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Charging is a lossy process. Charging a battery, then using it to charge another battery isn't as efficient.

Plus, depending on how/where it's used, having to wait for it to recharge while connected to a power bank might be a non-starter. You also don't necessarily want to recharge while transporting in a bag either because of heat concerns.

Came here to say as much. No proprietary 'lock-in' with Obsidian, just plain .md, and honestly (if I recall correctly - it's been years now) I felt like I struggled using Notion's 'fancier' features. It seemed like copying/pasting out of it was often problematic.

Like others are saying, though, Notion is much more geared for collaboration. I couldn't care much less about that, so here I am with Obsidian, still, years later.

>Esp when the lowest setting isn't even meant to be purchased

All current models ship with 16GB so this isn't really true anymore.. 16GB will be good for most folks for years and years (most folks aren't doing heavy virtualization or other highly ram-intensive use cases).

>and the specs are so low they will underperform, or be obsolete in a few years.

...what?? People are still using OG M1 macs because they're still very capable machines. These things - especially the M4s - have crazy amounts of performance headroom.

> It then writes a prompt based on your answers, sends the text to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, creates a combined draft from the three translations, and then sends that draft back to the three models for several rounds of revision, checking, and polishing.

RIP global power consumption

Might be related to the 'breach disclosed/discovered' date? I noticed some of mine appeared out of chronological order, too.

FWIW, their readme states /nothink - and that's what works for me.

>/think and /nothink instructions: Use those words in the system or user message to signify whether Qwen3 should think. In multi-turn conversations, the latest instruction is followed.

https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3/blob/main/README.md

Nope. Best for that at the moment is probably gemma3.

The MoE version with 3b active parameters will run significantly faster (tokens/second) on the same hardware, by about an order of magnitude (i.e. ~4t/s vs ~40t/s)

Does this turn your phone into a personal space heater too?

This is basically the opposite of what I've experienced - at least compared to another recent entry like IBM's Granite 3.3.

By comparison, Gemma3's output (both 12b and 27b) seems to typically be more long/verbose, but not problematically so.

They're not the only battery tools I have (also have some Makita), but I am a big fan of virtually all my M12/M18 stuff. From the track saw, to the portable bandsaws, to the band files, oscillating multitools, reciprocating saws, jigsaws, drills, drivers, blowers, string trimmers, etc... their lineup is just incredibly diverse, servicing many trades/tasks, and they hardly ever make a 'dud'.

Their batteries, at least in my experience, have also been similarly long-lived and reliable over years. And yeah - like some others have said - I also get all my batteries from 'battery included' tools/deals. I don't think I've ever bought one by itself.

Notion seemed cool until finding out that getting information into/out of it was more of a painful, messy chore than I wanted it to be.

After trying Notion and experiencing the 'lock-in' for myself, I switched to Obsidian years ago - no regrets. Combined with Syncthing, it works surprisingly well - offering graceful/seamless editing of the same Notes across Windows desktop and multiple Macs, updating to the other devices in essentially real-time.

Did you completely miss the "while not necessarily 'bad'" part of my post?

>The problem is not the bureaucracy.

I'm no expert by any means, but have you ever actually worked with Germans?

The existence of Betriebsräte (Workers' Councils, as implemented in Germany), while not necessarily 'bad', comes with a mountain of bureaucracy...

I had a Lenovo S10 netbook too back in the day. I have fond memories of it, but I definitely don't 'miss that tiny size'. It was so tiny that they had to shrink the key size on the keyboard to make it fit, and the trackpad was also so tiny as to be barely usable.

Nowadays, I'd say 14" is the sweet spot. Compact enough to easily fit in a bag and be taken basically anywhere, without having to sacrifice much if anything in terms of functionality/capability.

With screen bezels reduced to almost nothing, a modern 14" is pretty comparable in size to a 12" model from yesteryear.

They said it'd be $40k. They currently 'start at' $63k - assuming you can even get those basic models now.

Absolutely. Simple, and modular - with wide availability of (perhaps 'universal') replacement parts.

We're observing in real time - mostly via skyrocketing insurance rates - the impact & unsustainability of expensive, all-proprietary parts. Vehicles are getting totaled out now more than ever for things that should be repairable.

Speaking of diesel - what I really want is a simple plug-in hybrid truck or SUV (e.g. a USA Toyota Hilux or 4runner) with ~50-80 miles of battery-only range, and a diesel generator for 'indefinite' range extension.

Sentiment analysis can be pretty valuable in marketing/propaganda.

To all manufacturers: More plug-in hybrids, please!

A smaller battery with a range of 40-100 miles would allow most people to do their daily driving strictly on battery. Beyond that, a gas/diesel generator should kick in for range extension (or for towing).

>Better yet us "AI" to determine how productive you were yesterday.

You can bet that's exactly where this is going for the corporate world.

Thank you - I love HN for things like this! A Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favorite books/series. RIP

Starlink V2 sats are bigger, so they definitely won't be sending 400+ up at a time with Starship - probably more like 100-200.. but I don't think they've had any official updates/figures on this in a while.

Price gouging seems like standard practice for HVAC companies.

I'd like to replace my 25+ yr old system (gas furnace/AC) with a new gas furnace & heat pump so I can have the option of heating with gas or electricity... but when I ran this by an HVAC technician who was here for a service call, I got the same kind of exorbitant figures thrown at me with the heat pump in the equation.

Same technician wanted $750 to replace a control board when my furnace had gone out during a blizzard - I sourced my own & did it myself for <$150.

70b is probably going to be a bit slow for most on M-series MBPs (even with enough RAM), but Mixtral 8x7b does really well. Very usable @ 25-30T/s (64GB M1 Max), whereas 70b tends to run more like 3.5-5T/s.

'llama.cpp-based' generally seems like the norm.

Ollama is just really easy to set up & get going on MacOS. Integral support like this means one less thing to wire up or worry about when using a local LLM as a drop-in replacement for OpenAI's remote API. Ollama also has a model library[1] you can browse & easily retrieve models from.

Another project, Ollama-webui[2] is a nice webui/frontend for local LLM models in Ollama - it supports the latest LLaVA for multimodal image/prompt input, too.

[1] https://ollama.ai/library/mixtral

[2] https://github.com/ollama-webui/ollama-webui

Maybe, maybe not.. human-rated equipment will (almost certainly) always be held to a higher standard than autonomous drones/rovers.

Yep - I got a Winix 5300 ~3 years ago and it's been great. Nice and quiet, low power, and the squirrel cage blower in it is really good (which is rather important - you need a lot of static pressure to push/pull air through a HEPA filter and box fans just aren't really up for the task at low levels).

In a just world, royalties would be paid to those whose content AIs were trained on.

In reality, the most we'll likely see is a few people who successfully sue for their small piece of the pie, while the big companies carry on like nothing happened - further accelerating the transfer of wealth right to the top.

Some sort of HDR effect.. very bright on a 14" MBP screen

All I want is a pretty basic 'Hilux style' plug-in hybrid AWD truck that can do 50-80 miles on battery-only and tow ~7k. A truck that isn't UNNECESSARILY HUGE, nor loaded with tons of unnecessary 'features' to try to justify an $80k price tag.

I really wish someone would make this happen.

>I predict I will never see 5 guys with lunch boxes and hard hats get out of one

I'm sure you will around Boca Chica, but they probably won't have much of a choice either. That said, it could be a pretty good 'proving ground' if they use them to run 120/240V equipment onsite.