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Power Up Your Workflow: Top Laptops with Thunderbolt 3 in 2024
Thunderbolt 3 isn't just a fancy port; it's a game-changer for demanding users. Whether you're a developer, designer, or video editor, the blazing-fast data transfer speeds and versatility of Thunderbolt 3 can significantly boost your productivity. But with so many options on the market, choosing the right Thunderbolt 3 laptop can be overwhelming.

This post cuts through the clutter and highlights some of the best contenders in 2024, categorized by their strengths:

Best Overall: ASUS VivoBook S14 S433 (Thin & Light)

Pros: Compact, lightweight, vibrant display, 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor, Thunderbolt 3 via USB-C for fast transfers and docking.
Cons: Reports of mushy keys and backlight limitations.
Best for Power Users: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 3

Pros: Blazing-fast performance with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and 10th Gen Intel Core i7 processor. Crisp visuals with FHD IPS anti-glare display. Supports up to 3 monitors for ultimate multitasking. Excellent compatibility with creative applications.
Cons: Heavier than some options, no touchscreen.
Best Gaming Rig: Razer Blade 15 Base

Pros: Excellent for demanding games with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics. Superb build quality and stylish design. Versatile connectivity with Thunderbolt 3, Wi-Fi 6, and multiple USB ports. Customizable keyboard backlighting.
Cons: Can get loud and hot under heavy use.
Best Budget Option (with Thunderbolt 3): Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1

Pros: Touchscreen display with great resolution. User-friendly with Windows 10 Pro. Portable and lightweight.
Cons: Weaker processor compared to other options, lower storage (128GB SSD). Lacks fingerprint reader.
Beyond Thunderbolt 3: Choosing the Right Laptop for You

While Thunderbolt 3 is a valuable asset, it's not the only factor to consider. Here are some key specs to prioritize based on your needs:

CPU: Aim for at least a 7th Gen Intel Core i5 or AMD equivalent for smooth performance.
RAM: 8GB RAM is a good baseline for multitasking.
Storage: 256GB SSD is a good starting point, but consider higher storage for media projects.
Display: Prioritize a screen size and resolution that suits your workflow (e.g., 14"+ FHD for developers).
Battery Life: Look for at least 7 hours for reliable on-the-go use.
Conclusion:

The best Thunderbolt 3 laptop depends on your specific needs and budget. By prioritizing essential specs and considering the options highlighted above, you can find the perfect machine to supercharge your workflow.
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China app store after Beijing order
What about for second tier cloud providers like Linode, Vultr or UpCloud, they all offer S3 compatible object storage, will I need to write an adaptor for these or will it work just fine in lieu of their S3 compatibility?
Great article!

This is one of the most overlooked problems in generative AI. It seems so trivial, but in fact, it is quite difficult. The difficulty arises because of the non-linearity that is expected in any natural motion.

In fact, the author has highlighted all the possible difficulties of this problem in a much better manner.

I started with some simple implementation by trying to move segments around the image using some segmentation mask + ROI. That strategy didn't work out, probably because of some mathematical bug or data insufficiency data. I suspect the later.

The whole idea was to draw a segmentation mask on the target image, then draw lines that represent motion and give options to insert keyframes for the lines.

Imagine you are drawing a curve from A to A. You divide the curve into A, A_1, A_2... B.

Now, given the input of segmentation mask, motion curve, and whole image, we train some model to only move the ROI according to the motion curve and keyframe.

The problem with this approach is in sampling the keyframe and matching consistencies --making sure RoI represents same object-- across subsequent keyframes.

If we are able to solve some form of consistency, this method might be able to give enough constraints to generate viable results.
Supabase is great and I’ve used it for a number of projects over the years both with a backend alongside it or direct from the client with RLS.

There are some weird edges (well really just faff) around auth with the JS library but if nothing else they are by far the cheapest hosted SQL offering I can find so any faff you don’t want to deal with there’s an excellent database right there to allow you to roll your own (assuming you have a backend server alongside it)
As partners embark on the journey of love, let emotional intelligence be their compass, guiding them through the labyrinth of emotions, conflicts, and intimacy. For in the embrace of emotional intelligence lies the promise of enduring love—a love that transcends the boundaries of time and space, uniting souls in a sacred dance of understanding, empathy, and unconditional acceptance.
Where do you read a defense of anything? This is not a "weird take", just a statement of a fact (may it be true or false): that the average is ~40k and not ~15k (it is currently illegal to pay less than 15.876 euros per year).
Interesting, we've just been looking at something similar at work. Unfortunately we've got a bunch of application config and test data in the database and no fast process for seeding it. We're now building a Postgres Docker image with a baked-in database. There were some tricks for making a small database and it's important to change `PGDATA` to something else, otherwise the `VOLUME` directive (in the official Postgres image) causes a full copy of all the files. It looks promising, though (accepting connections in ~200ms).
A much lesser known museum worth a visit in Madrid is the Sorolla museum[1]. I believe the museum was actually his house in Madrid.

Sorolla is the master of light. His paintings are stunning[2]

There are several virtual tours available online [3]

[1] https://www.cultura.gob.es/msorolla/inicio.html
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Cosiendo...
[3] https://www.cultura.gob.es/msorolla/exposicion/visita-virtua...
Never used Supabase before but I'm very much comfortable with their underlying stack. I use a combination of postgres, PostgREST, PLv8 and Auth0 to achieve nearly the same thing.
No, but the pterosaurs might have been, because their (likely) quadrupedal launch implies they could optimize away all unnecessary muscle (read: weight) from the legs, so they inherently could optimize their body plan better.

And they also had two wings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scAp-fncp64&t=150s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TKgupAZVzE
It’s really obvious the actual “metaverse” goal wasn’t a vrchat/second life style product. It was another layer on top of the real world where physical space could be monetized, augmented and eventually advertised upon.

AR glasses in a spectacles form factor was the goal, it’s just to get there a VR headset includes solving a lot of the problems you need to solve for the glasses to work at all.

Apple made the same bet.
IMO it hasn't been failing them, it's kept their nose just above the waterline. Reality is SKR (and JP/TW etc) are developed countries with high tertiary enrollment that have nearly maximized their demographic potential in the sense that they can't really produce more skilled talent to fill what is being lost without immigration. Which would be hard since they can't compete with Anglo countries for same talent pool. So folks in globally competitive industries (like Samsung) are pressured to work 200% harder to squeeze 10% competitive advantage to prevent their shit from getting kicked in. US sanctioning PRC, whose minting OECD combined in talent and starting to compete in tech/hardware brough SKR/JP/TW some time (remember when Huawei was about to stomp Samsung), but the tides are against them.

PRC got similar problem, but it's more they're producing too much talent than opportunties so involution happens. With like 50m more STEM + skilled labour on the way to add the the competition. But one saving grace is PRC has like 150 cities with over a million people that folks can fuck off too and still have decent quality of life. You can always lay flat and chill in a tier2/3 city nearly as vibrant as Seoul/Tokyo/Tapei with less cost of living. SKR/TW and somewhat JP is kind of fucked in that sense, most of the opportunities are in a few geopgraphic grinders where you have to be.
Like a segfault?

(comment thread directly above is discussing the segway)
What Happened to the Nautilus? [video]
It basically generates a hash based upon a timestamp using an incremented seed value, until it's able to create a HASH ending with x number of trailing zeros, at which point it's got a value token.

Server side needs to be implemented specifically for each backend, but it should be a no-brainer for most. The point is the algorithm and the idea ...
Ask HN: Spoon vs. Fork for mixing sugar in milk/tea/coffee
Generally speaking,

between a spoon and a fork, which shape would induce better dissolution and diffusion of sugar into milk/tea/coffee ?

I am wondering about this because

Forks: Their tines (usually 3-4 tines) should theoretically cause more agitation and enable better dissolution and diffusion of sugar with more "churns" while stirring.

Spoons: They act as a shallow bowl and help in serving sugar into the liquid, and can also double up and do the job of mixing it.

Strictly for the purpose of mixing the sugar into the liquid, do spoons have any design advantage over forks if we ignore the aspect that they help in transferring the heap of sugar into liquids ?
Of course you'll get shit when you have people who have no background or experience working on user interfaces. We came few cycles into that already, ever since web democratized access to doing such things. There was even Mystery meat navigation as a term way back in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation

This is nothing new. Amateurs going pro. DTP saw something similar, video as well.. lots of things.

What's new however is in mobile age, what are you even designing for? It's a moving target between device aspect ratio and screen sizes.

No wonder it's all a giant galleria abominate.
most people are just a few words away from a psychosis or a complete breakdown.

Edit: to illustrate. Your phone rings. You hear the words. You know which words, the unthinkable ones.
It's a really strong truism though.
Can someone explain the “Diana’s silk dress cost $89” mnemonic on x86 reference?
China Orders Apple to Remove Popular Messaging Apps
No point in giving up my keto and going vegan then!
ACX Survey Results 2024
They didn't use monads, Kliesli categories, co-ends, profunctorial effects algebras, or string diagrams with functorial boxes.

It's almost as if this is a ninja who trains in a strip mall dojo, rather than a true backlog assassin.

For just like a true ninja reaches a point where no enemy is foolish enough to approach lest they be slaughtered, a true categorical ninja reaches a point where no PM is foolish enough to assign them work.
The user you’re replying to wasn’t rude or uncompromising. They even posed their statement as a question, suggesting they might not be too sure of what they’re saying but still explaining where the reasoning comes from.

Yet instead of taking this rare opportunity to inform and change the mind of someone who appears to be receptive, along with the minds of everyone who may think the same and reads their comment, you chose to insinuate they’re wrong but offered no correction. That adds noise to the discussion but does not advance it in any way. It’s also OK to not make unproductive comments.
There's increasingly mature work on CHERI temporal memory safety, eg https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/pdfs/2020oa... and more recent versions.
I'm pretty sure it was irony.
You know the value of measures like this is not just the money frozen but also the prevented crime which is not even attempted because people know about the measures, right? That’s like saying surveillance cameras are useless because they don’t catch thieves. Sure, but maybe they decrease theft anyways…
Indeed, evolution is basically trial and error, where the trial is life, and the error is (untimely) death.

I'd argue that it's not science at all, because what's missing is the coordination behind it. To me, evolution is not a product of conscious effort, but an emergent behavior or the individuals and systems that participate.

Taking the "science" definition from Wikipedia: "Science is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world". With evolution, testing definitely happens, but it's not a systematic endeavor, or at least I'm not convinced that it is.
You pulled a Kobayashi Maru when you got the chance. I bow to thee.
Cool project anyone reading this may be interested in:

https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web

I've never used it but it should make having a p2p conversation through Mumble as easy as pointing your browser to some URL. UX matters (Mumble clients, including mobile apps, are not very user friendly last time i checked: they require some level of skill to use them)

Unmaintained for the last 4 years, sadly.
>Evolution must be a great programmer too.

Randomly mashing the keyboard, then running the code hoping that it doesn't crash? Not exactly what I'd have in mind when thinking of great programmers, but to each their own.
If you want to get a lot of public money in France, the best approach is to set your entire neighborhood ablaze, which guarantees the money will come pouring in the following months.
Unmaintained since 2021. The program is the same man, and he moved on to LXQt.
The blackmail risk is actually fairly balanced between content creators and subscribers. If you look on Twitter for example, you'll see loads of adult content creators blackmailing their customers.

AFAIK Onlyfans doesn't directly purse blackmail cases with its own legal teams, it just bans accounts.
Cherub, an angel investing community inspired by dating apps
For me, XP is the one I prefer. It looks more "modern" than 98 but not as "glossy" as 7. It has the right balance of better looking buttons and radios, but doesn't go too far
I'm a bit like that. I scored surprisingly high on the math portion of the SAT, but couldn't remember which thing was sin and which was cosine. In coding for 2D game platforms I think I've needed to reinvent parts of trigonometry and spatial geometry every time I encounter a new version of the problem. What your brother did makes perfect sense to me; not that I dislike math per se, but his way is probably how I would approach that problem too. I need to be able to visualize it in space. By breaking it up into discreet buckets if necessary. Once I do, I can figure out an iterative logic function that approximately describes it... although it may take me much longer if I'm trying to figure out an actual equation.
We use electrical devices daily to streamline our residential and commercial operations. Electrical inspection and testing are crucial; otherwise, you might encounter safety hazards while using electrical appliances. People often assume that low-voltage electrical appliances are safe to use, but a low-voltage device can pose safety hazards. Without proper electrical inspection and testing in Nottingham, your electrical system will pose safety hazards and experience premature wear and tear, leading to downtime, equipment failure, and costly repairs or replacement.
Telling me it is not quantum field theory lets me know that you know nothing about either thing. Making decisions that affect entire industries that consist of many types of people is incredibly complex. I guess we will live with incompetent midwits making decisions for a little while more.
Nice work. I use Firefox but am gladly bumping this
> Generally, you would want to place an upload server to accept uploads from your customers

A common pattern on AWS is to not handle the upload on your own servers. Checks are made ahead of time, conditions baked into the signed URL, and processing is handled after the fact via bucket events.
Remaining question: Are feathers better than fur?
It's not done for compression, it's about tree-shaking and bundling dependencies.
OMFG, people! Therapy isn't pseudoscience. There is a shitload of evidence that it works. You don't get to wave around the reproducibility crisis like it's a magic wand to make things that scare you go away. Now show me on the doll where therapy hurt you.
is this cloud?
> The dirty secret of web apps is that we’ve mostly gone backwards in usability compared to native desktop apps from 25 years ago.

I wasn't aware it was a secret! Though it certainly isn't just web apps: the desktop has taken steps backwards too, and not just where bad web apps are hosted in simple desktop wrappers.

Back in the 90s and 00s I remember a strong push for consistency and discoverability, where now that often takes a back seat to aesthetic matters and shiny new things. And it isn't just the apps: whole OS UIs have fallen apart, with levels of inconsistency well beyond that which Mac and Windows people used to poke fun at the Unix world for. It is amazing how hard it can be sometimes to see at a glance which app currently has input focus on a Windows desktop, particularly with multiple screens.

There are several parts to the consistency problem, and the overall UX-is-more-shite-these-days problem, including:

1. The conflicting priorities of the range of devices (trying to make something work on a small touch-based mobile and a large desktop environment, often creating something that is imperfect on both).

2. The desire to be subtle and pretty, even where this makes things less obvious (some flat designs are particularly bad for this: little indication of what is actionable, scrollbars becoming single lines of pixels or invisible entirely, title bar text being slightly-whiter-than-mid-grey when active and slightly-darker-than-mid-grey otherwise and sometimes the reverse).

3. The desire to have an app that is easier to monetise where a plain web-app would be better (so you get something that is trying to optimise for four distinct UX arenas: web, mobile web, mobile app, desktop app).

4. The desire for everything to be online-first, so you can more easily justify charging for a subscription (and so you don't have to worry about sync issues inherent in offline-first design) even in cases where entirely offline would be the better choice for the user.

5. The desire to be hip and new with UI design completely overriding years of earlier UX research because form sells better than function. Yes, some of those research results may have been questionable, and some that weren't are less relevant to today's environments, but they all seem to have been thrown away in many places.

It isn't all bad though, some things are still well-designed from a UX standpoint, or if not well-designed at least not brain-dead. I live in hope that people will learn from the few good examples, and we'll have a swing back towards caring about properly optimising for UX instead of just looks & monetisation.
> to deliberately induce such bias

I don't think big companies do such "deliberately" (in the sense that a human made the explicit decision to do it). But when there is a certain behavior that performs better in practice, then such behavior will proliferate.

I say, that when the effect is known, and the company chooses not to reduce it, they are acting deliberately. The purpose of a system is what it does.

I agree, that the relation between the effect and the specific behavior may not be obvious, as you pointed out ("Managing bias is a wildly difficult..."). But it seems that google does not even acknowledge, that this effect exists [1].

Beside the intention, I think the more interesting questions would be:

Do the induce such a bias (deliberately or not)?
Do the induce any bias at all?

[1] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/google-2016-...
They are absorbed by neutronium.
I thought it was associated with Microsoft.
> users tend to complain about [Mumble's] newer client versions quality and convenience.

I have never heard anyone complain about Mumble's UX. Especially not that it has gotten worse. Or it's resource usage, which is practically unnoticeable on any average system sold past 2005. It's the best-in-class and has only gotten better.
>If anything, this release makes me excited for the quality of smaller models going forward.

While there's going to be more that can be milked out of them, we are already clearly fairly deep in the diminishing returns portion on small models.
This was really fun. It captured a lot of thinking on a topic I've been interested in for a while as well.

The discussion about converting to a vector format was an interesting diversion. I've been experimenting with using potrace from inkscape to migrate raster images into SVG and then use animation libraries inside the browser to morph them, and this idea seems like it shares some concepts.

One of my favorite films is A Scanner Darkly, and that used a technique called rotoscoping which I recall was a combination of hand tracing animation and computers then augmenting it, or vice versa. It sounded similar. The Wikipedia page talks about the director Richard Linklater and also the MIT professor Bob Sabiston who pioneered that derivative digital technique. It was fun to read that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Sabiston
>> Any baker who focuses on consistent and repeatable results knows that precision is part of the path to getting there.

I make bread. Every time I make bread that is better than my standard it's because I accidentally deviated from my standard recipe. When that happens I will sometimes make a note of what exactly I did and then try to do it again, but I never got the same results that way. In fact I never get the same results with my standard recipe either. There is always variation, even when I use the same flour from the same sack.

I don't think baking is like you say at all.
> I doubt it. Have you got any benchmarks?

Here is my set on Ubuntu 22.04:

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2022/08/18/ubuntu_remixes/

And from 2013:

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/04/26/xbuntu_round_up...

KDE is not lightweight, but v5 is not as bad as older releases were compared to the contemporary competition.
Yes! This!

This could definitely be done in a user script, or if someone's feeling especially bold, make a whole extension that redirects any paywalled news site to the archive.is equivalent
My guess is all the assets are preloaded. They are gradually added to the "stage" and shrunken/faded out based on the zoom level on an item-by-item basis (vs zoom levels.)

The background color would be its own "item."

I actually came across this site because I was looking for an example for a proposal for a fun project for this guy: https://youtu.be/1kjvgWBHzec (he tried a couple of non-programming video editing methods to achieve the zoom effect.)
> Yet, people still line up to become veterinaries (and technicians). Which proves my point.

The informed reality is that the rate of drop out is also huge. Not only from people who leave the course while studying, but also professionals who abandon the field entirely after just a few years of work.

Many of them are already suffering in college yet continue due to a sense of necessity or sunk cost and burn themselves out.

So no, it does not prove your point. The one thing it proves is that the public in general is insufficiently informed about what being a veterinary is like. They should be paid more and have better conditions (worth noting some countries do treat them better), not be churned out and left to die (literally) because there’s always another chump down the line.