Maths always tries to have agreed-upon unambiguous definitions of things, precisely to avoid confusion.

Laughs in ambiguous notation

It might well have started our as a sphere. But you also need to rotate pieces in the third dimension of you want to pay the sphere back together.

blaming teenage depression on too much screen time and not enough in-person social contact

That might be a part, but I’d ask you this: When is the last time that mankind truly had hope for the future? This isn’t just about individual people - it’s the entire media landscape.

This isn’t about a time with no worries in their respective present, this is about the future. A couple decades ago there still was genuine hope for the future, an almost certain expectation that the future will be better.

A look at science fiction will confirm that: You get none of the space utopias from the sixties that honestly believed in the goodness of people today. There is only bleak techno dystopia from the nineties onwards, where everybody fends for themselves and no hope for long lasting peace is in sight.

Pretty sure it’s short for confront, at least that’s how it’s commonly used.

That’s such an American take. I’ve not once left within half an hour of everyone being finished eating.

I thought that would be a swan?

That’s my whole point; No, more ports isn’t more better. If you don’t need them they’re just more cost, more holes where water/debris can get into the machine, and more wrong holes to plug the charger into. If you do need them, then buy a machine that has them - there are plenty.

If youre in an office you can be expected to use a dock

Almost every laptop does have a dedicated HDMI port

Show me one architect that is actually dragging along two external 4k displays with their laptop.

If you are a professional with specific needs buy a specific laptop. Frankly there are more than enough laptops that have more ports if that’s what you need. Except even in your example you don’t even need more ports because you can just use the second USB4 port.

Finding a show worth watching takes way longer then that anyway - if you want to watch now you’ll need to have started like an hour ago.

If your torrent client supports sequential download then you can start in half a minute.

Please do! I think your design should fit my 6a perfectly.

Who even leaves voicemails anymore? If I don’t reach somebody I just sent them a quick text why I called and whatever to call back.

Most devices only have 40gbps USB4. Which is still enough for almost all sane use cases. Frankly, if you need multiple 4K monitors get a desktop.

That’s the most straw in a straw man I’ve seen in the whole thread.

Most new laptops have USB-C, A, and SD/micro SD, and HDMI. That’s 95% of all uses.

If you really need more then you just bought the wrong laptop. Get a Thinkpad or framework 16. If you need to interface with old hardware, get a contemporary machine.

The Bright Creek? Sounds lovely!

Have you ever seen musk get to the point that concisely without stammering for half an hour?

This fucking timeline

I suppose they don’t use their superlatives quite that inflationarily.