stetrain

7 ms·

91.
by stetrain 7mo ago
> That being said, I am in favor of in-person voting requiring proof of citizenship I think this is fine if it also then means that obtaining a qualifying ID is treated as a no-cost and highly-accessible right for all citizens. This is w
92.
by stetrain 7mo ago
The cliche about HR doesn't mean that HR can't ever be helpful to you, just that they are incentivized to be helpful in ways that help the company. For example advising on how to best use benefits to keep employees healthy or reco
93.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Fairly common for me to see my light turn green and 2-3 more cars continue turning left in front of me through a red light. And not just yellow-light clippers, but cars that would have fully entered the intersection under a red light. I&#x2
94.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Consumers probably don't know all of the conditions involved in making any of the products they buy. That information is generally not on the label, and even environmental and conditions based labels are often vague and hard to interpr
95.
by stetrain 7mo ago
There have also been iPads running on M series chips for years now. The actual hardware system differences between an M4 iPad Air and M4 MacBook Air are pretty slim as far as the OS would be concerned. You can connect an iPad to an external
96.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Or a student, or a family member of a student. Also these days Apple actually allows sales and discounts at retailers. I bet this will be on sale for $499 at Amazon or BestBuy before the end of the year.
97.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Yes, this is spiritually more of a successor to the old plastic MacBook or iBook lines. Not a successor to the premium ultra-portable 12" MacBook. That seems like a product they could also potentially revive with Apple Silicon.
98.
by stetrain 7mo ago
They'll develop with 8GB of memory in mind, but under the assumption that they are the only app running. And if it's Chrome that's probably right most of the time.
99.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Yep, you're right.
100.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Until today if they had less than around $800 to spend my answer would be "Don't buy a new MacBook from Apple" because there isn't one that cheap. Maybe look for a used or refurbished M1-M2 model. Today it's the Mac
101.
by stetrain 7mo ago
But it's also a smaller display, smaller than the MacBook Air before it got the notch. So really you're losing screen area not gaining when comparing to the 13.6" MacBook Air with a notch. Edit: Not 16x9 as originally stated.
102.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Phones contain 3+ cameras, OLED displays, FaceID, wireless charging, and cellular modems. Plus there is a price to be paid for the latest and greatest in miniaturization, machining, and packaging. Plus this is exactly the same price as the
103.
by stetrain 7mo ago
The MacBook Air is the same weight and thinner, so for a mobile machine I think that still wins out. The last gen MacBook Air (M4, 16GB, 256GB) was down to $749 with retailer discounts last year. Currently $759 on Apple's certified ref
104.
by stetrain 7mo ago
This is a 13" 16:9 screen. A little smaller than the current 13.6" 16:10 MacBook Air in display size but not really any more portable. Weight is the same as the 13.6" MacBook Air.
105.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Sure, my point is just that all of those schedules are arbitrary. We made them all up. One way might require less rescheduling, and that's valid, but these discussions out in the world tend to go to "but everyone does X at Y time
106.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Yep, seems like an expected spec bump. M4 to M5, base storage bumped from 256GB to 512GB, price increased by $100.
107.
by stetrain 7mo ago
> GB should switch to UTC+0 all year. UTC+1 all year was tried (1968-1971) and was very unpopular in Scotland. School hours are roughly 09:00 till 15:00 and they only get about 6 hours of sunlight in winter up north so local noon has to
108.
by stetrain 7mo ago
On the M5 Pro tier (not the base M5 tier that was released last November), the base memory is 24GB. My M3 Pro from a few years ago for the same price had 18GB.
109.
by stetrain 7mo ago
It's cheaper but also 27" 5K instead of 32" 6K. I think it's kind of weird that they didn't just do two size options with similar specs.
110.
by stetrain 7mo ago
There are some decently powerful apps available, like Final Cut Pro, and there is multi-window support including external displays. I think the percentage of iPad users actually using this level of processing power is small, but there are s
111.
by stetrain 7mo ago
Apple's OSes run a lot of local ML models for many tasks that aren't branded as Apple Intelligence, and they have done so for many years now.
112.
by stetrain 7mo ago
I don't know why that's specific to one social media network. I see deliberately misleading posts on all of them.
113.
by stetrain 8mo ago
That feels like you've made a tautology here. In places where public transit is more convenient than driving (and parking), many people choose not to own and drive a car.
114.
by stetrain 8mo ago
There are two groups of people that you can optimize for. One is the group of people who already rides the bus. In most US cities this is a small group of people who have no real alternative. The other is the group of people who might ride
115.
by stetrain 8mo ago
> I Want to Wash My Dog. The Dog Wash Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive? I dunno, that seems pretty clear to me still. Of course the answer to the question is now less obvious, since you can walk your dog to the dog wash but not
116.
by stetrain 8mo ago
You think that the reasonable interpretation of the question is that I want to go to the car wash but not to wash my car there, because I plan to wash my car at home?
117.
by stetrain 8mo ago
Yes, but part of the value of LLMs is that they are supposed to work by talking to them like a human, not like a computer. I could already talk to a computer before LLMs, via programming or query languages.
118.
by stetrain 8mo ago
I think if surveyed at least 90% of native English speakers would understand "I want to wash my car" to mean a full size automobile. The next largest group would probably ask a clarifying question, rather than assume a toy car.
119.
by stetrain 8mo ago
They said "Available Today" on January 4th but have said actually customer deliveries are planned for April. > “The first customer deliveries will probably take place in April. There are production-related issues, getting subco
120.
by stetrain 8mo ago
> The fact that they're taking their time addressing critics might just be an indication that they are making those deals. I think if they were doing so then there would not be much point in trying to market to the internet at large

More ›