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jonplackett

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Making creative things with tech since the flash era - plackett.co.uk
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jonplackett··on Obsolete Sounds
The Philips Coffee grinder is quite intense with Airpods on. Feels like my head is the grinder.
jonplackett··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
I’m not sure this is intended to be factually accurate
jonplackett··on Chuck Norris has died
Chuck Norris doesn’t die. Death gets Chuck Norris.
jonplackett··on Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
Does this just continue the ‘western way’ of spending a crap load of money on each military item, instead of getting good at making A LOT of something really cheaply?

Ukraine and Iran are both showing it quickly becomes a war of attrition and fancy weapons get very expensive very fast, or run out very fast.

jonplackett··on Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
Explode it
jonplackett··on “This is not the computer for you”
> He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it

10 year old me identifies with this so much.

I managed to get the computer to display 256 colours instead of the 16 it had been set up with. Everyone was impressed and this meant I was now allowed to take the computer apart and put it back together again without anyone being scared.

jonplackett··on The MacBook Neo
Also it’s just one adjective per device. Compare that to the dell pro max premium
jonplackett··on Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Really thought this was called Meta IRT and assumed it was just Facebook spyware.
jonplackett··on Meta acquires Moltbook
Fb just acquire anything that could in any possible way be a threat.
jonplackett··on MacBook Neo
How long do those chrome books last though?

I reckon even an iPhone pro is better value than an average android phone. Same with iPad vs Android tablet.

Because they last 3 possibly 4 times longer. A decent Apple laptop purchased 4 years ago is still basically a top notch laptop. Build quality is amazing. Resale value is still very high.

jonplackett··on Bet on German Train Delays
Damn someone foiled my plan already.
jonplackett··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Unfortunately it won’t be long til we’re all forced up to Tahoe anyway. Well, ee iOS developers will be anyway once they make the latest Xcode only work with it…
jonplackett··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
I wish they’d come back with physical keys, with tiny changeable displays on each one. Customisation, but touch feel without looking.
jonplackett··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
Bet they were hoping for a quieter news week for these announcements.
jonplackett··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
For these people, it is just about control.
jonplackett··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
Also they are making all our stuff for us. That’s our pollution too guys.
jonplackett··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
China seems to have recovered pretty well.
jonplackett··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
That is frikkin impressive. Well done sir.
jonplackett··on A 26-Gram Butterfly-Inspired Robot Achieving Autonomous Tailless Flight
Nor a video. So many words though.
jonplackett··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
Why not just change the word to icecream if we want it to be its own word. Doesn’t having words with a space just dilute the meaning of the word word?
jonplackett··on Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app
Probably would have sold it when it doubled and felt like a genius… and then an idiot.
jonplackett··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
I do see your point on that one, but phrases have an origin.

Of course is like an abbreviation of something like ‘in the natural course of things’. Which has become more like just ‘yes’ over time. In the usage of ‘yes’ it’s easier to argue it could be one word.

jonplackett··on Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app
Yeah this is the story I tell myself to make me feel better. I may well have even more regret! Or thought I was an investment genius and invested loads more and then sold it at a bad time.
jonplackett··on Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries
I’m so glad I’m not going insane. I don’t see any examples on that site that I agree are ‘one word’. Sure they’re singular concepts but so what? Are we going to have singular words to describe all adjective noun pairs now?
jonplackett··on Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app
I was gonna buy $1000 of bitcoin in 2016 but I couldn’t find my passport to verify my identity with Coinbase and then forgot about it. Ah well.
jonplackett··on What's the best way to learn a new language?
But I don’t think it is acting. He just only did one take. Usually someone is better then a the other. That’s what I understood from the documentary anyway. He just did the tapes because he was old and someone bugged him enough.
jonplackett··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
It’s very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

But also kinda weird. There seems to be a lot of fines for hospitals for example.

Some Portuguese hospital was fined €400,000 for ‘Insufficient technical and organisational measures to ensure information security’

jonplackett··on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics
And barely gets enforced
jonplackett··on Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok
At least you have to go a casino for gambling. Short form video wastes your entire life away.
jonplackett··on What's the best way to learn a new language?
The other amazing thing is that all the recordings of him are done with two random people they just dragged in and did on the fly.

They seem so perfectly weighted and with exactly the right increase in difficulty that I assumed they must have been heavily edited / selected.

But basically he kept his methodology secret - literally locked in a safe - because he didn’t trust anyone after his experience in ww2.

It wasn’t until he was really old that someone convinced him to make the recordings. And the tapes are just that.

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