smlacy

What's Mercury?

No discussion about use of 0/1 for power switches is complete without mention of the original IBM 5150 (original PC) power switch, which is the first place I ever remember seeing the "binary" 0/1 used to mean "power on / power off" on electronics.

Filters like that would look cool, but would introduce at least 1 frame of latency, which isn't great, especially if the input is 30i or similar.

Welcome to the world of being someone who uses the Dvorak Layout. I quickly learned that my brain can't hold "two layouts" and my qwerty-layout touch typing pretty much evaporated after focusing on typing exclusively Dvorak. I can touch type Dvorak at over 90wpm, and Qwerty at maybe half that at best.

The thing that you somewhat over-exaggerate is the frequency at which I'm not using "my own computer" that has been already setup with Dvorak. Its exceedingly rare that I ever type anything on someone else's machine.

Isn't Mini BMW?

Often times "Reliability" is calculated as "fraction of cars that have a recall or other unscheduled maintenance during the initial N months of ownership" and I believe Tesla is actually quite high in this regard?

https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-vehi...

Very weird how EVs and ICEs are intermixed.

I would expect vastly different results across different drivetrains, and probably even more differences across shape/size platforms (compact, sedan, truck, van, etc.).

It's web scale!

Thanks! It's amazing how the Nitter UX is actually better than Twitter itself (showing proper context)

Good.

Wow I wonder what the sentiment / morale on the inside of OpenAI right now is like.

Or maybe even just a $500 Chromebook?

And with unified memory, you need to share with the GPU, which will have at least 2x framebuffers at full screen resolution and bit depth, as well as any/all required texture memory, shaders, etc. Likely won't even have anywhere near 8GB for the system to use.

Really shows how technically savvy Apple thinks their customers are. Just one more point supporting "Apple products aren't for people who understand technology."

I'm left wondering if he wrote this under the influence of psychedelics, and if this was an attempt to capture/maintain the insight that he feared he would forget.

Wow, this is really nice looking. Almost monospaced, and could easily be tweaked into a really nice looking font for programming.

Writing 'n' instead of 'and' when discussing mathematics is generally a very bad idea. Your example is a good one, but your use of abbreviations in your writing is horrid.

Reminds me of '00s whatsbetter.com!

So you're saying it's not a "tax" per say and that the hardware premiums actually go to R&D on next gen systems?

Apple's profit margin says otherwise. :)

> Apple net profit margin as of March 31, 2023 is 24.49%.

Yeah, very much unlike your comment. Strange, that.

Try using a black fleece neckwarmer as an eye mask.

If only such a statement could be made about their horrible mobile apps needed to fly these drones.