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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
How does the Mac have extremely strong vendor lock-in? Sure, you can use the App Store and use all the stuff that integrates with iPhone, iCloud, etc But you can also just treat it as Linux for Laptops (that actually works), and roll with a
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
A larger vehicle is more of a hazard to others than a smaller vehicle, and the safety features you describe don't change that. But, as you're in Australia, I'm not sure your definition of "large" matches the story&#
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
I have, in the context of time series charts. Lots of back and forth with QA.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
An added wrinkle is that parts of British Columbia use other timezones. The southeast corner follows Alberta time (previously MST/MDT but changing to MDT). Parts of the northeast and iirc a few other communities (eg Creston) have histo
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
I have used Blender just a bit, but it was very jarring when I first opened it and discovered that it has its own menu bar within the window, rather than at the top of the screen. It has its own save/open window rather than using the s
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
And finishes long after a similarly-equipped lighter vehicle would.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
Doesn't fix braking distance, doesn't fix the increased chance of serious injury if a collision with a pedestrian occurs.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
Java stagnated for quite a while. Seemed like everyone was stuck on Java 6 for about a decade. But JDK8 was a huge step forward. Lambdas, streams, and a date/time API that is the best I've seen.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
Originated (or maybe just popularized) by Joel Spolsky, I think?
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
These sensors and a bunch of other scientific research for a thousand years, or pointless war with Iran for 3 months.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
A Mac Neo would be great. But for now, Intel N150 mini PCs are probably a better choice than RPi for those types of tasks.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
Not an exaggeration to say that oil and gas is the most subsidized enterprise in human history.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
Careful what you wish for. Making devices easily repairable increases thickness.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
I disagree. The camera bump was functional pragmatism winning out over Jony Ive's increasingly form-driven ideals. Even the Jobs Reality Distortion Field couldn't alter physics.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
This take is completely divorced from reality.
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by rjrjrjrj 4mo ago
The idea is the easy part. Execution is the hard part.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
C'mon, the LLM/compiler false analogy? In 2026?
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
That must have been a expensive piece of gear at the time. In the mid-to-late 80s, my school still had a lab of 10 or so PETs. All connected to the same dual floppy unit. I remember the teacher would tell half the class to save their work,
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
New Mac customers, perhaps. But new Apple customers? The vast majority of Neo buyers almost certainly already have an iPhone.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
I don't think so. For most people in the Apple ecosystem, the iPhone is central and the Neo is another useful (but secondary) companion device. Not unlike the Watch and Airpods.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
They make the best-selling phone model in the world. Best-selling smart watch, etc. Apple is not a luxury brand.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
Or put the dock on the right side of the screen. In my experience, 13.3" MBA is fine for many applications. A little smaller (eg 12.5") might still be usable. 11" would not work with current MacOS.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
Even the 128k was reasonably successful commercially. Hundreds of thousands of units sold, which was quite good for the time. Inflation-adjusted, it cost quite a bit more than the Vision Pro. They sold the same model with very minor revisio
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
1024x768 low-dpi display, Core 2 Duo, etc "Runs" doing some lifting here.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
> I have an iMac from 2012 > Well, I have a Framework 13 also, running Linux, and despite the hardware being from 2022 Please be sure to add a comment in 2036 on how your Framework/Linux experience worked out.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
No, but they are all on HN. And before that, Slashdot.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
Such as? Feels like the Neo covers pretty much all the bases: browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and alternatives IDEs like VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse open source heavy hitters like QGIS, Blender, Ghostty, even Gimp unix command line tools via H
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
The original Air was not good. I think you mean the second gen Air (SSD-only, c2010), which was an incredible combination of price, performance, and usability.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
You will be able to drop an old Neo off at an Apple store and they'll recycle it. Same as with most of their other products.
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by rjrjrjrj 5mo ago
Difficult to square the author's surprise with the later comment "I have my fair share of building a Java desktop application and know jpackage and alike very well" You can't get very far in Java development without work

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