Keyword search is the compelling experience.

I want my machine to be determinstic and non-magical. I am so tired of search tools that won't let me actually search for what I want because it clearly thinks I meant something else.

I wish Apple had some sort of "Geforce Now" style setup to run a Mac in a box. I know they'd never go for something like a legit image you could run in a VM, but surely they could come up with something.

My work sent over some old MacBook for when we need to test something unique to Safari, so it's not even the hardware aspect. It's the "I need to find another place to stash a machine, and then wire up KVM switches to use my highly opinionated I/O device choices, on a finite sized desk" factor.

Is keeping up with "just security patches" on Chromium reasonable?

As sickening as thought as it is, the best hope there is Microsoft-- they can afford to hire the necessary army of developers, and their incentives are aligned just far enough away from Google's that they would have reasons to do it.

The problem is that they're also in the ad economy now, so their opportunity to play it for relevance is shot.

They had a window where they could have said "Edge: the Chromium-based browser that treats uBlock Origin as a first-class citizen" but instead they'd rather add weird popups to credit card fields asking if I want to use Klarna instead.

I have a '60s book on PL/1 which mentions a specific data type for storing the pre-1971 currency. It was a syntactic structure around storing the amount as a quantity of pence.

I'd expect there was still ugliness as the conversion ratio was 2.4 to 1, not making for an elegant quick shift.

If you have a truck full of A100s, it's "extremely valuable" but also perishable goods.

Right now, any workable AI hardware is valuable because the market is not presently saturated, and people are in a "buy what you can get" mindset.

Once the market is reasonably saturated, people will get more selective. Older parts will be less desirable-- less efficient, less featureful-- and if you have trucks full of them to dump on the market, it's going to depress the price.

It's like the PC market of 30 years ago. You got a new Pentium-100, but you could still sell on the old 386/16 for a fair amount of cash because for someone else, it beats "no computer". That market doesn't really exist anymore-- today, you may as well just leave a Haswell or Ryzen 1000 box at the curb unless you want to spend 6 weeks dealing with Craigslist flakes for $30.