ClassyJacket

Precisely. I refuse to get invested when we know it will end up like Facebook - completely useless with no posts from anyone you actually follow.

The answer is that the M4 will come to the Mac.

You're correct. 7-segment is a display layout, not technology - I think it's implied they mean pixel matrix vs 7 segment.

Apparently Sharp introduced the technology in 2009, so perhaps there's a patent expiring soon?

I'm intensely jealous. I used to go to the doctor and get medication specifically to make me sleepy on the plane. I've decided not to take that kind of thing anymore and dread the next time I have a long flight.

I can deal with all the airport crap, but sitting on the plane for two 12 hour stretches is horrible.

It's LCD with a reflective backing they've put alot of effort into finetuning. Really not that implausible. Remember the Pebble wasn't e-ink either.

Because it's 730$

Someone make glasses out of these!

I don't see why it's impractical. Just have a soft spring loaded clamp, like universal car phone mounts. Maybe it would be hard to line up the USBC port?

And then they put ads on the Standard plan. And then the Premium plan. And then they increase the number of ads to the absolute maximum anyone will tolerate.

The MicroDrive is absolutely fascinating and allowed the creation of the highly influential iPod Mini.

I'm not an engineer, but to my layman brain, fitting a spinning hard drive into such a tiny package is the kind of engineering feat that, had it been presented to me as an April Fools' joke, I would have believed it as a funny prank because such a thing is clearly impossible. Like, there's a motor in there? No way.

I mean, this image is obviously photoshopped to shrink it - except that it's not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive#/media/File:Seagate...

"I am not sure why I am continually fascinated by this place."

If you're into technology - like anyone on Hacker News - you're probably fascinated by seeing high complexity in a small space. That's one of the things about tech that makes it exciting to me. Look at my smartwatch - so much complexity crammed into something so small. Such high entropy. It's just fundamentally interesting because there's so much there.

I know it was no treat for the people that lived there, tho. Conditions sucked.

(Bit of a tangent, but I also wonder if there's a link between this and my (very bad) social media addiction. There's just so much stuff to look at on a place like reddit or tiktok. Such high information density.)

This diagram sort of reminds me of playing Sim Tower, or those books of cross sections of things that were popular entertainment when I was a kid. I guess they hit the same part of the brain.

I don't know about servers and stuff but I'm using PXE to image a Surface Pro right now.

Just a matter of time before my state makes it illegal to touch one of those while driving, if they haven't already.

Nobody wants to spend 50 dollars on a game that will stop functioning with an iOS update 2 years from now. Even online purchases on console work for ~10 - 15 years.

I looked for a source for this but can't find any mention of it.

It's worse than Disney+??

I've been trying to watch Arrested Development and the experience is downright painful. I won't be continuing my subscription.

It does the exact opposite of clear direction. It's an arbitrary black box

Vegans hate this. Always happens with milk powder.

It's from the affine texture mapping and lack of floating point maths in the GBA. Same problems as the original PlayStation.

Okay, now go do calculations for a game's rendering using that. Show me the code.

Isn't pi always slightly incorrect in a computer?

Thanks. Yeah, I thought of that, but I'm at work at a place where I very much should not be having Sci Hub in my browsing log.

That's mind blowing, so I looked it up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19739454

Still not sure why they chose JavaScript.

According to their paper it's a commercial JavaScript engine however:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6274E..0AB/abstra...

As a JavaScript hater, I admit they surely they do, but I'm still curious as to why it was the best choice. If it's a custom runtime, existing runtimes being reliable\secure\well understood by existing engineers isn't relevant. And it's not like they're adding in lots of external libraries either.

I found this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19739454

" The language itself wasn’t so important as having adequate performance, robustness, memory use, reproducibility and extreme QC"

but I still don't understand. Interesting they went with a language that doesn't even have integers.

At least the comments on this reddit thread have some hilarious jokes:

https://old.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/wrtny3/the_jame...

Looks like they released a paper, the abstract of which, indicates it's not a fully custom runtime, which would make more sense:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006SPIE.6274E..0AB/abstra...

Unfortunately they want money to read the rest of it and I'm curious but not that curious, and I probably wouldn't understand it anyway.

The driving into static objects thing is horrible and unacceptable, I agree. As I understand, this occurred because Autopilot works by recognizing specific objects: vehicles, pedestrians, traffic cones - and avoiding those. So if an object isn't one of those things, or isn't recognized as one of those things, and the car thinks it's in a lane, it keeps going.

Yes, it was a stupid system and you are right to criticize it. And as a Tesla driver in a country that still only has that same Autopilot system and not FSD, I'm very aware of it.

But the current FSD is rebuilt from the ground up to be end-to-end neural, and they have the occupancy network now (which is damn impressive) giving a 3d map of occupied space, which should stop that problem occurring.

You're right, I didn't think of the radiation flipping bits\melting stuff, but we could shield it. And to be fair we're talking about going for the bandwidth world (uhh... universe) record, not the data-longevity record. Just make it last as far as Mars or something.

I'm only a hobbyist, not a professional (yet!), but: giving up on making whole apps in JavaScript\TypeScript and React. It's not what I'm used to, it just doesn't click for me, and I just don't like it. I admit it's subjective.

I stopped trying to make my little experiment apps in React Native and restarted with C# and I'm much happier. I'm using Avalonia since apparently Xamarin\MAUI is not in a good place lately.

Much like the best camera is the one you have with you, the best programming language is the one you like enough to actually make stuff. The problem is whether one you like is supported on the platform you're coding for...

Does make much difference if all their competitors are already dead.

I'm not saying MS don't do shady stuff, but why single this out? YouTube is a monopoly on video and they bundle Music with Premium. Just seems like this is happening everywhere all the time.