video drivers then, or was it solely hardware based? Was it using a Thunder II? Is there anywhere these stories are written up?
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Could have run at 72hz (3x 24hz), a normal refresh rate for many video cards & CRTs of the day. The SuperMatch 20-T in the movie could do 72hz (why do I know this...)
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Lead crime hypothesis probably explains some of it [1] We do have far more mass shootings though :( [1] https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...
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Yeah I truly don't understand who (if anyone) is leading design at Microsoft. There's so many good examples of how to do things right in UI these days and they somehow keep making the wrong choices. Other examples include their in
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If it was under 7 years old (the typical cutoff for vintage products) they should have offered the option to fix it at the Apple Store. Could be you got stuck in an edge case or had a bad rep, which sucks. Nevertheless, they have the highes
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It's quite reasonable to dislike the self-repair situation and the opaque software issue reporting. Some people value those a lot, and others less so. I don't think Apple treats their customers like garbage though; quite the oppos
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In short, a core problem of biochem (the wagon) was just hitched to Moore's law (the horse). Our understanding of proteins will now grow exponentially not linearly, helping us to move up a level of abstraction to higher level biochemis
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Yes they do on the 16”, after years of complaints from users who didn’t understand the constraint, and which they added the maximum allowable battery size to (~100wH), and it still only lasts 3-4h in moderate use.
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GP means LPDDR3 support which capped out at 16gb on intel, which was because their 10nm lines with LPDDR4 were delayed years. It was always possible to use regular DDR but for laptops the low power variant is important.
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That's a slow M1 machine, probably due to background tasks running shortly after setup. M1's are more like 1720-1750 single core, 7500-7600 multicore
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For what its worth, in 07 I had Andy Rachleff as an instructor and we did a case study on Webvan, and Andy's conclusion was that if he had to do it over he'd still invest in Webvan because the business was sound, it was just a bit
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My thoughts went to SaaS startups in particular when reading the essay - most are highly conventional and seem largely a result of VC-like market analysis and application of a well-honed SaaS playbook, not some place where unconventional an
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For the peoples living in the decline and aftermath of those collapses, yes they absolutely lost a lot of knowledge. What was common knowledge or specialized in different trades was replaced with ignorance. They didn't know how to farm
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by npunt 6y ago
This essay would have been stronger had pg explored where people choose to be conventional vs independent, rather than make it an identity-based dichotomy between independent / conventional. As it stands, this essay will cause people
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This is insane and stupid in the best. possible. way.
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That's already been answered by reviews, the answer is there's a dip in sustained performance for the fanless Air but not on the Pro and Mini, and the fan noise on those is almost imperceptible.
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When it comes to security, better to err on the side of too much than too little. I'm sure there's enough work to keep him busy, question might be whether it's intellectually stimulating enough for him.
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FWIW the M1's Cinebench R23 scores just leaked [1], here's the comparison to 2.3ghz 16" MacBook Pro with highest graphics (5600M): M1 Macbook Pro: 1498 (single) 7508 (multi) i9 MBP16 5600M: 1123 (single) 8818 (multi
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Title incorrect: test is with the dev kits A12Z not the M1, so 2 generations behind current.
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While it's Intel's latest, the i9-10900k is hardly a current offering - its yet another spin of Skylake, a 5 year old CPU design, and using a variant of Intel's 14nm, a 6 year old litho process. The i9 has a density of ~44mT&
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Yes, Anandtech benchmarked the A14 chip from the iPhone . The M1 is as far as we can tell an A14X-like chip with much higher thermal headroom within a Macbook/MacMini for higher frequencies and has more L2 cache (12mb v 8mb), in addit

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