Actually metal's pretty bendy when compared to plastic (most anyway...mmv based upon formula).
The metal construction is what prompted me to switch over to macbook pro's back in the day. The plastic dell laptops i used to use couldn't handle the abuse that it took during all of the travel i was doing at the time (cases kept cracking). I switched to a pro and was rewarded later with it surviving a 5 foot fall from a car rental counter. It bent part of the corner, but the screen was still in tact and it continued to work well enough to get me through the trip. I suspect the plastic alternative would have been toast.
Having kids today and seeing how rough they are with their toys, I'm not confident that a plastic laptop would survive them long.
From the article, however, you don't technically need an apple device...an iCloud+ account is sufficient. That said, I don't know many people with iCloud+ who aren't already in the Apple ecosystem, and obviously anything Apple releases will obviously have some advantage to it if you use the hardware alone.
Given the running narrative that closing down TikTok is more of an effort of American social network platforms, it's probably more a form of protest than anything.
Is that more or less efficient than a heat pump water heater driven by solar though? A quick search shows that the heat pump option can be upwards of 3x more efficient. Plus, you can use the extra electricity generated to power your fans or heat pump cooling system.
That's an interesting attempt to deflect from the income disparity between those in executive positions to those that work for them. Even in tech, while the salaries of tech workers is high it's nothing compared to the execs.
But let's follow the deflection. Instead of monetary disparity, lets look at energy waste disparity. It was recently shown that the top 10% wealthiest Americans contribute to 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions in the country. As you said, we are all on the same planet. just because they have managed to grab a bigger piece of the pie shouldn't mean that they get to pollute the planet more than anyone else. In both cases the mindset needs to change and those at the top maybe need to be a little less greedy overall.
Skepticism on this was called out in WaPo's article on the same subject:
Other experts on the AMOC also cautioned that because the new study doesn’t
present new observations of the entire ocean system — instead, it is extrapolating
about the future based on past data from a limited region of the Atlantic — its
conclusions should be taken with a grain of salt.
> how about they become a therapist and sell access
> what if they sell access to lectures
I fully agree. But in all of your examples someone is purchasing the right to access the information in question. Did Meta or OpenAI purchase the books (or lectures) with the intention of feeding them into the training for their respective LLM's?
> The Minority Report movie probably set the industry back by a decade or two. Waving your hands around to control stuff seems logical but is quickly exhausting.
There was an operations center I worked at that had a large touch screen (think cnn wall), that always sat in the corner of the area collecting dust, but whenever some higher up would visit it would get pulled out and used just to provide a wow factor. It was always the unlucky one that ended up having to use it during this time. The fatigue was horrible.
I’ve known two people who have had kidney stones and I don’t think either of them would have been able to withstand the pain from the stone enough to go on a rollercoaster. Then again, maybe the promise of ending the pain will give enough motivation to grit it out.
Call me naive then. While I agree that a fair amount of academic research funding is defense/military related, it’s certainly not all of it. If said research is funded by organizations like DARPA, then yes, absolutely. There are other sources of funding out there though that isn’t defense backed: NSF, NIH funding comes to mind among others, including corporate backed academic research. When i was in academia, I worked on research funded by grants from NSF, Intel and Microsoft to name a few.
I can only imagine the overhead expenses saved by a company embracing the full wfh option in this manner.
Of course, so many large companies were in the process of building large new buildings / campuses as the pandemic hit, so I can also see this as a way to ensure those large investments aren't seen as a waste.
The metal construction is what prompted me to switch over to macbook pro's back in the day. The plastic dell laptops i used to use couldn't handle the abuse that it took during all of the travel i was doing at the time (cases kept cracking). I switched to a pro and was rewarded later with it surviving a 5 foot fall from a car rental counter. It bent part of the corner, but the screen was still in tact and it continued to work well enough to get me through the trip. I suspect the plastic alternative would have been toast.
Having kids today and seeing how rough they are with their toys, I'm not confident that a plastic laptop would survive them long.