Before M chips an Apple Intel laptop was just a shiny wrapper for a PC laptop experience: fans turn on to full blast all the time, battery lasts <3 hours under any regular usage beyond just browsing (say having an IDE open, and frequently switching between apps). Laptop would get hot to the point where you need padding if you keep it on a lap so you’re not boiling yourself. Made for a good leg warmer during the winter though haha.

With an Apple M4 laptop, the only time I’ve heard the fan turn on is when I almost 100% filled the memory with some local LLM model. I can’t recall any other times. Battery life is finally as advertised, can last many hours, laptop is consistently fast, never gets hot and any CPU throttling is not perceptible under medium to high CPU usage.

If you want to see what competitive throws/takedowns with a kimono/gi look like against live resistance, watch Judo. Example https://youtu.be/fLD87nqwp3Y

For the same but without kimono, watch Greco-Roman. Example https://youtu.be/4Xc-wxNSsTk).

1. Trump is a bad president

2. The Islamic Republic of Iran should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tripoli_(LHA-7) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCMSKTxgQI4

100%, and something that is underappreciated and often taken for granted nowadays, especially on our little forum here.

>>> It would benefit even better by having many SpaceXs around.

That made me chuckle, sounded to me a bit like "our house would benefit from having a few cats around". Perhaps the reason why there aren't too many SpaceX-like companies around is that it's truly among the hardest companies to ever create.

I am pretty sure Waymo does not disclose how many human interventions they get. It would destroy their magic aura. A fancy RC car with self-driving experimental features is not very futuristic after all. By all the evidence, that’s what we observed when the internet went out. I don’t buy the 4-way stop explanation. Waymos handle 4-way stops just fine on an average day. I drive alongside them daily.

I’ve long suspected that they get many human interventions on the road, frequent enough that when the internet connectivity slowed down to a crawl across the city, Waymos could not get themselves unstuck from a variety of situations and simply just blocked the roads. That’s not a paragon of safety, nor is it “self-driving”. Self-driving cars were 10 years away in 2015, and in 2025, they are still 10 years away.

Inheritance might be OK for formally finite domains but I can’t envision other cases where it should be favored.

Just one data point to illustrate: in 1950, a bottle of Coca-Cola cost 5 cents.

- Drone-bombing an embassy in downtown London does not look good on social media

- He's too famous and has many supporters in the Western world to be publicly assassinated, regardless of location (example: Lady Gaga visited him while he was stuck in the embassy)

- He's more useful as a deterrent, i.e., "see what might happen to you", to the people who might decide to go a similar route. Some will go that route regardless, but chances are at least a few have been persuaded otherwise.

For all the ridicule of the government, the Intelligence Community seems to be doing a fairly intelligent job most of the time to satisfy its objectives.

For example, I was looking for a way to perform certain computations on a stream of frames from the camera. Most libraries available I found would send the image frames to the JavaScript side first and do the computation there. Unfortunately, that was never 60fps because the amount of data being copied/serialized was too large. The solution was to write a bit of custom code that performs the computation on the native side and only ship the computed result (tiny JSON) to the JavaScript side. The end result was easily 60fps and felt 100% native.

Retrofitting an iOS-only React Native app to Android later is possible but can be of a pain, at least initially.