Jrockwar

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[–] Jrockwar 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think anything with the word "intel" can be taken seriously in value comparisons...

When I got my last laptop I ended up with a MBP because there were no high end options for Linux laptops with AMD. Now the options are better, but back then, the only realistic alternative to a MacBook Pro would have had a third of the real-world battery life if not less, even if I decided to spend £3k. That didn't seem like an acceptable compromise so there were virtually no laptops in existence that could compete with an M2 MBP.

[–] Jrockwar 8 points 3 weeks ago

16 GB of RAM are kinda meh, but I can't think of many $600 devices that can run three 6K monitors simultaneously at 60 Hz, plus then one at a lower res but still 60 Hz.

[–] Jrockwar 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I would say that's what many urban roads (35 mph / 60 km/h) look like in the US.

[–] Jrockwar 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How do people have the time to organise vigils and get into "coalitions" and politics in the workplace?

Granted I don't work at Microsoft, but I feel me and everyone around me is overworked enough that when we have the time to stop working... We head home (or close the laptop if WFH) and rest, not engage in additional activities in the workplace.

[–] Jrockwar 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, this sounds like a problem for only the 5% of the world who live in a specific country.

[–] Jrockwar 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well it might have been 3 years or might have been 7, I don't remember exactly. 5 was my best guess!

[–] Jrockwar 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, there's a Lawnchair legacy! It makes more sense now, but they could have changed the icon of this one to make it less confusing.

[–] Jrockwar 50 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

We really need to think about a better name than "Early access". At this point I think I've used Lawnchair for about 5 years, 5 years after the initial event is only "early" in the context of geological eras.

[–] Jrockwar 11 points 4 weeks ago

It's not a waste of resources if you learn something. Think of this as research rather than product development. You can try many things (from VR, to miniaturised computers, to cloud gaming, controllers with wonky form factors...) to see what results in a good experience. You don't need to get anywhere near a full fledged product to understand those things, so the waste of resources isn't massive anyway.

I'd bet at the moment people decided "this is useful, I even want this for me, so let's turn it into a product" the steam deck looked more like a screen, a gamepad and a raspberry pi all taped together or jammed into a 3d printed prototype chassis.

If people have spare capacity to work on these projects, the material cost at such a point can be under <5k which is peanuts for a company like Valve.

[–] Jrockwar 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

To be honest I get your point. We use it at work for summaries of 70-page lists of software commits, and with adequate prompting to "understand" what's what in our codebase it works remarkably well.

Granted it doesn't work near as well as a person who spends a month working on such a summary, but it does it in seconds. Then a person can work for a day on reviewing this and tidying up rather than wasting time trying to summarise 100k lines of code by hand.

[–] Jrockwar 18 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

It seems OpenAI should learn to use it correctly first.

[–] Jrockwar 1 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

What are detached tabs? Sandboxed? Dragged out into their own window? Genuine question

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