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I have an Asus Zenbook Duo (2024) but I wouldn’t recommend it.

Coming from a Surface Laptop Go 2, and a Surface Pro 8 before that, the build quality on the Zenbook Duo feels worse. Even a Zenbook 14 OLED (2024) that I purchased around the same time seems like it has better quality at half the price.

The Bluetooth is finicky, it has no Miracast support, and the wireless keyboard battery seems to have degraded considerably in just a couple of months, to name a few issues.

There’s also questionable design choices, like not making the pop-out stand run edge-to-edge the way Surface does, and not including any way for the keyboard’s top portion to anchor itself when placed on the secondary screen, among others.

It’s like a beta product at a premium price, but the form factor is definitely what appealed to me. Sadly, there’s not many other choices in that area, except for the Yoga Book 9i and maybe a MacBook with an iPad anchored atop the screen.
Naturally we have to protect them from themselves. /s
When I saw the name Tov I figured this was the Hebrew Bible only.
What could this have possibly cost? $10 a day worldwide? Pathetic.
Some feedback:

– When tapping on the leaflet icon in the bottom left, the whole text area is erased (Safari on iPad).

– The strikethrough icon is a bit hard to recognize, because the stroke merges with the S line. Some text editors use a different letter for that reason, for example a T, and add a small gap along both sides of the stroke to emphasize the overlay (only on the icon, not on the actual text being edited).

– Making the strikethrough line lighter than the text color is a bit unconventional, I’m not sure it helps readability. In the default text size, the line is easy to overlook, also because it is pretty thin (on a hi-DPI display). This is particularly the case on bold and/or italic text.

– No dark mode support, it seems.
The last administration was far from perfect but I think they upheld their view of free speech quite well in terms of policy.

The last administration: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/sunsetting-section-230...
On 8086, the assembler managed the segmentation. All you had to do was load the DS (and possibly ES) register with an assembler defined symbol at the beginning of your function.

I never worked with the 80286, I pivoted to the i960 around 1992.
Pcie lanes
Intel desktop options are quite simple. My only complaint is on laptops, where the i3, i5, i7 thing conflicts with U vs H, and almost seems intentionally misleading. Like, why does i7-U even exist?

But the nice thing is you search the model name, and Intel gives you all the specs upfront.
I made a comment on this already but I do want to add that everyone should call their representatives. It does work and house reps are much more vulnerable than senators so you have more leverage with them.
I just upgraded from a 7-year old XPS 15 - technically it was a Precision 5520 from when Dell still had a Developer Edition that would ship with Ubuntu but it was hands down the best Linux laptop I had. The things I loved about that one was:

- 45W TDP processor - none of the U series 15W slowness
- 4K screen that scaled to 1080P perfectly at 200% scaling - so X11 and XWayland apps still looked good. Also the screen quality was amazing
- Integrated Graphics - no messing around with NVIDIA drivers

I searched high and low for something similar but could not find anything on the market. So made some compromises and went with System76 Pangolin (pang15). Here are my notes on the machine

Pros:
- 45W TDP processor is fast
- They let you load it up with memory and disk for reasonable prices unlike most mainstream manufacturers
- 2nd M2 slot is nice for copying over old SSD
- They provide Windows Drivers in a GitHub repo
Cons:
- Battery life is pretty bad but I stay plugged in most of the time so not a huge issue for me
- Fans spin up pretty often
- USB-C charging only. There is an A/C Adapter barrel jack but they don't ship a charger and I can't find a suitable aftermarket charger. I worry about wear and tear on the USB-C port damaging it one day and that will be the end of the laptop effectively if I can't plug in.
- The screen needs around 133% fractional scaling which is not even an option. So I have to use a combination of 125% scaling and tweaks. XWayland apps look terrible so had to go through and force Wayland on all Electron apps and JetBrains and as you can probably guess there are random odd bugs
- Random issue (rarely) where I power it on and it does not start up, then I have to close the lid, hold the power button, etc before it starts up. Support told me to try booting with one memory stick but it's so hard to recreate I don't think I'll be messing around with it unless the issue starts cropping up more.

Now given all of the complaints, the increased speed over a 7-year old laptop is still nice so I am keeping it. Too bad Dell seemingly abandoned their Developer Edition program. The new XPS's force discrete graphics for good screen options and it's a roll of the dice whether WiFi or peripherals work properly with Linux. I've heard Lenovo has good Linux support for certain things but they also seem to be pushing discrete graphics for high screen resolutions.
Suburbs have the density to support great transit. However the low density means they cannot support anything less. If the bus isn't very frequent or it doesn't have a good route where you want to go - cars are cheap enough and no traffic to they are not painful.

great transit is not cheap. It needs $200/month per family. This is less than the family is spending on one car (of 2-3), but still a lot of money (more than any transit agency in the world gets). You can't start smal either because until you have everything right driving is strictly better so nobody will try it. Even if you build it, expect several years for people to try it.
The recent example of someone putting political commentary on display at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows a bit of how this plays out. (The fact that it was un-authorizedly pirated onto the displays at a federal building is a separate topic; I'm focusing here on the content).

BlueSky took down all the videos of it playing around the office. Because it was AI generated. It wasn't clear whether it was (a video of) a real video or not.

But if that video had been done by an artist? If it had been a comic? That would have been acceptable content to keep on the social network, most likely.

There's a lot of cases where I do think computer generated imagery is personally harmful and dangerous and should have some checks. And I definitely fear it's use politically, if we see videos that credulously seem to be a politician doing something they wouldn't do, performing speech they didn't do. Yet, in this example, it feels like there was little risk that the video would be taken seriously. It felt like clear political satire. But this law proposes that we outlaw political satire, purely because computer generation tools helped make the satire. That seems... not good.

This guy already claiming he's going to use it to take down videos of him feels like it will radically chill commentary & expression of thought that people have a right to make.
Respectfully, you clearly don't know much about the history or about geopolitics if you believe such things.
This helps explain where we're at and where we're headed (Gary's Economics) - https://youtu.be/TflnQb9E6lw?si=3zz9ty4RCew4VzVI
I think this is what makes this new model different - they apparently work with another software company which (probably) should be better.
The view for the future is cutting the US into city-states that they control. They are just following the playbook of Curtis Yarvin.
it's already gone. as soon as we re-elected the felon, everyone knew they couldn't trust us
Framework 13 (AMD). It’s not even a question. I’ve had mine for a year and it’s the best laptop I’ve ever owned.
Highlighted in earlier reports and included in this APNews brief:

In some places, the U.S. air quality monitors propelled nations to start their own air quality research and raised awareness, Krishna said.

In China, for example, data from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing famously contradicted official government reports, showing worse pollution levels than authorities acknowledged. It led to China improving air quality.

( earlier: https://phys.org/news/2025-03-embassies-pollution-popular-ch... + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265021 )

The United States since 2008 has monitored air quality through embassies—as a service to Americans overseas but also, increasingly, as a way to share accurate scientific data that may otherwise be censored overseas.

In China, authorities in 2014 banned a popular app from sharing data from the US embassy ahead of a major international summit attended by then president Barack Obama.

But researchers say that the transparency has had a noticeable effect, with China taking action after being embarrassed by US embassy data released on social media that showed far worse pollution than official figures.

Obama's ambassador to China, Gary Locke, faced scorn in state media after he presided over the introduction of monitors at the embassy and consulates that tracked the so-called PM 2.5 particulate matter carried in the thick blankets of smog pervading China's capital.

The air quality data from the US embassy is also frequently used as a reference in New Delhi, which has severe pollution issues.

This is a low cost to gather and deliver data stream that has a profound effect on global air quality and improving health and well being for all.
It’s another case where he didn’t know what’s going on, heard three words he knew and started babbling. And then people try to interpret it like tealeaves.
I like the Lenovo P16 gen2.

It's not cheap and rather heavy, but very powerful. You can get it with lots of RAM, a powerful graphics card (for LLMs), and a CPU with 24 cores (32 threads). And you can get it shipped with Fedora or Ubuntu (although wiped it immediately and installed my own Fedora).

Curious what the bad Lenovo experience was. I've had various Thinkpads since the early 2000's and they all worked for me.
why the heck a 24gb stick on desktop cost $200
The problem with this is that it would at most replace a fraction of income taxes.

My theory is that it's just another lever that's being pulled to centralize power in the executive. The president can pick winners and losers because the power to levy tariffs is surgical, and so individual companies can be targeted if they don't fall in line with the dictator's whims.

Imagine Apple facing 1000% tariffs unless they take down content that's critical of the president. It's not outside the realm of possibility.
Luigi's letter is remarkable, I encourage you to read it in TFA, it's very short.

He's either a remarkably empathetic murderer, or an extremely high functioning sociopath.
> Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron. Capitalism creates hierarchies. Anarchy is a rejection of hierarchies, because it creates rulers.

Incomplete understanding: Under the ideals of anarcho-captialism, the capitalism part stresses any internal bureaucracies & hierarchies within an org to its absolute limit, and contributes to breaking them via competition from other businesses.

Hierarchies are not an inherent part of capitalism. Hierarchies arise by themselves as a result of the needs to specialize & coordinate labour towards tasks whilst scaling up the org's task-completing capabilites. Regardless of the economic system involved, the adoption & proliferation of hierarchies will persist as the need to scale becomes critical.

Capitalism stresses against this encroaching force by ideally having competitors with lower overhead, and pressuring them into adapting/improving themselves, or face collapse from within.

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The above section is by no means an endorsement of ancap, as (like most proposed economic systems) it requires a more-ideal-than-realistically-possible environment & participants to exist. However, blanket dismissals of a proposed system are similarly non-advisable, as both lead to the same conclusions: A stunted development in ideological rigor & critical self-analysis.
This has the same problem that a lot of Trump analysis does which is it says more about the author than it does about Trump. He’s describing a situation he imagines in his head, not the plan Trump is actually playing out.

It doesn’t explain why Trump is being so timid with his Tariffs, in fact it makes the opposite assumption.
That’s probably the main performance benefit of using the GPU. If you’re changing the active expert for every single token then it wouldn’t be any faster than just running it on the CPU. Once you can reuse the active expert for two tokens you’re already going to be a lot faster than just the CPU.

More GPUs let you keep more experts active at a time.
I salute you, with your endurance and your temerity.

I had to once shepherd a family trip (15+ people?), managed to get everyone out of the airport, into the bus, got all the luggage out at the hotel, everybody checked in, then the bus driver came over to me and said, "there's a piece of luggage still out there on the curb".

It was mine.
Only between people acting in good faith.
I'm bullish on agents, but I do wonder what this agent could possibly be doing to justify a $240k salary, which is around market rate for a CEO at an SMB.

It would need to be generating leads and closing sales, or doing the day-to-day work of at least 3 people.

This would have to be backed by something 10X better than the current SOTA models.
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In general, the principles of democracy are that the people of the nation can steer the nation towards a better place. To do so, people need access to information, need access to information on what the state of their nation and the state of the world is.

These acts that teardown the information that the US makes available, that help us shape our decision making & view of the world, are deeply horrifically un-democratic. To march us from a nation that advocates sunlight & democracy, back into the dark is horror.
Expert distribution should be approximately random token-by-token, so not likely.
Incorrect.

PHEV have plenty of motor power to go electric only for extended periods; the only limit is battery capacity. The key distinction is the plug in part of phev.

Mild hybrids cannot go electric only

Hybrids can go electric only for very short distance.

PHEV can go electric long distance and use wall power. Most can mechanically couple the combustion engine to the wheels and do so in certain circumstances, like long distance highway use.

EREV is an emerging term for vehicles that have a combustion engine not mechanically connected to the wheels that only drives a generator. BMW i3 is one of the oldest examples. Volt is not; it can put mechanical power to the road.

Fun fact on i3. California zero emissions rules offered more credit for vehicles with more battery range than gas, so bmw artificially limited the tank using software for i3 sold in North America. Owners can flash the euro firmware to unlock physically present tank space as usable.
I always see:

/set parameter num_ctx <value>

Explained but never the follow up:

/save <custom-name>

So you don't have to do the parameter change every load. Is there a better way or is it kind of like setting num_ctx in that "you're just supposed to know"?
Well, Congress hasn't passed a budget and the department is still working on previous year's budget. So either that money somehow ran out unexpectedly, or it's the work of Elon, Big Balls, and the gang.
This comes up every time someone wants to give the death penalty for rape.

If the punishment for rape is harsher than the punishment for murder than anyone committing it may as well remove the evidence by using a blender.
So you thought there was some magical way to get >600B parameters in a couple of GPUs?

Also, LM studio lets you run smaller models in front of larger ones, so I could see having a few GPU in front really speeding up using R1 for inference.
Fellow Canadian here. The company I work for uses Canadian Web Hosting (https://canadianwebhosting.com/). The name isn't very original but the name tells you what you're looking for.

They're pretty good to work with at the enterprise level. I tried them for a cheap personal project, and they were average. At the enterprise level you get good support, and they offer both dedicated and virtual servers. Our company has both server types with them, and they'll handle as much or as little of the devops as you'd like.
From what I’ve seen, they overheat a lot just from having a browser and VSCode running.
Not just “his voters”, but for every American whose life doesn’t involve interacting with foreign nationals outside of the Americas…95%+ of Americans. Makes him sound folksy. Outside of academics, everyday common sense life is not a Double Jeopardy round. War is how Americans learn their world geography and Lesotho has been blessed with remaining off the global military stage. It’s actually a complement to the Lesotho government that Americans like Trump haven’t heard of them.
The first example is also the very first example in the docs[1], but rather f!(du,u,p,t) that modifies du, it passes f(u,p,t) that returns du. Searching the help for ODEProblem() function, it's explained[2] that the first way is more memory-efficient, but if mutation is not allowed, the second way is more suitable. It will be of interest to write a follow-up post elaborating on this part.

[1]: https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/examples/classical_p...
[2]: https://docs.sciml.ai/DiffEqDocs/stable/types/ode_types/#Sci...
no, it cuts into your available space, because every other premium laptop makes use of that space
The great thing about Framework is that you can bring your own RAM and SSD. If you need/want a lot of RAM (>= 32 GB) and or SSD (>= 2 TB), you can save a lot of money.
Do you think you Europe can just turn off gas or something ? Like there would be no logistics challenges to replace the supply? Why did Russia continue to supply gas? It wanted the money...

Clearly the European strategy was the one that you probably praise Trump for, trying not to isolate Putin and Russia by buying their gas and using appeasement. They had agreements with Russia that were broken and and have to pivot away from them. Russia was benefiting massively and still broke their promises and broke trust, for what?

So look where appeasement got Europe and Ukraine and it look where it will get Trump and the USA.

Personally, you're argument and history supports the idea that Trump is making a massive mistake with it's new "strategy". Russia only understands force.
this was actually one of the things that really turned things around for me actually. it took probably 25 years in between.
Liberals are tired of misinformation and disinformation. Vaccines and climate change aren’t “political orthodoxies”, they are—respectively—one of the greatest lifesaving innovations in all of medicine and one of the gravest threats to the stability of civilization as we know it. This is scientific reality.

I don’t think that means speech critical of those things should be banned, but I also don’t think bad actors causing panic where none belongs (and complacency where some level of panic is warranted) is something we want running completely unchecked.

I don’t know what the answer is, but part of me believes it might be nice if we could assign some level of responsibility for the consequences of speech, even when those consequences are diffuse.
Too late to edit, but I wanted to say — apologies for being condescending. That was unnecessary and mean spirited of me and I’m sorry for doing that. Truthfully, I do hope at least I was able to communicate that it’s important to keep in mind that there have been other things we’ve done as a society and there are reasons why we are where we are today.
America is committing high-speed cultural suicide and destroying decades of goodwill around the world by alienating its friends and betraying its allies.

I'm not cheering for an American Empire. America is choosing to align itself with a declining dictatorship on the other side of the world, for no particular reason beyond its leader's personal animus towards his domestic political opponents.
Apple M1 (or any M-series) RAM absolutely does NOT function at cache speeds. Do you know how expensive that memory would be? The RAM is not literally "in the CPU", but colocated in the same SoC "system on chip" package as the CPU.
With a portrait [0] on every wall and niche.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/27/michael-cohe...
Glad to hear they will revive the NBA part. Was using the model extensively. It was very informative.
> Funnily enough, this is exactly Putin’s own logic — just flipped

Except Ukrainians ask the West for support to fight for themselves, so the West is given a rarest opportunity to do a morally right thing while furthering its own interests.
> In China, for example, data from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing famously contradicted official government reports, showing worse pollution levels than authorities acknowledged. It led to China improving air quality.

That program, by the way, simultaneously managed to antagonize the Chinese government while being incredibly popular with the Chinese people.

It's not something I would expect a US administration hostile to China to cut.
Those most passionate about capital-S Science are often aggressively anti-Trump, making them prone to accepting reports like this uncritically.

If the State Department spends a crazy sum maintaining the air quality app, questioning that expense is fair and pretending otherwise only undermines scientific credibility.

This article is a "pro-science" talking point because it admits embassies were told to keep monitors running and data sharing could resume if funding returned.

So at this point, there's not even necessarily a gap in the actual data. The only proof this shutdown was unavoidable comes from those who carried it out. Funny how that goes...
Have you considered that maybe your perspective is wrong? Like for example, when you made the following argument against woke [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201888
I believe your personal experience may be narrowing your view.

I have a similar family experience with drastically different outcome. Including ties to your idealize Iowan people (born to Iowan w/ Iowan grandparents, great grand parents and so on back to Jamestown for a couple), who are simply that, just people. Most Iowans come from late 1800 immigrants, many from East Europe. Some of my Iowan family lines are outliers in terms of origin (first families), but there is at least one from 1800 East Europe that I know of. If you moved on from British history to American History, you would better understand the real mixing of immigrants/cultures, and that is distinctly American. They did not all stick to their kind, as it were.

Some recent family has integrated with Asian immigrants and they are more "American" than some of my Iowan families in-laws that have been radicalized into anti-American values, much to my Iowan families horror. That has nothing to do with "cultural attitudes" etc, and everything to do with living in internet bubbles.

Iowan's I know and come from are blue through and through--Union loving gun toting Democrats. Most of them have kept their values, some have let Fox "news" take that thinking over for them.
Article could stand to include a bit more information. Why are all the TPS figures x'ed out? What kind of performance can be expected from this setup (and how does it compare to the dual Epyc workstation recipe that was popularized recently?)
If you’re very product or customer focused, you can be passionate about anything.

When I’ve worked at shops that made products I, personally, didn’t care about, it was always satisfying to see a customer be excited about a feature or be thankful for the tool I’m building.

The first time that happened was when an admin thanked me in a support ticket for speeding up the generation of expense report spreadsheets way back.