Which laptop can reliably shrug off a 91.44cm drop? Lol.
The Framework laptop is obviously not all a Toughbook. I think it's even less sturdy, or at least stiff than a Macbook Air. However, it doesn't feel cheap, or fragile. It's just... You build it, things are not glued together, some parts only held by magnets... Feels like, it would rather spread when dropped. Like a stack of papers or Lego project. If you do actually drop it, you may need to replace the screen or chassis and reseat some connectors, I presume.
If I drop my X220 I think there is a chance it will be just fine. I would absolutely not risk it. (Spillage protection is another story.)
Thing is, if I break the Framework, I am absolutely certain I can check on any component, harvest the ssd, replace the screen, or even rebuild everything in like 5-15 minutes - no exaggeration. Everything is ridiculously accessible. As a whole, I would say, even more so than old Thinkpads.
That said, with the lack of stiffness, I wonder how well it will handle my backpack, bike commuting and grocery shopping over time.
The hinges are not great, not terrible. Can't speak for wear.
I think this is somewhat incorrect. 'Senescence' is a particular state in cells, where they stopped cell division due to dysfunction, but are not broken enough to induce apoptosis - programmed cell death. Accumulating senescent cells in turn is associated with age related disease.
Is your hypothesis that what, Jan Leike resigned as part of an elaborate conspiracy to boost OpenAI's prospect by... criticizing it?
I find these theories to be extremely convoluted and implausible, and they often lack awareness of the history behind companies like OAI, Anthropic or GDM
I meant the presumption there always has been a (male) sex associated with hunting thousands of years ago. This sex based role attribution would be necessary for sexual selection.
However, there is quite a bit of archeological evidence which suggests gender role inequality first started with human settlement and agriculture practice. The presumption of sexual divide in these activities in hunter gather societies may be anachronistic.
We're currently in a local max on topics related to identity politics, so I'd take any such publications with extreme skepticism. For instance your first article casually makes the rather extreme claim that women were more suited for endurance activity, by citing physiological differences, critically - which still exist, like wider hips and vastly higher estrogen levels. They then claim such things would enable women to run further and faster than men. This is contradicted by marathon (and all other forms of running) records since they've ever been kept. Furthermore I'd observe that they have gotten closer in modern times largely due to a greater ability to find women with genetic abnormalities bringing them closer to being genetically male that, in some cases (such as Caster Semenya) has even required sex testing to ensure they "really" were female.
There are also countless other issues that make all of this highly improbable. For instance people often frame these things like you just run towards an animal, it runs away, eventually passes out, you bop it, and you win - like a video game. In reality animals fight back. And, to this very day, animals like elk manage to kill hunters, using modern weapons and knowledge, with some degree of regularity. And elk are child's play relative to things like the mammoths and other animals our distant ancestors were hunting - with primitive weapons! This makes other issues like raw strength critically important - if that arrow or spear isn't going extremely deep - it could well be the last thing you ever do. Heck, even for much smaller game like boars - they've killed enough famous people (almost invariably during hunts) that Wiki has an entire category dedicated to it. [1] And then there are the countless societal factors.
Getting injured and even killed on hunts would not have been especially irregular. Yet in society men are vastly more replaceable than women. A single man can father tens of children in a year, yet a woman can only give birth to one. Lactating women are absolutely critical for the health of young children and are completely irreplaceable in that role. Similarly, in the past infant mortality rates were extremely high. We compensated for this by having large numbers of children. So women being regularly pregnant or breastfeeding is very much a reality. And going on a hunt in this scenario is obviously completely out of the question. And there's so much more one could write about the inanity and nonsensicalness of all of this, but this post is already far longer than intended - just to scratch the basics of it all!
No, you. And I'm not saying it's fake. I'm appealing to an overwhelming amount of falsifiable evidence. You are appealing to random articles in pop media which are hyperbolizing fringe studies that are aiming to create sensationalist generalizations based on scant evidence that is exceptional (as in being the exception) relative to the vastly overwhelming amount of what is available.
This is then taken to the next level to make broad statements like wide hips and estrogen would make somebody a physically superior runner in both terms of speed and endurance while ignoring the fact that females still have wider hips and higher estrogen than males, yet clearly are not superior runners in any way, shape, or fashion. Such arguments can only be made in the complete and utter absence of skepticism.
It's akin to phrenology, astrology (which was indeed a science at one time), and every other pop-sci phase that society has gone through only to look back a half century later wondering 'wtf were they even thinking?' The evidence at large just does not support the stated claims in any way, shape, or fashion, and relies exclusively on trying to turn the exception into the rule, to satisfy whatever's trending at this time or that.
They won't see "dead pixels" unless it's severe damage, or a different underlying cause. All bets are off on the optical nerve, since MRI resolution may at best allow to spot a tumor.
They can, however, do an extended version of the blind spot experiment above for the whole field of vision, where they project light dots into a hemisphere in an unpredictable but iteratively somewhat exhaustive fashion. Very tiring and challenging test, since you need to keep your eyes from wandering, fixated at a boring reference point for more than half an hour. Like a hearing test, but for your eyes...
Laser beams or high energy radiation in general may also damage vision elsewhere in the optical pathway. Like opacification in the cornea or vitreous body when proteins get denatured by the heat. The body is very bad a repairing any damage in the optical apparatus since the eyes do have their own blood barrier, so macrophages usually don't have access to clean up "junk", and most tissues involved aren't really regenerative. Worse, damaged proteins tend to slowly spread the faulty structure to their neighbors.
You may be able to better pin it down along sharp contrast lines, maybe moving, or flickering patterns. Eg. a black and white grid, stripes, or small checkerboard pattern on an LCD screen. And of course isolate eyes for these tests.
Your brain can fill in a lot of voids before you notice, especially for monotonous areas and static impressions (as mentioned the blindspot or the blood vessels on your retina are usually "invisible" until you provoke awareness through unusual lighting changes, or defined peripheral accounting experiments). You likely won't notice acquired "blindspots" looking at a white wall, or chaotic fallen leaves on the ground, especially where the other eye provides missing information, but at the edges of highly predictable patterns, one eye closed at a time, you may trick your brain to fuck up, eg. blur or indent otherwise clearly defined areas, when it can't decide which color to fill. Reading texts with on eye closed may also highlight "dancing" letters or distortions around your center of vision.
Worth noting, such defects may be caused by progressive conditions like retina detachment or even ocular melanoma, and the association with laser/light accidents may be incidental. If you spot a spot, do not brush it off as a limited loss! Have it checked, even with a likely attributable cause. You may prevent full blindness through medical intervention in case of disease!
Edit: You can see the blood vessels when you look a white wall and steadily move a (smartphone) flashlight in and out of the field of vision, slowly waving the light next to your head, illuminating from your ears to the side of your nose and consequentially your eyes at a shallow angle. This will cause an unusual blood vessel shadow, now meandering through your vision. The blood vessels are also very visible during eye examinations when the doctor moves the slit lamp around (go check it out ;)
Very weird seeing the insides of the very eye seeing, by ... well ... seeing.
Some of my earliest memories are of these kinds of perception, including the 'phosphenes' caused by internal pressure on the eyes when one looks to the side (they appear as fleeting, roundish flashes). It's curious to me that such formative memories would be triggered by something entirely 'internal' - not a measure of external stimulus involved. Perhaps in a similar way, someone else's earliest memory might be that of becoming aware of their heart beating!
In any case, Apple still wants to "review" apps, and we want (arbitrary) user code execution on device. That's something Apple strictly forbids on iOS/iPadOS AFAIK (which is why we can't even have Firefox addons). Unless we can have at least true side loading, a DMA extension to iPad won't help.
The DMA isn't really the right tool to liberate devices, since it's about market competition not consumer rights. I think it would be better to widely address this along right-to-repair, electronic waste reduction and consumer rights regarding actual ownership. Unconditionally locked hardware is ridiculous.
I wish they would simply unlock the bootloader, so we can have Asahi Linux for iPad. They don't have to do anything else. Although Asahi is on trajectory to exceed MacOS performance and dev usability, I don't think they would lose their existing appstore cattle to Linux, but rather gain new hardware only customers.
Though, I don't see true sideloading (like on Android) specified. If apps still need Apple's approval, we will get "freedom" who to pay, not what to run. I still don't see device liberation within the scope of the DMA.
However, if we're lucky, Apple may decide the app approval process may not be worth it, if they are not allowed to extort developers anymore, so they may allow unsupervised sideloading as a consequence.
In any case, requirements and reality may take much longer to align than 6 more months, considering Apple's cringeworthy tantrums so far...
> Though, I don't see true sideloading (like on Android) specified. If apps still need Apple's approval, we will get "freedom" who to pay, not what to run. I still don't see device liberation within the scope of the DMA.
But if Apple abuses its position as platform gatekeeper with the app approval process and rules, the EU will probably slap them down. The DMA doesn't care about device liberation, but it does care about fairness, so Apple will probably only be allowed to continue this if they act in very good faith towards 3rd parties, which doesn't seem like an Apple thing to do.
Begging the question. Obviously, some geopolitical issues are subject to trade agreements and legislation.
While "American Imperialism" is an intangible concept, pollution very much is not. What can and cannot be made for an argument depends mostly on economic/geopolitical leverage, not faulty categorical thinking.
With less adversarial framing, you could think of it as finding common ground for an intermingled future.
Explain? Countries invoking "American Imperialism" isn't exactly an unheard of concept. The point isn't whether "American Imperialism" or "pollution" is objectively true, it's whether other countries would invoke those reasons to set up retaliatory tariffs.
>While "American Imperialism" is an intangible concept, pollution very much is not
How about something more concrete like "EU/NATO enlargement", "Chinese spying", or "tech giants (who are mostly American) spreading misinformation"?
>With less adversarial framing, you could think of it as finding common ground for an intermingled future.
That's a nice thing to hope for, but isn't the world we live in. Countries who have the tariffs applied to them aren't going to interpret them as "common ground for an intermingled future", they're going to think it's the opening shot of a trade war.
Which laptop can reliably shrug off a 91.44cm drop? Lol.
The Framework laptop is obviously not all a Toughbook. I think it's even less sturdy, or at least stiff than a Macbook Air. However, it doesn't feel cheap, or fragile. It's just... You build it, things are not glued together, some parts only held by magnets... Feels like, it would rather spread when dropped. Like a stack of papers or Lego project. If you do actually drop it, you may need to replace the screen or chassis and reseat some connectors, I presume.
If I drop my X220 I think there is a chance it will be just fine. I would absolutely not risk it. (Spillage protection is another story.)
Thing is, if I break the Framework, I am absolutely certain I can check on any component, harvest the ssd, replace the screen, or even rebuild everything in like 5-15 minutes - no exaggeration. Everything is ridiculously accessible. As a whole, I would say, even more so than old Thinkpads.
That said, with the lack of stiffness, I wonder how well it will handle my backpack, bike commuting and grocery shopping over time.
The hinges are not great, not terrible. Can't speak for wear.
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