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> Time to start learning Mandarin Mandarin has been on the curriculum at my son's school for the past few years. Prescient planning imho.

Absolutely hate numberpads on laptops - if you're sitting with the laptop directly in front of you it means your arms and hands are slightly offset to the left for normal typing.

Anthropic built the Torment Nexus - calling it now.

I'm unconvinced but I'll ensure I do my homework before grammar-policing again :)

That M-W entry literally says they're different words with different meanings: > They are in fact different words, but with sufficient overlap in meaning and form as to create unce…

> The New Yorker prefers insure to ensure. They have a unique house style. That's not a stylistic choice, it's just incorrect use of English.

Britain has the 8th-most expensive electricity in the world[1], seems prudent that a Brit would try to be more self-sufficient in terms of generation? [1] https://worldpopulationre…

> Anyone else into what my high school biology teacher loved referring to as "pseudo-arachnomorphic diagrams" (Mind Maps[1] / Spider Diagrams)? Yes! Nearly all my notes are mind-ma…

Can't view the pricing page without logging in (/app/pricing immediately redirects to a login box). Not going to get invested in a product until I know how much it'll cost in the l…

Came here to say the same thing, what a wonderful post.

I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?

> I don't agree about containers, they are a really handy tool to produce stable(-ish) deployments. Agreed - at least so long as we're living with the current OS paradigms that hav…

> Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again. B…

Microsoft’s early/rushed attempt at AI (the various things called “Copilot”) does start to feel like how they lost the mobile wars. They had a tech fairly early (Windows Mobile) bu…

Mike Monteiro's recent AI talk at Y Oslo.

> Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year. Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-a…

Slightly ironically, I stopped reading the Guardian a few years ago for this very reason!

> In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts…

> If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals. You could even take it a step further for extra safety: …

> Their corporate support is a joke. SUSE also really like their "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"-style random subscription audits too.

Led By Donkeys' exposure of the Truss mini-budget and the Adam Smith Institute involvement is enlightening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRDLIOME47c

Sounds familiar... https://www.laptopmag.com/software/windows-11s-ai-recall-fea...