greendave

9 ms·

1.
by greendave 4mo ago
Not jealous but that’s no worse than much of California (assuming those were USD you quoted, not AUD).
2.
by greendave 2y ago
Something there doesn't add up. Mojave came out in late 2018. It's simply not the case there is any 2017 Apple hardware it doesn't support. Indeed, laptop support goes back to anything made in 2012 or newer.
3.
by greendave 2y ago
Dual 66MHZ 603 CPUs at first, and later dual 133MHZ 603e CPUs. For the time interesting, but hardly head and shoulders above the 200MHZ Pentium Pros of the same era.
4.
by greendave 3y ago
I live less than. a mile from a mid-sized town (15k peopl), 25 miles from the heart of Silicon Valley. The only reliable internet access available is 8mbit DSL using copper and satellite (HughesNet). No cable, no fiber, dodgy cell service
5.
by greendave 3y ago
A small fraction of Americans shop daily for food. For the majority, it's a weekly (or even less frequent) occurrence. And no, fresh bread is not really a thing, outside of a few urbanish settings. A healthy proportion of bakeries do
6.
by greendave 3y ago
The M3 Pro has been restricted to prevent it from competing with the Max on CPU performance. Whereas the M2 Pro and M2 Max were essential identical on CPU performance (with the exception of the 10-core M2 Pro which was only standard on the
7.
by greendave 3y ago
> People are picking on that lede tweet somewhat unfairly. Numbers in the rest of the article say that the same benchmark run between the two "pro" variants improves only 6%. And that's actually quite disappointing for a c
8.
by greendave 3y ago
People often have an unrealistic notion of what solar can do. A single 50kW charger would require 125 400w panels minimum - around 3000 square feet of area - and still only be able to provide max current for a few hours of the day. And 5
9.
by greendave 3y ago
What are the implication for snowfall and skiing? We know the Utah state government and the people who elected them don't care about the environment or the health implications of poor quality air, but presumably they do care about job
10.
by greendave 3y ago
Already sold out for Q4 2023. Looks like there is a lot of demand for customizable full-sized laptop. Unlike the Framework 13, there's not Intel option (yet?) but an 8-core AMD 7940HS ought to be sufficient for most potential users..
11.
by greendave 3y ago
I had forgotten this particular peculiarity of Oregon as the last 2 times I passed through, it was in an EV. Not that the EV transition is going to happen overnight, but one way or another, the future of gas station attendants is looking l
12.
by greendave 3y ago
> Red Hat pulls together hundreds or thousands of upstreams to create RHEL, participates in many of them, tests all that together, helps partners certify software against it, etc. etc. etc. > It's true, Red Hat doesn't &quot
13.
by greendave 3y ago
I _hope_ that by average they mean median - the article doesn't really say. As to reliability, it's not clear to me that newer (post 2010s) vehicles really are better than older ones. Certainly there's a lot of increased com
14.
by greendave 3y ago
It’s not a lottery, it’s all 100% reservable on October 1 for the next year. I’ve been 10 times in the past 15 years and every year the permits are harder to get because of the demand and the bots. The irony is that the permits are so pop
15.
by greendave 3y ago
Note that much of that trail is still closed from the 2020 CZU fire (basically all the sections in Big Basin - about 12 miles).
16.
by greendave 3y ago
If anything the problem with San Francisco is that there is so much money that an entire ecosystem of nonprofits and contractors has evolved to feed off those funds.
17.
by greendave 3y ago
Looks like the Amazon acquisition finally caught up. Sad, as DPR was a great resource and had an interesting community, at least until about 7 years ago when they started leaning in more to video content and less into deeply-technical revi
18.
by greendave 4y ago
Just wait until you read about what happens to those cold-storage SSDs!
19.
by greendave 4y ago
I think most people associate cost with volume (other things being ~equal). The notion of paying the same or more for something that is smaller is inherently a hard sell. In other places, there are significant advantages (either in taxes,
20.
by greendave 4y ago
I'm curious to see which will vanish first from the US market - the compact hatchback/CUV (compact meaning < ~15 feet long) or the sub-$25k vehicle. My _guess_ is that a few 'premium' hatchbacks may stick around, but
21.
by greendave 4y ago
Despite the provocative headline, it's not a bad rule of thumb. But at least in the US, pretty much any new EV you can buy has a rated range of 200 miles or more. More than 100 miles of commuting per day is a lot! Also, workplace cha
22.
by greendave 4y ago
The basic issue is they use volumetric pricing to cover all costs, which includes everything from transmission to wildfire mitigation. It’s a dumb system and it means that people who use more already pay more of the fixed costs than those
23.
by greendave 4y ago
> Both had a quirky CEO that gathered a cult-like following. Both are headquartered in the SF Bay Area and have very loyal fans. That’s a highly euphemistic way of phrasing things. They were were deeply narcissistic individuals. The di
24.
by greendave 4y ago
> All I'm saying is that my experience makes it very clear that what problems remain with this technology are resolvable ones. Consumer cars are going to drive themselves. Period. And given existing evidence, it seems reasonably cle
25.
by greendave 4y ago
Hydro _can_ be reliable. But out in the drought-prone west it has not been especially so. California generated 33GWh from large hydro in 2019 (14.6% of total production) vs. 15Gwh (7.5%) of total production in 2021. 2022 will likely be wo
26.
by greendave 4y ago
> The real way to address this would be to not make users hate updates. That's basically not possible in some cases. Not all of us are on super-fast broadband, even in places that are nominally 'first world'. The _best_
27.
by greendave 4y ago
There’s a gap between ‘did not achieve its stated aims’ and ‘did not win any actual rights’ that is big enough to drive a truck through… Also, Andrew Jackson wasn’t a very nice guy, but he’d been dead for 28 years when the Civil War ended.
28.
by greendave 5y ago
Nice machine, but for all the lip service to sustainability and environmental friendliness, the insistence of soldering everything in makes for a disposable device. In particular, once the SSD goes, it’s just a very expensive brick.
29.
by greendave 5y ago
Or for that matter, switching to more efficient appliances or other types of conservation.
30.
by greendave 5y ago
How exactly do they come up with a single price per zip-code given that rates are dependent on choice of electricity plan, on-peak vs. off-peak, % of baseline and so forth?

More ›