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I wonder -- if they were to restart from scratch today, would they do the same thing? If not, which stack would they choose?

Exactly.

Too bad Microsoft only cares about enterprise customers and never made the Surface line attractive to regular consumers. They could have been very interesting and competitive alternatives to MacBooks.

Have you had luck with Google's AI Studio with regard to text extraction?

i5-1135G7 is from about 4 years ago. If you look at the latest offerings from Intel/AMD the gap should be fairly small.

Your comment might win you the argument on a random non tech forum but not here.

much more efficient in what? mops the floor by what? which year's i7?

Don't get me wrong, I 100% believe what happened, but if you mean "my macbook is faster than my i7 thinkpad" you should use those exact words, but not bring RAM into this discussion. If you want to make a point about RAM, you need to be clear about what workflow you were measuring, the methodology you were using, and what the exact result is. Otherwise your words have no meaning.

Well, if Apple really wanted to do more, they would have implemented new APIs sooner and be in sync with Chrome and Firefox regarding features they support. (Currently Safari is often 1 year late in supporting lastest features.) I would not count on them.

Haven't tried it, but I guess if you were doing this again today, ChatGPT would help a lot.

Not once, for one second, did I have any motion sickness.

See the problem here?

Well, yes, but to lots of people they use it for the same thing. You can find projects people post online that uses raspberry pi to control a basic motor, which is a bad use of raspberry pi and a horrendous waste of resources. But people do that. You understand the difference but not others.

Not sure how meaningful this is. Try looking at base model MacBook Air, and it is a very different story.

I would guess most consumer purchases of pi's are setting in a drawer gathering dust. So less RAM is less of a waste of money.

(Don't ask how I know it)

Sounds like this is a use case where none of size, power & cost matters very much, and faster development is desired. It may even prefer "heavier" libraries if it makes development easier. Which is completely different from most consumer devices and many commercial devices.

Well, if that's true, have to agree raspberry pi may be better than esp32.

So why does HN text look so small under default settings on the desktop, and I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size on other websites (that require no special treatment)? Am I using the browser wrong, or something is not quite right with HN? I am inclined to think the latter.