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> Apart from somewhat worse fuel efficiency It’s better now by roughly a factor of two per passenger mile. The nature of such large improvements is that it’s extremely hard to get …

Making your own tools is a time-honored tradition, partly for this reason.

> Applications that get closed aren't really closed ... you have to quit them. This is the classic Mac behavior since the 1980s. Except now some apps are identical with their singl…

Here's a one in close to the form factor of the last iPod Shuffle: https://www.fiio.com/m5

> a modest ~200-300x speedup with compatibility mode marcelroed is modest, this speedup is not. Good work.

> entry-level 17e starting at 700 Euro Which is 30% less than the original iPhone accounting for inflation.

iPhone 1 launched at 649 Euros in France in 2007 money, or about 980 Euros today. Given inflation and the increased utility of the smartphone, we're almost certainly at the lowest …

What does 'organizing information' exclude?

The disagreement here seems to be a confusion between the pure model behavior and the behavior that users experience, which is the model wrapped in a harness. It’s normal and natur…

Apart from the ports, that’s roughly the AppleTV hardware. A macOS or Linux port to that would be a cute thin client. Not gonna happen, but cute.

Some Americans say ‘a quarter of X’ and even after 30 years I can’t remember if that’s before or after hour X.

There's an up-market brand for everything: https://www.reef.com/collections/mens-best-selling-footwear#...

In the context of weight lifting, or neuromuscular demand, a one rep max is very high intensity exercise. In the context of metabolic demand, it is not. Your tone is very aggressiv…

Going for one rep max is intense. If it weren't, you could get a better max.

> Now cryptography is used by governments and corporations to protect themselves from us. Just in case you're not kidding, I'll remind you it was always thus. The Nazi Enigma machi…

Correct. Hence "the price is zero". Author still normally transfers copyright to the publisher. That's what gives the publisher the right to distribute copies and charge for them. …

If I sell a novel to Simon & Shuster, and assign the copyright to them as part of the deal, I can't sell the same novel to HarperCollins under the same terms. I can't sell my movie…

> paying out reviewers Reviewers are not usually paid.

Y’all aren’t running your agents as root?

We already had YOLO9000.

Postgres etc are more complex than Redis, are they not? Does your argument assume you already have a database, so you might as well use it for your cache mechanism?