I’m a big fan of Amazon’s leadership principles. One of them is bias for action. I worked at AWS for a few years and I’d be in a meeting and someone would say bias for action and we’d all know what we needed to do.
I live in Texas. It takes about 8 hours drive to get out of Texas regardless of the direction I go. That's just one state. Texas is the only state that has 8 different climate zones.
I don’t know where you got that climate zone information, but I don’t think it’s true. New Mexico has more koppen climates areas than Texas, and Arizona too (and also California). Texas is undeniably huge though - I have driven El Paso to Beaumont on the way to Louisiana
Although El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than it is to the Mississippi River, by Interstate it is 200km closer to Dallas and slightly closer to Houston and Austin.
>> how big these states are compared to say, Colorado
And Colorado is tiny compared to Canadian provinces, most of which are at least triple its size. Want big, look at how long it takes to drive from Seattle to Anchorage.
It's because California and Texas were both pre-existing political entities when they were annexed by the US. Most of the other Midwest and western states had their boundaries defined by Congress as they carved up the US's unincorporated territory, which is why they all have similar sizes and very geometric shapes (with borders often defined lines of latitude and longitude).
Keystone species can be important to the overall environment and other animals. Bring back the right ones and you could improve the environment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
I believe that the M1 architecture is such that you don't actually need as much RAM as an older model computer. It is a system on a chip so moving data between RAM and storage is so fast that it can swap between the two without much performance degradation.
> It is a system on a chip so moving data between RAM and storage is so fast that it can swap between the two without much performance degradation.
How much faster? I’m not sure what your specific point of comparison is.
Sure, the SoC provides many advantages, many due to Apple’s UMA (Apple’s Unified Memory Architecture) but the system is still limited by storage speed and latency.
But if we’re talking about the relative performance difference between solid state memory (i.e. SSDs, if that is the correct technical term here) and UMA RAM, I’d expect* a significant difference, perhaps (1) an order of magnitude in terms of latency and (2) 2X to 5X in terms of bandwidth. Not to mention that excessive SSD writes would be unwise.
Now I will admit, if there are large parts of the operating system that don’t need to linger / lurk / creep around in RAM, they could be swapped out. And they might even be kept on SSD and not have to be rewritten at all except for patches and upgrades.
* This is a guess based on ‘usual’ data-locality rules of thumb, hopefully allowing for Apple architecture somewhat. I’m happy to be educated / corrected.
As a person who also grew up in NY, the slice was part of my childhood. I'd walk home from middle school and then high school and pass the local pizzeria where I could pick up a slice, Italian ice, and play coin operated video games. Galaga, Donkey Kong, and Pacman. I miss those carefree days where the world was simpler and the pizza tasted better.
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