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jdxcode··on Cardio fitness notifications are available today on Apple Watch
What does this mean? I get a notification that says I need to exercise more?
jdxcode··on Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
I'm saying they focused on real-world performance in the chip and therefore couldn't show benchmarks that would've represented well. Not that they should've had more specific benchmarks. In no way would this audience be able to understand something like reference counting.
jdxcode··on Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development
yes but GP is still correct in general if not in the specifics. Practically speaking they can fit way more transistors on the die which translates to more power for more types of things whether it's M1 or 888.
jdxcode··on Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
I think they focused more on real-world performance that wouldn’t have been represented so well.

Things like lots of floating point ability for JavaScript (which has no integer types) or optimizing ref counting (obj-c and swift do this a lot).

I imagine those things wouldn’t impact traditional benchmarks.

jdxcode··on Sales tax creates more unnecessary pain than value added tax
people have been saying this ever since I joined HN in 2009
jdxcode··on Heavy is the Head that wears the AirPods Max
September 2018 actually
jdxcode··on Is Elon Musk Wrong About Lithium?
I just think people should take what this site as well as the EV sites you mentioned with a massive grain of salt. I’m not going to trust any data I read off of it and I wouldn’t from Electrek or Clean Technical either.

I generally believe that if you really want to prove a point you can easily find data that fits basically any argument. That’s why the scientific method and double-blind studies so important.

jdxcode··on Is Elon Musk Wrong About Lithium?
I can't say I know much about Energy or lithium mining but this website certainly doesn't appear to be unbiased journalism
jdxcode··on AirPods Max
Audiophiles say Apple fans only buy based on brand and he’s over here saying the headphones sound worse when nobody has even tried them.
jdxcode··on AirPods Max
Top selling point for me is that volume knob
jdxcode··on Should California ban gas in new homes? A climate battle heats up
if you have central air you need a fan to blow the air and a thermostat to start it
jdxcode··on Should California ban gas in new homes? A climate battle heats up
my non-tankless that I got this year is hooked up to the electricity. I don't know if that's just to ignite the pilot light though (and therefore would continue to work if the power was out and the light was on).
jdxcode··on Should California ban gas in new homes? A climate battle heats up
gas furnaces and water heaters don't work when the power goes out anyways. Only thing that works is the range.
jdxcode··on Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
It refers to an old American comicstrip with a little kid that didn’t know much. (I think anyways)

It just sort of means any below-average person.

jdxcode··on A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers
They have to charge more than the average or they couldn’t be in business.
jdxcode··on Aston Martin behind debunked anti-electic vehicle “study”
As the other commenter mentioned they need to get governments to stop banning their cars if not competition.

I’m not a watch guy, but people that own cars like this don’t drive them much either. They make awful daily drivers for a host of reasons, so it probably isn’t all that much different than your Rolex.

jdxcode··on Aston Martin behind debunked anti-electic vehicle “study”
You make a good point, from Aston Martin’s perspective they’ll have to adapt eventually. I think the future is bleak for them but I suppose we’ll see.

Thankfully I likely will have the option of buying a used one for the rest of my lifetime.

jdxcode··on Aston Martin behind debunked anti-electic vehicle “study”
I’m definitely a car guy, and I would love to one day own an Aston Martin. I really couldn’t see ever wanting an EV one though. I also own a Tesla so I’m not anti-EV or anything. EVs are just good transportation, they’re not that interesting.

I think it’s like with watch people. Everyone wants a mechanical one but they’re objectively worse for telling time than quartz.

jdxcode··on MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities
literally nothing to do with what I asked

EDIT: apologies HarryHirsch, it was relevant if I just read until the end. You did explain a better way to phrase it. I think you're right that using the word "population" is better here. Good reminder to me to make sure I understand what someone is saying before rejecting them.

jdxcode··on MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities
I'm not talking about this study or even sociological issues necessarily: I'm just looking to be able to use language to speak more directly.
jdxcode··on MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities
At a meta level, does minority even truly mean “minority” anymore? If I said “minorities” referring to people in California people would assume I’m referring to Latinos and not White people even though there are more Latinos than White people.

Is there a more accurate term I’m not aware of?

jdxcode··on KFC restaurant that drives autonomously
Presumably they could have a camera that charges for whatever you take, like Amazon Go stores
jdxcode··on American Airlines Is Quietly Bringing Back the 737Max
certainly nothing guarantees, but American did at least say they wouldn't rebook non-MAX to MAX flights
jdxcode··on iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review
I would guess that camera manufacturers can't afford computational photography—certainly not in the same way Apple, Samsung, and Google can.
jdxcode··on Business Operations – Tech Stack
GitLab?
jdxcode··on Behavioral nudges reduce failure to appear for court
considering it's called "corrections" you'd think there would be more focus on making it as easy as possible for the people we want to improve
jdxcode··on 1990s Festival Poster Generator
https://www.altpress.com/news/monkeon-website-90s-festival-g...
jdxcode··on Covid Deaths
Young people lose more of their own life than older people.
jdxcode··on The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs
> That was the last time I flew United unless it was the cheapest "real" option (I refuse Spirit and Allegiant).

Isn't that what most people pick anyways?

jdxcode··on Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better
What a beautiful place to commute from. I proposed to my wife at Multnomah Falls.
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