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Isn’t this just inflation? We are in a highly inflationary environment. Everything is going up in nominal terms.
DOES 400% SOUND NOMINAL TO YOU?
more like %1000 for some components.
New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
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Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it allows me to automate simple things like writing small patches or config changes in a matter of minutes where before I would have invested hours One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased productivity" in the economic sense if it results in more income at the end of the funnel. Are you actually making more product faster in all your new-found free time? Very few orgs I've worked i…
> One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased productivity" in the economic sense if it results in more income at the end of the funnel. Are you actually making more product faster in all your new-found free time? This strikes me as a problem with how we define productivity in this context. If I can do my job in 1 hour, when it took me 8 before, am I not more productive in a rate-based…
In the sense measured in economics, only if the product at the end of the day is sold for the same nominal amount of dollars as before. It doesn't matter how many features or lines of code or bugs or anything like this you produced - it matters how much revenue your work produced.
So, if the product isn't selling any more expensive even though you're adding ~8 times more features, or if you're still getting paid for the full 40 hours even though you only really work 5, then economic productivity hasn't actually increased.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn’t this just inflation? We are in a highly inflationary environment. Everything is going up in nominal terms.
no, inflation is the cost of goods rising because money is worth less. This is capitalism, as demand increases, so does price, regardless of the cogs.
No, this is market economics.
Capitalism is simply where private individuals own the "means of production" (factories, tools, land) and operate them to accumulate profit.
That is private as in not lords, guilds, cartels, governmental authorities, tribal leaderships, etc.
There's a lot of stuff people conflate with capitalism like free market economics, currency, share based companies, free mobility of labor, or debt instruments of any kind.
Capitalism does require a market so goods can be exchanged, that's all it requires, and there's enough flavors of capitalism thanks to the different countries in the world that this distinction isn't superfluous.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#314After watching a video about how the filesystems are > 2x faster (and testing this myself in my mac mini vs a linux machine), I feel like Apple is leaving a lot on the table, and I hope that they get APFS to be as fast as the linux filesystems. Because otherwise a lot of this hardware (including their blazing fast SSDs) is wasted. Cuz my M1 mac mini is awesome otherwise.
I did also watch theos video on this and wonder if apple could be improving things for the agentic era.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
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… from the fine print: “Results are compared to previous-generation Mac mini systems with Apple M4, 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 32GB of unified memory, and 2TB SSD.”
Running what workload? How can I reproduce it?
Remember it very specifically says 'Up to', so even if you follow their logic and dont get their numbers, you cant hold them to it.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#316The "up to" and "Yx" compared to three generations ago specs from Apple. Never change.
I think there's a valid argument for this pattern when you know most people are on 3-ish year upgrade cycles. Also, if you compare against the most recent generation, you risk creating buyer's remorse for recent purchases.
It would be very easy for them to give real numbers and benchmarks, but there is a reason they dont.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it allows me to automate simple things like writing small patches or config changes in a matter of minutes where before I would have invested hours One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased productivity" in the economic sense if it results in more income at the end of the funnel. Are you actually making more product faster in all your new-found free time? Very few orgs I've worked i…
> One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased productivity" in the economic sense if it results in more income at the end of the funnel. Are you actually making more product faster in all your new-found free time? This strikes me as a problem with how we define productivity in this context. If I can do my job in 1 hour, when it took me 8 before, am I not more productive in a rate-based…
The economics definition is the real definition that real people use in the real world.
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Indeed, also to note something that younger folks keep missing, the PC revolution only happened due IBM's mistake, everyone else was vertically integrated, even with something like CP/M.
> the PC revolution only happened due IBM's mistake, everyone else was vertically integrated IBM was extremely vertically integrated. What actually happened was that Compaq reverse engineered their BIOS and made a compatible system and the courts said it was okay. The thing destroying the modern world is DMCA 1201. Adversarial interoperability is fundamental.
That was the mistake, using common components for a cheaper computer versus previous ones, and not being able to take down Compaq's achievement.
Rest assured there would be no IBM PC compatibles otherwise, in fact PS/2 and MCA architecture was a failed attempt to regain control.
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it allows me to automate simple things like writing small patches or config changes in a matter of minutes where before I would have invested hours One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased productivity" in the economic sense if it results in more income at the end of the funnel. Are you actually making more product faster in all your new-found free time? Very few orgs I've worked i…
I mean I can deliver the same software in one month that I delivered in maybe 3 months before and for many things I don't need a dedicated frontend developer, designer or writer anymore. So for me it's the case!
> mean I can deliver the same software in one month that I delivered in maybe 3 months before
Right, but are you delivering 3x more software now, and more importantly, are you selling 3x more software now?
Re: New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
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This is a great route. Just yank or wipe the windows disk, install Linux, and it’s way more secure and performant than any preload windows would be. It probably runs games better too.
The last Gigabyte Brix I got my hands on, ended up into the recycling center, there was no way to have Linux distributions, whichever one I tried, to boot from UEFI, while the same distributions would boot from external drives over USB. After several months of wasted lifetime, it died and got the deserved burial at a recycling center.
Probably faulty nvme commectors, but Gigabyte Brix are notorious for their ability to brick themselves