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Base iPad went up almost 30%, including refurbs. Was recommending one to my parents for $299 - now it’s $379.

I highly recommend the recently published The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money by Brendan Greeley. It's an accessible look at how individuals, governments, markets, and value all intertwine to create a stable and widely used currency.

While I love the curiosity and creativity that has recently emerged around digital pen plotting, many people may not realize this was the workhorse technology for producing technical drawings for several decades in the late 20th century.[0]

Large format pen plotters with up to 8 separate pens were available for different line weights. Color was mostly avoided because the reproduction process of the time was still centered around diazotype[1], or monochromatic ammonium blue printing.

[0]https://piratefsh.github.io/2019/01/07/computer-art-history-...

[1]https://drawingmatter.org/a-blueprint-is-blue/

Previously -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42428722

Ah, so this is why raw Mythos was too "dangerous" to realease..

lol, my org recently silently implemented automatic archiving for SharePoint files with mtimes older than 5 years. Woke up to 20,000 files in cold storage and the only user facing remedy is to manually restore each file one at a time.

After speaking with IT for several days, they begrudgingly exempted my site after ‘leadership approval’ but were confounded as to “why anyone would need files older than 5 years”

Forget the AI boom, there still orgs struggling with storage, databases, and email.

Currently utilizing 126GB GTT on a headless host

And here I am with 128GB Strix Halo longingly eyeing the Blackwell cards that spit tokens 10-20x the speed.

The question is ultimate shape of knowledge compression and bandwidth optimization at which we arrive I suppose.

I personally enjoy the Alpine Linux diskless pattern for live images, with the ability to commit state changes back to the image via the Local Backup Utility, or LBU [0]

[0]https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup

I just finished the recently published The Alighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley [0]. It is a great story of the evolution of currency in general and the dollar specifically. It wraps up with a brief critique of crypto in general that I found interesting.

[0]https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502/the-almighty...

It's interesting to put this article in the context of all the local-model vs. frontier-subscription inference discussions occurring recently.

How can anyone (financially) justify the cost of owning your own compute?

How can anyone (ideologically) justify the cost of not owning your own means of compute?

its misspelling all the way dwon

Perhaps unintentional, but I find 'bankrypt' to be a thoroughly interesting portmonteau.

I'm not sure if it's when you run out of crypto, or when your bank gets hit by ransomeware.

I'm unconvinced, this is one of the most iconic historical buildings with tomes written about it and plenty of existing photographs and public models to train on.

I would be more interested in benchmarking the modeling of an anonymous structure based on provided references alone. It kind of feels like the shallow magic of watching an LLM one-shot a to-do app..

Couple items:

- You don't need a cloud key, or any other hardware to use the Unifi APs. You can SSH in or configure with an app on your phone. But you miss out on a lot of the features that make this hardware desirable. I ran a Unifi system for a long time with no controller or cloud key at all.

- I've never needed an internet connection to set up a Unifi system, in fact I typically get the local network setup and working, and configure the WAN as a last step. This provides the convenience of being able to consistently hit the router to debug issues.

- I can see the frustration of not being able to migrate the configuration from cloud key to gateway, but a migration is different from a restore, which is what a back up is intended to provide. In practice, I'd always plan to reconfigure if I'm changing hardware or software in the stack.

Unifi is indeed very Apple like (founded by ex-apple engineer I believe?) in both good and bad ways. I think their goldilocks deployment is large home / small businesses that need remote administration.

That pelican wears it's sunglasses at night. So it can, so it can keep track of the visions in it's eyes.

> One thing I really didn't expect: the serving backend matters. Same Mistral-Nemo 12B weights produce 7% accuracy on llama-server with native function calling and 83% on Llamafile in prompt mode.

I thought Llamafile was just a model and llama.cpp bundled in to a single binary - is this the difference between Llamafile injecting a default sysmtem prompt vs hitting the raw llama-server endpoint with no harness?

That seems like comparing apples to apple pie, there's some ingredients missing.

Well, my initial thought was that I have more cpu cycles and storage than spare desk space, so software is the easy win. But thinking about it, I do occasionally plug sbc's or liter pc's for bare metal OS installs. Deskhop might be the perfect solution for that!

I use two computers displayed side-by-side with the picture-in-picture feature of a single ultra-wide monitor.

Input leap[0] is a great open source KVM software version of the deskhop which allows me to control both computers on the same monitor with the sam peripherals.

[0]https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

>So, a moot point.

That's exactly my point. Photoshop is the wrong bellwether with which to test the vibe coding value premise refuted by the author.

It's like asking where all the skyscrapers are when The Home Depot opens up in your neighborhood.

And as someone that's used photoshop professionally for decades, pixel manipulation is precisely what it does.

>For all the websites and apps I whip through on a given day, they’ve always been mysterious to me — pyramids erected by an unfathomable priesthood. Suddenly I was a pyramid builder.

I think this diffusion of knowledge, which represents the rising floor of progress, is the largest benefit of the AI phenomenon to date.

Where are the vibe coded Photoshops? Here is a good place to start:

https://github.com/light-and-ray/awesome-alternative-uis-for...

AI has obliviated both the need and the desire for discrete pixel manipulation outside of the existing professional disciplines. It has been replaced by the explosion of diffusion models with a direct human language --> pixel image loop.

I don't see anything on the site or article that promote the destruction of property. It's an aggregation of public information regarding the history of vandalism towards a specific target.

The website largely documents the current state of privacy and provides resources for (digital) services that help maintain privacy. This is an encouraging civil engagement which educates and empowers the audience.

Why stop there? Why not request the PII of every person who could have plausibly downloaded the app at any point in time?

Aerospace vessel, not terminal prompt.

It's pretty good, but I guess it depends on your environment. Pretty decent at removing things like traffic, air conditioning, television. Even Sirens are pretty muted unless they are extremely close, which is a good thing I guess. They probably won't block the base beat if you sleep above a night club..

Thanks for sending me down the Topre rabbit hole!

I have fallen into the (questionable) habit of sleeping with Airpods. I used to wake up with my mind racing and not be able to fall back asleep. The Airpods helped distract and sedate my midnight thoughts such that I would fall back asleep much quicker than without. I've progressively shifted towards falling asleep listening to the droll of engaging non-fiction, but keep them in my ears in noise canceling mode with no media for the remainder of my night.

Again, not medical advice, just anectdotal experience..

Edit: this is entirely due to the 'Stop playing when falling asleep' function of iOS 26, which I loathe. But this feature barely make it worthwhile.

If you are into Japanese lacquer x technology mashups, check out the 10th anniversary HHKB (happy hacking keyboard) by PFU Fujitsu[0]

[0]https://hhkb.io/models/HHKB_Professional_HG/

IANAL, but I'd be surprised if the UI icons are not covered under copyright.