My first modem was a 300 baud Hayes modem that was given to me. I used it on my Atari 1040 STE. It was ... slow. The next bump was to 1200 baud, and that definitely made things a bit more bearable. A new family computer came with an internal 2400 baud, and then eventually I got my own USRobotics 14.4k. It was akin to getting on the highway after being stuck on rural roads with a low speed limit. I still miss those connect tones (14.4k being my all-time favourite.) I still have a USRobotics 56k vEverything modem.
Phew! I'm not sure about Rogers and Bell, but Telus doesn't seem to grasp what the "e" stands for in eSIM. You have to go to a store and buy a physical card with the eSIM QR code printed on it. Instant online-delivery? Naw, that's too hard. (I opted for an eSIM with my iPad Pro.)
True – I'm definitely glad it's there, and I would totally use it for personal/casual projects where I likely won't have a fancy AWS/CircleCI/etc setup. At work though, its use would actually add to our bill and hold things up for teams.
It depends on what the build process looks like, but I find buildx to be really, really slow–and that can be costly if you're paying for the compute time to do that. (The slow part is if you have to do any compiling for the non-native platform on your host. I have tested this doing x86 compilation on an M1 system, and Arm complication on an x86 system.)
AWS has a guide for using CodeBuild where you split the work to build each Docker image using the platform of its target, and then create a manifest at the end.
I also took a similar approach using CircleCI. A multi-arch build can take 5 minutes using parallel, native builds instead of 45+ minutes (it actually timed out).
Pros: way faster and cheaper builds if you have to pay for the compute time
Cons: a much more complicated setup
I still have a working eMate 300. Every now and then I start it up and play around a bit. It's neat to see how someone of it still lives on in iPad OS with the Apple Pencil.
I hope one day we are able to simply walk/drive/fly around the worlds created for movies like Monsters, Inc., Secret Life of Pets, Luca, Turning Red, etc. The artists and modellers have done such a fabulous job of creating these insanely detailed worlds, and I would love to be able to actually explore them at my own pace. For me, this would be a great use of VR, though I think we're probably at least several years away from having the hardware necessary to render that all in real-time at a quality that I'm hoping for.
My Linux desktop in the 90s was always so cozy during winter with xsnow running over top of a beautifully rendered POVray scene (that took several days for my Cyrix 5x86 to render). I do miss those days.
When I hear recall, it makes me picture having to bring my vehicle in to have work done on it. There really needs to be a new name to better describe an over-the-air software update.
I went from a 2016 top-of-the-line MacBook Pro to an M1 Mac mini, and I can't believe how much faster things are–including Docker with Rails, PostgreSQL, etc. Out of curiosity, are you running native (arm64) containers? Aside from an issue now and then with my secondary HDMI display, my machine has continued to blow me away. My development environment is almost on par with our production environment, which is a nice change.
I've been using TabNine for a couple years – constantly impresses me, especially how quickly it picks up new patterns. I wouldn't say it's doing my job for me, but definitely saves me a lot of time.
As a user of both, it's baffling to me that Intel would be anything but quiet here. I'm blown away by the performance of my M1 every day from everything to compiling big Javascript projects with Webpack to launching and using Photoshop M1 Beta, to browsing the web.
I have a friend who works for a big 3D animation house. When COVID hit and everyone was remote, people used Teradici to remote into their powerhouse workstations. It is apparently very performant. And touching on the IT think, no files need to leave their secure home.
I placed an order this morning for a new MacBook Pro to replace my 2016 with Touchbar, but after humming and hawing all day, I cancelled it. Since I'm working from home these days without any prospect of that changing, I've decided to get a new M1 Mac mini instead. It's actually going to eliminate the need for this Elgato Thunderbolt dock I have, and really the only think I'll really miss is TouchID. Some things allow me to use my Apple Watch instead, so that'll have to do to.
At the end of the day, after four years, I want to be buying a replacement laptop that feels even moderately evolved from what I already have. I have a 12" MacBook that I love, so that will be my on-the-go computer for the times I need that.
With the money I'm saving going with the mini, I'm upgrading my daughter's iPad and still have some left over after that.
I'll re-evaluate in the future when hopefully Apple puts some more energy into the laptops. I do actually like the TouchBar but I would expect that after four years, they could at least add proper haptic feedback. As well, the USB-C ports only one side (and the wrong side for me) feels like a downgrade from my 2016 model which has two on each side.
I've been using an older 2016 MacBook Pro (1st with TouchBar) and was excited about something faster. Given that most people are working from home now, and the fact that the new MacBook Pro is virtually identical physically to what I got four years ago, I'm actually considering just getting the Mac mini to save about CAD $1,000. I also have a 12" MacBook which I adore, and so the times I do need something portable, it doesn't get more portable than that. (And it's surprisingly capable for my dev environment.)
Yeah, that's what I was just looking at. Up to 2 more hours of battery life, TouchBar, and a [slightly?] better microphone is the only difference I can see. Not much price difference either.
I got the iPhone 12 Pro after using my iPhone X for the last three years. I was mostly excited about a big camera upgrade, and there are definitely some big improvements from what I have been using. But I'm not 100% sure if I'm going to keep it. I'm not sure I'm blown away enough for just shy of CDN $2,000. Even though it's almost the same size, it feels considerably bigger than my X, and I'm not a fan of the matte back which slides off my hands much easier than the polished glass of the X. I know the regular 12 and mini have a polished back, and the mini looks like a good option for me except for the fact that I'd be losing the 2x lens. If I have two lenses, I'd rather have the wide and 2x of my X than a wide and ultra-wide that the 12 and 11 before it have.
I got my Model 3 in 2018. Since then, it has received a ton of free upgrades making it way more feature rich than I bought it. There are certain add-ons you can purchase when you order (at a bit of a discount compared to if you decide to get them down the road).
I think another way to look at it is that some features cost extra money because they cost money to make, and they add value to the vehicle. In a traditional model, you would have to take your car into the dealership or whatever to have some sort of extra feature installed. (Once upon a time, this might have been upgrading from a tape deck to a CD player.) The difference with Tesla, is for some things (not all), they can do this remotely. There's really only a psychological difference because we perceive if something is technically capable of some feature, it should be able to do it whether or not we've paid for it.
While there are certainly some cases of poor customer service that get a lot of bad press, there are also many cases of excellent experiences where they go above an beyond what they needed to do, and compared to any other car company, the experience just doesn't even begin to compare.