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by _ph_ 2mo ago
Eventually it might. We don't have any good ideas about what would help without things getting much worse. What we do need now is finally the determination to fight climate change. We have all the tools at our disposal to eliminate any
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by _ph_ 2mo ago
I think the best explanation, how Lisp macros are different from most other macro system is, that a Lisp macro is a function executed during compilation. It gets fed the parameters passed to it in literal form and then computes the source t
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by _ph_ 2mo ago
That might be, on the other side, I consider Lisp highly readable, but quite a few modern languages quite unreadable. For example parsing type signatures with a complex syntax. Any style of writing you are not familiar with will require a l
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by _ph_ 5mo ago
I wonder what the market price of 1.5 TB RAM today would be and if selling that off would pay for the whole Mac Pro :)
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by _ph_ 5mo ago
A bit, but then, it was sold by Apple and some people saw a need for it. Like having tons of memory and of course, being x86-compatible also has its uses. That is, why Rosetta 2 exists. Applying the 7 year support window, they should suppo
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by _ph_ 5mo ago
The comparison with "primary energy" misses the inefficiency of the usage of fossil fuels. If you electrify the main uses of fossil energy, the efficency goes up by like a factor of 3 - electric cars vs. ICE, heat pumps vs. burnin
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by _ph_ 5mo ago
Over 40% of the German landmass is currently used to produce food for farm animals. The space requirement for solar is far off from that. And you can use rooftops etc.
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by _ph_ 5mo ago
Heating with heat pumps is highly efficient and already the cheapest way of heating your home. The grids are ready for it - especially considering the amount of residential solar.
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by _ph_ 6mo ago
Absolutely. But for many things, denial is easier than fixing. See climate change. We knew about the problem for a long time. At latest after the oil crisis in the early 70ies, it would have been the perfect moment to reduce fossil fuel usa
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by _ph_ 6mo ago
The SSDs in the Studio are on modules, you can exchange those. They are in a custom format though.
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by _ph_ 6mo ago
The latest Mac Pro really didn't make much use of its size, as there were too few useful things to put into. Especially as the GPU is now part of the package anyway. Also, the Mac Studio is the perfect workstation for the desk. Still,
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by _ph_ 6mo ago
Yes, they should all have taken actions. But also, it is much more difficult to fix something broken once the damage has settled in. I guess none of them was willing to risk the disruption a fix would have caused. And the system seemed to h
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
Nothing seems to be close to the MB Air. I would definitely be interested in buying a comparable hardware, if Linux is better supported than on the Air.
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
ARM servers definitely seem to get more popular. Seems that for a lot of tasks they are the more economic option. Consequently, you want more and more development for ARM. That would be one reason. The other is, that developing for ARM is m
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
There are reasons beyond pure power efficiency to use ARM processors. It is a nice architecture to work with, especially if you plan to write low-level code. Also, you might want to deploy on ARM servers. Also, there is the question who in
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
Which Snapdragon laptops can I buy which run Linux?
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
The problem is, many "nerds" have little other options in hardware. Which ARM laptop would be the alternative? Even if you allow x86, which ones are as nice as the Macbooks? Then, there is the problem, that not everyone wants to b
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by _ph_ 7mo ago
Like which, especially with an ARM processor?
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
I think a company which runs a printing business would have some obligations to make sure they are not fulfilling print orders for guns. Another interesting example are printers and copiers, which do refuse to copy cash. Which is partly fac
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
As far as I understand, those Robotaxis are only available within Austin so far. That is slow city traffic, the number of miles per ride is very small. However the number for human drivers seem to take all kind of roads into respect. Of cou
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
Tried with a cleaned new battery. It beeps when I put the battery in, that is it. When I scan for unknown objects, I get shown an air tag, but it doesn't tell me anything about it. So probably I should just remove the battery - I must
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
I think I unpaired it, but I cannot pair it again, as it isn't recognized by the iPhone at all.
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
Just found out that the one active remaining tag on my keychain stopped working in September without me noticing.
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
Thats worth a try, because if the batteries have that, trying several ones of the same brand would produce the same results. Now, do I try to test this by licking the battery or should I try to sand the surface without pre-testing? :)
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
I had the thought too, but there is no way anyone else could have gotten physical control over this and shouldn't I see that AirTag when I scan for things in my surrounding as an anti-tracking protection?
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
Changing the battery was the first thing I did. No change. But if that is the official signal for "battery low", I can try a few more. Thanks.
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
I have an older AirTag, which cannot be seen by my iPhone any more but gives a slight beep whenever it gets shaken. Anyone ever heard of the behavior?
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
I once bought 4 air tags, never got to work them in any useful sense. I keep getting warnings about leaving my keys behind, which are in my pocket. I don't recall any time being warned about leaving things behind when I did. Can't
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by _ph_ 8mo ago
The world is full of "head scratchers". But that makes it more important not just to yell "aliens!", but to exercise scientific curiosity. This is what makes me most angry about his works, he discourages people from tryi
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by _ph_ 11mo ago
Yes, I got the 13" M4 Pro mostly because of the display. I use the iPad Pro as my photo album and its just fantastic for that. The M4 flies of course. Thanks to more and more multi-windowed support on iPad OS it gets more useful for li

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