Unless you are an iOS dev, it just never made sense to buy one. Worse hardware, worse software options, you are going to be VMing always anyway.
The 'low power' marketing didn't work on me, my 6+ hour battery life on an Asus has never affected my life ever. However having a 3060 has unlocked so many possibilities. It could make me a multimillionaire this year.
Scary to think I might have gotten an iOS dev job, ended up having to run AI on CPU, and never came up with my product.
If OneDrive didn't hijack your filesystem, I would have dealt with auto-open edge links.
I tasted Fedora and... Oh my God Windows sucks. Like its awful in seemingly every way compared to Fedora Cinnamon. The UI/the speed/the experience is breathtaking.
Fedora Cinnamon is so good, I've become outspokenly anti-Debian/Ubuntu for giving Linux a bad name. I'm amazed that an operating system this solid has been existing under my nose.
My grandparents got an iphone like 5 years ago, and its been a nightmare to deal with. I don't have one because of the security issues(Pegasus), so walking through my grandparents to download an app is brutal. 'Do you see anywhere it says download? Get? Install? Are there any colored buttons centered on the page'
I can't remember what the actual word to install was, but grandparents couldnt figure it out. Ended up having my teenage cousins install it.
Clearly bad faith and incivility, calling a MBA marketing class high school level just because it doesn't fit your world view.
You share links to random websites that fit your narrative. Its dangerous to listen to your opinion, you might get mureded like jamal khashoggi with a pegasus hack. Or maybe it will be mere nudes like Jeff Bezos. Has anyone gotten hacked with Pegasus on Android? I couldn't find any examples.
Your identity is wrapped up in Apple products, its scary what they can do to a human brain.
This is some blatant rhetoric. I cannot help but to call this out when I see it.
> rank among the leading products in their categories by nearly any measure, from consumer satisfaction to performance benchmarks.
When you say it generically like this, it has no meaning. Among? Top 50%
You could say this about any company. Its marketing jargon from the best in the world at marketing.
This is no different than when they plaster 'Security' and 'Privacy' in their ads, yet have worse security than Android(if we use pegasus and zerodium for security) and have been known to hand over data(PRISM, data in Russian and chinese data centers).
It has little to no meaning, but it sounds really positive when you say words like 'rank among' and 'nearly any measure'
Let me pull up single and multithreaded bench marks. "Oh not that measure". "Well it was among, top 36.6 percentile".
Maybe this is cynical, but my marketing class taught us to look at everything Apple does under the view of the best marketers in the world.
The marketers told them to go for the 'exclusive club' vibe by doing in-store appointments.
Wonder if there is some messaging by the Apple leader at the appointment that explains how this is cool, exclusive, luxury. Reinforcing the purchase decision.
Need to make the barrier to entry extra high too, so when people laugh at it in public, they are fully committed to defend it. Who knows maybe they will go full abercrombie and make sure people who are older than 40 get it slightly later than 20 year old females. Eventually it gets normalized and people use it.
There are days and weeks I use it constantly for things, but then I don't touch it for a bit.
Its like I already learned what I needed to and don't have a use for it.
Regarding LLMs, we have a usecase but we need local models. The local models by itself are not good enough, so we need to train/fine-tune. To fine-tune we need a beefy computer. We have the beefy computer but its air-gapped... Ugh hahaha. It makes dev quite slow.
The other thing is that there is a learning curve on LLMs. You get burned by bad information and you might not use it until you learn of a usecase that doesnt require the information to be great. For instance, I'll describe a meeting/person I'm talking to, then ask what are 2 of the best questions I could ask. These questions have been great.
That is better than asking about an easily google-able question. You need to be exposed or creative enough to come up with the prompts.
>My few years of personal experience of using Python with even small-ish scale professional projects have been... underwhelming so far
You have years of experience but couldn't point to anything in particular?
Heck, I like python and I can complain about dynamic typing issues in for loops, or that they are adding features like generators/decorators that make code more difficult to understand, which goes against the zen of python.
The guide obv didn't make usable code and the github looks nearly unrelated.
I'm somewhat surprised there isnt a parameter for 'input_data' and 'output_data' and it returns a trained model. I can't figure out why there is so much boilerplate when that stuff could be contained as parameters.
I even had chatgpt try to come up with valid reasons and it struggled.