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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:30PM (#50284239)
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Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:23PM (#50282366)
Anything image related is better interacted with a touchscreen. E.g, Professional photography, Medical imaging.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:19PM (#50282340)
I had the same experience. You need both the trackpad and the touchscreen they are complementary and great for different use cases. I've always thought chromebook pixel was a product ahead of its time, and time is confirming it seeing how many later laptops (specially apple) has ended up adopting many of its features.
Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:11PM (#50282272)
Probably a hot take reading the comments, but the touchscreen is great for scrolling and reading vs doing it in the trackpad. If you have the laptop in your lap, the hand and arm position to scroll in the trackpad is very unnatural. Reading/browsing using your thumbs on the screen borders is a great experience. This is even more noticeable if you try to work on planes.
Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @10:18PM (#49721391)
This video makes a better job at explaining what it is about vs the marketing ones. Thanks for sharing.
Tell the washing machine. "Washlexa I'm putting my gym clothes in. It was a hard workout I sweated a lot!"

and the washer now knows what to do. No more temp, length, 2nd rinse proxy controls.

Re:Om Malik has died on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:01PM (#48679795)
My condolences to family and friends. Om writting has always been a reference since Web 2.0 era. Also enjoyed his photographabout friends and travel. Sad news RIP
Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:46PM (#48112550)
Likewise I bought the Chromebook Pixel LS and a Pixelbook during that dark period before M-series laptops and these laptops were awesome and IMO well ahead of their time. The ChromeOS with all its faults was a modern OS without legacy. For example the OS settings are closer to the Phone OS like settings vs MacOS settings that are still a mess these days.
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:52AM (#44589790)
Commenting just to appreciate this analysis. I totally bought the marketing that this was a small phone, while it seems it just had a small screen.
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:08PM (#44587803)
Funny enough, in 2023, Asus released a good very close to iphone Mini-size android phone. The asus zenfone 10. https://www.asus.com/us/mobile-handhelds/phones/zenfone/zenf...
Re:Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok on Saturday January 18, 2025 @06:47PM (#42752374)
I don't know if it would come with the deal, but Bytedance web crawler is known to be the one with top number of requests per day among AI crawlers (src: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo... ) I guess one of Perplexity challenges is to have their own web index and of course that starts with having a powerful crawler. Also having a powerful crawler is useful for capturing tokens to train models. If that technology comes with the deal, it makes perfect sense for Perplexity to acquire them.
It is painful to read. To me in retrospective the major mistake in the presentation is that it barely talks about end users and how the iPhone enabled a new world of use cases. It is only about business/corporate, features and specs. When analyzing the iphone on those dimensions all the reactive action items are doomed. They had not a chance to compete with that analysis.
This is a very bad article, probably to attract traffic to their PM course. For me is very simple, there are AI Product Managers. But those are not PMS that use AI tools but rather those that manage AI products. And there is a difference between Software 1.0 and Software 2.0 (AI or ML model based) products. These products are not managed as engineering but science. These products are managed with experiments. These products are non-deterministic. These products have virtually infinite inputs and outputs. These products do not address one problem but many at the same time. So, if you ask me of course there is a thing such as AI Product Manager but not what the author, and many other PMs, think.
Re:Zooming User Interface (ZUI) on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:47PM (#40046935)
I think the only proven use cases for ZUIs have been Maps, Calendars, and Photo apps (Apple Photos and Google Photos). The last two to switch between different time period views: Day->Month->Year for photos and Day>Week>Month for calendars.
Re:Building WOPR: A 7x4090 AI Server on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @01:15PM (#39830352)
I love the name "WOPR" and the reference to Wargames film
I had the same question. I guess too is a common protocol. Any insights on why these flights are gears down?
Re:Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT on Saturday December 30, 2023 @10:36PM (#38821508)
I would love to see Perplexity.ai in the benchmark. It has completely replaced Google/DDG for information questions for me. I still use DDG when I want to do a navigational query (e.g. find the URL for a blog i partially recall the name).
Re:Show HN: GPT4 Vision for the Meta Glasses on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:19AM (#38460455)
Very nice hack! I did a very similar project integrating ChatGPT bot but using WhatsApp business account instead of fake facebook contact. I got my account blocked when Meta discovered I'm not a business unfortunately. I'll retake the project with the FB account, it seems much easier.

Great job!

Re:Hot Chips 2023: AMD’s Phoenix SoC on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:40AM (#37541863)
No, the reason macs are better on LLMs is memory bandwidth 800Gb/s on Ultra 2 . I couldn’t find a good source but it seems that Ally mem bandwidth is around 70GB/s
Re:The B Lane Swimmer on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:26PM (#37366050)
I’ve observed the same pattern in corporate world with folks which are close to promotion stage. Nice people suddenly become bitter and very hard to work with. Only the best stay nice.
Re:VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie on Thursday August 31, 2023 @02:06PM (#37341346)
100% Agree and unfortunately I don't have numbers. However, anecdotally I work for a big tech and I have one of the leases, and it is a very popular option across my colleagues. I'd probably never buy one, but with the lease I'm very happy customer. Also they gave the option to upgrade to newer models for $10 more dollars a month after a year which I think it helps them to fix operational issues. There is also in-campus maintenance which is very convenient. I think that if they operate/scale the lease business properly it could make a very good business in its own.
Re:VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:22PM (#37340638)
And leases, something very people know is that Van Moof has a great corporate leasing program. All big tech offer eBike commuting options paying Van Moof Leases.

I think it is genius, the bikes are expensive to buy, but $100 a month lease including maintenance is very popular among Big tech (especially if your company pays for it).

https://support.vanmoof.com/en/support/solutions/articles/44...

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