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gargan
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- gargan parentNo taxation without representation. AI Boston Tea Party follows. Leading to a new AI run nation aka Skynet...
- You're looking at the wrong laptop, the Dell XPS 13 9345 has a ~88.6% screen to body ratio, the Macbook Pro 14 M4 2024 has a ~84.6% screen to body ratio.
The weight is the big one for me - only 2.5 lbs vs 3.4 lbs
Remember the Dell has an 18 month old processor, X Elite 2 coming out next year.
Source for all these stats: https://nanoreview.net/en/laptop-compare/dell-xps-13-9345-20...
- Checkout the Dell XPS 13 9345, webcam is on top but with thinner bezels than a Macbook, it's got a Snapdragon ARM processor for good battery life, OLED screen, upto 64GB RAM, and is smaller and lighter than a Macbook Air
Snapdragon X Elite 2 processor will be out next year for the refreshed model
- It's the opposite of what you say. Proportional representation isn't accountable because you don't know what coalition you're voting for - coalitions are done in backrooms after the election. Winner takes all is more accountable because the coalitions are done before the election (aka political parties). Parties are made up of different factions and they're agreed before the election.
- Fair enough. There will be Ubuntu support just to let you know - https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-10-concept-snapdrag...
Apparently they're working with Qualcomm to make this happen.
- People need to switch to Snapdragon processors. No issues like that with Snapdragon processors, the X Elite chips is about as good as an M2 or M3
And the X Elite 2 with 18 cores will likely be announced today :D - https://www.qualcomm.com/company/events/snapdragon-summit
- You don't need a spoofed email to steal someone's crypto. Criminals can just hold a gun to your head and demand your keys.
It's happened lots of times and it's why traditional banks are way more secure than crypto.
Well done to the author for talking about it, but I hope the real lesson is learned that crypto isn't a real store of wealth and can be stolen at any time....
- The revolution in the 1600s was reversed - as far as I know the UK is the only country in the world to have reversed a revolution.
If you want more healthcare security you're more likely to get that in an uncodified system like the UK. Yes your healthcare rights can be reversed but better that, than never happening at all like in the US.
A codified system also hands vast power to lawyers. The US is a lawyer's paradise of everyone suing everyone, rising political violence due to inflexibility, and more risk of revolution.
- The UK and US are both equally nations of immigrants in 2025 at about 16% of the population being born abroad. The UK constitution is written but uncodified and unites the country under the King. The constitution can slowly change to deal with immigration, but in the US they're stuck with either what you have or violent revolution...
- Biggest mistake the Americans did was codify their constitution. I'll probably be pilloried for that but look at the evidence:
- US is about to have military on the streets during peacetime with no terror threat within a codified constitution
- UK has had military on the streets in response to terrorism in Northern Ireland (a real threat) and not for decades. The UK constitution is uncodified and spread over many (10+?) documents ranging from Magna Carta in the 1200s to the Bill of Rights in the 1600s to documents written in the 1800s and then more modern Acts of Parliament.
Importantly the UK constitution can slowly change which means the UK has never had a revolution and never will do. Whereas the US constitution is rigid which achieves the opposite: when it does change it'll be dramatic and as a result of another violent revolution.
- Isn't the Mac way a good thing though? For example everything on Windows is moving to web apps where I feel they can load just as many trackers onto you eg https://www.theverge.com/news/710509/whatsapp-windows-app-we...
Whereas on Mac, Meta are keeping their native app presumably because they can't be in the Mac app store with just a web wrapper
But maybe I've just got the exact delusion youre talking about in that I view the app as having more functionality. Maybe they need to free web apps to be on a level playing field as you say
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- Me neither. I found this https://github.com/Geczy/coolify-migration but if there's a native way to do it that would be great.
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- In my experience the Snapdragon X Elite is about the same as an M2. It's got slightly worse battery life but still a battery that blows the competition out the water.
Plus you get the benefits of loading out your laptop with 64GB RAM etc without paying Apples ridiculous prices
Snapdragon are just getting started. The Snapdragon X2 is coming out later this year with 18 cores
Apple does have some serious competition now
- There's a lot of misinformation in your post!
Dell XPS 13 isn't discontinued, its rebranding will be fully rolled out later this year
In the meantime Dell XPS 13s are currently available with 2TB and 64GB RAM (with a better screen than this Air I might add) and with a Snapdragon X Elite chip (which there are very few compatibility issues with in March 2025 even with gaming)
If its a 14 inch laptop you want XPS 14s are currently available with upto 4TB. They will also be rebranded later this year. They're on Intel chips and I'm hoping they will switch to Snapdragon on the rebrand to get the Apple like battery life
- Sorry but you have it backwards. The examples you have in mind are South American and Eastern European countries 20 years ago ie emerging markets struggling to maintain a currency peg.
Iceland doesn't suffer from hyperinflation and it's already got an established central bank and trusted institutions. Lowering the interest rate in this environment would 100% lead to more inflation.
Plus Iceland relies on currency devaluation to cope with shocks. It would be crazy to give this up.
- Inflation will always be higher in Iceland, because they have a very specific pro union setup which guarantees salary increases each year. As a result of the unions, Icelanders work very few hours and earn some of the highest wages in the world - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Confederation_of_Lab... It won't (I hope) be following Italy as an economic model.
By "popularized" I mean brought to a modern audience in Krugman's New York Times column. It's Mundell's theory of course.
Interest rates are the main way to fight inflation. Glad we agree that the Euro is a silly currency union!
- People in favor of Iceland joining the EU should be honest and transparent that it's a pro inflation policy. In fact, Icelandic inflation would probably skyrocket.
Why?
Iceland's interest rate is 8.5% https://www.cb.is/other/key-interest-rate/
EU's interest rate is 3% https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/ke...
The higher Icelandic rate is set for Icelanders by Icelanders in order to bring their 4.8% inflation rate down to the 2.5% target.
If Iceland adopted the EU's interest rate which is mainly set for France and Germany, that would be a 5% interest rate cut which is a massive stimulus. Icelandic inflation would skyrocket and there would be no chance of hitting the 2.5% target.
People should also look into Optimal Currency Area theory popularized by Paul Krugman eg https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...
The US Dollar works because of massive fiscal transfers from states on the coasts to states in the interior. The US also allows whole areas to deindustrialize like Detroit in order to solve the unavailability of currency adjustments between states.
Are Icelanders willing to subsidize Greece? Are they willing to forgo their ability to devalue their currency like in 2008? Without devaluation that means deindustrialization.
For all the above reasons, Iceland joining the EU would be the stupidest and most economically illiterate decision in it's history.
- Also see this report https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/rese...
Google’s use dropped from 86% to 83% in one year in the UK. That's 1.8m people less per month using it
- I recently ran extensive performance tests comparing WireGuard-based VPNs against traditional solutions, and the results were eye-opening. On 10 Gbps networks, WireGuard implementations achieved speeds that absolutely demolished older VPN protocols.
Here are the raw numbers:
Kernel WireGuard: 7.89 Gbps Netmaker: 7.88 Gbps Tailscale: 2.8 Gbps OpenVPN: 233 Mbps
My testing covered multiple scenarios: same-VPC, cross-region, and cross-cloud (DO/GCP). I standardized the configurations across tests, using machines with 1-4 vCPUs and 1-8GB RAM.
The most fascinating finding was Tailscale's behavior under load. While it initially showed promising speeds around 5.25 Gbps, things got interesting when I started tweaking MTU settings. Performance became highly unstable, sometimes plummeting to just 35.6 Mbps. This was particularly surprising given Tailscale's reputation.
The 20x performance gap between WireGuard implementations and traditional VPNs really highlights how far VPN technology has come. Pure kernel WireGuard and Netmaker are clearly leading the pack, pushing close to the theoretical limits of 10 Gbps networks.
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- Even ChatGPT Search was revealed to be a Bing wrapper, this meme summed it up - https://ibb.co/8csc3gv
- But neither is London. Both London and Barcelona rents are up between 40-60% since the article was written as far as I can tell:
https://www.catalannews.com/business/item/barcelona-rent-pri... https://www.zoopla.co.uk/discover/property-news/average-rent...
