I used to do a lot with AutoLisp in AutoCAD back when it ran in DOS. Did a lot of dynamic creation and manipulation of the models with it. It was useful and a lot of fun (aside from parenthesis nesting).
It’s a movie, not a book. The audio book is 16 hours runtime. The movie is 2 hours. Some things were always going to be left out. The details of the science stuff was one of them. It works better in a book narrative where the process is told than a movie where it’s visual and you have to show.
The Martian book has more of the science process than PHM book does to begin with.
The movie hit all of the primary points but never got into the details. If you read the book you can fill in the details. I imagine that a lot of people watching the movie didn’t know why some things were happening. Maybe some will be interested enough to read the book or the audiobook. If not, they had a good experience in the movie anyway.
What bugs me about the editing in the movie is they gave only a couple of seconds of screen time for key plot elements like the nitrogen resistance breeding and how/why this would cause issues for Rocky. It made the last 20% of the movie less coherent for anyone who hasn’t read the book.
That kind of thing is more standard procedure for evolution than an exception. Since evolution doesn't plan but just makes use of what it has with slide variations, changes play out along paths that are easier rather than optimal. That's how you get a thumb on the panda evolved from a projection on the wrist.
Noted, but I think I'll pass. Doesn't seem to be much benefit if you have to train yourself to discern a difference just so you can stream massive files.
Of course this does matter to some people and I say "have fun".
Trump administration also cancelled funds for charging network buildouts, has fought solar and wind energy construction, put in high and erratic tariffs on key technologies related to EV construction. There is also a concerted effort by this administration to push the narrative that EVs are a failed folly and there are well funded astroturf campaigns pushing the same message. Americans are told daily that EVs are unreliable, the batteries die quickly, and you can never find a charger. Meanwhile car makers are cancelling plans to bring out EVs. It makes for a harsh climate for EVs in the US. EVs are still selling but its an uphill climb and the numbers show it.
The flip side is the economic reality of capitalism bieng built on growth, which is absolutly impossible for cars burning fuel.
Electrics are cheaper to buy and maintain outside of the western markets, where the bulk of the worlds population lives, and much of the west, is going electric, realy realy quicky.
The current fuel crunch is almost certainly causing the significant surplus of chinese electrics to bieng snapped up all over south east aisia ,africa, and south america.Just weeks ago there were sneering articles about overproduction, and unsold electric cars piling up in China, which now looks like precient planning.
In the US, near a major roadway on a cold morning, the fumes are strong. Not every car or truck is maintained properly and running in cold weather really magnifies that effect.
The funny thing is the US doesn’t really consume much Saudi Oil. The US is a net exporter of oil, though they do import some specific types of oils and export more of others.
The US’s interest in the Middle East oil is a lot about stabilizing oil prices. At least it used to be when there was a rational policy and competent executors.
Not surprising but good to hear. It seems that there really isn’t anything that runs on a new MackBook Air that you couldn’t run on a NEO. It might not be as fast for some things but it gets the job done.
Ish. It’s better in some ways, like single core and maybe multi, but not by a ton. At the same time I think the M1 may have more raw GPU power, though missing a few fancy features.
Hardware is mostly worse, but that’s to be expected for the price. And nothing terrible, just little cuts all over.
My M1 Air (16GB) is a rocket ship for absolutely anything I have thrown at it. Apple will have to work a lot harder making macOS inefficient before I feel the need to upgrade it.
I’ve been an M1 Air fan since I got mine in 2020 but recently things have become unusable. Playing 4K videos often drops frames, even at 30fps. And I can’t reliably run Notion’s transcription AI on Zoom calls, even though it’s not running locally. I’m going to do an OS reinstall soon to see if that helps, otherwise it will be time to upgrade…
Yeah, honestly not even counting. The only reason I even consider moving is that I dislike Tahoe and I know eventually I won’t be able to stall the update; hardware wise it doesn’t even cross my mind.
I have a current gen MacBook Pro for work configured with stupid amounts of ram and I feel no difference in terms of fluidity at all.
It will have a longer support period than an M1 based on Apple’s history of device releases. This might also mean a longer support period for the 16-series phones than typical, similar to the 4S.
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