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nnm commented on Chip Cities Rise in Japan's Fields of Dreams   bloomberg.com/opinion/fea... · Posted by u/rbanffy
teractiveodular · 9 months ago
Japan has a long and storied tradition of pumping immense amounts of government cash into failures. Off the top of my head, there's hydrogen fueled vehicles, fast breeder reactors, and more or less every Japanese attempt ever at exporting its own computing standards.
nnm · 9 months ago
The projects might fail, but knowledge accumulated and scientists / engineers created from them can bring success to other areas
nnm commented on PC shipments decline slows in Q3 2023, but Apple plunges over 23%   techcrunch.com/2023/10/10... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
arghwhat · 2 years ago
The lifespan of a laptop is not tied to a replaceable battery - if you buy a new laptop because you have lost 20% battery capacity, then you are making an unsound financial decision.

A laptop does not really degrade much apart from cosmetic wear or physical damages - instead, what the same amount of money can get you changes, and at some point you feel like that cost has been amortized and that the gap between back then and now has increased enough to justify a new purchase. The only reason M1's would last longer in that regard would be stagnation on Apple's behalf.

Same with how the PC market had stagnated with minimal generational improvements until both Ryzen and M1 shook things up in interesting ways.

nnm · 2 years ago
> The lifespan of a laptop is not tied to a replaceable battery

This applies to me. My laptop is 10 years old, has 16G memory and is running Linux. I have replaced battery once before (and definitely need a new battery again now).

Edit: replace 9 years old with 10 years old

nnm commented on Just don’t   tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/moks
londons_explore · 3 years ago
If anyone is trying to help me or tell me something, please ignore all this advice.

If you think something is simple, just tell me how you find it simple and show/tell me how you'd do it. I'm pretty sure I'll catch on, and before long I'll think it's simple too.

If everyone interacting with me has to tiptoe round every mental health issue I may or may not have, then I'll learn slower and together we'll get less done. Lose lose.

nnm · 3 years ago
Same here. "just do X" is more informative that "do X" as it infers that "do X" is a simple thing. I would like to know that.

Also "just do X" infers that the person is very confident that "do X" will solve the issue. I like to get confident advice.

nnm commented on I help seniors with technology issues   twitter.com/_danilo/statu... · Posted by u/thinkingemote
nnm · 3 years ago
I really hope they (non-tech folks) know that a $300-$600 chromebook is way better.
nnm commented on American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants   paddleyourownkanoo.com/20... · Posted by u/josephcsible
nnm · 3 years ago
One side story. There is no comments / voice on the AA side. Read like a biased article. "become a must-have" reads like exaggeration
nnm commented on American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants   paddleyourownkanoo.com/20... · Posted by u/josephcsible
RcouF1uZ4gsC · 3 years ago
What seems unsaid in the article but seems to be the case, is that the app is logging in to American Airlines systems using the flight attendant credentials and then scraping.

If this is the case, I think American Airlines is justified in trying to block them. An app storing/using credentials for a different service is a data breach waiting to happen.

nnm · 3 years ago
It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.
nnm commented on American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants   paddleyourownkanoo.com/20... · Posted by u/josephcsible
nnm · 3 years ago
It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.

nnm commented on SAT score distributions in Michigan   infoproc.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/Bostonian
fullshark · 3 years ago
nnm · 3 years ago
The kids should really also apply to international schools.
nnm commented on SAT score distributions in Michigan   infoproc.blogspot.com/202... · Posted by u/Bostonian
nnm · 3 years ago
If we look at not only academic, but also sports, i.e. ski, ice skating, soccer, tennis, swimming, ... etc., among competitive teams in middle schools or high schools, the number of Asian students are bigger than what one would expect from their population. You can even see this in winter Olympic:

1. https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2022/03/asian-american...

nnm commented on AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/dopu
dekhn · 3 years ago
I expect them to get the Nobel prize in Chemistry in about two-three weeks.
nnm · 3 years ago
From my chat with friends who work in the area of drug design, AlphaFold is accurate for overall structure, but is not that accurate for predicting structure around interaction locations.

u/nnm

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