rewmie

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by rewmie 3y ago
> I feel like the m1’s are actually fast enough for basic web browsing. I was not expecting this type of comment on 2023 on a discussion on premium hardware marketed as the highest performant hardware on the market.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Read the discussion--it shouldn't need it but there's apparently no way to read the existing wallpaper without full file system access. You should read the discussion. The app requested QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES, supposedly to read
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by rewmie 3y ago
I'd love to hear about the rationale behind this decision, because operational cost certainly isn't it. It's ludicrous to migrate a high-traffic, high-risk API to a function-as-a-service solution like AWS Lambda. Either they
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Probably not because they will compare the M4 to the M2 (because M3 owners are less likely to upgrade). We already had people in another HN discussion asking why on earth would owners of M2 MacBook Pros not mindlessly upgrade to M3 one
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by rewmie 3y ago
I'm sorry to say but your list sounds like the poster child of desperate nitpicking. Complaining that Firefox provides development tools when all major browsers also ship with those it's simply absurd. So is complaining about lack
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I see and hear about many differences between Firefox and other browsers, (...) Can you point out what you feel is the single most noticeable difference? I use Firefox as my daily driver but I also use Chrome, and I never noticed any d
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Fix Mozilla. Or fork Firefox and create a team with equal resources. What is there to fix? I use Firefox as my daily driver, and I think it's already flawless. To me all major browsers look and feel the same. There are subtle vis
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by rewmie 3y ago
> And even then it's probably more like a 20yo F1 car vs a new one. This thread is literally about the decision to buy an M3-based MacBook Pro to replace M2/M1/Intel MacBook Pros. We're talking about hardware launched
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by rewmie 3y ago
> They mentioned their coworker and most companies have upgrade policies. Upgrade policies aren't driven by new requirements, or performance improvements. Some companies have mandatory hardware replacement policies which mostly serv
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Heh, I recall seeing many posts arguing against benchmarks (...) It's one thing to argue that some real-world data might not be representative all on itself. It's an entirely different thing to present no proof at all, and ju
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (..) it seems like an entirely reasonable question to ask of someone on a forum which is largely comprised of computer and programming enthusiasts who has not upgraded their daily driver for nearly a decade. Are professionals expected
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That's a fantastically entirely subjective opinion. That's the point: objectively, there is absolutely no concrete reason that justifies replacing a MacBook bought in the past 3 or 4 years with the M3 ones. None at all. In fa
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Because the productivity gains from upgrading can be quite large relative to the cost of upgrading, esp when you factor in the average salary in this community. You see, this is simply not true. At all. By far. I have a cheap Intel lap
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Any reason for not upgrading? Why is this sort of question always framed as if people have to provide a justification for not buying a new model, as if spending money on the new shiny without any reason is normal or desirable? We live
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Depends. Is it faster? The devil tends to be in the details. More precisely, in the benchmark details. I think Apple provided none other than the marketing blurb. In the meantime, embarrassingly parallel applications do benefit from ha
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Because engineering failed to consider these details. I don't think you got the point. The point is that no one cares, or think it's important enough and much less critical to justify wasting time with it. Product Managers ar
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by rewmie 3y ago
There's a colossal difference between encountering stressful situations and thinking it's normal that jobs should be so stressful so often that the national school curriculum should prepare people to endure mental and emotional ab
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by rewmie 3y ago
> It doesn't have to be school, but you should learn how to manage stress. You can have a perfectly fine job and still get stressed out, or have a horrible job and manage fine. There's something awfully broken in a society that
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by rewmie 3y ago
> You never hear from the many others who would say it's a good or OK job, or even those who think it's not great but just aren't the type to get on twitter or write blogs about it. Places like Amazon have a high regretted
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I think real world stress is something that academic institutions don't prepare you for. Should it, though? Stress results from abuse and abusive working conditions, and a workforce should not be conditioned to take abusive relati
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Generally it is quite important especially for SaaS. You see, I don't think that's true at all. If it was, certainly you'd have clients complain loudly enough for the PMs to notice. But that doesn't seem to even reg
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Basically most of the complexity I mention comes from memory management. It's just a lot of details to know about and keep in your head. It's the price to pay for the flexibility and power. That's basically the point: yo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In my experience, the vast majority of PMs could not describe the difference between TLS 1.3 and 1.x. Does the vast majority of PMs need to tell the difference between TLS 1.3 and 1.x? I mean, is that a relevant aspect of the vast majo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) a lot of boost made it into the standard. FYI. Some components that have been proposed to be admitted to the C++ standard were also contributed to Boost, but that's about it. There are far more components in Boost that were
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I find today's C++ extremely challenging to pick up speed for someone coming from let's say, Java. Smart pointers, pointer/references, rvalue reference, copy/move semantics, (perfect) forwarding, constructors, and h
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by rewmie 3y ago
> That may be the case in practice but it is not literally true, since semantically, inheritance is effectively a form of copy-and-paste in the compiler. No, not really. The whole point of inheritance is declaring new types by implement
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I realized all this class-ification effort was pure waste, since most of it would never be reused. I don't think this is a valid take. Classes are not about reuse at all. They are about encapsulation and specifying types/pr
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The CPU does have a huge flops number, but nothing "desktop" can saturate that many cores, especially when the system comes with a GPU. I've seen this blend of argument being made towards multicore CPUs when AMD and Inte
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by rewmie 3y ago
> (...) there is an argument to be made for someone to make an alternative that is easy to transition to. Again, what better option is there? You're the one quick to claim "People shouldnt use Windows, its not that great."
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by rewmie 3y ago
Elon Musk seems to be aiming for turning Twitter into zombo.com.

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