There were reports that pipe bombs were found at both the RNC and DNC headquarters today.

Well said, this point can not be stated enough!

Money can’t buy happiness, I guess I’ll have to rent it

The air is missing the active cooling.

The next upgrade that puts apple chip in the 4 port pro would be the ideal version to purchase without a Touch Bar impacting usability and battery life.

>The air is missing the active cooling.

You say this like it's a negative thing. For me, personally, computer fan noise is uniquely aggravating. I wanted to buy the 2015 Macbook specifically because it was fanless, but decided against it because a x86 CPU trying to run in that fanless form factor essentially made it a $1K netbook. Now that we're seeing the M1 MacBook Air rival the 16-inch MacBook Pro from last year in an extended CineBench test (even through Rosetta!), it's a different story entirely.

I'm not saying active cooling doesn't help, obviously the Air is going to thermal throttle in cases the Pro wouldn't. But I am saying that the new chipset needs active cooling a lot less than the old one did; not just cause it's RISC vs CISC but its also 'cause it's TSMC's 5nm process vs Intel's 14nm one.

Also, I'd give up on the hope that they'd get rid of their stupid meme bar on the Pro. They seem committed to it.

>They seem committed to it.

I'm actually not sure about that. Did the MacBook Air ever have a Touch Bar? It seems like this particular MBP has one mostly because they used the exact same case and keyboard and screen and webcam and ports and etc from the previous MBP. Every review I've seen says other than the processor, it's exactly the same.

So there's a chance that this MBP has a Touch Bar merely because the previous one had it and they did not change the case for the M1, which would mean they could still make the change whenever they come out with a new case.

The active cooling might not make as big a difference as you think… in The Verge’s benchmarks, literally the only place they saw a significant difference in speed was a multicore benchmark involving 30 solid minutes under full load. https://www.theverge.com/21569603/apple-macbook-air-m1-revie...

The results are excellent and give me hope they will be able to keep the chips from throttling with active cooling under the most stressful loads.

My current work laptop is a the 16 inch 2019 Macbook Pro with 8-Core Intel Core i9 at 2.3 GHz, and using the Intel Power Gadget, the form factor can not achieve the max frequency of 3.6ghz on a single core. I have the machine elevated on a stand with the maximum air flow, even with no external monitors connected, it still throttles.

Agreed, changing up my habits to wearing a mask in public was definitely a much bigger hardship compared to the lucky few that met their maker.

Let’s try to keep snark and sarcasm out of the discussion, and instead argue out of data or first principles. HN is a rare bastion of light on the internet - a refuge of civil discussion

Indeed, how does one have a serious discussion with someone that refuses to acknowledge 2+2=4 because they "believe" the answer is 5.

Really hard to discuss the integrity of our elected officials given the current President's penchant to lie like a marketer.

It is important to discuss, because at the margin having more integrity will get more turnout and help boot out the current President.

Proven wrong so you just adjust the goalposts?

Poorly worded in the first place.

I would compare the US with countries like Cambodia which aren’t doing a great job of even identifying cases.

Incorrect, I vote by mail from Illinois and they send you confirmation of both your ballot being received and that it was properly counted.

Illinois 10 ILCS 5/19-8 Voters are notified by mail of rejected ballot within two days of rejection. Voters have until 14 days after election to resolve issue with county election authority.

Why are you making up reasons to question the accuracy of voting by mail if you haven’t read the basics or even tried it?

What dosage do you take and how long does the pain relief last?

I take Glucosamine / Chondroitine Complex 500/100mg. One or 2 per day.

It's hard to say how long, it does take a day or 2 to kick in (when I said "immediately" I meant within a couple days when I start taking it. I probably shouldn't have used that term.)

I'm not very strict with medication so I tend to stop it when I don't have issues.

But especially in my elbows where I only have mild pain it seems to help a lot. In my wrists it doesn't as much, but I think the pain there is not totally joint-related.