That’s what I’ll be interested in. Form following function and all that

Absolutely not the case. The Neo is essentially Apple's first attempt at a budget laptop, and the market segment they're targeting is entirely different.

Case in point: My dad has been a Windows user for 20+ years and has always decried Apple as "decent hardware that's overpriced and running a lobotomized operating system." However he hates Windows 11 more and decided to replace his aging Windows laptop with a Neo last week. So far he's been impressed, though is still dealing with a learning curve. I guarantee you he isn't alone.

I think the Neo is Apple's attempt at getting into a new segment of lower-priced computers AND taking advantage of Microslop dropping the ball hard when it comes to Windows 11 shit quality and bullshit hardware requirements.

Perhaps somewhat ironically, I suspect the market really being cannibalized is potential new Linux users who go with a New instead of installing Linux on a cheap Windows laptop.

Yes, when it comes to AI, thatâ(TM)s how we measure it, because thatâ(TM)s the important metric. They have a certain amount of power that they are able to consume. Theyâ(TM)re buying from Google âoehowever many CPUs maximise our compute give a power budget of 3.5GW.â

1. Absolutely none of what you've said invalidates either my point that adding pumped hydro alone cuts costs by hundreds of billions for an energy system, nor my broader point that it's stupid to talk about the costs of energy systems by looking at the costs of running one of solar and Li alone
2. None of what you've said is a reason not to do pumped hydro. Pumped hydro can store GWh easily, plants last 50 to 100+ years, and cost per kWh is very low despite refurb costs etc. Should it be done thoughtfully? Obviously. Can it be done everywhere? Obviously not. But once again, adding pumped hydro alongside Li BESS drops energy system costs by hundreds of billions, showing that any analysis of an energy system that says "look how much it costs if we run an energy system using solar and Li BESS alone!" is idiocy.

All renewables require *storage*. Storage is more than just batteries. How are you unable to comprehend the point I was making?
Let me try to explain this simply: wind blows a lot at night when sun doesn’t shine. So we need fewer batteries if we have wind and solar than if we just have solar. Do you understand now? Continuing to focus on adding just one extra power source, wind, leads to a reduction in storage requirements of about 40 to 60%. You also dramatically cut the duration of energy deficits and the frequency of deep shortages.

Adding just one other form of energy storage, eg pumped hydro, cuts total system storage costs by hundreds of billions more, because it’s about one third to one tenth the cost of lithium battery storage.

It’s just a nonsense to talk about lithium and solar only.

Literally no-one is proposing doing this. As a reminder, renewables includes wind and hydro and tidal and geothermal etc, and storage includes flow and sodium and pumped hydro etc. Seriously, what is the point of pretending that anyone is pushing for a single power source and a single storage technology, when they're not?

My new Trump abbreviation is TRE. Trump ruins everything. In this case, among other things, he’s ruined oil and gas for the oil and gas guys.

... to never buy Apple products. I don't need a nanny, and my children have parents that pay attention. Why should I have my privacy invaded and surveilled just because some parents don't know how to parent.

And anyone who doesn't think this will be easily circumvented is naive or has never had an intelligent child.

The US has fallen behind the rest of the developed world in so many aspects of life due to ossification of structures driven by regulatory capture and fragmentation. Dealerships have been nothing but pernicious for consumers for decades, keeping ICE sales higher than they'd otherwise be, keeping prices higher than they'd otherwise be, etc etc. The rest of the world looks on with incredulity that you find it so difficult to unfuck yourselves.

Delete your account if you want to, but please don't delete posts and comments. I sympathize wanting to stick it to Reddit and not giving them free content to whore out to AI companies for training, but for the millions of normal people who might get value from comments it's really frustrating.

There are tools to mass-edit all your reddit comments and it's incredibly frustrating to see when people do it. I've thought I finally found the answer to some question or technical problem or whatever in a reddit thread, only to then see the original post replaced with something like "This comment was removed because Reddit made me angry. Lorem ipsum dolar sit amet shit." Perhaps unfair but it makes me hate that person's selfishness much more than make me dislike Reddit.

I live in Utah and get to witness this first-hand. Just yesterday it was windy enough that unpleasant dust clouds were coming off the dried parts of the lake bed. Utah snowpack is at a record low this year and peaked for the 2026 water year earlier in March. We broke several high temperature records this month (along with a bunch of other states in the west / mountain west). It's looking pretty bad.

Right now it's a lot like watching a slow-moving train derailment. Everyone knows what's coming, but 80% of the population, the majority being Mormon religious nuts, rationalizes it away or refuses to acknowledge it, but those that do see the problem won't take action to address it, preferring instead to "hopes and prayers". Brian Cox, the damned governor, has declared multiple "days of prayer for rain".

There's a sick fatalism amongst many religious groups, assuming that God won't let terrible things happen to them, but it's especially bad with Mormons. They think they're a chosen people, living in a chosen land, and that the "end times" are coming soon. All this adds up to "I don't need to do or sacrifice anything to deal with Problem because God won't let me suffer and it doesn't matter because the world is going to end soon anyway."

For any rational thinking person this is disgusting, but when 90% of the legislature, the governor, and all US congressmen are owned (mentally and financially) by the Mormon church, there's not much we can do. At best voting them out just gets a different lizard in the seat.

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

It is however entirely sensible. I rarely agree with trumps lackeys, but Jesus, I have no idea what gateway was meant to be for. This on the other hand will actually be useful.

If Hong Kong hadnâ(TM)t returned to china, then under UK law, the police could demand their password for any reason at all, with similar sentences in the case of national security related offences.

Think logically, you say, and then proceed to lay out a series of non sequiturs.
1. The implication of renewables having lower LCOE than fossil fuels is not that fossil fuel generation gets shut down, because it's not a perfectly commoditised market with instantly effective price signals. Assets last decades, purchasers optimise for more than just cost, policy makers intervene as Trump has repeatedly done, etc etc.
2. It does not follow that if there were zero fossil fuel usage for power generation, I'd be far less happy about (other people) attacking Tesla. This is a completely bizarre false chain of logic. I can't even tell what point you think you're making.

Why do you guys always make such crap arguments? Can't you just have a private discussion with ChatGPT for an hour and get yourself something robust to counter with, rather than this drivel?