AMG One did it in 6:29.xxx

They can do better

This chassis would be perfect for the 2nm chips next year

I dunno I’ve been seeing more of these stories ever since sars2 started circulating but it’s probably “just stress”

Hush now. I come here to numb my emotions, not contemplate death.

China still burns more coal than anyone else by the way

It has the second most number of people and next to no natural gas. What do you expect? And why is it relevant?

They're still leading the green revolution. You're criticising on of the countries doing the most for climate change because they aren't perfect. Seems might unfair

They bought Palo Alto Semiconductor in 2008 which is where all their ARM chip designs came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A._Semi

Apple purchased Palo Alto Semi which made the biggest difference. One of their best acquisitions ever in my opinion… not that they make all that many of those anyway.

Apple actually makes a lot more acquisitions than you think, but they are rarely very high profile/talked about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

> One of their best acquisitions ever in my opinion…

NeXT? But yes, I completely get what you’re saying, I just couldn’t resist. It was an amazingly long sighted strategic move, for sure.

I almost feel like NeXT was a reverse acquisition, like Apple became NeXT with an Apple logo.

That was true, but look at https://www.apple.com/leadership/ today.

Craig Federighi is a notable NeXT alum. And... I think he might be the only one left in leadership.

NeXT was a comparatively small company compared to Apple.

Pretty much so, I would say.

Equally (arguably) importantly, Johny Srouji joined Apple the same year as PA Semi's acquisition - '08 – and led Apple A4. (He previously worked at IBM on POWER7, which is a fascinating switch in market segment.)

I don’t know why everyone is concerned about the top end of the these batteries when we should be limiting depth of discharge instead, which causes way more damage than charging to 100%.

There should be an option for the machine to pretend like 40% is 0% and just go to sleep.

I know Windows has this option but it’s deep inside the power settings, they should bring it out of there.

I don’t think Apple devices have anything like that.

Because that's easier to control. In my case, I rarely use my laptops on battery, and when I do I tend to keep an eye on the battery level. If I have to use it till empty, it's because I'm actually doing something that needs to be done, so too bad for the battery life. If I'm randomly browsing HN, I'll stop around 20-30% and go do something else.

With charging, I can't plug and unplug my screen every 5 minutes just to keep it around 80%.

The research I've found shows far more degradation at high SOC than low.

Books to read:

How to build a car by Adrian Newey

Total Competition by Ross Brawn

You will know more about the world of F1 than you need to

Bonus:

The Mechanic by Marc Priestley

Seconded. If you want to learn about the basics of race cars in a pop sci way while being told an entertaining story then How To Build A Car is a great book and a very easy read.

I use this thing daily, its a win11 pro, and I see no issues with it at all...

I am the only one?

Despite always opting out of onedrive, one day it somehow activated itself, converted all my personal files into web shortcuts, and then complained about being out of space.

All my stuff is backed up to a synology so it wasnt a huge ordeal, but there are horror stories around the net about onedrive interactions.

Same. I need a Windows machine for legacy .NET projects and the pro version just works.

I think most problems stem from home versions of windows.

Still prefer my Linux machine tho.

Yup. Home version is full of gadgets with news, weather, offers, AI stuff in the task bar... feels claustrophobic.

I use various versions of Windows 11, mostly LTSC because I'm lazy. Otherwise I'll do a light debloat with something like ShutUp10 to turn off the majority of the annoyances. I'm able to deal with any snafus from this so it's not an issue for me.

No real issues to report. Various OEM and custom machines run fine. Ever since Windows 7 I'd say I haven't ran into major issues or even many minor ones.