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Wow! At that size, I wonder if it's even technically still flying, or more like swimming through a thick Brownian motion soup.

My honest opinion is that until the software situation drastically changes, there is zero reason to get anything other than nvidia cards, because the cost of hardware will always be dwarfed by engineering hours in dev, and ROCm isn't there yet by a long shot.

I'm very much looking forward to this changing, for VRAM reasons in particular. But it's not going to happen any time soon.

Wow! What a pretty game. Thanks for sharing it.

I'm still building more AM4 machines than AM5 for clients, FWIW, even for folks that want relatively performant desktops. The price/performance just isn't better enough yet to do otherwise for most.

As an avid user of both DJI and Bambu products, US-based equivalents, if they even exist, are so far behind the quality and capability curve it makes me genuinely sad.

As an example, I had a heatbed issue with an early X1C. I went back and forth with the Bambu support folks a few times, busting out a multimeter and thermal probe. They had no trouble interpreting the information, and sent me a replacement part, under warranty, ASAP. Can you imagine any company stateside that would engage in actual troubleshooting nowadays? At best it's going to be some poor guy stuck reading through a script they can't change, and aren't empowered to resolve anyway. Maddening.

Fully agreed. The rentiers have squeezed all the juice they can, and never understood what was amazing about personal computing in the first place.

(nb. I am casting no aspersions at the author of the letter; I know nothing about him. Just sharing frustration at what has happened to the industry over the years.)

I use a Pixel Watch 2, not an Apple watch, but my charging behavior is pretty much as you describe. It goes on to charge during my morning loop, and is always full by the time I'm ready to head out the door. It's good enough that I don't have to think about the charge state at all through the day, it'll last regardless of usage, and that's all I need.

IIRC, Factorio uses Lua for all Mod scripting.

You do it during work hours. Period.

Your brain only has so many truly 'on' hours in a day, and it's already less than 8. Trying to burn even more in the pursuit of complex knowledge isn't just robbing Peter to pay Paul, it's eating the seed corn and wondering why your harvest failed.

It's a scary thing to realize, and can be hard to stick with. But limits are real, and respecting them gets more work done in the long run than not.

My favorite part is how you can now only have a single page open in all of settings. Have a blocking dialogue box open? Too bad for you if you want to change literally anything else, gotta wait!

It is also maddening to me the degree to which sensor information is hidden, or simply not available at all. I got my Pixel 2 watch specifically for fitness and sleep tracking. A year on, and I am still completely unable to perform a spot SpO2 check. I'll get a nice, pretty and utterly unlabeled graph of my supposed saturations when I sleep, but that's it. It definitely feels like the people that make it don't actually use the thing.

I was due to pick up my ADHD meds yesterday, and couldn't, for crowdstrike and reversion to paper reasons.

For me, it's mildly annoying, but I've got an emergency supply. The lines of truly desperate people with much more urgent needs than mine were long, and there was a lot of crying and despair in the lobby. I can only imagine the situation in larger cities.

That was an exceptionally good read. Would also love a link to Part 2.

He reads like smug sandpaper.

Well, I'm stuck in an urgent care waiting room, so let's give this a shot.

Mach 2 at sea level: 1,522 mph, or 2,232 feet per second.

1 square foot of lawn has around 3,000 blades of grass.

2,232 square feet * 3,000 = 6,696,000 bps (blades per second)

Hard drive transfer rate around 30 years ago: 80,000,000 bps (bits per second)

So honestly, closer than I expected! Hack the width of the grass strip a bit and you'll get a perfect match.

Nextdoor is close to the worst example I can think of in terms of dark patterns and user experience, and I don't say that lightly. I think it is quite fair to lay that at the feet of the executives.

How do the modern Chinese $10k cars compare? Genuine question.

I love my '98 Jeep Grand Cherokee for everything but the gas mileage. I especially love that everything is under direct button and dial control, and yet somehow its interior doesn't look like that of a 747.

If a 26-year-old car can do it, so can modern ones.

The short answer is no. You will not get fusion without slump.

That being said, there are excellent, optically-clear, UV stable epoxies that are made for this problem. Hxtal is the go-to for most. https://www.lakesidepottery.com/HTML%20Text/Tips/Hxtal-NYL-i...

It is very thin, and will happily wick in and fill cracks. Often the join is completely invisible. The downside is that the cure time is on the order of 1-2 weeks. It does take a little practice to use effectively, and it's worth trying on less-important projects first, but it's straightforward enough that you can expect success if you follow the directions carefully.

One of the most important accessibility features they could bring back are physical home buttons on at least one ipad.

I am completely serious. I work with a lot of older adults, many of whom have cognitive challenges, and the lack of a physical button to press as an escape hatch when they get confused is the #1 stumbling block by a mile.

Is there a way to visually tell what kind of sensor loop you're dealing with?

I can verify that a magnet makes the difference for my steel-framed e-bike, but really there's only half a dozen lights in town (Gilroy, CA) that I frequently use.

Seconding this. I have a very minor astigmatism in my right eye. Getting it corrected with custom reading glasses instead of just using regular readers, even though perceptually it's fine with the cheap ones, is night and day in terms of eye strain and headache. I was genuinely surprised when I figured out how much of a difference it makes.

You can attach a small permanent magnet somewhere on your bike's frame and it will trigger the ground loops. They're a common add-on for motorcycles, too.

I wonder if at least part of it is a reaction to the pervasive overstimulation present in our modern lifestyles.

I explain it to folks as if one was trying to go further south than the south pole. There's nothing physically impeding you; it's simply that once on the pole, all directions are north.

Action potentials are digital. Once the neuron hits the trigger threshold, the spike happens at the same amplitude every time.

The process by how the neuron determines whether it's time to fire or not is almost grotesquely analog, in that it is effected by a million different things in addition to incoming spikes.

How much of each process matters for what is the mind-generating part of the brain's work? We don't know.

Myelination (which allows very fast, and digital, communication between neurons) is universal in vertebrates, which points to it being important for intelligence.

As a counterexample, we have cephalopods, which accomplish their impressive cognitive tasks using only 'slow' neurons; they get around the speed limit by having huge axons, which reduce internal resistance. So we know that digital transmission isn't necessary for intelligence, either.

The nature of cognition is a fascinating subject, isn't it!

A genuinely engaging read. Thank you for posting it here.

Not OP, but I've had a couple of pretty awful NDEs, and in my case, at least, while the euphoria fades after a few days to a week, each one genuinely did seem to reset my anxiety baseline to a lower level. Things that had bothered me 7/10 became 5/10, tops, and that has persisted across years. I would be very happy to have not had those experiences in the first place, but the silver lining is real.

As someone who has worked in tech my entire career... Music and literature.

Mayan honeybees are native to the Yucatan, FWIW. They've also spread to Cuba.