People who are using headphones jacks are people who probably do not care the DAC sucks or have high end headphones to use on a $699 laptop. For example for a video conference meeting, a headphone jack is fine for that fidelity.

I would say most people who are buying a $699 laptop do not know what a DAC is nor care about buying one. What they will see is this budget laptop requires an adapter to use wired headphones. Will it completely stop someone from buying this laptop over another model? Probably not, but it is a negative.

[sarcasm]But it will have Windows 11, the most beloved version of Windows right now.[/sarcasm]

WiFi 7 is more robust. The problem is if your network isn’t WiFi 7, then the benefits are negligible over WiFi6. But consumers can buy any new WiFi router right now so that shouldn’t be a problem . . .oh wait. Yeah . . .

Dell says the processor will be an Intel Core Series 3 for the budget $699 model and has up to 17 hours of streaming battery life. We will have to see if it lives up to battery life and performance tests. Noticeably absent from the advertisement was how well this laptop would do in benchmarks.

I saw the movie. It was fine. It was not the best, but it was not the worst. From my perspective the movie did not have a main singular plot but multiple ones; it seems to been designed to break broken into pieces for serialized content like TV episodes. My guess is that this was intentional so that Disney+ could have another season of The Mandalorian and a movie. Basically the movie is really to generate some box office revenue that it could not generate as a TV season.

In my experience, smart people at best found school worthless, dumb people found it a waste of their time, and midwits loved it. Midwits are smarter than most teachers and the teachers tell the midwits how smart they are and give them gold stars and certificates that say they're smart. Which is like cocaine to a midwit.

When I see someone talking about how great their government school teacher was and how much they learned, I assume they're a midwit until proven otherwise.

Seems to me that most government school teachers go into teaching because they're not smart enough to get a real job and where else will they get a pension, job security and long vacations?

Or because they want access to kids.

> Thinking starts with foundational knowledge taught in schools

Every smart person I know would laugh at that idea.

If a kid can't think by the time they get to school, they probably never will. Dumb kids can't learn much and the idea that a 100-IQ teacher can teach a 150-IQ kid how to think (or anything much else really) is laughable.

Government schools were created to turn kids into compliant industrial drones. They have served no purpose since all the industrial jobs were shipped to China, but teachers' unions have ensured that millions of teachers continue to have jobs anyway.

They won't cause it would probably validate everything you said.

Also Africa has a heck of a lot of sun in patterns that are more consistent all year round. Close to the equator you may get less sun in the day but you don't get a 4x difference between the peak summer production and minimum winter production as we do here.

More consistent output means it's easier to plan around, and not having winters at 40 below zero means even if the power is out for a while you're probably not going to die.

Lastly, of course, with local power production there aren't thousands of miles of copper cables and tall metal pylons to cut up and steal.

Making games isn't actually that easy? I've been doing it for 25 years, and making a game that's good that people enjoy requires, in no small part, that you yourself enjoy playing games, and that you understand what fun is.

That's a good insight - we're essentially talking about art. There's no real indication that AI can do the actually creative part. But I wonder if a union can either? Art is about allowing inspiration to hit somebody like lightning and allow it to rise to the top. Unions are about making rules for everything to enforce fairness, and I wonder if that will be the most creative environment. Of course top-down corporations struggle with it too especially as they get bigger.

Someone on the email list said it can give a 6-8% performance boost because the pointers are half the size so you get better cache utilization. For some uses that's going to be a noticeable win.

That said, I've never heard of any software using it rather than just requiring a faster CPU.

Humans are omnivores. We're not designed to live on vegetables.

If eating meat was bad for us, we would have evolved out of it long ago.

> As evidence has grown that inflammation, metabolism and mental health may be far more connected than scientists once believed,

I remember some bloogers talking about how many of our health problems were caused by persistent inflammation years ago. But The Science said they were cranks.

Weird.

Did you really get to the end of a reply and think "man, that was so good I gotta copy and paste that whenever I get a chance!" No one reads all that shit.