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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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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?

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).

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!

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

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.

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.

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...

any concern with the company going out of business or login account getting blocked (for example Gmail banning your account) ?

Microsoft has some amazing TTS technology. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service...

I know it is not Firefox, but Edge has it built-in and it works great! Highly recommended to try.

Then you are accepting that what drags your productivity down is commuting, not actually working from an office. Remote working may be a solution to your problem but comes with associated costs you may be not counting (misunderstandings, wrong team member mental models, alignment calls, longer on boarding times, suboptimal knowledge sharing, less serendipity/synergies in general). Another solution to your commuting problem is find a job that is closer to your place

How you know it was not anecdotical due to switching workspaces and it is not regressing to normal?

Clear "Correlation does not imply causation" case. The fact that people stayed more time at home implied they consumed more of everything online and accelerated digital services adoption making companies related with digital services sell more, plus less expenses (no travel, less expenses in facilities) made higher profits. Remote work correlating with Higher profits is a correlation not a cause afaik.

Many assumptions in your statement. You probably can't evaluate your productivity by yourself and record profits come at specific context, specific time and based on a historic inertia and multi-year strategy.

This is not about fighting any tyranny, this is about running companies, and the same way there are costs associated to work in an office for you, there are costs associated with employees working remotely (and not only economic), but you don't see them.

TailScale and its exit nodes make this blog post a tweet. Install OS > Install TailScale > set as exit node > You are done.

Cool tool! It would be great to change not just brightness/Contrast but the rest of monitor parameters such as display input.

Neil, congrats your site! It looks great, very cool design and content. The Berkeley font also looks very nice. I'll beta test.

Thanks for posting it. Nice stats, it would be great to see the stats by country and developer ternure.

What about tailwind UI components? https://tailwindui.com/#components

This project is soooo amazing! Congrats! Great piece of art and engineering

Long version of the video:https://youtu.be/z-Ng5ZvrDm4

I'm wondering how long it will take to get Mac OS Big Sur running in these new Apple TVs. The Apple Transition kit had an A12Z, Wikipedia says it is a "binned" version of A12 Bionic, therefore both chips have the same ARMv8.3 instruction set. I'm not sure of the performance but theoretically it should be possible to have 200 dollars ARM Macs running with this hardware.