If you place 1mm thermal pads between the sinks and the case, the CPUs/GPUs won't throttle as readily. At least for my M3 MBA (check your actual clearance).
I replaced a MacPro5,1 with an M2Pro — which uses soooooo much less energy performing similarly mundane tasks (~15x+). Idle is ~25W v. 160W
You already don't want notebooks sitting on your lap (safe radiation exposure limits from WiFi / Bluetooth), which is why they're no longer referred to as "laptops" (by OEMs).
But if you're commenting about temperature / burns — the bottom of the MBP doesn't get noticeably warmer (at all), likely because the large metal case is such an efficient dissipator/sink.
The casebottom of my 15" MBAir has never exceeded 32°C — and that's sitting on a bed. Just a matter of physics: conductive case has orders of magnitude more thermal mass.
It also helps that Apple Silicon processors consumer orders of magnitude less power than most competitor OEMs. Pegged out the entire machine uses less energy than my former notebook's GPU, alone.
Everything Everywhere... is a much better movie than the incredible Pulp Fiction. Some of the visual effects are actually psychedelic (I've "seent" them), and the storytelling is exceptional.
The scene where the antagonist is walking down a hallway while the background keeps changing — is among the best fight scenes / visuals in any film, ever.
I think you're going to see more and more people saying things like that as the audience gets younger and more people see the antecedents of Pulp Fiction before they see Pulp Fiction itself. There wouldn't be an EEAaO without Pulp Fiction.
Even setting its influence aside, Pulp Fiction is the better movie.
I wouldn't even rate pulp fiction highly on Tarantino's filmography. I tried watching it recently and found it to be incredibly pretentious and overwritten.
It's quintessential-Tarantino, but I don't ever recommend it anymore (start with Django or Reservoir Dogs). Decades ago I shared this movie with college friends — mostly because we enjoyed decadence.
If you've not seen Pulp Fiction by 2026 [0], how can I safely recommend you submit yourself to hours of semi-disconnected robberies, rapes, and deceit? It's a great movie, EEAaO is just better storytelling.
[0] similarly, how does one recommend the acclaimed Deliverance without blushing?
Django has low re-watchability (unlike most of Tarantino's work) but incredible acting/twists/cinematography.
Once Upon a Time is too much for me (bottom-tier Tarantino IMHO), but it does have many great actors/scenes (the overall storyline/premise is what I didn't care for).
Haven't seen Deathproof, but Basterds is wonderful storytelling.
Yeah I think Basterds is probably the most undeniably great, even if it's not my favourite. He even calls his shot with the last spoken line being “i think this might be my masterpiece”.
Probably my favourite thing about cinema is how slippery the subjective experience is.
For example I can appreciate a movie I don't really enjoy in a way I can't with music. Also on a rewatch a movie can go from hated to loved, or vice versa, in a way that feels unique to the medium.
>Yeah I think Basterds is probably the most undeniably great [Tarantino film], even if it's not my favourite.
Well-said.
>...on a rewatch [it] can go from hated to loved
I typically don't rewatch movies for at least five years — this is enough time for life experiences to change media interpretations. Yet I listen to the same tracklist of catchy MP3 earworms, on repeat.
Songs are motivational background energy (for me), and skipping a track isn't nearly as hard as bailing out of two hours invested in a cozy full-length film.
The plastic used in the black/yellow brand is brittle when it gets cold — it breaks upon simple impact/sliding. Also, you cannot see inside them without opening the lid.
The clear plastic is usually a bit thicker, and more rubberized — it'll still break, but more difficultly.
I grew up (decades ago, this was less common) with a first-gen Iranian, in 90s Texas. She is a brilliant female, whose overbearing father is (now) proud of the woman/mother she's become — but watching her having to deal with his parenting style/culture was a gruesome decade of friendship.
Even at 18 years old, she was not allowed to go out on dates with her long-time boyfriend. When she'd visit her birthplace, she required father's permission to exit Iran. Perhaps only through her own brilliance, she grew into a fine american mother/friend.
You might consider then getting four 40gbps nVME enclosures, and then RAIDing multiple together (e.g. in a big stripe, you could get 160gbps throughput, only limited by # physical interfaces). Each slice could be +TBs.
Obviously increases your failure rate, but if you're constantly updating the same models (and not creating your own) you don't really need redundancy.
The fee for the first time you get caught without a plate on your registered vehicle is $10 (2nd is $20).
Trailer hitch balls do not "count" when considering whether a vehicle's plate is obstructed — I literally have one hung across my Camry, not technically obstructing the plate (but you can't see shit).
YMMV. Lasers might be a good offensive, but defense is more important.
Unfortunately, you cannot hide by obscuring your license plate. The ALPR system recognizes vehicles by type, color, and any outstanding features (bumper stickers, trailers, etc.) So, even if you removed your license plate completely they would still be able to track your car as a blue, 1999 Toyota Camry, with a "I love Peaches" sticker in the back window.
You are correct. Although I drive a very common car/color, it is naïve to think that these systems aren't monitoring me as the grey sedan without visible license plate. I did remove the bumper stickers [0]
My local newspaper retracted a story this month about how the police were able to locate a certain colored vehicle within minutes. Perhaps it was too revealing for general consumption?
My "obstruction" is more (legal) protest? Better to just move to a de-flocked city/state..?
[0] I consider this similar to how some property appraisal maps allow people to remove their names from searches (either through LLC or black-out), but you can still request beneficial owner information of specific parcels; just one/two additional layers of protection to throw off the scent (have to know what you're looking for, not just simple plate# lookup — although I'm sure there are aliases/forwarders in advanced CCTVai systems).
I was really impressed with how Ollama 3 ran on an AMD VEGA64 (~2017 tech) with only 8gb of [HBM] RAM. It was definitely limited, but very local and helpful.
I knew a person like you, two decades ago, in a laptop repair facility (my boss).
He was hired full-time (at like 4x my hourly rate) simply because he was the last person working there familiar with how the DOS-only headless terminals were installed (simple, but vital infrastructure). I didn't even understand what he was doing, but knew if I learned it I would have a lifetime solid-six-figure tech support job (two decades ago).
Bossman mostly just sat around and played WoW (seriously, half his hours "on the clock," waiting for next disaster)... but whenever a smug new vendor came in pedaling latest & greatest... he was often the saver of many times his salary. Nobody really liked him (I did — we'd smoke weed together and attend irregular heavy metal shows), but everybody knew he was important technically (e.g. no purchase orders could go through without his machine upkeep — multimillion dollar budgets).
People would literally turn away from him in the hallways so-as to not attract his comicbookguy inquisitions — particularly if you were a network troublemaker / idiot.
I miss his expertise / guidance / wisdom. Favorite bossman ever.
My favorite GPT-2 experience was setting homepages to the now-depricated website which used a 2021 LLM to generate new words (this word does not exist.com).
Its definitions didn't always make sense [2], but I kept a curated list of "my favorite computer-generated words" (and recommended to crossword/scrabble -type friends to set the same homepage).
Favorites were sent via postcards, or shared over coffee.
Mom, you were a real nayter [1] — shall miss our decades of scalpable [Z] glossip [0].
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[1] nayter (v.): to present one's viewpoint as true rather than having exaggerated or undeserved moral beliefs
[2] ...the second definition was always static text: "a word that does not exist; it was invented, defined and used by a machine learning algorithm" with link to what GPT-2 was.
[0] glossip (n.): a term of abuse attached to words used to discredit the person or group with which the author of a story is confiding
[Z] scalpable (adj.): able to be moved with considerable ease and without needing to be lifted or deformed
[bonus] dumbfuck (adj.): (especially of an electric guitar) having a fixed flat fretboard or tuned tuner
I replaced a MacPro5,1 with an M2Pro — which uses soooooo much less energy performing similarly mundane tasks (~15x+). Idle is ~25W v. 160W
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