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I’ve been taught through years of people closing the lid of my laptop that “do nothing” is the right setting to use.

Thinkpad line from Lenovo. Amazing build quality, and you can order them with Linux.

I have a P1 Gen 7 and it’s fantastic. It feels premium, and it’s thin, light, powerful, has good connectivity and 4K OLED touch screen. I’d take it over Mac hardware any day.

I still do, and I maintain that it’s easier to read text with double spaces after periods.

Today it's 2.2GB of JSON files, tomorrow it's tens of petabytes of archived data that you need to look through for work. A speedup of 2x is nothing to scoff at.

As a broader comment though, this is how we learn and discover things. Just because the specific outcome here is "trivial" doesn't mean the approach or the lessons learnt aren't valuable.

I found it an interesting read despite not have any stake in the outcome.

I think it's an interpretation issue. When you say it's 45% faster I interpret that as "the new package handles work at a rate of 145% when compared to the original, that is, 1.45 times as fast".

I would rephrase your comment as "the package takes 45% less time to process a given data set".

Great read. I hadn't even considered that people might interpret "90% faster" as "10 times as fast", i.e., it will take 100-90=10% of the original time. It seems like a completely incorrect interpretation to me, but obviously there are people who read it with this understanding. Huh.

Wait, what? That’s horrific! I love my range of lenses for my long-suffering 5d3. I wouldn’t have bought it if the only options were the canon lenses. How disappointing to hear.

No? I’ve been mountain biking for over 20 years and never any broken bones or had to go to hospital as a result, despite doing downhill, trials, and dirt jumping. And I have 20 years of fitness to show for it - that’s about as positive as it gets.

Where are the three phase models??

Seriously though, a 15A kettle sounds great.

Unfortunately that doesn't cut the mustard in most organisations either, with the typical responses being along the lines of: "Who will support it? Can you provide a security assessment? Is your team happy to be responsible for any issues?"

I sorely wish it was as simple as "please deploy", and in days of yesteryear you could probably get away with that either yourself or if you were friends with the linux team, but those days are over now as far as I see.

For context, my opinion comes from being a security consultant for over a decade - I see a lot of other people's environments and how their organisations handle requests like this. Not every environment will have objections, but most won't add it as a standard package across the fleet.

If it’s not installed by default on server-oriented flavours of Linux then it’s dead to me, unfortunately. Most orgs aren’t going to agree to roll it out across tens of thousands of machines on a whim.

My entire Linux experience is dictated by what’s installed by default on rhel and/or ubuntu.

As an owner of a 2020 V90CC (which was the last of the Sensus models), I have to disagree. I’m never buying another Volvo based purely on the terrible software experience that Sensus provides. Only being able to use half the screen for CarPlay, random crashes, features that simply don’t work, map updates that are permanently “installing”, blasting me with 1-2 seconds of radio at full volume at random when I’m playing from my phone.. zero acknowledgement from Volvo on the issue (we can’t replicate it).

I’d take the android auto version any day, but I’ve just replaced the car with a different brand. Unfortunately you can’t escape the relentless notifications and beeps no matter what the brand is these days, but at least the software is stable in the new car.

I just want CarPlay and for the car to get out of the way. Where’s the CarPlay 2 vehicles? They can’t come fast enough.

I meant that the inputs from TFA would be easily identifiable as there was no attempt to ‘humanise’ the inputs. If the author had attempted to do so then obviously it’s more difficult (or possibly impossible).

The inputs would form a very distinct pattern that likely doesn’t look anything like what a human creates - I think this would certainly be detectable, although you could also account for this in your program (similar to the ongoing back and forth with captcha).

I had two (an OG kickstarter pebble, and the steel), and also suffered screen death. The battery life was incredible, but I don’t know that I could give up the standalone features that the apple watch ultra 2 has. On-device Siri, tap to pay, calling without the phone nearby.. I hate the digital crown though, and it could use a proper torch like the Garmin watches have, so it’s far from perfect.

3Blue1Brown also has a good video on mathematical animations, in case it’s relevant for you: https://youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI?si=KTAfolRBm1NsZOE9

That's certainly not the take away I have from the show. It inspired many to think for themselves and made science approachable and fun. They made a genuine effort to be scientific within the bounds of the show. I think they've done a great service to the field, personally. Can you cite any sources for Adam being a 'tool'? He seems like a high-energy kind of guy, but this is the first I've heard of him being disliked by crew. Usually I've heard the opposite; that he gets on well with other crew members.

I learnt it here in Australia in my early school years, and hated it because it was both slower to write and more difficult to read. I switched back to standard writing as soon as I was allowed.

I wish this technique worked for me. I can transcribe something verbatim and then have absolutely no idea what I've written - I have to go back and read it to actually parse the text.

How so? Because younger kids are using more macs and will want to take that into the workplace? Microsoft has the enterprise virtually locked up still. I don’t see most companies offering macbooks as an option.

Linux though? My former university uses it as their desktop OS on all machines.

I really do think Linux is the threat, not apple.

That, and alcohol is just so expensive.

The other end of the spectrum is just as terrifying - CRAC unit failure. I never knew fans could scream so loudly.

I'd never heard of it before today, so yeah, my first thought was exactly what you postulated. "Cool? Maybe it's a tool for generating animations in the terminal?"

*edit - oh, no Windows support for now (my hands are tied at work).

Agreed, but it’s certainly more open than it used to be. At least now you can emulate a variety of cards directly in an app.

Are you saying you can’t have apple intelligence on your 15 pro max? Yes you can - it’s one of the supported models.

I’m not sure what difficulty you’re having with timers. It’s quite easy to do multiple timers: “hey siri, timer one hour”, or “hey siri, start a pasta timer for 9 minutes”, or “hey siri how long is left on the pasta timer?”

I use it all the time.

It’s open to developers as of iOS 18.1:

https://developer.apple.com/support/nfc-se-platform/

That’s highly specific to the US. Most other English-speaking countries say “the Fourth of July”. To me it feels weird to say July fourth.

This quote makes me giggle:

One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head'."

Not my preference, even for personal projects. How many times have you come back to an old project and thought “what the heck is this?”. I know it’s a lot for me.

Over the years I’ve learnt to prioritise readability and to never abbreviate. Tab completion makes it a non-issue.

Interesting comment actually. I would have assumed that the vast majority of people using Linux are still sysadmins in small and large companies - this is certainly my personal experience. I wonder how many home users there are versus systems managed by sysadmins. I would still think there’s more in the corporate world, while I would think the opposite for Windows.