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Never thought I'd say it but I really miss UCS-2.

Funnily enough, I don't consider the iPhone 12/13 mini miniature at all. Granted, my hands are quite small even for someone of my height (5'7"), but remember those times people made fun of the iPhone 5 and of how gigantic it felt compared to 4S? I don't think human hands have grown that much since then. And I still believe the 1st generation SE is the best smartphone Apple has ever released: a rectangular screen, no camera bumps, a fingerprint sensor (that is still faster than Face ID), a mini jack, light, affordable, etc.

If I may ask, what's your absolute favorite ISA? Is it ARM64 or something less common/practical?

Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.

"[...] we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that."

And yet I don't see anything about him stepping down. I never do.

The iPhone SE 2016 remains to be the best smartphone Apple has ever released. This year, my wife made me replace it with a 13 mini, and it feels nothing but a downgrade: too large, too heavy, camera bumps, no headphone jack, no touch ID, atrocious PWM, etc.

Sure, I understand people have different needs from mine and appreciate they have a choice, but it saddens me that I don't anymore, and all I want is a modern (read: not discontinued), compact device that can do what a 10-year-old smartphone could do and gets out the way.

  Location: Japan (comfortable with a 4-hour overlap with PT)
  Remote: only
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: distributed systems, database engines, knowledge graphs, search engines, recommendation systems, large language models, AI accelerators, compilers
  Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/39kmk5q4iii3hw9kelbhf/resume.pdf?rlkey=lud04lbyo4jjxy91zwivtgjbk&dl=0
  Email: yndi@me.com

I don’t have kids yet but I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot. I personally don’t consider a no screen policy a very good idea, especially in the Information Age. After all, the technology is not a problem here. Instead, I’m building an intranet with an in-house search engine and a video streaming service which I’m going to populate with Wikipedia articles, my fairly decent collection of non-fiction books, some of world best fiction, movies, music etc. Besides that, no internet access for minors in my house. My fight is not with profanity or obscenity but with tasteless garbage like all that clickbaity ad-filled batshit YouTube is pushing onto me.

Hardkernel folks make some pretty amazing products. My home server is built on top of Odroid-HC2 coupled with a 3.5” HDD, and I feel that was some of the best $70 I ever spent. The whole thing is tiny, fanless, and it only consumes 2 Wh on average. I only wish it had hardware video encoding capabilities.

If you want to understand how a NES emulator works, I highly recommend javidx9’s videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrOv9FMX8xJHqMvSGB_9G9nZZ... I personally got more joy watching that series than out of HBO shows.

Your comment upsets and disappoints me. In large part because it's true: at my previous workplace, I was casually told that CME is a polite fiction and all employees are expected to exceed expectations.

I see a million use cases: no-code data scraping, analytics, feeds, notifications etc. Just think of the web as a giant database with URLs as table names and CSS selectors as column names. I started to work on it about half a year ago after I got tired of writing Python scripts every time I needed to join subsets of various online databases.

I'm working full-time on exactly that, hope to launch soon.

I've been using my iPhone SE since 2016 and man do I wish there was something to switch to by now. I don't think I can stand PWM on newer OLED iPhones (that includes 12/13 mini) and I will dearly miss the headphone jack. If there were a modern (un-Googled) Android phone like the 1st-gen iPhone SE, I'd be ready to spend $800 on it, I don't even care about cameras, fingerprint sensors, or NFC.

Thanks a lot everyone for your recommendations, really appreciate them!

Tom's really mastered his skill of casual misleading, he adds these "wait, what?" moments to every video. A more notorious example will be his explanation of how optical reflection works, check out his "30 Weird Chess Algorithms" (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) around 10:20.

Edit: spelling.

Can anyone recommend other hidden gems like Tom's channel? I've been following him for years and still have not seen a merrier hacker. George Hotz's livestreams (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzFUMGbVxlQs5s-LNAyKgcq5S...) were as good perhaps, but the format is quite different, and he doesn't do them anymore.