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A fleet of three ThinkCentre PCs, m920x2 and m720x1, they use 8th Gen Intel CPUs. These three run Windows 11, Arch Linux, and macOS. Homelab is running mostly on the Arch Linux one with Docker supplemented by the Windows 11 one running some longer time job because Windows only upgrades every few months.

I also have a FriendlyELEC, an arm box that is running OpenWRT as a router and also serves Ubiquiti's controller.

There is two part of software/hardware I should be retiring/moving; both are Homebridge, one on Raspberry Pi Zero W and one on another Windows PC Hyper-V Ubuntu, but I just don't have time to move them yet. The Raspberry Pi Zero is especially annoying because it is so underpowered that it feels painful to wait for anything to upgrade.

One good plastic build that people praise about is Valve's Steamdeck

There are a lot of differences.

By design, Airflow needs a centralized server/daemon, whereas snakemake is just a command line tool, like make/cmake. This would become an issue in the HPC environment.

In Airflow the workflow is assumed to be repetitively executed whereas in snakemake it is usually run once (like you will only compile the program when source files change).

Airflow has a queuing system, whereas Snakemake is to be used in conjuncture with other task management systems.

In Snakemake, shell script always feels like a second-order citizen, whereas with Snakemake, it has good support for shell scripting, which enables easy integration with tools made in other programming languages.

If you go to NYC, you will find a lot of iMacs on front desks.

Have you tried iSH[1]?

[1]: https://ish.app/

I think now Apple’s Notes app does this right now.

I have the exact the same feeling with Steam vs iPhone, iPad, Vision, or whatever they advertise as the next computer. What SteamOS has is a desktop that allow user to run real browser with proper ad blocker, has a desktop that user can set whatever shortcut the user like, run whatever script to process the user’s file. The next computer doesn’t do those things.

If they really want to make it a work machine, there is too many things that needs to go from iPadOS when using keyboard. For instance, customizable shortcut is an obvious thing that is missing on the iPadOS.

If Instant Pot goes out of business, I wonder where people should go to get electronic pressurized pots?

I recently bout BBedit on their 30th birthday event.

BBEdit / TextMate has the Mac feel that I enjoy editing long-form text in (recently, a lot of latex manuscripts); meanwhile, vscode is where I write code. I don't know what contributes to this difference exactly, but they occupy a different part of the market as of now.

Apple themselves clearly know their bad reputation in the gaming community, and their lock down model for selling software will also not be embraced by many gamers. In this respect a $399 Steamdeck is a better device than Apple’s piece with 10x the price.

> It’s fine to make the point size bigger, but just a little. Use the smallest increment necessary to make a visible difference. If your text is set in 12 point, you needn’t go up to 14 or 15 point. Try a smaller increase—to 12.5 or 13 point.

This is great advice. This is exactly what i think so many web design failed to follow, e.g. bootstrap.

Looking through the toc I hope I had known this book earlier. Now I am looking for books for the math of more advanced topics, such as stochastic calculus, etc.

Here are some examples: e.g, Martingales for Physicists, Deep Learning and Physics

Of course you will need to check real references, it’s like talking to people and people make mistakes too. GPT makes mistakes that in many time obvious to humans, like write equations wrong, write numbers wrong, and I only need to check other sources or use a calculator to check. But I only care about the intuitive/conceptual part anyway, which GPT does well.

I really found asking GPT to put a math concept under a physics context very helpful for me. As a computational physics student, that is really how I understand math and the world. Only very few textbooks can help me with this.

From [Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words][1], Steve once said in a interview in 1983:

> The problem was, you can't ask Aristotle a question. And I think, as we look towards the next fifty to one hundred years, if we really can come up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit, or an underlying set of principles, or an underlying way of looking at the world, then, when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines with him his whole life–his or her whole life–and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday, after this person's dead and gone, we can ask this machine, “Hey, what would Aristotle have said? What about this?” And maybe we won't get the right answer, but maybe we will. And that's really exciting to me. And that's one of the reasons I'm doing what I'm doing.

And this future, expected "next fifty to one hundred years", is somewhat here already.

[1]: https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/

These are excellent before-after example pair I can ask GPT to analyze then apply the technique to my own writings. I hope there are more examples like this.

From what I heard, Columbia will be even higher than Harvard. The cost of a PhD student is ~100k/yr (salary + tuition + overhead). Postdocs are more expensive.

When GPT-4 with image recognition is available, i guess it will not difficult to build a GPT based text mode.

My feeling is that this is in this near future, all they need to do is to make a chat app.

I have a seen proper prompt translate commands into API calls. I imagine it’s doable even just with self hosted solutions like Home Assistant or homebridge.

i’d imagine text / handwriting recognization

I remember using Outlook on iOS a few years ago. I had an Outlook account that has a secondary address is a Gmail which i can log in with. Now if I log into that account, I cannot use Gmail with that outlook. This is how messy accounts are handled by Microsoft and it’s why i’m not so surprised by the article.

I remember there is a great analog for the era of the neuro network. The neuro network is a binary encoding of an algorithm/program. It could therefore be very efficient and simple. We will move on to get comfortable with it just like we are now comfortably familiar with the binary encoding of information (files).

Handheld multimeter is what i played with when i was a child, there is always one sitting in my dad’s drawer. So it was a first piece of equipment i bought when i started doing electronics work.

Can we opt out of this feature? Or will it be just as bad as in the actual Acrobat Reader?

Being the unicorn behind the PDF format, Adobe Acrobat has become this bloatware; they just don't care enough about giving Acrobat Reader any modern rendering features such as GPU acceleration, smooth scrolling, etc. Smaller open-source software such as Samatra has far-superior experience in actually reading PDFs, this is Windows. On macOS, there is one bad PDF reader and that is Acrobat.

Because of this, I have been trying very hard to avoid Acrobat, and Edge seems to be a legit experience on Windows, and now it is killed and Acrobat will be all that we have.

So no thank you, you give me another reason I should stick to FireFox.

Speaking from inside Academia, Zoom remains an important part of communication. We never used Zoom or any form of video chat before COVID, but even after COVID, Zoom is here to stay now. We meet in Zoom because it has unmatched quality and stability for video-conferencing / screen sharing compared to Skype etc. Office hour have Zoom sessions, etc.

I would suspect it’s because of memory. I remember years ago my cheap 512m mem vps is easily bottlenecked by pg’s memory usage. CPU is idle when idled, memory eat by pg does not get released. Scaling memory is not cheap. Memory is the “scarce” for cloud hosting.

Probably it is the title that makes these DF articles hard to stand out on HN. DF works better if you read each one of the articles and it is on an RSS reader grouped among Apple/Mac Bloggers.

I am talking about U6-Pro, specs here [pdf]: https://dl.ubnt.com/ds/u6-pro_ds which is asking for a 48V, 0.5A PoE adapter, so should supports 24 W max. the consumption is listed to be 13W though. U6-LR is 17W.