thehnguy

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by thehnguy 5y ago
I'm excited for the 27 (or maybe it will be 29") variant
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by thehnguy 5y ago
Fascinating. It's amazing the 3D chess these companies have to play effectively.
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by thehnguy 5y ago
We're in a brave new world. The early prognosticators thought the M1 was more a proof of concept (shove it into existing designs to get it out there). But now we know that it was always intended to be a real player (it's in the iM
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by thehnguy 5y ago
Not a good look Google; especially when you've got a great, big target on your back from the antitrust/anticompetitive hawks.
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by thehnguy 5y ago
I was bit surprised to see M1 in the iMacs. I thought the M1 was going to be a very capable proof of concept. But now we've got it in iMacs, iPads, and Macbooks. So I wouldn't be shocked if they spread it far and wide.
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by thehnguy 5y ago
This is perhaps the real genius of the M1. It's a great chip and all. But when you make it the only choice, people are finding the only choice is more than sufficient. And now Apple only has to produce one piece of silicon for their iM
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by thehnguy 5y ago
I think that's a bit dramatic. I'm using a 16GB M1 Macbook Pro as my daily driver doing standard, boring professional work (lots of email, tabs open, PDF manipulation, Word, Excel, etc). It performs as well if not better than the
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by thehnguy 5y ago
Only on the pro's. The base iPhones still start at 64GB. But that's a heck of an improvement from a couple years back when the entry was 16 GB!
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by thehnguy 5y ago
The M1 isn't what kills x86 (if it ever does completely). ARM kills x86. Microsoft is working on the ARM transition. ARM has good control of mobile hardware. And Apple will be only selling ARM hardware (in the form of Apple Silicon) in
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by thehnguy 5y ago
Right. People are comparing Apples to Oranges. The salient question is: how long does each machine take to execute the processes I use on a daily basis?
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by thehnguy 5y ago
Exactly. It's not an apples-to-apples comparison. 8GB of M1 RAM is very different than 32GB of standard DIMM-like RAM. Sort of like when people compare nm of processes on the chips. You can't just say "oh, their number is sma
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by thehnguy 5y ago
This was a situation I ran into a lot when buying simple Intel-based nuc's for family. It got more complex when the difference between and i5 and i7 got really close due to thermal constraints.
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by thehnguy 5y ago
I think the issue with the comment is that it comes off as biased or distracting (regardless of the intent). The conversation is about Apple Silicon vs Intel, and then it veers off topic with discussion of Ryzen. Also, saying that people ar
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Author switched in 2009, then switched back in 2018. Author believes Apple is becoming evil because they intentionally slow their devices to force upgrades—not true, or, at the very least, not that simple. The only thing “evil” about Apple
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Agreed with the bogleheads suggestion. I’m a lawyer who does some consulting to people in similar situations, and the mistake that everyone makes is thinking that because it’s a lot of money somehow it has to be treated differently. This is
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by thehnguy 8y ago
+1. Regardless of the intent, and i genuinely feel for this person’s struggle, the post comes off a little narcissistic —- “let me publicly announce why I’m not publicly announcing where I work. I’d like to tell everyone why I want you to r
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by thehnguy 8y ago
My vitamix spins fast enough . . .
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Sums up my feelings. At this point, I firmly believe that the negative physiological consequences from the stress about nutrition outweigh any benefits. Eat intelligently (I think we can agree that processed foods and sugar is less good tha
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Yep. When the lawyers/firms were personally on the hook for the fees, it scared them a lot. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/original-patent-...
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Another lawyer here. I think Octane Fitness was what really did in most parent trolls. Before the trolls were extorting small companies and playing the lottery with big companies (might win and get a huge settlement/judgement). With th
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by thehnguy 8y ago
This might be a great idea in theory, but terrible execution. By having this only apply prospectively, it makes every new business have to compete with businesses that can offer free meals on campus.
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by thehnguy 8y ago
If others agree with the author’s opinion, it makes the case for curation like Apple Music launches with and has been touting as a differentiator.
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by thehnguy 8y ago
So, in an effort to fight off/investigate a “far right” political organization (it doesn’t matter whether they are or aren’t), the police are using some scary tactics that one might expect from an extreme political party in power. Grea
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Liked for the last line. Getting old is funny.
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by thehnguy 8y ago
Your last point is spot on. Lots of successful people are simply good at faking it and not getting called out. This is good and bad. Good if you know how to play the system. Bad because it means our system is run by a lot of people who don’
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by thehnguy 9y ago
Underwhelming correction from the author/economist.
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by thehnguy 9y ago
Ben Thompson delivers again. I love reading this guy’s stuff. I’m not saying it’s earth shattering, but it’s accessible, well thought out, and leave feeling much more informed.
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by thehnguy 10y ago
I was imagining my mom taking it into an Apple Store :). Or maybe trying to get phone support: "Ok, what type of computer do you have?" "A Dell" [silence]
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by thehnguy 10y ago
Yeah. You don't want to setup your family member with a hackintosh. However, for folks like me who are really disappointed with my MacBook Pro options, and really impressed with the PC innovation we're seeing, I'm interested.
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by thehnguy 10y ago
Similar questions here. It's unclear to me how I can integrate this into my system and how to go about it. I'd hate to have to blow away my zpool to do this. My zpool isn't very full. Maybe I can make a new dataset that'

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