Hardware keeps getting exponentially faster and software keeps getting exponentially slower. The only people seeming to benefit from better hardware is lazy developers.
Kethal
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Im not familiar with Medium, but I don't recall the other things I've read there being vapid crap.
In addition to this, building up a behavior by shaping is much more powerful that luring into the behavior or capturing it. Everything I've taught my dog by shaping she enthusiastically loves to do, to the point where it's hard to get her to stop. It's like solving a puzzle for them, so they associate the behavior with something fun.
I've visited Phoenix, and I would say it's a sprawling mess. They've built some good public transit lately as I understand, but driving anywhere is terrible. It looks like a giant strip mall. It's full of smog. It's one of the worst cities I've ever been to.
Yeah, so few people advocate for this though. It's either fluoridation is unbalancing my humors or let's fluoridate a bunch of water that will go down the drain.
Here's a bad one. After watching X-Men The Last Stand I thought it was so terrible that I wanted to know what the director (Brett Ratner) had to say about this crapsterpiece.
Among a lot of bad scenes, one that stood out to me was at the start of an assault, Ian MacKallen as Magneto tells Pyro something like "Wait. In chess the pawns go first". Then they send in a bunch of useless mutants who get slaughtered. It pans back to Magneto and he says "That's why in chess the pawns go first". I thought, does the director think the audience is full of idiots? Did he really just have this famous actor repeat the same line within 3 minutes?
When it gets there in the director's commentary, Ratner says something like "Yeah, we really had this academy award winning actor say the same thing twice." He knew it was bad, and he still did it! Why? In general, I felt like his commentary was an insight into the mindset needed to make shitty movies.
I didn't know if this was possible so I looked for some videos.
This guy isn't very big, but does it fairly easily with his fingertips, and can crush it with a full grip but it takes him some effort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGCawR9vBXE&t=64
Three big guys here with full grips do pretty poorly, then the big guy turns it to pulp in a second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eICtcsd0TvY&t=288
I think you've got your work cut out for you.
That Framework one is really neat.
The T and X series Thinkpad are good in my experience. P series seems good too. They're all quite expensive, but I have an X220 I personally bought some time around 2010 that I still use regularly. It's had almost not problems. A year or two ago, the cooling fan broke, and I bought a new cooling system for a reasonable price on eBay. It was fairly easy to replace that. I replaced the hard drive twice because I've had hard drives fail on other computers and I just replace them regularly now. I use the original battery. The life is not as good, but it's still fine. I also have another X220 and a X230 I used for work, and they're still fine but I rarely use them due to some work policies. New hard drives due to the previously mentioned concerns. One keyboard replacement because it was used outside in wet conditions: incredibly easy to replace. These things last a long time. Parts are easy to find because they're popular. Which Thinkpad you'd want is a matter of preference. They come in various sizes and capabilities.
The Thinkpad Edge line, despite the name, is not the same line as Thinkpad. They're a lot cheaper in cost, but they're notably less nice, although still pretty good . They seem like a reasonanle choice if you want to save money. A family member has one where the case and a metal frame broke at the hinge after 8 to 10 years. You'd need to take everything off the case to replace it, so not something I would care to fix, but if one really wanted to fix it one could. It's still fine in other regards. They have a lot of other laptop lines and I don't know them all, but of the other lines that I've used, I'd say they're not worth buying. They're the same sort of cheap construction as other companies.
Have you used Dell laptops recently? A long time ago they were great, but I don't think they're great anymore. I have a latitude 5411 through work and I hate it. The track point is junk, battery life sucks, it doesn't go into standby properly, and notably the battery failed within three years. Maybe it's not Dell per se but instead the fact that lots of stuff is getting crappy, but every other computer I own now is Lenovo. They are far less bad.
Ah, that's explains it.