Seems like the worst of both worlds. I wouldn't swap my mac hardware for anything so have to do my best to live with macOS but I would take any other OS over it. I just try my best to say inside a terminal if I can.

This. I don’t care much for MacOS. It pretty much gives me a terminal and browser and gets out of the way. But, the hardware, and drivers…. I can reliably shut the lid and open up at a different place and continue working. The battery last atleast a full working day. Displays text sharply. Touchpad works like no other.

I can’t imagine dealing with Linux without these conveniences.

I daily-drive an M1 MBA and a ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 running Linux (Bazzite), and the experience (in terms of convenience and reliability) is identical for the most part. In fact I actually prefer the screen on my ThinkPad, the 1200p OLED display is just so much more crisper and vibrant, it's been great for gaming and media consumption.

In saying that, the touchpad experience on the MBA is a touch better, and of course, the battery life is much better on the MBA (as is the thermal effeciency).

In spite of these minor shortcomings, I'm super happy with my ThinkPad in terms of just how stable and reliable it's been under Bazzite/KDE, like never once have I had any issues with the suspend-resume functionality - something that even Windows machines struggle with every now and then.

If only the Snapdragon ThinkPads had first-class Linux support like the x86 ones do... I reckon they can come pretty close to the MacBooks in terms of battery life, unfortunately they're not quite there yet.

>> Seems like the worst of both worlds

Before the Silicon Mac chips, installing Linux on Mac hardware was the best of both worlds. Asahi doesn't work for me so far, sadly.

Deepmind are working on solving the plasma control issue at the moment, I suspect they're probably using a bit of AI.... and I wouldn't put it past them to crack it.

They did/are(?).

> Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/accelerating-fusion-sc...

(2022)

Can we? Why haven't we, then? What are the big problems that were unsolvable before and now we can solve them with AI?

Auto-tagging of photos, generating derivative images and winning at Go, I will give you. There's been some progress on protein folding, I heard?

Where's the 21st century equivalent of the steam locomotive or the sewing machine?

Right or wrong you don't think it was unduly combative right off the bat? Manners cost nothing.

It’s not how I would have responded either, but people are entitled to their own ways of communicating.

Clojure would be awesome

It looks exactly like the battery venting.

Looks dead.

Or does I just work?

There's a lot of clj libraries for which this is true despite > 1 year since last maintenance. With such a fast changing underlying target, though, I'd be wary

I find a 40 inch 4k monitor perfect to code on.

4k@40" offers about the same ppi as a 27" at 1440p if scaling 1:1. So about the ideal text size imo, and obviously plenty of space to spread your code out.

Its also easy to work off completely one side while doing something unrelated in the other - atm I have a twitch stream and a browser on one side and an IDE on the other where I'm casually coding. Splitting the screens like this give you a better aspect ratio to read off than having 2 smaller monitors.

Which model do you use?

I think people are talking new gen XPS here right? Think all of them have supported 4k external @60hz as they have nothing older than broadwell.

I'm sitting here now with a gen1 xps 13 2015 pushing a 4k monitor at 4k 60hz.

My xps 15 in work also supports 4k @60hz although needs an annoying usb-c to displayport dongle.

Why not name the company? I'm going to be honest..I don't think this actually happened.

Telling the name privately or in a casual conversation is one thing, publishing the name is one thing.

While I wish I knew the company's name (or knew their side of the story) I don't fault him for not sharing.

>Why not name the company?

I'm going to guess OP may be 'liable' for damaging the company's reputation.

No, not liable if this is true. The recruiter being fired is easily provable. It will add weight to the rest of the story.

>Why not name the company?

Perhaps fear? Maybe they don't want to become an object of ridicule

He was the object of ridicule.

Things cannot get worse for him unless the company is committed to ruining its reputation. Then again someone companies have been known to release personal information when threatened.