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by wffurr 8mo ago
A series chips also use a slightly different instruction set with memory tagging and pointer authentication. IIUC it's Armv9, which the M series chips don't support.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Put the M1 in your comparison - I think the A18 Pro compares favorably to it and it's a good baseline for people who bought in on Apple Silicon early and are still using it.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
I wish they had the green from the iMac lineup. I like that color a lot. Still this is a nice device at an excellent price.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
You can spray compressed air without opening the Macbook. Also iFixit has a nice guide if you do open it up: https://www.ifixit.com/Troubleshooting/Mac_Laptop/MacBook+Fa...
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by wffurr 8mo ago
That's got the exact same processing hardware in it though, which was the OP's point. Not that they can't have a fancier case.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
At which point (9+) they can ride their bikes or take the bus.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
I found a thread on macpowerusers.com that recommended Jamf or Zoho that both have a free tier for Apple MDM. https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/mdm-for-family-home/39714/8 I'm kind of curious to try it
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by wffurr 8mo ago
1 car for our family of four seems to work fine for us in the city. Hard to imagine people with different living situations. I held off a while on giving my youngest child his own iPad because he and his brother were playing nicely togethe
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by wffurr 8mo ago
What about a velomobile? They're quite expensive because they're boutique items right now, but it seems like using the pedelec classification for something with significantly better aerodynamics would make for an interesting elec
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Block runs Square and Cash App among other payments tech.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Solar is so cheap and getting cheaper than we can power those sectors with air-to-fuel plants. A carbon tax would go a long way towards leveling the playing field with carbon neutral or carbon negative alternatives to fossil fuels.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Just before the Superbowl, the Boston Globe had an article full of interviews with New Englanders who have moved to California. One claimed to still be a New Englander but didn't miss the weather, "I haven't slipped on ice i
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by wffurr 8mo ago
I have some 3PMS all season tires: Michelin Crossclimate 2. So far seem to be doing well on my FWD Chevy Bolt EV. I live in Boston though and we don't often get enough snow to really need snow tires. Also I usually ride my bike when
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by wffurr 8mo ago
>> sometimes replaces characters with what it thinks is a more likely character from context Like the JBIG2 algorithm used in a zero click PDF-as-GIF exploit in iMessage a while back: https://projectzero.google/2021&#x
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Thanks - I should have done an image search on the whole image. Instead, I clipped out the flag from the astronaut's shoulder and searched that, which how I found out it was the Ohio flag. I just assumed it was an AI-generated image
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Not actually a court order. That's the problem. Administrative subpoenas don't come from a judge, and the target wasn't given notice in order to challenge it in court.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Why does one of them have the state flag of Ohio? What AI-and-Ohio-related news did I miss?
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by wffurr 8mo ago
The "circle arcs" system for maintaining parallel road edges is very similar to how the stroke extrusion algorithm in our drawing library[1] works to maintain stroke width, with one difference being that we vary the circle radius
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Just like Lightning McQueen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvhFjVj7k44
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Oh they're all over Nextdoor and local mailing lists and Facebook groups. They organize in small local communities though, different model from yimby types who band together in cross-regional interest groups instead.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
>> * New computer labs, laptops, digital textbooks, learning software licenses, smart boards, and other and other expensive crap that is at best neutral from a learning perspective. I think we should be actively removing these things
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by wffurr 8mo ago
>> incompetence and principal agent problems you see in any organization Principal agent problem is a huge part of it. How do you keep school leadership accountable and effective? It's super hard in any organization.
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by wffurr 8mo ago
Seems to me like bad and mediocre teachers can make students less teachable as they mentally check out of the education system. I think there's room for improvement on both sides; supporting families and students to create space and
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by wffurr 8mo ago
>> much of math education seems to have been farmed out to really crappy software and short video clips running on chromebooks Our local school committee is debating this currently. There was a book mentioned "Ditch That Textboo
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by wffurr 8mo ago
>> A 45 min drive is a huge distance. Not in Cambridge, Massachusetts traffic! Somehow all our neighborhood corner stores, cafes, village centers, and such seem to get by without a huge amount of parking. Likely because there's
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by wffurr 9mo ago
You already dump waste hot air into your kitchen from the refrigerator during the summer. Is this much different? It does seem a little silly to have these chains of heat pumps all working in various directions. I read about "cold di
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by wffurr 9mo ago
>> Remove ALL people, the scene should feel empty and abandoned That really captures the vibe in Kendall square on the weekend, but for maximum "honest truth" there should be double-parking, delivery trucks and ubers stuck
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by wffurr 9mo ago
It really nails the Boston / MIT campus in November vibe.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
I'm not replacing it; I am asking cat 5 to the same jack by replacing the one port faceplate with a two port one. MoCA us interesting but that's a lot of equipment at each end compared to just a cable.
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by wffurr 9mo ago
When Consumer Reports tested ADAS systems in 2020 [1], they gave their highest rating to the Comma Two. I'm sure it's only gotten better since then. I really like my 2017 Chevy Bolt except that it doesn't have ACC. I wish I

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