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If I have Office stuff open and the whole system crawls, then the system isn’t snappy.

It’s like the claim is “get a Mac and you’ll never see a slow down ever again! Just as long as you run software that won’t make the whole system come to a crawl”

Only using built in software is indeed a specialized use case for an OS. The point of an OS is to run any software.

…always has been

Nope. Just a MacBook with office, safari, Firefox, and some finder replacement. And preview. If every tab and window uses 1GB+, then you don’t need many tabs/windows to bring the system to it’s knees.

If you have to use specialized software to make your system snappy, then it is, as a system, not snappy. The attitude about the MacBook is that it never slows down … what, unless you use MS office?

Known for his role in Command & Conquer. “…in spaace!”

How do you spend 100K on a credit card per year? Do you pay housing with the card?

I don’t get it either. What are these people doing that keep saying that Mac OS is snappy. It’s the same slow garbage as windows.

One problem is that you need Firefox because safari doesn’t peppery do ad blocking. But once you have 20 tabs open or so, it uses 5GB GB ram. But perhaps your also need safari for something else. That’s another 5GB of RAM. Then once you count a finder replacement (2GB ram), and some office stuff (probably 1-4GB for each app window), 16GB of ram are almost as sluggish as an old windows laptop. Add MS Teams, and the thing is brought to it’s knees. And Mac OS has a lot of quirks and the window management is atrocious (alt-tab doesn’t switch between app windows, a bunch of apps to get alt-tab behavior don’t work properly either).

I feel like more and more that Mac Users are being forced by the atrocious window management to only have one window open per software, so then the system is fast. Problem is when you have multiple tasks going on in parallel, then you need many windows and desktops.

Microsoft, Google, Walmart, Standard Oil, Railways of old…

I think software makes it sick. Perhaps it would be better without it.

I don’t get that sentiment. I have an m4 16gb and it’s such a sluggish machine. and that’s not even doing development, just browsers, word, excel, PowerPoint. (And so many eternal bugs… I feel like I’m on windows)

I thought they live our die by raising money.

Large companies are more like proof that much concentration of wealth and power has occurred.

So wait, what was the trap?

Maybe there could be some hack to create more borders within the United States, so that perhaps 90% of the population could live within 100 miles of the border. For example, declaring the middle of some lakes to be non-territorial waters?

Could be another one of those fun exercises in legal hacking to build tyranny that people in the US seem to be so fond of.

Which “old days” would those be. Sounds like it would be 50 years ago

Perhaps in the physics sense, but in computer science we do have the notion of types which does allow us to model the difference between an angle and other numerics.

I thought he'd want to reduce the consumption of meat. But maybe that's the goal?

Personally, I don’t have the time for separate cardio and commuting. I don’t drive.

Wait, so RiscV is still also a brick, like x86?

The two-day weekend is a 100 years old.

The one-day weekend is ancient.

Well if the first comment days AI slop, then I don’t have to read it, so it helps with the weeding.

How do you get exercise without sweating. Or asked another way, of you don’t get your heart rate up while riding, what’s the point.

Or put a different way: I use electric Lime rental bikes all the time, it’s super fast and convenient. But I’m keenly aware they don’t give me any exercise, so I do want to go back to unpowered bikes as much as possible.

Maybe the problem is that they seem to invest based on red flags, not opportunities. So everything needs be kind of exactly the same, because every property of the startup that’s an outlier is bad.

Unfortunately, That article is very light in actual content and information.

That’s a completely different thing - a map of all railway infrastructure, vs a map of passenger rail lines.

Pretty much.

In Germany, innovation is defined and funded by grant agencies. The only projects that are deemed innovative are those that look like existing projects that are known to be innovative.

Maybe more related to the possibility of boot strapping with random AI startups. German investors are pretty conservative.

As they say, even Hitler built the autobahn.

China thinks, the US administration doesn’t.