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Time to start learning Mandarin

Mandarin has been on the curriculum at my son's school for the past few years. Prescient planning imho.

Absolutely hate numberpads on laptops - if you're sitting with the laptop directly in front of you it means your arms and hands are slightly offset to the left for normal typing.

Anthropic built the Torment Nexus - calling it now.

I'm unconvinced but I'll ensure I do my homework before grammar-policing again :)

That M-W entry literally says they're different words with different meanings:

They are in fact different words, but with sufficient overlap in meaning and form as to create uncertainty as to which should be used when.

We define ensure as “to make sure, certain, or safe” and one sense of insure, “to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions,” is quite similar. But insure has the additional meaning “to provide or obtain insurance on or for,” which is not shared by ensure.

The New Yorker prefers insure to ensure. They have a unique house style.

That's not a stylistic choice, it's just incorrect use of English.

Britain has the 8th-most expensive electricity in the world[1], seems prudent that a Brit would try to be more self-sufficient in terms of generation?

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...

Anyone else into what my high school biology teacher loved referring to as "pseudo-arachnomorphic diagrams" (Mind Maps[1] / Spider Diagrams)?

Yes! Nearly all my notes are mind-map-ish. I’m a visual thinker/planner with ADHD and mind-map style “spatial notes” are the only ones that make sense to me when writing and reviewing later. I’ve tried a few methods of moving this process to digital over the years but nothing sticks like pen & paper.

Can't view the pricing page without logging in (/app/pricing immediately redirects to a login box). Not going to get invested in a product until I know how much it'll cost in the long term.

Came here to say the same thing, what a wonderful post.

I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?

I don't agree about containers, they are a really handy tool to produce stable(-ish) deployments.

Agreed - at least so long as we're living with the current OS paradigms that have been around since the 70s. Redhat: bring us something modern that handles software distribution/dependencies/lifecycle management/partitioning/security boundaries in a nicer way and maybe we won't need containers.

Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again.

Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my phone.

Microsoft’s early/rushed attempt at AI (the various things called “Copilot”) does start to feel like how they lost the mobile wars. They had a tech fairly early (Windows Mobile) but utterly failed to execute on it and ultimately, allowed a competitor to dominate with a better product.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. With the sums of money involved it could end up being make or break?

Mike Monteiro's recent AI talk at Y Oslo.

Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.

Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-assed and the development pace is glacial so perhaps a new team behind it would be something they'd be interested in.

Slightly ironically, I stopped reading the Guardian a few years ago for this very reason!

In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts today is that it's just too easy to interrupt people.

So much this. Our org moved pretty quickly into organising and communicating via Teams when the lockdowns hit and people starting working from home. Moving that quickly meant that many basic things like messaging etiquette never really got thought about. Even now I'll still receive messages when my status is set to DND or receive complete junk openers like "You there?".

If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals.

You could even take it a step further for extra safety: the door handle could have a slot that requires a specifically shaped piece of metal to be inserted. Only a piece of metal with the correct shape would allow the lock to be opened.

Their corporate support is a joke.

SUSE also really like their "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"-style random subscription audits too.

Led By Donkeys' exposure of the Truss mini-budget and the Adam Smith Institute involvement is enlightening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRDLIOME47c

Sounds familiar... https://www.laptopmag.com/software/windows-11s-ai-recall-fea...

if you drink coffee and then sleep immediately

Alas, being of a certain age means that any kind of liquid before bed will result in an early-hours wakeup to relieve the bladder - negating any potential sleep benefits :(

It's a bad use of capital. At the end of the day, Infra is a cost center. It's something used to keep the lights on, but doesn't expand your TAM.

Indeed it is and while CFOs may not completely understand the technology they do understand risk and if the CTO has flagged "single vendor" as a risk then the CFO will go with that.

The software support for iPads have been excellent imo, especially compared to competition.

Yes, excellent in comparison to the other "black rectangle" devices, phones, tablets, etc but compared to a regular PC still awful. My core 2 duo PC from ~16 years ago is still going strong.

I think the difference is, with an "open" platform like the PC it's up to the user when they want to replace the hardware, usually when it's too slow to keep up with the things you want to do. But with these newer devices you're completely at the mercy of the manufacturer - at some point the power flipped and that's a shame.

Basically, this customer was using BOTH Nutanix and VMWare internally (I am VERY surprised how the previous CFO did not get fired for something like that), and because they already had the Nutanix knowhow and licenses, migrated fully to it.

Why do you think that? Not putting all of your eggs into a single vendor basket seems like a solid plan - if anything the Broadcom/VMware disaster supports it.

Imho the TPM 2.0 requirement killed Windows 11. There's still huge fleets of incompatible, yet still perfectly useful, PCs out there - especially in large corp environments.

Written in 2018 before Puppet was bought by Perforce - would be interesting to read a new update to see if any of Luke's ideas or practices managed to survive the buyout.

I hope big internet companies boycott the UK

So at least there's a potential bright side for people in the UK :-)

ShutUp10 might be what you're after: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10