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I'm curious if people with aphantasia would also be able to create a "mind map" of the area around them
I purchased the Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon Elite and 64GB ram. The performance seems pretty decent, even while using Visual Studio on it and a few accompanying apps/tools. Battery lasts a decent amount, but nothing close to even 10 hours if you're doing work. There are surprisingly decent amount of apps that run on ARM now, and the x86 ones also run decently.
The biggest issue I've had is the sleep - it drains significantly more battery than an MBP, and after a while it seems to go into hibernate which takes a very long time to reboot back into windows (30s-60s+). It's just completely inefficient at handling sleep still.
The last issue is battery time when you are not doing lightweight browsing - the battery tends to go down a lot quicker.
Charging is pretty slow, wish it could be faster via USB-C, but that's a design issue, not necessarily related to snapdragon.
I really wanted to love it - but it's more of an expensive toy because of the battery/sleep. My MBP with the M2 Max still handles sleep infinitely better, and battery life is also significantly better when actually doing development on it. Im not a fan at all of MacOS, and I tend to RDP into my home machine most of the time, but even with that, I'd chose the MacBook for now over the ARM windows laptop.
Sounds like these protestors should never go on vacation anywhere else either. Stay in your home city your entire life.
I don't quite understand the idea or fascination behind the Dyson spheres. Isn't it much more complex to acquire the materials, build, and maintain the structure than to simply build localized nuclear power generators where they need them? Surely it's a lot easier to capture more power of a controlled fusion reaction than build a huge megastructure in space where objects can collide at immense speeds and cause devastating damage.
Neither sugar nor caffeine has the same effects as drugs like alcohol and marijuana. It's pretty asinine to classify them as even being in the same category.
Yeah, no. We're already in a drug crisis as it is. We need to teach people that doing drugs (of any kind) isn't the answer to problems. Soft times seems to have created this problem where people would rather escape their lives than live them out.
Hard to judge the DEAs effectiveness off something like this. You have very little insight on their actual effectiveness and workings on everything, yet your comment seems to summarize the entire organization off a completely biased political comment.
What we need is less drugs, and more fixing the issues on what causes people to turn to drugs.
The issue is the prolonged constant daily use of it. Unlike alcohol, it's much easier to get by in the day with weed, and a lot of people do use it as that. It offers them an escape from reality without the full social repercussion of something like alcohol.
Honestly, we should look to fix the issues that lead to people depending on weed, alcohol, and other drugs instead.
These drugs are escapes for people - and a lot of them, especially younger kids get completely hooked on the escaped from reality from these drugs (including alcohol).
We should instead be limit the use of these drugs and have teams dedicated to studying why people are turning to these instead. It's OK to have them on the weekends, but most people I know who smoke weed are on it the majority of the time. Alcohol isn't much better - most do limit it to after hours / weekends, but there are a few who tend to overdo it.
From a biased point of view, I've had a few young family members and friends who turned to weed as their go-to for their daily lives, and it has changed their lifestyle, made them far less willing to live out their life and pursue actual goals. They definitely had both the potential and backing of their families (mid to high class) to do great, but chose to instead live a life of 'rotting away' in their words. Out of them only one has turned their life around (still smoking on weekends) citing that it made them not want to do absolutely anything in their day to day life.
This seems to be the issue - we're trying to study COVID, which affected literally the whole population of earth at this point, and we have no control group of people who have not been affected.
People have gotten older, have gone through mass societal change, and any other number of things in between.
> There are studies that have been done comparing people who had COVID-19, versus people who didn't, and then gave them cognitive testing to measure their ability to cognitively process information and test their IQ. And there's very clear differences in the IQ of people who had been infected with COVID-19 versus people who did not. Even mild COVID can give people about a three-point loss of IQ.
Hasn't pretty much the entire population of earth been infected by COVID at least once at this point?
While it sounds like there are problems, and they should be investigated, taking the word of a one (or even a few) whistleblower on something like this should be taken with skepticism. Everything involving airplanes extremely complex, and most people work on very specific parts. Most engineers work on very specific parts of it (like any field).
It's like a doctor coming out and saying "this drug, procedure, etc is completely worthless!". It takes more than a few single individuals to assess the problems or efficacy of things.
We should push for the government to investigate, but journalism pieces like this just erode trust when their headline is a single person is saying the equivalent of "SHUT IT ALL DOWN, TRUST ME". We have no idea what his role, skill set, or knowledge of all this is.
Speak for your self. Others want it.
I think they may be referring to WPF, it promised so much, and it was great - then it was just left to die, and Microsoft moved on to MAUI
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sorwin on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:12AM
from the self-post dept.
I am curious how other HN members go about finding their significant others. I have little time these days, but I want to make the best of it trying to find someone, but social dating apps seems to fall short. Time commitment is not an issue, but having to swift through endless potential matches is time consuming to the point where it does feel like it's hopeless.
You know you can take unpaid vacations, right?
So, our concept of distance is nothing more than the interaction of particles between each other?
edit: Through their respective field - I'm guessing, and does each force have its own field, or do they also interact with each other?
The addiction isnt to the smartphone, but to social media applications. It's the constant pumping of information and misinformation, as well as a false sense of reality.
Teens (and other age groups) are constantly bombarded with topics, issues, and information which they have to make sense of. Quite often, this information is pretty depressing, rage inducing, or emotionally manipulative in one way or another. They learn from this - instead of having a curated view of the world and information from their parents, elders, siblings, etc.
This website does a very poor job at describing what it is, what it does, how it does it, etc. Even after googling, there isn't much information about the full extend of what changes this does to Win11.
Sounds a lot like the "Mrs Davis" TV Show.
Anyhow, this is not a good idea. We are having issues with their scores and performance declining. We have to find the root cause, not try to patch it with another band-aid by saying "Here, lets try this OTHER NEW THING", on top of the hundreds of other tools students already have.
This is about as secure as loading a text file that says "licensed=true".
Anyone can easily proxy the server DNS call, put up their own server, etc.
A client app connecting to a public facing database server with no authentication is a huge security risk, aside from anything this whole library is doing.
Sadly, for programming, I've had to use Google quite a few times lately.
Their raise feature is nice, but always finding stack overflow (because I raised it) on top of ACTUAL documentation for a specific topic kinda ruins it.
With 1k-2k searches a month, $10 seemed reasonable. However, $25 does not - it's far too much of a price increase. Most people here can already get same quality results from google with an ad blocker. I get that the service costs money, but for an end user, it's not really justifiable.
I just got the email regarding this, may take a bit I guess.
Honestly, this seems silly - I would rather have a lower quality Star Trek rather than the endless garbage on TV these days, so yes, I will watch it.
Plus, it's not even that bad as a show by it's self - but people have sky high expectations, they can't just sit down and enjoy it casually
As for Discovery, I actually enjoy it and can't wait to see it. I've watched every Star Trek show out there, and while it's different, its still good.
Isn't this better...?
The more specialized they are, the better training they receive in that field
Clothes, hopefully higher quality ones if they are on discount. I was looking to buy a bunch of merino wool socks/boxers/shirts. I buy electronics year round, on the other hand, I never buy any clothes since they always seem so expensive (100$ jeans, or new SSD?)
I get that Mozilla is far more than just Firefox, but what are they actually spending so much money on?
They have 750 employees, yet Firefox (their main product) barely sees any impactful updates.
Either there is a lot of bloat, money mismanagement, or just bad leadership (which covers the previous).