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now that the duo is out, the air seems like a tech demo they needed to validate sold to the public

What are the drawbacks of the Air? Genuinely asking, as that is the one that seems more appealing to me if I had to buy one now.

As an iPhone Air owner here’s my honest take: Build quality, screen, and performance are all fantastic. No compromises there.

Compromises are battery, no additional camera lenses. Single speaker. Some niche USB limits.

Battery life is fine overall but on days of heavy use/travel it’s noticeable. Single camera lens is ok but I do miss the telephoto on occasion. Single speaker gets made fun of online, but for any serious listening you’re going to use headphones anyway.

Charge speed via USB is lower than the pros and you can’t do video-out over USB.


I have an iPhone Air and the ONLY issue I've had is accidentally tapping the screen since the screen is so close to the edge of the device. Not battery life, not the speaker, not the single camera. I've only ever had issues with accidental tapping.

Some people seem to get offended if companies make products with different tradeoffs* than they would make.

*Thinner which means less battery.


Regardless of AI gen'd article... Cognito does have some rough edges. One day I'd like to make a best practices Cloudformation template (if doesn't already exist) that includes things like which login name to set, notification lambdas and the like.

One big pro about cognito.. can't beat the price.


They added new enterprise features, free ride is over if you want any improvements made to the service in the last 8 years.


> stakeholder buy-in

Fixing bugs, improving performance, paying down technical debt all require this as well, which makes them significantly more difficult to actually implement.


Knobs on wheel, especially for the controls on this, are normal in performance vehicles.


From my understanding, if you want to use native Claude in AWS Bedrock, it runs from an AWS datacenter. I'm guessing that's why regardless of running your own stack... they still need a footprint in all the major clouds.


Gatlinburg is not my thing... but is significantly better than Myrtle Beach.


Really? Agree to disagree. At least in MB I can bike around, get in the ocean, and pig out on seafood. It's not classy, but at least it's cheap. I would never fly there, but as a weekend trip from Charlotte, it's not terrible bang-for-buck at all. Though I'm sure nostalgia from going there frequently as a child is coloring my view.

What do you prefer about Gatlinburg?


Sorry - significantly better was overreaction from my part. My view of Myrtle beach is somewhat muddied by the reason I was there in the first place. Was in GA for a wedding, was going to go to FL, but couldn't due to a hurricane and ended up quickly shuffling to Myrtle Beach. Felt like a memory of a town. I do have a coworker who recommended me some good spots, but not sure if I will ever make it back there https://maps.app.goo.gl/EbWrjJ92qgV3vx598.

Gatlinburg is maybe the ultimate tourist trap. Was hilariously enough also around there for a wedding.

I can't really argue for either as destinations. Both of these places I don't think I would go over other available options.


Its pretty safe to assume on a trail if you hear a bell that a bike is coming up behind you.


Or from the side or oncoming and he's just behind the crowd of pedestrians ahead of you.


Yes haha - a bike coming from _somewhere_


Clickup is kinda like this (trash software btw) where it combines all these things. Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI. For example, you will be chatting with someone, need to look at ticket, you have to completely leave the context of the chat to find the ticket. Yeah you can have multiple tabs, but still cumbersome. Would rather have a chat app for chat, documentation in documentation... so on.


That's exactly how I feel Teams want's me to use it. It's just... dumb, all those "apps" that are integrated, but in reality it's just another super heavy website that you can't easily jump into/out of.


Has anyons (except 37sign) used Basecamp in a small/medium/large corp? I'm really curious how well it works


Could you elaborate on what makes Clickup "trash software", is it something specific to Clickup or your opinion around this entire "class" of all-in-one workspace?


Here are a few things off the top:

- horrible optimization

    - video calls will easily bloat 1-3gb of ram
- buggy, things that should work sometimes don't

    - e.g. sometimes you click to write... you get a spinner, wait 10 seconds
- poor ux. I have been using it for 4+ years at work, still have trouble finding things

- yeah, all things in one interface

These are opinions. People can have different. To me, its just a slow and difficult to navigate mess that doesn't know what it wants to be.


It does know: it wants to be everything -- they remind you in every ad!


ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy, in a way that technical people can infer is a reflection of their mission to literally do everything an organization needs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1s0tkz8/disappoint...

https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1rxbtla/im_so_tire...

Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?


> Who ever built a piece of quality software by setting out to build multiple otherwise unrelated pieces of software with extremely tight coupling to satisfy enterprise bargain hunting?

Apparently Lotus Notes did something like that, but I wasn’t around then so I can’t speak to the veracity of that claim.


we evaluated them in 2023, because we wanted to move off JIRA, and their name came up, and we did the initial import, and I spent some time trying to understand what's where and how, and the whole experience was lame. it was aggressively confidently pushing its own features (always be upselling!) but the basics were just not there. It's like Microsoft.

We moved to Linear, which is 2 years younger than ClickUp, but it's solid in what it offers.


> I’m shipping in hours what used to take days. Not prototypes. Real, structured, well-architected software.

> If I don’t understand what it’s doing, it doesn’t ship. That’s non-negotiable.

Holy LinkedIn


Everyone who is really into blogging about their AI use sounds exactly like this.

Hmm, I wonder why!


When even my "boomer" aged and non-tech savvy dad who has always used an iPhone notices the update is bad, I think you are in at least a little bit of trouble if you don't quickly course correct.


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