> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.

Which, in the worst case, will start a fire that will burn down your house. It's not worth the risk of using cheap chargers; buy from a reputable brand

That's not the only worst-case scenario: You could also die from an electric shock. This actually happens every once in a while with cheap chargers.

And from a reliable retailer that doesn’t sell counterfeits or turn a blind eye like Amazon does. If you buy Apple, get it from the Apple Store or B&H.

Yeah, the reputable chargers aren't even expensive now that we're on USB-C. Knockoffs were a lot more tempting during the MagSafe era.

It depends on the kinds of changes you mean. The kinds of local changes I have are just env variables that allow the software to run locally a little bit differently than in the production environment. I'm able to do this by using a .env file and a library for my languages of choice that read a .env file if it's there, but use defaults that make sense for prod when it's not there. Then the .env file is gitignored so it doesn't make its way over to the production environment.

Each developer can modify their .env however they want without having to make any changes visible to git.

I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"

If "rr dorit" and "rr xukla" work in isolation, then "rr dorit..xukla" with double dots should also work. Which step fails?

The latest Tesla heat pumps can extract heat from the air to heat the battery and cabin down to -10C. Past that, they have to use resistive heating which is much less efficient. I would say that’s where the “cold” line begins, and of course the colder it is the more battery you have to waste. Last weekend I took a 3 hour round trip (starting with 90% charge) in -30C and had to charge only for 5 minutes to complete the trip.

Thank you for the reply!

I agree that it’s pretty intuitive if you’re used to it, but we also all know how users won’t read basically any text pit in front of them. If you know where the supercharger station is in your neighborhood you might drive there without navigating, and when you get there you immediately start browsing your phone and don’t see anything your car puts in front of your face.

Tesla is still the simplest EV to fast charge but there’s still a lot people have to learn about EVs to get the most out of them

Public key authentication, with your private keys in your .ssh folder and your public key in the server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file

Yeah, I was looking at the histograms too, having trouble comparing them and thinking they were a strange choice for showing differences.

Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq

I didn’t have time to watch yet, but did he take into consideration lunar crater telescopes? I always thought that would be an excellent reason to establish a lunar base.

Is there not a cost towards it being so large that it becomes comically too large to clean?

They mentioned in this article that this mirror is so large that the mirror segments cannot support their own weight.

Ever is a very long time.

If you look at the specs of the regular, Pro and Max chips on the M1 and M3 generations, it's easier to see M1 Pro as a sort of "Max Lite" chip. You got identical CPU core counts on both the Pro and Max variants in the M1 and M2 generations, but that's no longer true with the M3.

Apple seems to have realized that people with only CPU heavy workloads won't buy the Max variant, so it seems to me they've weakened the Pro line on the M3 to push more people toward the Max.

Yeah, the changes they made to the M3 Pro were all about making it a less attractive option for people with CPU-heavy workloads who didn’t need/want the GPU horsepower. Unfortunately, it seems that in order to chase this product stratification goal, they actually made the newest generation chip perform worse than the previous generations.

IMO the significant differences in how Pro and Max are stratified in M1/M2 vs M3 will probably make a lot more sense when M3 Ultra comes out.

I think it “makes sense” already. The previous generations of Pro were too tempting and Apple probably feels that hobbling them will push people to spend more on Max chips. I also bet the new Pro chips are less costly (node issues aside) since they have many fewer P cores. It’s just sad that the new M3 Pro is a sidegrade at best. I’m hoping M4 shows an actual performance increase for Pro chips now that they’re (hopefully) done cutting the P cores.

It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.

IIRC they ship in batches, and the current batch are receiving their shipping notifications right now.

I ordered mine in February and got it in September. A painful wait, but very fun once it came.

Consider yourself lucky, I ordered mine November 2021 and didn't get it until August 2023.

I was in group five and got mine in mid august