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by makeitdouble 9mo ago
Thanks! On adding new characters to Unicode, as for any commitee there will be rejection and cases where going through the whole process is cumbersome/not worth it. It's more commonly discussed in the CJK circles, it reminded me o
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You could see it as a failure to enforce the spirit of the law. Judges have the power to make it right and refuse the loopholes.
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As for many standards, the question is less what's available/supported and more what's the format actually used irl. Half the mail I received from that period was in iso-2022 (a JIS variant), most of the rest was latin-1. I h
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> robot maids What fascinates me is we could probably make self-folding clothes. We also already have non wrinkle clothes where folding is minimally needed. I wager we could go a lot further if we invested a tad more into the matter. But
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Technical knowledge isn't specifically bound to literacy. A "dumb" example would be IKEA manuals that describe an assembly algorithm, I could imagine a lot of other situations where you want to convey very specific and techni
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I came back here after the video (btw he speak very deliberately, watching it at 1.5 or 2x while digesting the message is fine) I'd compare it's message to a "warning !" sign. It's there to make you stop and think a
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Purely anecdotal, but I hoard a lot of personal documents (shopping receipts, confirmation emails, scans etc.) and for stuff I saved only 10 years ago, the toughest to reopen are the pure text files. You rightly mention Unicode, as before t
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> effectiveness of LLMs Is doing dozens of back and forth to explain what we actually want, while the model burns down inordinate amount of processing power at each turn, a model of efficiency or effectiveness ? It might be convenient an
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I don't get why using a binary protocol doesn't allow handling strings. What's the limitation ?
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The text based side of protobuf is not base64 or json. We'd be looking at either CSV or length delimited fields. Many large scale systems are on the same camp as you as their text files flow around their batch processors like crazy, bu
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Yes. I think jobs where any laptop would do will get better ROI from the most run of the mill machine, whichever it is. Back in the day it was the Dell XPS and Thinkpad lines, right now I see the MBA and Surface added to those. Economies of
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It might as well be, though Bluetooth is kinda hit or miss in general IMHO. On Macos, first party peripherals have of course pretty good connectivity (is it even straight Bluetooth?) but it's not perfect either, and third party ones ha
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On repairability, other laptops are mostly fine if you don't need any guarantee or official parts. That's a big ask IMHO. Especially for the keyboard: 2~3 years of heavy use will have a clear impact, and I'd hate to get a rep
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This is a more comparable benchmark (it's the current FW13): https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/15769561 The MBA has about a 20% better score on the single thread perf benchmark. It's better, but is it
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Bluetooth is too flaky for such critical inputs. Dongles will usually bring higer polling, less interference/2.4Ghz connectivity and lower load on the host system. Sadly most are USB-A plugs. Bluetooth being cnstantly used for audio an
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Don't you get these spam mails either way ? I have a separate email I only use to get government and public services (gas, electricity) stuff and it still receives a few hundreds of spam a week. At this point I kinda feel whitelisting
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My point was more that throwing around the lowest price point (in a different currency...) of a differently positionned product line helps nothing. Comparing Macs to Framework laptops is also an exercise in frustration in that nobody's
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Pokemon cards. Even kids who can't read yet will somewhat play with them outside of the rules. Except they're fragile, easy to lose, will bring fights and other troubles as they grow up, and cost a ton more money if they really ge
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You can teach a 4~5 yo kid to clean up. Below that it probably comes down to personality/level of awareness, and it's probably a lost cause for 2 year olds and below. Then you'll want an adult to deal with the body fluids and
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We didn't see any of the toys in the article , but had a lot of other magnetic and combinable toys. The big advantage over Lego was building sizeable things with fewer blocks. Duplo blocs come close, but they are pricey (hard to gift s
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> walked into a big box electronics store You're comparing Apple to unnamed computers brands you touched at a random place, I'm not sure what to make of it. For instance how does the Macbook Air compare to the current 13"
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Apple pours all they have into making their trackpad the best it can be, including working from the OS to the UX to the SDKs. It's sailant when using the Magic Trackpad on Windows: the acceleration curves don't match, the keyboard
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Setting aside opinions about the product, the first 16" mac is around 2849 euros in the EU https://www.apple.com/be-fr/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-pouc...
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> keyboard and a mouse That's the part that's hitting me the most. I have two dongles for the wireless connectivity of both, and the choice is between sticking both in a dock and bring the same huge dock every single place I go
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In wish I could have lived for a month or two with the Framework system to get a better feeling of it. I'm usually either docked at my primary desk and only need a single USB-C, or moving from place to place and need 2 USB-A and a full
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Point taken, I totally see how brighter screens must be a boon for people who actually bring their laptop outdoors. My personal needs are way smaller so I missed that part completely (on contrast IDK, I recently had a Surface Pro 8 next to
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> two thousand Euros There is a lot of weight put into this number...and it seems that everyone forgot why US makers prices have inflated to this point. It's not to polish the "premium" experience, it's tariffs spread
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Have you ever tried dealing with Lenovo for parts or repairs ? My only experience with them was bleak and I never heard good stories on this front.
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> hardware has usually advanced far enough That's not what we're experiencing. Screens have seen improvements, but not in a significant way within these 4-6 years. Keyboards haven't improved leaps and bounds. Track pads ei
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Work email will be very different from job to job as well. Many orgs have basically declared bankruptcy on email and moved peofessional communication to other channels. For the last decade my work email has been basically notifications, wit

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