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Years ago like 2010, 11 Microsoft had demo touchscreen computers running an art application in the Kids Room at the MOMA museum in NYC. It was responsive to actual brushes and was quite an interesting interface. As far as I knew it was a beta.

> I paid 3400 for my M3 Max 128GB macbook in 2023 A 16" M3 Max with 128GB of RAM and no other upgrades would have been $5000 at launch. They started shipping at the end of 2023, so you couldn't have bought a refurb. Either you're remembering the price wrong or you got a crazy deal.

Polymarket is very unreliable. People believe it because of survivor bias: they heard about all times when it turned out to be right, often associated with insider trading. You never hear about the thousands times it was wrong.

Like I said, internal DNS. I have my own DNS server with a small set of records for my own internal sites, mostly automation tools alongside the websites I've built and maintain for small businesses near me. The latter are the easiest to explain, for example, if I built joescoffee.com I wouldn't work in production…

Is it not just a different form of tokens? Tokens get converted into vector signals. Light waves get converted into neural signals by your eyes. Those visual representations are just neurons firing in your brain.

I am saying that Martin-Löf would see his work in Lean, not mathlib. Mathlib is a library. In Lean you can "contain" classic reasoning to certain parts of the code base, and that is also true in the original MLTT: you can postulate classical axioms as functions in scope.

It's ICMP, so any network that doesn't filter ICMP and would allow malformed packets through could be a target. You'd have no idea when something was PXE booting, so you'd have to keep sending the packets and wait. A bigger question I think is why you'd assign a public IP to a machine for PXE boot rather than booting…

Astra means star, like the Sun

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This means they've figured out a way to keep the screen from wobbling when poked … let the theorizing commence!

What if the ICMP packets are coming from inside the datacenter? Consider a shared or cloud hosting scenario for example.

Makes me feel like we're back in the era of SGI workstations in the late 20th century! I got to play with a few of those in college.

I use it (for choosing tools) with a drawing program and a stylus (for the actual drawing) and it makes things quick/interactive --- no Apple Pencil support, and no ability to lay the entire device down flat means it doesn't suit my needs.

I paid for their lowest-cost subscription, thinking that it would give me a small quota of use of their most recent flash models. Instead, they give me an unnecessarily large quota of their old models, which I have precisely zero use for given that open-weight models are better and cost next to nothing. Consequently,…

People who claim to be capitalists but steal and defraud are worse than communists, they are traitors.

I've been using emacs for around 30 years and your comment made me curious. My .emacs is 237 lines. It used to be more, but I cleaned out the Java and Octave support I wasn't using anymore.

For work I have a Windows laptop with a touch screen and these were the only times I have wanted to use it: 1. The trackpad on it is so god awful that using any sort of multi finger gesture is a non-starter. In this case the touch screen works significantly better. 2. I wanted to draw in a whiteboarding tool. Drawing…

Well, my perspective is somewhat narrow (I use it primarily for software engineering and pretty technical data engineering work), so it's possible that Argon is well-suited for the work I do but not for other tasks. I suppose it's just more data points to consider.

So in the end it comes down to cost-benefit. As Skytrain has no attendants, there's a certain level of risk of passenger injury and death no matter how good the signals are. If Skytrain had platform doors, there would likely be less, but probably never zero, and TransLink baulk at the cost (for now). Other systems,…

I am going to jump on the touch hate bandwagon but more specifically I think it’s odd in the format they designed. I think the MSFT surface is brilliant because you can fold it down into an iPad like device which can be great for travel and other non-desk uses. Touch while still being a normal laptop does feel odd. I…

I've had my eye on the normal Mac Studio M5 Ultra (normal plebeian 96GB RAM) and the release date there keeps slipping, now into January. I'm surprised Apple is pushing the backlog even more.

A massive overpriced laptop with a novelty touch feature on its monitor gets free promotion on HN. Ah well.

1. Improved thermal system 2. Even better speakers 3. Thinner and lighter while retaining the 100 Wh battery 4. No more notch Seems like a solid all-around update to be. Other than cellular, I can't possibly imagine what more people could want.

That minor, inconsequential point is the difference between a fire that is easy to put out, one that has burned out before the firetruck gets there and one that you simply can't put out.

I never thought I will see that in my life. Great, even if it's not for me yet.