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In NL I can buy a base Macbook Air with 16G memory and 512G SSD voor 1199,- inc tax. I just looked up my M1 receipt: in 2020 I bought a Macbook Air M1 with 16G memory and 512G SSD …

Bugatti has chosen with the new Tourbillion to go for an all analog gauge + button setup. Because handcrafted gauges and buttons (these days) shows of luxury. https://www.bugatti.c…

I'm going to go the other way: if 7 days is not enough then you are not thinking hard enough about how you want to solve the problem that you have. Because if you have to do so muc…

Please the small but significant typo: it is B instead of M for the numbers.

I'm not a professional analyst but the numbers look weird to me. Prediction was to sell 507,000 in Q4, they delivered 497,570, but only made 459,445. That means that they had almos…

As someone who bought Microsoft Flight simulator via Steam I concur. I swear that Flight Simulator updates use at least 3 layers of redirection between starting via Steam, getting …

I started with a Psion 3 and later a Psion 5MX and now 30 years later I still remember how good the user experience was. The agenda, de contact database, the way you could make you…

Dyson spheres are a nice way to look at what humans are capable of in the future. That is why they probably capture the imagination. I actually do not see them as much more than be…

I'm actually shocked that a company that has spent 25 years on finetuning search results for any random question people ask in the searchbox does not have a good, clean, dataset to…

Interesting that they move to touchscreens. With all the Hacker News stuff that comes by every day I can easily say that 99.9% is not what I do in daily life. But building control …

I fondly remember Fractint ( https://www.fractint.org/ ). And these days I'm amazed at what it could calculate with the very limited CPU cycles at that time. I'm not sure how to co…

The article suggests that ChatGPT slows down because it is winter and in the winter people (and data on which ChatGPT trained) sometimes slow down: the dark/gloomy/depressing winte…

In order to have the "winter blues" you must know that it is winter. And in all my questions to ChatGPT I never had positive feedback that it knows what time it is, what date it is…

The problem is not keep the battery warm while parked, it's keeping the battery warm while driving. Most EVs can "preheat" themselves before you start in the morning, the smart one…

Llama 2 70B Chat generates the same "safe" answer for me. The default prompt seems to be a large factor in the way that it forms a response. "[INST] >\nYou are a helpful, respectfu…

No the arab spring that is coming soon. Remember why it was there: because many countries could not pay for food anymore because of the high grain prices. And what is happening now…

Most of the usual names will popup in the thread, like joplin and obsidian,etc.. But to my surprise Apple Notes has a very good enex import. It was the only program that kept the c…

Working for a large international company I use ChatGPT mostly as a code generator for one time tools (for a variety of languages and shells) and also to generate boilerplate text …

The new sync is needed. Evernote is one of those rare programs in which the desktop apps work better than the mobile apps. Both on Windows and macOS the sync works very fast but on…

As a current Ford Mustang Mach E owner I laugh about stories like this. The Mach E had so many TSBs, recalls, software updates, attempted software updates, updates that _bricked_ t…

Your toolbar is a nightmare for people that may have some eyesight problems or are not expert FPS shooters in the latest triple A game and miss some mouse dexterity. What I'm tryin…

Just as rick rolling many years ago it was also fun to have people react to "Bagger 288" on Youtube, it is a weird video. On a more serious note: open pit mining is one of the most…

While not on the same level of dangerousness Google Maps will also route me through a nature reserve, with no street lights, cattle grids and no snow plowing in winter. All while t…

And that was a great user experience: Note the scrollbars that indicate where you are in your document/file list. No guessing on how many pages (if any!) there are to go. Note the …

The EU is already on this with new regulations. As of 2022 european trucks can be upto 90cm longer if the extra space is used for aero bodywork. The DAF XG+ is the 1st truck that u…