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Comment · 11 days ago
I was surprised by the frame rate staying surprisingly smooth on an iPhone 17 Pro Max even after completing the entire wiki page, even though it got moderately warm. I guess these things really are powerful.
Comment · 15 days ago
Your older Palm device was almost certainly much worse at browsing the web both in fidelity and interactivity. Loading a full desktop website on a device that small and being able to pinch to zoom in to sections was pretty novel at the time.
Comment · 26 days ago
I think it’s fairly obvious to anyone with basic pop culture knowledge that it’s a quote from Shrek
Comment · 1 month ago
Very often actually, you’ll notice AI frequently prefers to reinvent the wheel rather than use external libraries.
Comment · 2 months ago
and in this case that's even before you get to the software opinions
Comment · 4 months ago
That is how window resizing on iOS 27 apps streamed to macOS 27 works right now in the first beta, I reckon it won't change.
Comment · 5 months ago
Until recently TDC had a very slow FCDO satellite link that required their website to be quite basic in order to actually be viewable on computers on the island.

They now have a fast Starlink connection, but I’m glad they’ve kept the website as it is.

Comment · 5 months ago
Probably not that many. You underestimate how expensive either of those things are.

We have obligations to provide services like this to the people living in our overseas territories, and you won’t find many people who’ll oppose that.

Comment · 6 months ago
The ferries would be brief enough though. Probably less than 100 out of the total 10,000 miles.
Comment · 6 months ago
It’s a company containing such remarkable talent that I’m sure they would not have run into significant issues raising capital on international markets.

It’s not like VCs are only allowed to invest in companies in their own country.

Comment · 6 months ago
Parallels and VMware still do implement their own graphics virtualisation (among other things) for Windows and Linux guests on Apple silicon, and in my experience Parallels still works better than the alternatives for Windows.
Comment · 6 months ago
DeepMind, which is headquartered in London, probably had a significant role in the development of the Gemini and Gemma models.

Yes, it might be a problem that the UK allows companies like this to be bought up by foreign countries.

Comment · 6 months ago
I can’t imagine a standalone heart rate monitor would be very useful without logging to a smartphone
Comment · 6 months ago
$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?

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