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I'm curious if people with aphantasia would also be able to create a "mind map" of the area around them

I purchased the Surface Laptop with the Snapdragon Elite and 64GB ram. The performance seems pretty decent, even while using Visual Studio on it and a few accompanying apps/tools. Battery lasts a decent amount, but nothing close to even 10 hours if you're doing work. There are surprisingly decent amount of apps that run on ARM now, and the x86 ones also run decently. The biggest issue I've had is the sleep - it drains significantly more battery than an MBP, and after a while it seems to go into hibernate which takes a very long time to reboot back into windows (30s-60s+). It's just completely inefficient at handling sleep still. The last issue is battery time when you are not doing lightweight browsing - the battery tends to go down a lot quicker.

Charging is pretty slow, wish it could be faster via USB-C, but that's a design issue, not necessarily related to snapdragon.

I really wanted to love it - but it's more of an expensive toy because of the battery/sleep. My MBP with the M2 Max still handles sleep infinitely better, and battery life is also significantly better when actually doing development on it. Im not a fan at all of MacOS, and I tend to RDP into my home machine most of the time, but even with that, I'd chose the MacBook for now over the ARM windows laptop.

Sounds like these protestors should never go on vacation anywhere else either. Stay in your home city your entire life.

I don't quite understand the idea or fascination behind the Dyson spheres. Isn't it much more complex to acquire the materials, build, and maintain the structure than to simply build localized nuclear power generators where they need them? Surely it's a lot easier to capture more power of a controlled fusion reaction than build a huge megastructure in space where objects can collide at immense speeds and cause devastating damage.

Neither sugar nor caffeine has the same effects as drugs like alcohol and marijuana. It's pretty asinine to classify them as even being in the same category.

Yeah, no. We're already in a drug crisis as it is. We need to teach people that doing drugs (of any kind) isn't the answer to problems. Soft times seems to have created this problem where people would rather escape their lives than live them out.

Hard to judge the DEAs effectiveness off something like this. You have very little insight on their actual effectiveness and workings on everything, yet your comment seems to summarize the entire organization off a completely biased political comment.

What we need is less drugs, and more fixing the issues on what causes people to turn to drugs.

The issue is the prolonged constant daily use of it. Unlike alcohol, it's much easier to get by in the day with weed, and a lot of people do use it as that. It offers them an escape from reality without the full social repercussion of something like alcohol.

Honestly, we should look to fix the issues that lead to people depending on weed, alcohol, and other drugs instead.

These drugs are escapes for people - and a lot of them, especially younger kids get completely hooked on the escaped from reality from these drugs (including alcohol).

We should instead be limit the use of these drugs and have teams dedicated to studying why people are turning to these instead. It's OK to have them on the weekends, but most people I know who smoke weed are on it the majority of the time. Alcohol isn't much better - most do limit it to after hours / weekends, but there are a few who tend to overdo it.

From a biased point of view, I've had a few young family members and friends who turned to weed as their go-to for their daily lives, and it has changed their lifestyle, made them far less willing to live out their life and pursue actual goals. They definitely had both the potential and backing of their families (mid to high class) to do great, but chose to instead live a life of 'rotting away' in their words. Out of them only one has turned their life around (still smoking on weekends) citing that it made them not want to do absolutely anything in their day to day life.

This seems to be the issue - we're trying to study COVID, which affected literally the whole population of earth at this point, and we have no control group of people who have not been affected.

People have gotten older, have gone through mass societal change, and any other number of things in between.

> There are studies that have been done comparing people who had COVID-19, versus people who didn't, and then gave them cognitive testing to measure their ability to cognitively process information and test their IQ. And there's very clear differences in the IQ of people who had been infected with COVID-19 versus people who did not. Even mild COVID can give people about a three-point loss of IQ.

Hasn't pretty much the entire population of earth been infected by COVID at least once at this point?

While it sounds like there are problems, and they should be investigated, taking the word of a one (or even a few) whistleblower on something like this should be taken with skepticism. Everything involving airplanes extremely complex, and most people work on very specific parts. Most engineers work on very specific parts of it (like any field).

It's like a doctor coming out and saying "this drug, procedure, etc is completely worthless!". It takes more than a few single individuals to assess the problems or efficacy of things.

We should push for the government to investigate, but journalism pieces like this just erode trust when their headline is a single person is saying the equivalent of "SHUT IT ALL DOWN, TRUST ME". We have no idea what his role, skill set, or knowledge of all this is.

Speak for your self. Others want it.

I think they may be referring to WPF, it promised so much, and it was great - then it was just left to die, and Microsoft moved on to MAUI