pwthornton

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by pwthornton 7d ago
There is no matching Steve, but I would like to see Apple try at least one live event again a year. Covid is what brought around the super rehearsed video presentation, and it fit Cook well, but are the days of live keynotes really done?
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by pwthornton 13d ago
What kinds of tasks are you using this for?
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by pwthornton 14d ago
The last I saw with Claude was that the plans are subsidized somewhere around 10x. The usage of Claude and similar products (for people not paying the actual API token costs) would be lot less if they were paying 10x more per account/s
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by pwthornton 15d ago
I'm sure there are people dedicated to marketing the Mac Mini, but seeing as Apple has had trouble keeping it in stock from demand, I doubt they spend too much on it. And considering Apple is supply constrained, there is no benefit to
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by pwthornton 1mo ago
No, it was first coined by people who worked for him in the early 80s. He was really trying to push the limits of what was possible and convinced people working under him to do so.
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by pwthornton 2mo ago
Did you really expect better from a Scam Altman company? 0 morals or ethics.
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by pwthornton 3mo ago
A healthy, non-rabid wolf killing a human is way less likely than being killed by a lightning strike. Farmers are also heavily subsidized in Europe.
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by pwthornton 3mo ago
Traffic and honking can be quite annoying. I find the AirPods Pro knock down quick a bit of noise even when off just because of their tips, but when I want it even quieter I use the noise canceling. Some places aren’t loud but most U.S. cit
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by pwthornton 3mo ago
I wear my AirPods Pro on the train largely for hearing protection. The DC Metro is loud, with or without people making noise in the train. Different train systems have different levels of loud, but when the Metro is flying through a tunnel
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by pwthornton 5mo ago
Is that really true? The price of Macs today is far lower than it used to be when adjusted for inflation. I know this is true of all computers, but you can get a really good Mac computer without spending a lot of money, historically speakin
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by pwthornton 6mo ago
I would generally agree with you except for three points: 1) the price of going to the cinema has surged so much that you have to budget for it in a way you didn't before. 2) I can pause a movie at any time and go to the bathroom or ge
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by pwthornton 6mo ago
I am with you on everything but the TV speakers. They are awful because TVs are so thin. They are running into pure physics. Get a nice soundbar, and it's a huge upgrade. Get one with separate rear speakers and a sub, and it's pre
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by pwthornton 6mo ago
Idk, a giant OLED is a pretty great experience, and the visual quality of them beats a good chunk of professional cinemas.
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by pwthornton 6mo ago
Having done some work with these F500 companies, this is part of it. These legacy companies have long seen tech as a cost center, haven't invested in it, and are unable to attract talent. And, for whatever reason, these companies insis
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
I do wonder if the plan was originally at least 12 GB, but the RAMageddon foiled that. Although this is competing with PoS Chromebooks, which often don't have much ram (sometimes as low as 4 GB) and have slow CPUs.
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
$499 for general educational discount, but I am betting that school districts will get volume discounts above that. It's going to be very price-competitive.
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
The ram is the only thing that I think is a little light, but with the ram situation in the world, asking for 12-16 GB have been too much. This looks like a huge step-up from most Chromebooks, which are frankly junk. Apple, however, will ne
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
This is a workstation-class monitor for people using these machines to make money. It's not a gamer toy monitor. People on Reddit don't get this. Apple's monitors are fantastic for those of us who use our computers to make mo
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
There are 5k displays at 240hz?
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
Great news. Apple announced a 120hz display today.
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
Term limits are anti-democratic, and it's just a way for voters to not take responsibility for their voting. A much more real issue is actually age limits. If someone starts in the Senate at 40 and serves for 24 years, term limits hard
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Block (Square) plans to lay off nearly half its staff in embrace of AI(morningstar.com)
11 points by pwthornton 7mo ago|1 comments
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by pwthornton 7mo ago
The flat area and now liquid glass are all post-Jobs creations. Apple needs a true product person back in charge with taste to get this ship back into a better place. Jobs acted as an editor and sounding board. You can't just let desig
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by pwthornton 8mo ago
The pitch from Bezos -- and it's a dumb pitch -- was basically just to make checking out faster by avoiding interacting with humans (but this can be achieved by increasing the number of cashiers and baggers). The pitch was never lower
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by pwthornton 9mo ago
There is also the story about Steve throwing a MacBook Air on a conference room table and asking why does the iPad wake from sleep so much faster? And then he told them to fix it and make Mac laptops sleep/wake just as well as iOS. Sle
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by pwthornton 9mo ago
I'm a Mac user, but I recently played around with a beefy laptop at work to see how games ran on it, and I was shocked at how bad and user-hostile Windows 11 is. I had previously used Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, but 11 is just
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by pwthornton 9mo ago
Fascinating how this got leaked. A TV station in Canada accidentally ran the original episode version, implying that this was pulled super late and the episode was completely in the can.
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by pwthornton 9mo ago
Fascinating how this got leaked. A TV station in Canada accidentally ran the original episode version, implying that this was pulled super late and the episode was completely in the can.
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by pwthornton 10mo ago
Maybe the should spend time less time and money on clanker slop and more on delivering for their paying customers?
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by pwthornton 10mo ago
A grammar nazi thing to do would be me complaining about you using an en dash when you meant to use an em dash. Or using single quotes when you should be using double quotes. But I don't really care because you're just making a sh

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