I had several thousand dollars in Juno, which claimed to offer a high-yield, FDIC-insured savings account. When I originally joined, it had an attractive program for receiving cashback on purchases with several major companies, which drew in a lot of people. Although it wasn’t my main bank, I kept the money there for the good interest rate. In the end, I received $0 with the 'return of funds'.
In early 2020, I had an aging 2011 Air that was still struggling after a battery replacement. Even though I "knew" the Apple Silicon chips would be better, I figured a 2020 Intel Air would last me a long time anyway, since my computing needs from that device are light, and who knows how many years the Apple Silicon transition will take take anyway?
Bought a reasonably well-specced Intel Air for $1700ish. The M1s came out a few months later. I briefly thought about the implication of taking a hit on my "investment", figured I might as well cry once rather than suffer endlessly. Sold my $1700 Intel Air for $1200ish on craigslist (if I recall correctly), picked up an M1 Air for about that same $1200 pricepoint, and I'm typing this on that machine now.
That money was lost as soon as I made the wrong decision, I'm glad I just recognized the loss up front rather than stewing about it.
Exact same boat here. A friend and I both bought the 2020 Intel MBA thinking that the M1 version was at least a year out. It dropped a few months later. I immediately resold my Intel MBA seeing the writing on the wall and bought a launch M1 (which I still use to this day). Ended up losing $200 on that mis-step, but no way the Intel version would still get me through the day.
That said...scummy move by Apple. They tend to be a little more thoughtful in their refresh schedule, so I was caught off guard.
When I saw the M1s come out, I thought that dev tooling would take a while to work for M1, which was correct. It probably took a year for most everything to be compiled for arm64. However I had too little faith in Rosetta and just the speed upgrade M1 really brought. So what I mean to say is, I still have that deadweight MBA that I only use for web browsing :)
Oh yes, my wife bought a new Intel MBA in summer 2020... I told her at the time Apple planned its own chip, but it couldn't be much better than the Intel one and surely Apple will increase prices too... I was so wrong.
Nah Kagi does have a localization problem in general. It's improved but not there yet.
I'm a Kagi user of 2 years and it's actually not the default on my phone. If I'm on my phone, I'm likely using it to search local businesses and nothing can compete with Google's business + review data.
> nothing can compete with Google's business + review data
I've been using Kagi quite successfully to recommend restaurants in an area. (Quick Answer.) Sometimes it's just summarising a Tripadvisor. But often it's pulling in recommendations from Reddit and personal blogs, which greatly improves the reliability.
Can definitely see them having issues in Europe, though, particularly when it comes to crossing languages.
> was this due to them speaking in a different language in actual professional meetings
This happened frequently at a WITCH I worked at out of college. The meeting would be in English then have segments change in the middle as certain speakers switched languages. Luckily, I often had a coworker stand up for me to mention to use English although I did miss many conversations.
Yes, it's a good idea to install Python tools or standalone applications with Pipx for isolation, persistence, and simplicity. See "Install Pipx" (https://mac.install.guide/python/pipx).
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
Which is the primary use of your two-week old account with several promotion posts.
I don't think anyone needs to get into an 'intellectual knife fight' with you. Your comment on layoffs around Dart include an unrelated language, a humblebrag about yourself, an attempt to pre-discredit all potential comments, an appeal to present yourself as a higher being and expert, and an invitation to fight. All this, again, being unrelated completely to the main topic of Dart layoffs. Holy cow, man. You're off your rocker.
I don't think it's too farfetched to mention another language when this post mentions both Dart and Python.
Google is Silicon Valley's poster child. It's the company everyone else mimicked to incentivize the best and brightest to work for them. Those shareholders and potential investors are simply asking whether that strategy is still viable since their performance in the market lately has been tarnished. This has been something talked about in tech circles for many years, and when challenged, it's met with trite dismissals and attempts to reframe the conversation, rather than an earnest attempt to understand the position. Arguably, it's perhaps this unwillingness to engage in unpleasant ideas that has driven them astray.
I've never been able to get anyone to make an economic argument for Rust, which is why I believe Google needs to also axe those efforts too. Google is a business, not a charity. It's perfectly reasonable to see these efforts as a waste. And we might disagree on that point, but I can't learn anything about why we disagree if you take the least charitable interpretation of an admittedly vituperative comment.
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