alberth

This is helpful but ...

What's the distinction between Work and Codex again? Sorry for asking - but they read the same to me.

It's just a focus on coding vs non-coding work?

Reminds me of web development in the 1990s.

I honestly miss those days of deployment simplicity.

Given that M6 will be on TSMC smaller 2nm node and the first smaller node size in 3-years, it seems like the oddest of all years for the high-end Macs to skip.

Title: "a typeface for developers"

> and now we're happy to expand the typeface with a new family called MonoLisa Text. The reasoning was to cover other use cases beyond coding with this proportional font.

Dumb question, when should a developer not use a monospaced font? I.e. when should they use MonaLisa Text

I'm sure I'm missing the obvious, but it is purely for LLM output use cases as the website implies (in which case why isn't Claude approach of using a serif font a better strategy).

Please don't take my comments are negative. Just genuinely curious, which is why I'm asking.

Sorry to hear your story.

Since I’ve never work at FAANG, does Google have strict procedures (and approvals) before launching a product? And if so, did this go through that process?

While I know criticizing Meta is popular, I'm not sure I'd agree with above.

Social networks didn't really exist before The Facebook. Understanding the potential market that could be created and turning down a $1B acquisition from Yahoo 20-years ago, at the time, seemed insane.

Also making the shift to mobile, when people thought that would be the death of FB is a remarkable story.

Identifying to acquire WhatsApp & Instagram, both laughed at when bought for the acquisition price at that time, now massive businesses for Meta (and their market cap value).

Meta AI glasses are surprisingly popular and growing. And more...

Note: I have no affiliation with Meta (not now or in the past)

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EDIT: Many people I see underestimate what it takes to build a business. It is the classic “I could have built that in a weekend” critique. Maybe, but the product is only like 10% of the problem. 90% of the work (and hard part) is execution.

Great video by Tom Scott on this subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCha4Kez9c

While not used on the site, don’t forget the practice of having an invisible 1x1 pixel to create table borders.

For many Americans, Greenspan was the only Fed Chair known widely by name by the general public.

Yes. Checked out twice.

No hearing loss at all.

My hearing is actually better than age appropriate, so the doctors say I’ll just have to live with it because they can’t detect it.

Happened 4-years ago.

I still notice it every night at bed. Or anytime it’s quiet.

I try not to think about it, because I feel like it gets amplified when I do.

But it’s daily for the last 4-years :(

Hope you’re ok now. Please see someone if you’re not.

Tinnitus

I swear my tinnitus is a result of use of AirPods.

I never wore any type of earphones ever. Then started using AirPods for calls, during workouts or on a plane. A year later I developed tinnitus and the only thing that changed in my life was wearing AirPods.

I’m no doctor, and who knows what caused my tinnitus. But it’s irreversible. I constantly hear a humming ring now and it’s super distracting, especially trying to go to bed.

I’m no doctor. But heads up for those who haven’t used inner ear headphones.

Ancient Aliens conflates two very different ideas.

The show’s core argument is that ancient civilizations were more advanced than we give them credit for. That may be true, but “more advanced” does not mean they had superior technology or help from aliens. It can simply mean they had technical knowledge, methods, or craftsmanship that we have since lost or forgotten.

Elon Musk has made a similar point about the US space program. We landed on the moon more than 50 years ago, but in some ways we now have to relearn how to do it (because we forgot how). That does not mean we had better technology in the 1960s, and it certainly does not mean aliens were involved. It means knowledge, systems, expertise, and institutional capability can fade over time. And that doesn't mean aliens were involved (as the tvshow would make you believe).

It was clear, clean and understandable.

Buttons looked like buttons.

Windows (which have frames), looked like windows.

And there was no distracting design elements.

Hence why I said in my original post:

>>Makes sense. The ECC in consumer line is what created an entire market for use in inexpensive web hosting. Then AMD created their EPYC variants, and it wasn’t clear what the difference was between the consumer & Epyc models. reply

What’s the different between these two:

Consumer:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

EPYC variant:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4005-...

Makes sense. The ECC in consumer line is what created an entire market for use in inexpensive web hosting.

Then AMD created their EPYC variants, and it wasn’t clear what the difference was between the consumer & Epyc models.

Personal anecdote: I was in college when 9/11 happened. Back then, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, radio was still a major part of daily life. iPods, iPhones, and streaming didn’t exist yet.

Morning radio shows often did live prank calls to keep things entertaining. DJs would pretend to be the president or do some other ridiculous bit, and it was usually silly / harmless / funny.

I remember driving to class that morning and hearing the first reports on the radio. My initial thought was, “If this is a prank, it’s not funny.” When I got to class and the professor cancelled because of what was happening, only then did I finally realized it was real.

I use to be a huge Hetzner fan but it doesn't appear they have launch any new hardware in the past 3-years.

One of the reasons why I loved Hetzner so much is that you could always get the latest generation hardware ... but unless I have missed it - it seems like their hardware hasn't been refreshed in awhile.

(Still really like them, just wish they had dedicated servers in the US as well)

EDIT: maybe what I use in hardware is uncommon, but have been wanting an update to their AX102 line

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax102-u/

If you’re Anthropic, you gotta love how a vendor you’re paying is going to the government to talk about you.

Can’t imagine that’s great for the relationship.

US has banned export of cryptography. They are extending such claims for national security reason to AI model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

CPI vs PPI, in case you’re curious like me …

CPI tracks retail costs and the cost of living, whereas PPI tracks wholesale costs. As such, PPI acts as an early indicator of future consumer inflation.

Raspberry Pi as a company does ~$325M in annual revenue.

But I can’t understand what are the use cases to be selling 73M units.

Would anyone mind sharing what are the broadly applicable use cases, because selling 73M units is well beyond hobbyist fun.

https://investors.raspberrypi.com/

While I give kudos for Apple bring these Intelligent features, but does anyone see themselves using these features in your daily life?

Is this essentially an Apple M-Series chip in concept?

OT: any word on how Codeberg has been working out for Zig?

Do you mind explain more. Did you just prompt to Gemini what was happening, did you give Gemini photos of Furnance, etc?

This feels like massive news that general public won’t ever hear.

Take what I saw with a grain of salt but …

Who is this product for? And for what use case?

This is why people recommend niche markets.

E.g. This is for B2B marketers who need a tool to create social content.

Congrats though for launching. 99% of people don’t even do that. But now the hard work starts, and 99% of user adoption is now marketing (not the product itself).