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The new MBA15 has TB4 not TB3, but no official info yet.

They fixed the keyboard issue with the 16" Macbook Pro Intel series, which came out 4-5 years ago.

Because adding brains and storage to hardware is expensive. And putting simple things on customer prem means less things can go horribly wrong. And people actually like controlling…

The whole point of bringing countries like China into the world economic system is to make sure that they realize that aggressive action is counterproductive and they refrain from …

That's a load of bullshit. With Z-Wave I have a pick of over 20-30 vendors. Z-Wave is just as open as Matter. It's just not controlled by Google and/or Apple.

Apple sells its products to its markets, and is mostly uninterested in the data center and embedded market. The support costs are large, and the margins are small-ish. Which is too…

A friend of mine used to work on a product that was essentially a printer driver. The problems include (1) QA, (2) reverse engineering the communication protocol, and (3) support. …

Matter will lock you into the ecosystem promoted by Apple and Google instead of the ecosystem promoted by the Z-Wave alliance.

I suspect it's a combination of NIH and the big players wanting to control the certification process and chip supply. Z-Wave has been working perfectly fine for years. There have b…

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The main reason I prefer mysql over PostgreSQL is that mysql is just more consistent - in its commands, quirks, etc. Postgres - is it pg, pgsql, psql, postgres, postgresQL? The ans…

Still using it since longer than I can remember. From 68k to M1! It's been launched by "F1" on my keyboard forever. It's find differences is still unmatched IMO on any platform. "C…

"Enshittification" sounds much more clickbaity than "Degeneration." But a literal reader might think "what's digesting TikTok?" Because technically, enshittification means sucking …

1974 was a long time ago. 32 bits was a big number. The 8080 had 8 bit words and ran at 2Mhz. For people today, it's hard to understand how expensive everything was back then. 1K o…

Really, the question here is "do you build a general-purpose solution or one customized to your use case?" I'm not sure where things are these days on the design spectrum, but I th…

I think the realtime requirement removes hadoop as an option. They might have considered using HDFS as the data store instead of S3, since putting lots of objects into s3 is expens…

You don't need to read the "legends", because their lives and writings exist and are still extant. You can go and read the Federalist Papers, the notes and minutes of the various c…

There's a ton of stuff about the founding of the US that isn't generally known. The original genesis of the constitutional convention was a trade problem, although I read at one po…

Waking up from sleep is an endemic problem across devices. Just google "waking up from sleep" and you'll see all kinds of stuff for both Windows and MacOS. I'm not sure Linux has d…

I know of a company that's using dried blood for testing, which apparently is the same as what Theranos was saying from a layman's point of view. The level of process you're talkin…

These look exactly the same as the ones by firms that became successful!

This is the same problem with laws. The only people that follow them are legitimate users.

Yeah, the one time I used go it was pretty good. The big question is always whether your stuff spends more time waiting or more time processing. For the former, it's node. For the …

TL; DR: "It's better to design a fast system from the get-go instead of trying to fix a slow system later." That's basically true. I worked on a system that was Java/scala/spring/h…

IMO the real problem with Clubhouse was it was for the intelligentsia and their hangers-on. That's not a profitable market. Advertising dollars chase the masses, and what the masse…