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by stetrain 6mo ago
> Everything that isn’t a MacBook will be more expensive than a MacBook Imagine telling this to someone in 2010 or 2015.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
And their investors.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
You think that officially supporting Asahi linux would double their laptop share?
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by stetrain 6mo ago
This has been reported by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg since 2024. Those other outlets are likely directly or indirectly referencing this reporting. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-08/apple-s-n...
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by stetrain 6mo ago
Official support for alternative OSes would be nice, but no reason to throw everything out to make that happen.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
My guess is that Cook will continue to handle some of the hairier political situations, letting Ternus focus on Apple itself.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
> Because Apple is the King of Deprecations. Google might wear that particular crown: https://killedbygoogle.com
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by stetrain 6mo ago
Keep a macOS 26 machine around for testing. All Intel Macs will be stuck on 26 as well, so testing under 26 is probably best anyway.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
I read somewhere that the part that allows a virtual machine to use Rosetta inside the VM is sticking around. MacOS on ARM can't directly virtualize an Intel OS using Rosetta today using the native virtualization framework, you need so
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by stetrain 6mo ago
The original discussion was about acceptable mortality rate. Artemis's target is 1 in 30, which is better than the empirically observed mortality rate of the actual Apollo missions. The mortality rate is a target. And if that target is
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by stetrain 6mo ago
> If I toss a coin four times and it comes up heads three and tails once, it doesn’t mean that there’s a 75% chance that this coin lands heads up. No, but it means that to ensure that I do better on my next set of coin tosses I need to b
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by stetrain 6mo ago
But we’re talking about the risk of a defined set of events that have concluded, not a prediction of the future. Of course Apollo would have likely had a better average if it had continued, but the risk of the Apollo program, as executed, i
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by stetrain 6mo ago
So the risk factor for Apollo could have actually been 1/1000 but they were just really unlucky?
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by stetrain 6mo ago
1 out of the 12 crewed Apollo missions resulted in the death of the crew, so a 1 in 12 effective mortality rate. Apollo 13 was a very close call. If that had ended in failure the mortality rate would have been 1 in 6. So 1 in 30 would be a
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by stetrain 6mo ago
For me the benefit is that I can revert or cherry-pick things one entire PR at a time, and I don't have to care if the author implemented their PR with a bunch of small "work in progress" commits. And GitHub at least sets the
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by stetrain 6mo ago
If it was an SMS verification code, you don't need a smartphone. You need the kind of cell phone that's been around for 20 years.
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by stetrain 6mo ago
2-factor authentication codes via SMS are pretty common and don't require a smart phone. You haven't run into this before?
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by stetrain 7mo ago
I think that comment specifically meant possession by the government. The tavern owner is not the government. The bill of rights is about restricting the powers of the government, not of tavern owners.
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by stetrain 7mo ago
Annoyingly "Android Auto" and "Android Automotive" are completely different things. Android Auto is where you can connect your phone to the car and your phone projects onto the car's display with apps and navigation
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by stetrain 7mo ago
The main difference there is that with an HDHP your employer is still the one choosing the insurance provider, and the insurance provider views your employer as the customer. There's no risk that you as an individual will switch to ano
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by stetrain 7mo ago
My understanding is that some US states have regulations against selling power by the kWh unless you are a registered power utility. This is an old regulation meant to be about landlords marking up electric rates to tenants etc. Most states
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by stetrain 7mo ago
This product effectively cuts the entry price for a new model Mac laptop in half. The cheapest current-generation MacBook has been $999 or above for a very long time, even back to the iBook days. Yes, Apple has offered discounted prices by
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by stetrain 7mo ago
I think assuming that this is a disposable, non-serviceable machine is a bit premature. Yes the RAM and SSD are soldered to the mainboard, but otherwise it looks like this might be Apple's most serviceable computer in a long time. htt
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by stetrain 7mo ago
I'll sell you my proof-of-human-age badge for $1,000.
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by stetrain 7mo ago
Yes, but I don't think most of those IDs qualify as "proof of citizenship." Even a RealID compliant ID is not direct proof of citizenship. Others in the comment chain have talked about localities with very few DMV officer per
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by stetrain 7mo ago
It definitely would have competitive issues with 8MB RAM and a 256MB SSD. Knocking it for having a tablet processor means you haven't actually been paying attention to Apple's in-house processor development.
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by stetrain 7mo ago
If there is a federal law requiring proof of citizenship, as is currently being argued in Congress, a state ID would not be all you need since they are not proof of citizenship.
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by stetrain 7mo ago
Right, so proposals that do not adequately address this point are not fair, and this is why the issue is so contentious in the US. I absolutely support ID to vote provided that everyone who is eligible and wants to vote can get such an ID a
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by stetrain 7mo ago
There are rural places in the US where it is an hour + drive to whatever the equivalent of the DMV office is, with no public transit. You can find similar places in cities where people may not have a car at all, with a long walk to find suc
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by stetrain 7mo ago
Free and accessible are not the same thing. And a driver's license is not necessarily proof of citizenship.

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