I've been pleasantly impressed by the Ryzen-based Thinkpad. It feels solid, unlike the Dell XPS I've tried in the past. I'm not particularly mobile anyway, at the moment, and I have a dedicated room for working from home, so I'm just tempted to get a desktop next.
if trustd really cannot be blocked by any vpn, i am wondering how's large corporates will react for this new macbook, e.g. whether to continue allowing employees to use this new macbook as working machine.
The tech corporate response may be one of the best avenues to actually apply any leverage against apple with this current situation. I've already heard of friends at big-tech companies where network admins are applying corporate wide VPN policies to block apple's ocsp.apple.com requests after the outage that happened yesterday and basically nuked productivity for hours. In some cases it meant engineers _could not_ deploy code due to an apple outage because `terraform whatever` wouldn't work, which is pretty outrageous.
We're already used to being unable to deploy code due to a GitHub or NPM outage. I don't think this will persuade the corporate people with the money to invest in switching. By analogy, look at how many staff hours are wasted supporting IE.
I think there is a huge difference in these two things:
* I can’t work because a 3rd party we use for code hosting / dep management is down
* I can’t work because my laptop literally can’t run any programs due to a poor security program installed and required by the laptop manufacturer
I personally find it's hard to focus (read / write code or document) with an 7-month infant around. The baby is constantly asking for parent's attention.
I hope things could be better when she become 2-year old, but not really confident on that.
For me at least, a 2-year-old took an order of magnitude more attention than a 7-month-old. So I wouldn’t hold your breath.
My 4-year-old is finally getting a bit more independent now though. Now that he is able to read books, draw pictures, build things with construction toys, etc. that can keep him independently engaged for a good while with intermittent encouragement.
In general, folks with kids are very difficult to migrate. You need to consider whether your spouse's job is remote friendly, and as you mentioned, kids need to find new playmate / school. It's just exponentially harder to relocate than single folks.
I am under the impression that this escaping valley wave is mostly about single folks or young couples without kids.
Update: Google translate already fixed the issue, so it's not reprod-able.
I find this is very interesting. It does not look like a bug. To me it looks like someone hacked the translation NN model for a particular pair of input/output?
AFAIK most companies's WFH policy is currently limited within US. Cross border remote worker need much stricter approval with possibly compensation adjustment & tax implications.
Both apps are quite mainstream & huge DAU versus their English counterparts. The delta ingredient is likely alg.