Readit NewsSort of reminds me of how Japan has mastered high end denim despite it being a very American product.
Not only does it not burn but it retains more of its structural integrity.
Of course, most Western languages have gendered nouns - English is pretty unique in that respect. That likely comes from English being born as a pidgin of French and German.
Verbs in German are valuable things. You collect them, hold on to them as long as you can, and then - at the end of the sentence - they all come tumbling out. The order of the nouns at the end of the sentence differs by region. In purest German, they come out in reverse order, giving you a nice, context-free grammar. In Swiss dialects, they come out in the order they were conceived, meaning that the grammar is technically context sensitive. In Austrian dialects, the order can be a mix.
Of course, every language has its quirks. French, for example, puts extra letters on the ends of words that you are not supposed to pronounce. Well, unless the right two words are next to each other, in which case, you pronounce the letters after all.
English, meanwhile, gives learners fits, because the pronunciation has nothing whatsoever to do with spelling. Consider the letters "gh" in this sentence (thanks ChatGPT): "Though the tough man gave a sigh and a laugh at the ghost, he had a hiccough and coughed through the night by the slough, hoping to get enough rest."
Also, the increase in possible permutations (and opportunities for mistakes) when you add adjective conjugations to the mix is daunting.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067939
- the “dupe” post with a title that specifically refers BloomTech aka Lambda School CEO Austen Allred being banned from all consumer-lending activities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40071694
*edit to add “dupe” link.
I'm wondering if I should devote time to learning Nextflow/Snakemake, or whether the solution that you outlined is "sufficient" (I say "sufficient" in quotes because of course, depends on the use case).
> storage premium
DDR5 RAM (Single Stick)
Memory Apple Desktop Laptop Server
16 - ~$40 ~$40 ~$60
24 +$200 ~$200 ~$50 ~$100
32 +$400 ~$80 ~$80 ~$100-$200
2 Sticks
64 - ~$200 ~$170 ~$150
128 - ~$115 ~$310 ~$250
Storage Apple NVME (Gen 5) NVME (Gen 4) SSD HDD
256GB - - ~$50 ~$20 ~$20
512GB +$200 - ~$60 ~$30 ~$40
1T +$400 ~$150 ~$80 ~$60 ~$50
2T +$800 ~$200 ~$150 ~$100 ~$60
4T - ~$400 ~$280 ~$200 ~$80
You can AT WORST buy the storage OUTRIGHT for cheaper than it is to UPGRADE. But in most cases you can buy more than double what Apple is offering for cheaper than it is to UPGRADE.
I boycotted Apple for years because of these issues, but unfortunately I think this battle is lost. I gave up. I have a macbook Air. It is nice, but it is a glorified SSH machine. They must know this, because I'd prefer to get an iPad pro with a keyboard but run an actual fucking desktop OS. But then again, the fucking iPad isn't even good at the one thing it is supposed to be good at: writing... The 3rd party apps are leagues ahead of Apple Notes.
What I can't figure out is:
- Why are there no good competitors?
- Why are there no good linux laptops with good battery life?
As a visual (spatial) learner, I often wonder how my math/science education could have been improved with learning tools such as these.