helmholtz

Your comment is so bloody weird. It gives off vibes of those dudes who one day shave their heads and then spend the rest of their lives telling you you should get rid of anger and embrace the light and all that rubbish. Or of Christian assholes wailing on repeat "Jesus still loves you" whenever you disagree with them.

Aldens vs cheapo 20 dollar amazon boots would be a better comparison. You ain't wearing Crocs with a suit my man.

Its a thread titled "List one task, do it, cross it out"

The words LLM, AI, Sam Altman or OpenAI appear nowhere. I don't mind hypebros discussing LLMs somewhere meant for it. I hate that they do it every bloody where. It's like the crypto bros from a few years ago. "Uhhhh, this would be a great candidate for blockchain bro".

No, I think we need to stop contriving obviously skewed examples like Aldens vs Crocs. Boots vs shitty holey rubber sandals isn't a good comparison.

Maybe compare backpack, or suits, or something along those lines.

Oh my god can we just have radio silence from fucking LLMs on one thread please!

I think what the parent meant is that, once Apple decided that the Mac Pro should have the M2 chips, they must have targetted feature parity with the intel versions, aka in the amount of RAM. But presumably, they couldn't get there despite the extra year.

Cars are 'less noisy' vs all the things that you mentioned simply because they are omnipresent. They wear you down, grind away at your tranquility, but because they're always there, they do so without you even noticing. A peaceful evening walk is made wearisome by the constant trickle of cars intruding into your hearing. Particularly so in the USA, because the cars there (just like everything else) are vast. Car use in city is a blot on humanity. I wish they would all just go away and be saved for the weekend road trip, or moving house, but not for groceries or commuting.

That book is life changing, if it's 'How To Win Friends'. Maybe for an older person, this stuff is trivial, but for a younger me, it taught me just how much we as a species think only of ourselves, how you can never win an argument, how you cannot browbeat someone into submission. You can at best hope to make the other person want to do something. Look at things from their perspective.

Stephen Covey seemed to hate Carnegie's book too, as if the book was written by a moustache-twirling supervillain. It's not. It's just a very lovely look into human psyche, beautifully illustrated by tonnes of examples (rather than the platitude-filled bullshit that is inside modern books by Ryan Holiday and company).

Is this what counts for discourse nowadays? Vacuous, lazy, teenage stream-of-consciousness spewed out into a world already inundated by attention-grabs and staggering under the burden of too much information. What a bullshit directionless diatribe. What an infuriating 'hook' to remove all capital letters. What, the author is too cool to use them? Or is taking a principled stance against, what, the English language? Crikey, maybe I spend way too much time on the internet, but I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"? Idiotic.

My god, thank you! Why don't people talk more about key travel? I've had many types of keyboards. Split, tented, columnar layout. The one that does the best for me is a keychron low profile ten-keyless. Just because of the lower travel distance.

Hundred percent agree with the rest of your comment too. 'Vary it up' is the key to avoiding RSI. Almost a tautological point.

Amen. It's a shame dell released that one 8K monitor and peaced out. It's still available but it's expensive as hell, and I could not for the life of me justify needing dual DP cables. But I'm constantly tempted...

Yep. Best of all, you can download trial versions of all of these to try them out.

First, the font that we are used to has an outsize impact on what we prefer. So, if neither of these 'sit right', don't worry.

Digital font designers have to start out by choosing something called the em-height. This is a nonsense holdover from print days, and is especially infuriating because no one agrees on a standard em-height. Therefore, fonts look different despite being set to the same size. Here is a great rant on this: [1]

Lucida Console has a large x-height, which is generally considered helpful in small-size legibility. But it has that in common with both Consolas and Jetbrains Mono.

For me, I can use Consolas, Lucida Console and Jetbrains Mono all down to Size 10 in Git Bash on a shitty 13" 1080p laptop screen. Hence my comment that the ClearType hinting is glorious.

[1]: https://tonsky.me/blog/font-size/

It is the best monospace font ever. I've tried a whole host of programming fonts, but nothing is hinted as well for Windows as Jetbrains Mono. It made me move off of Consolas, despite a decade of having gotten used to it.

Not what your point is, but I'm all for it. I love Cascadia Code, Jetbrains Mono, JuliaMono. I love IBM Plex Sans, I love Source Serif and Source Sans. I love Cooper Hewitt. We live in truly the golden age of reading text on screen.

You'll love Linus Boman's take on it then [1]

If you love neo-grotesques, you can't do much better than Neue Haas Grotesk or Atlas Grotesk [2]. Both are by CommercialType, both cost a pretty penny, but both are absolutely amazing.

I fully agree with you about wanting beautiful and pleasing characters though. It's my gift to myself for being paperfree. If I'm going to read on screen instead of printed, I want the best possible experience. 32" 4K display, professional fonts, nice software for writing in etc.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKc54z5SsEs

[2]: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/atlas/atlas_grotesk

I'm in the 100% scaling camp also. I love how good a 32" 4K display is forfitting mountains of content on a display. Don't need to bother with Portrait monitors anymore.

Maybe not enough, but certainly some. I'm not a software person, and yet my personal machine now runs linux, exactly _because_ of Microsoft's wankery with no local accounts, uninstallable Edge, Cortana, news on the fucking taskbar, and the shitty Windows 11 with its shitty taskbar. Fuck all that noise. Life is calm and great in linux land.

Maybe this is a good moment to rant, but I just don't get what the fuck it is that Chrome does that people just _will not_ get off the Chromium ride. They will happily bend over a table for Google/MS, all in order to not have to use Firefox. I've used Firefox for a decade and a half now, and I've never understood it. It has never failed me, and I've never needed anything else.

Email? Works. News websites? They work. Banking sites? Yep. Google Maps in 3D? Works. Which special, golden webshit is it that breaks on Firefox? And what do people mean Firefox is slow? I've tried Chrome, and boy either we live in differen universes, or there isn't, in fact, any difference in speed.

Great, so you won't make the piles of money that RHEL does, but maybe you'll enjoy your work more.

I'm very curious what kinds of fixes you're talking about. Would you mind expanding a bit on what's broken and how you fixed things?

No.

What if I need to share tabular data? An annotated image with discussion straight after it? Equations? People will have you make everything an attachment but that is much worse in terms of context switching. Absorbing new information is easier when the image is inline with text. Especially after it's been forwarded three times. We NEED formatted email, whether in the guise of a word document or HTML.

What I don't understand is how _file explorer_ can be so slow. It's visibly lagging between directories, first-opening etc. That's a fundamental part of the OS. I believe there is so much phone-home going on that nothing on Windows is slick anymore.

What do you think GP meant with "By all means test your work on a similar machine..."

Ouch. It really does take all sorts.

Courier New is the most appalling piece of shit I've ever seen in my life. It's ugly at small sizes, jagged and unpleasant at medium sizes, and abhorrent at display sizes. WOW do I hate Courier. I hate it on Git Bash. I hate it in cmd, I hate that it exists. Consolas, by contrast, is lovely and beautifully-hinted at best, and inoffensive at worst.

Zen. And MaxTabs. I limit myself to 5 tabs by force. Anything more, it means I'm becoming scatterbrained and need to revisit what I already have opened and think more linearly rather than in a spastic manner.

I tried saving tabs for reference material, but I prefer something simpler. I shutdown my PC at the end of the day. I have a dump.txt where every link that might get needed tomorrow gets pasted.

The paper is delightfully laid out. What fonts are you using in the plots?

Man, your website is the shit and one of the better examples of an antidote to the Website Obesity Crisis. Words over hero images.

Is this journalism? The first sentence itself is incorrect.

> But since reports have been surfacing for a while now that [...].

Well, what about it? You cannot start a sentence with "But since" and not offer a what it means.

Hahaha. I'm Indian, so that joke is familiar :) They should have just stuck a question mark at the end of it to represent all the leet programmers who couldn't fathom how a language could possibly dare to be 1-indexed.