florakel

At this stage it looks very unlikely this car will ever make it to production. They ran out of money and try to save the program through crowdfunding https://electrek.co/2023/01/26/the-future-of-solar-evs-dims/

Samsung

“ MacBook Pro with M2 Pro features a 10- or 12-core CPU with up to eight high-performance and four high-efficiency cores for up to 20 percent greater performance over M1 Pro.”

You could simply do nothing with it and let nature take back the land. Natural restoration.

>There would be a significant hit to processor performance.

You are probably right. Look at the gains Qualcomm saw by migrating from Samsung to TSMC: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17395/qualcomm-announces-snap...

Actually Qualcomm moved from Samsung to TSMC 4NM to build the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4NM is the marketing name for the most advanced 5NM node) https://www.qualcomm.com/products/application/smartphones/sn...

Qualcomm saw big gains in efficiency and performance by moving from Samsung to TSMC. Various high end Android phones use this chip already.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17395/qualcomm-announces-snap...

> Examples of productivity porn include but are not limited to: reading a tweet by a top VC about how to become a better startup founder; watching a Youtube video about the 7 mistakes you need to avoid at the gym; perusing a Hacker News thread about how to improve the code you write. All of these activities deceptively make you feel like you’ve done something productive. “I just learned something new”, you tell yourself.

Those examples from the article make sense but in my experience the biggest illusion of productivity happens right inside our day to day work routines, namely email and chat systems. People respond to endless email threads that in the end trigger no action, endless discussions on Slack channels with no decision making until eventually somebody calls a meeting. We type and type but in the end we waste our own attention and our coworker’s attention just to feel important and productive without doing anything useful most of the time.

Google today published Chrome 87 with (supposedly) big memory and CPU usage improvements: https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-87-mac-windows-stab...

Also they started rolling out the first M1 optimized version of Chrome (but has been pulled since due to stability issues): https://9to5google.com/2020/11/17/chrome-mac-apple-silicon/

When I share an article from Anandtech I always use the "print" URL which has all content on one page https://www.anandtech.com/print/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-test...

The article is basically just rehashing some ideas of Peter Thiel without quoting his work. His book “0 to 1” starts with exactly the same thoughts.

On my 16” I disabled “use hardware acceleration when available” in Chrome’s advanced settings. Chrome stops using the GPU altogether. I did not run into any performance issues, but getting less heat and longer battery life when using chrome.

The VC will cash out with the IPO. That’s the new strategy. Drive companies to valuations higher than the market cap of many S&P500 companies and then sell them to the “free market” (Uber, Lyft). Great deal for the involved VCs and banks. Is the end result a sustainable business...? who knows...? who cares...?

For every app that I install I check if the app activated background app refresh. Most of the time it does not make any sense why an app would even need that, other than tracking me. Also disabling it for most apps is one of the best things you can do to extend your battery life.

In Apple's defense it is a hard thing to ask the user whether or not they want to permit "background app refresh". Many users might not understand at all what this means. It is not as easy to understand as "allow app to send you notifications" or "allow app to use your location".

Maybe Apple could force apps to request for each specific use case why they wants to be active in the background. Is it to enable basic functionality of the app or is it to track you? Would be great if the user could choose in which case to allow access and in which case not. Right now it is a blank check you give to each app and it is hard to tell whether the app abuses its permissions or not.

It is time to give AMD a chance. Intel is plagued by problems with the 10nm process technology resulting in no significant innovation on their CPUs' performance or power consumption for over two years now. And just recently they pushed their 10nm products even further back to the second half of 2019. AMD might have the first 7nm CPUs out by then. Of course process technologies are not easily comparable between fabs but it is still crazy to see Intel starting to fall behind in process technology - a game they dominated for decades.

Google does not use Google Analytics data for SEO purposes. What they measure are bounces back to the search result list. E.g. User clicks on a search result link, did not like what he saw and clicked the back button after 2 seconds to refine his search or choose another links rom the result list. This shows google that they sent the user to the wrong page (for whatever reason).