ETA on launching in India?
Came here to ask exactly this.
Readit Newsvishnugupta commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd
I've owned several laptops over the years and have come to regret each of my non Apple laptop purchases which never got more than 3-4 years life without some hardware failures, Surface was the worst which died after 10 months of low sporadic usage.
Whilst my gen 1 MB Air has been too slow for anything, my 2013 MB Intel still looks and runs great which the kids still make good use of. My latest M2 MB is by far the best I've ever owned with great build quality, performance, battery life where it's the first time I can confidently travel without a power brick.
Whilst Apple's non-Desktop hardware is always best-of-class, I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the direction of macOS and Windows which IMO have both become power-user-hostile and have switched to a Linux desktop full-time. Everyone's been predicting the year of the Linux Desktop for 20+ years, but I believe we're at a turning point for Linux adoption with Windows 11 becoming an intolerable ad/spyware infested marketing platform and Apple's continued ignorance of developers and ambitions of turning its neglected macOS into a locked down appliance.
Hopefully Valve can continue their investments in Steam Deck and Arch Linux to accelerate the adoption, their contributions to Proton have already IMO unblocked the biggest barrier to adoption. Whilst currently a happy Fedora user I like the direction, taste, philosophy and community behind Omarchy from what I've seen after kicking the tires in a VM, will look into switching over after they bring out their ISO.
> my 2013 MB Intel still looks and runs great
I switched to MacBook in 2017. My first MB was a pleasure to use, solidly built and the keyboard a delight for a touch-typist.
But then Apple got crazily fixated on making them thin. By God they are some of the worst physical devices I've ever owned. That butterfly keyboard is so bad to the point of being non functional.
Fortunately they course corrected with M1 onwards. I still have their immediate predecessors of M1 as a secondary/backup device. While the spec is maxed out the physical device is just bad.
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vishnugupta commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
Do you have any examples of ways you incorporate them into your day-to-day?
Distribution of data is something I use the most.
E.g., For understanding compensation for different job families I used to just look at the market salary range. Now I dig into the distribution. I am now more confident when I make an offer at a given percentile.
On a similar topic, someone says that a farmer here (in India) is making multiple of a typical SWE salary. I go back to distribution.
Or take quality of specialized food in cities (e.g., Biryani in Hyderabad, Dosa in Bangalore). When someone says Biryani in Hyderabad is great I now realise what it means. That the quality distribution of Hyderabad Biryani is to the right of Biryani in Bangalore i.e., the top 10% of Bangalore Biryani overlaps with bottom 10% of Hyderabad Biryani. It also means that I can walk into a random restaurant in Hyderabad and be confident that Biryani there will taste mind-blowingly better than Bangalore.
vishnugupta commented on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn? · Posted by u/unsupp0rted
Making sense of probability and statistics and incorporating them in day to day life.
vishnugupta commented on Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA open-web-advocacy.org/blo... · Posted by u/yashghelani
Even Google Search relentlessly nags you to download the Google Search app.
Is it useful anymore? I switched to DDG a few years ago and then OpenAI search. Even when I was on DDG exclusively I didn’t miss Google search at all. And occasionally when I use Google search I get terrible results filled with garbage ads and the likes.
vishnugupta commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
You move those switches down apparently. I don't think so.
Up/Forward ==> Run ==> Fuel supply is on
Down/Backwards ==> Cutoff ==> Fuel supply is off
https://www.reddit.com/r/indianaviation/comments/1lxxatc/fue...
vishnugupta commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
But they don't look protected or hard to switch?
The pilot is toggling the switch on.
Toggling it off presumably requires more power and is multiple actions.
vishnugupta commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
> There is no possible way to confuse these two actions.
This is obviously an overstatement. Any two regularly performed actions can be confused. Sometimes (when tired or distracted) I've walked into my bathroom intending to shave, but mistakenly brushed my teeth and left. My toothbrush and razor are not similar in function or placement.
If I were to apply OPs assertion to your actions it’s like brushing your teeth with razor. I guess that’s what they meant.
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