I use ChatGPT to ask questions about my code - including rust lifetimes - and usually get pretty good detailed answers. More recently I started using diesel ORM and was pleasantly surprised that the bot can answer questions about diesel usage.
Over the years I've gone through a Core2 MacBook, a 2011 MBP, a 2015 MBP, and now a 14" 2023 M2 Pro as each wore out physically over the years. Generally the charging systems and keyboards degraded severely by the 5 year mark. The 2015 had all those problems as well as janky graphics issues, but I used it until its SSD died recently.
Aside from performance it's hard to overstate just how quiet the current MacBook Pro is. The 2015 got noisy pretty easily especially if I had to switch to the discrete GPU, and anything heavier than 1080p30 in Firefox would cause the fans to go bonkers. By most accounts the last of the Intel models were worse. This one? After a few hours of transcoding video the fans still only spin up to a quiet whisper.
What I don't hear anyone talk about is the rigidity. You could hear the 2015 creak and flex if you picked it up with one hand. The 2023 just feels like a solid chunk of metal.
For all of its warts, this is probably my favorite hardware of the bunch. The software (macos 14) is utter garbage though. That's the culmination of lots of poor design choices over the years and nearly non-existent quality control.
I work with a lot of 4K elements and video in Apple Motion, After Effects, and other applications. The better the chip the faster things go, especially previews and encoding. Every second ends up counting.
I can see why others like me may upgrade. But I’m not going to bother just yet.
I write text in a text editor all day but would still upgrade my machine on a regular basis. I have a Threadripper and use all 32 cores everyday. I'm still debating on whether or not to upgrade to the new generation released yesterday. 4 year old CPUs are not speedy.
You'd be surprised at just how slow running zellij in iTerm was on an Intel MBP. Somehow in 2023 we've managed to create resource hungry text interfaces.
I learnt Swift several years ago for a App project Haven't really used it since.
My impression is that it is useful only in the Apple ecosystem. It that correct? Is it worth learning for things other than iOS and macOS applications?
This is exactly why banks are unhappy - they have to bear the infra cost. This is also the reason the government is trying to push UPI wallet. I suspect at some future point UPI (non-wallet) transactions will be charged a small fee and wallet transactions will not.
Banks are in general happy as any cost is offset by reduction in cash handling cot. ATMs installation and maintenance are costly, branches even more so, you can reduce that. Also, for the merchants, cash handling cost is greater than 0.
> I suspect at some future point UPI (non-wallet) transactions will be charged a small fee and wallet transactions will not.
Right now, it is other way round. Wallet transactions above ₹2000 attract some fees for merchants.
I couldn't pay for lunch at my friend's office. They only accepted UPI as payment. It would have been nice to be able to pay for tuk-tuks and car taxis without using cash, too. If you only have "large" bills, the drivers never seem to have enough change.
My cloud backup is rather simple, i use Arq backup with Family365. Fits nicely that each user has 1TB space in their personal OneDrive, and nobody here uses OneDrive.
My local backup is also done with Arq backup to a local USB drive, though i have a long time test running with Kopia backing up to Minio on a Raspberry Pi.
India had a scorching summer and now heavy rains in many parts of the country. The government is just being prudent and ensuring sufficient local stock.
With the amount of rice and wheat stockpile India has on books it should not be affected. But elections are so close ruling government can't afford to take the risk of a shortage revealing half empty silo's.
It's not a summary of the article, it is repetition of a lead-in.
In anticipation of getting downvoted to invisible and flagged like the original remark, I am sharing this to clarify and having been here 16 years, it is helpful to gently point out when the conversation becomes the object of engagement rather than the article.
Right. It is generally expected that comments are substantive and add value, which the original post doesn't. But pointing that out is what got flagged, which I guess does have some entertainment value by way of irony!
The iPhone wowed everyone but its price was heavily criticized. Apple later got into the exclusive AT&T deal which "subsidized" the price. People just ended up paying more over time.
Let's not forget Steve Balmer laughingly mention that no serious business user would ever use a phone without a physical keyboard. People here are negative for the sake of it.
I bought one after using a blackberry and I was instantly sold on it because you could browse websites as if it was a computer, zooming in to the text section with a double tap. I remember my daughter wouldn't entertain the idea because it didn't run blackberry messenger which was the killer app for kids at the time.
