I know it's not the same. But I think a lot of people had a similar feeling going from Intel-Macbooks to Apple Silicon. An insane upgrade that I still can't believe.
This. My M1 MacBook felt like a similarly shocking upgrade -- probably not quite as much as my first SSD did, but still the only other time when I've thought, "holy sh*t, this is a whole different thing".
The M1 was great. But the jump felt particularly great because Intel Macbooks had fallen behind in performance per dollar. Great build quality, great trackpad, but if you were after performance they were not exactly the best thing to get
For as long as I can remember, before M1, Macs were always behind in the CPU department. PC's had much better value if you cared about CPU performance.
After the M1, my casual home laptop started outperforming my top-spec work laptops.
> For as long as I can remember, before M1, Macs were always behind in the CPU department. PC's had much better value if you cared about CPU performance.
But not if you cared about battery life, because that was the tradeoff Apple was making. Which worked great until about 2015-2016. The parts they were using were not Intel’s priority and it went south basically after Broadwell, IIRC. I also suppose that Apple stopped investing heavily into a dead-end platform while they were working on the M1 generation some time before it was announced.
It's a lot more believable if you tried some of the other Wintel machines at the time. Those Macbook chassis were the hottest of the bunch, it's no surprise the Macbook Pro was among the first to be redesigned.
I usually use an M2 Mac at work, and haven't really touched Windows since 2008. Recently I had to get an additional Windows laptop (Lenovo P series) for a project my team is working on, and it is such a piece of shit. It's unfathomable that people are tolerating Windows or Intel (and then still have the gall to talk shit about Macs).
It's like time travelling back to 2004. Slow, loud fans, random brief freezes of the whole system, a shell that still feels like a toy, a proprietary 170W power supply and mediocre battery life, subpar display. The keyboard is okay, at least. What a joke.
Meanwhile, my personal M3 Max system can render Da Vinci timelines with complex Fusion compositions in real time and handle whole stacks of VSTs in a DAW. Compared to the Lenovo choking on an IDE.
A lot of this is just windows sucking major balls. Linux distros with even the heaviest DEs like KDE absolutely fly on mediocre or even low range hardware.
I got a lunar lake laptop and slapped fedora on it and everything is instant. And I hooked up 2 1400p/240hz over thunderbolt.
Expensive PCs are also crap. My work offers Macbooks or Windows laptops (currently, Dell, but formerly Lenovo and/or HP), and these machines are all decidedly not 'cheap' PCs. Often retailing in excess of $2k.
All my coworkers who own Windows laptops do is bellyache about random issues, poor battery life, and sluggish performance.
I used to have a Windows PC for work about 3 years ago as well, and it was also a piece of crap. Battery would decide to 'die' at 50% capacity. After replacement, 90 minute battery life off charger. Fan would decide to run constantly if you did anything even moderately intensive such as a Zoom meeting.
I recently moved to Spain, after having lived in the US for a decade. It's only been a month for me and I definitely see the over-reaching over-regulation of EVERYTHING in the EU.
It's so much that it literally pushes young people to have a non-risk taking mindset. I have a friend who has some knife sharpening and tooling skills and she's been figuring how to do something with this (some kind of a business). I suggested why not get a garage and get the machinery you want and get started. She listed down all the regulations and how even thinking about it is not allowed.
Starting a business/startups is hard. The EU just adds 10-20 more hurdles to cross to get even with the US startup ecosystem. At least that's been my observation in the few weeks.
That's probably not an EU thing, you should consider an EU country more suitable to your line of business. Or you know, just do your thing don't bother with the regulations and pay a fine if it becomes a problem some time in the future?
Apparently Spaniards like it this way, they live long healthy lives in the system they set up for themselves.
What's with all the sad posts with what's happening right now? I'm in my 30s and as a builder, what I've seen in the last 12 months has been incredibly exciting!
So many cool things can be built with these tools we have now, so much faster. And while doing this, our experience will be useful in companies wanting to integrate these AI tools.
Checkout what's happening with open / local LLMs, tiny LLMs running on RaspberryPIs, LLama3 about to drop any minute now, Google just released a 1-million context model.
Feels incredibly exciting, I'm not able to relate to these posts.
Looks awesome. Doesn't support syntax highlighting for Solidity yet and from a quick search, I couldn't tell if there's any plugin/extension I could install (or how to do it). Any pointers?
I'm not sure retina is included in every passport. We're not a member of the EU, but our IDs and passports are compatible.
We have encrypted face biometry and fingerprints on them, but no retina. None of the countries I have visited required my retina scan, either.
In the older versions, some data was unencrypted, and most encryption was optional, and someone built a passport scanner and made a talk. I remember that some heads are proverbially rolled and some specifications are updated.
Na, the one that me and the parent are referring to does not apply for visitors. It's for all citizens of India that have opted for the Adhaar card (which is pretty much the entire population).
What retina scanners do they use? I've been trying to get some to do 3FA on high security areas for years and can't find any that seem decent. (Note that iris scanning is completely different than retina scanning, and is just about as useless as face scanning.)
Dolphin-mixtral is incredible for the size that it is. But I'm curious, have you tried Goliath-120b or the new `Mixtral_34Bx2_MoE_60B` (it's named Mixtral but the base is actually Yi).
Goliath is too big for my system but Mixtral_34Bx2_MoE_60B[1] is giving me some really good results.
PSA to anyone that does not understand what we're talkign about: I was new to all of this until two weeks ago as well. If you want to get up to speed with the incredible innovation and home-tinkering happening with LLMs, you have to checkout - https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
I believe we should be at GPT4 levels of intelligence locally sometime later this year (Possibly with the release of Llama3 or Mistral Medium open-model).
