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ambrose2··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
Yea, I literally just bought an OEM dongle 20 minutes ago for this exact purpose.
ambrose2··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
My mom got her battery replaced at an Apple Store and the process broke the phones ability to connect to the internet or the cellular network. They ended up replacing the phone.
ambrose2··on The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
> three dots

The kebab

ambrose2··on Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
My ball was kind of an indeterminate grey, too, but it was on a granite countertop of a kitchen island in an open concept kitchen/living room. Like one from a Bounty commercial or something.
ambrose2··on Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers
WFH is great for life, not always great for work. Depends on your priority at the moment.
ambrose2··on U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades
I really cannot stand sitting in a car in traffic and my last name starts with an A, interesting!
ambrose2··on This is a teenager
You can’t say that you can just not care about zero tolerance. I was the nephew in a similar story and was probably held back from membership in the National Honor Society because of the timing of the suspension, worsening my college applications.
ambrose2··on When did dogs become our best friends?
Definitely a high trust city (Vienna), but note that a few times a year they do check for tickets.

Because the monthly pass rate is so low, most people have purchased the pass on their phone and that must be shown a couple of times a year or else you’ll be charged a fine at the checkpoint. I’m actually surprised that the evasion stats are so low, since the fine isn’t terribly large and you might come out ahead just never paying the fare and only paying fines.

I have to say though, that system of spot checks makes the day to day very low friction.

ambrose2··on GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a "materially better" update to ChatGPT
Is there real proof of this? I’d love to read more about it because I’ve been so frustrated the last few months.
ambrose2··on Akira Toriyama has died
Hmm, I was in Japan and there were some races (triathlon, 5k, etc.) and someone working at the event was dressed up for the finish line of the kids race as Master Roshi. The event wasn't anime themed or anything, but such major characters are a part of the tapestry and mainstream of Japanese culture.
ambrose2··on Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning
Very interesting!

Is there a particular Parker model you’d recommend?

ambrose2··on The case against caffeine
“very few people drink 1-2 cups” - I really doubt this, most people I know drink 1-2 cups.
ambrose2··on GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont
I used to work there, and can confirm that there’s plenty of space there for more parking lot, there’s woods in all 4 directions and it sits on an old super fund site (former rocket fuel testing).
ambrose2··on Think Python, 3rd Edition
Exactly!
ambrose2··on Think Python, 3rd Edition
Maybe, but I think the book really was different from any book I had read before. Most books teach the language, but Think Python showed me some of the why, what each data structure might be used for, it would quickly dip into some interesting implementation details to give me a more solid foundation and then zoom out and give me perspective on why something is useful and related software writing skills and tips. It was thorough, but also concise, and the exercises were engaging, so I found myself for the first time really getting sucked into the zone with the problems and time was flying by. This hadn’t happened to me with Java or Perl.
ambrose2··on Think Python, 3rd Edition
I enjoyed “Data Structures and Algorithms in Python”!
ambrose2··on Sora: Creating video from text
From what I remember reading, Open was never supposed to be like open source with the internals freely available, but Open as in available for the public to use, as opposed to a technology only for the company to wield and create content with.
ambrose2··on Think Python, 3rd Edition
Similar for me - I had learned some Java, Matlab, C, Perl here and there but it wasn’t until Think Python 2e that I was gripped and from there read many other books and changed my career to software.
ambrose2··on TSMC to build second Japan chip factory
I used to work in R&D for leading edge node development and we had a couple night shift technicians to unblock long running high priority tests. However, we could have iterated much faster if we had dozens of engineers running additional tests at night. Some tests require you to be there at the tool to change temp and so on. And there are ton of possible tests you can do. If you get a result back in the middle of the night and have engineers to review the results and configure a new test then and there, that’s a much faster learning cycle time.

Another advantage of TSMC is how they have enough fab space dedicated to R&D that they can run prototypes through quicker because they aren’t competing with manufacturing to get processed.

ambrose2··on Kagi search reached 20k paying members
I definitely would, I generally don’t wear graphic t’s.
ambrose2··on I was addicted to my smartphone, so I switched to a flip phone for a month
Could you elaborate? What are they doing?
ambrose2··on Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Gmail isn’t like this because they read all of your emails
ambrose2··on The diminishing half-life of knowledge
I would love an easy way to learn all those things you mentioned. For my job I only need to know an API framework, Python, SQL, an ORM, really.
ambrose2··on A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
How much do those cost these days compared to say, day care programs (per hour)?
ambrose2··on A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
When I was a kid, I would get dropped off early for “before school programs at school” and stay at “after school programs” at school and get picked up late because both of my parents worked full time. Do they not have those anymore (which sound like less money than “hiring childcare”)?
ambrose2··on Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice
What about when gmail was released and the storage was advertised as increasing forever, but at first they just increased it infinitesimally slower and then stopped increasing it all.
ambrose2··on How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations (2020)
And over here, I agreed with every one of the author’s “better”.

Maybe I’ve just adapted to the current zeitgeist and conventions of data vis I come across in e.g. Tableau or the Economist.

ambrose2··on Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered
That’s one reason why a lot of people collect vinyl.
ambrose2··on Show HN: DotBigBang – Multiplayer game engine with 120fps and 2 second load time
What is written in Python and what in Go and why?
ambrose2··on WiFi can read through walls
What about a QR code that guests can scan to log into your WiFi without typing an explicit password.
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