Yeah, it was like a boarding pass printing machine though, which seems like a weird use. You still had to get the pass scanned later.

it seems like the physical limits in the strength of cubes are probably becoming a problem lol

Those are some pretty beefy motors. Its interesting that they don’t have a link to a product page for the motors on the video, as I assume that was the primary justification for the project.

On the website you can zoom.

Doesn’t a 3070 have less than 7k cores? A UHD 750 (relatively recent iGPU) only has 256.

And I don’t know the structure of JSON that well, but can’t tokens be made of multiple chars?

Depends, I think. In the same order of magnitude definitely.

Edit: this makes me wonder, is it possible to get an orthographic perspective with an ordinary size (but maybe not standard) lens on a normal camera?

Yes, on the website you just put the scratch url in and it compiles it to JavaScript

It’s basically just an improved alternative to phosphorus

People here are not understanding that language changes with location

Most people don’t care about their operating system enough to switch.

I think they meant to say it’s time efficient for them, not that the phone is energy efficient.

Part of the problem is that he has to be in every video or almost every video the channel producers.

I disagree with this argument, him being in every video doesn’t reduce the quality because the videos aren’t written by him, and the products aren’t primarily tested by him. He’s mostly serving the role of an actor/host. I guess it maybe reduces the possibility of re-recording clips, but I don’t think that’s the largest factor in a video’s quality.

It isn’t just the promise of the ability to replace these components, but the ability to upgrade them.

Most people are not interested in tech. To them, doing any amount of research about computers will be a chore and something they will try to avoid. They don’t care about the linux philosophy, or open source, and just want a computer that works for them as quickly as possible. So naturally they use Mac or Windows like all of their friends.

Tech doesn’t get wider adoption if you expect every user to know what they’re doing. And without wider adoption, devs don’t get on board and apps don’t get made. Lowering the learning curve improves the experience for everybody, especially with linux where we can have different distributions with different target audiences.

The tech signal to total signal is… Low-ish. It’s entertaining, it’s broad in its scope, but I can find denser, deeper stuff if I care about a topic.

I agree, but it is important to point out that this is not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that the videos are aimed at a more mainstream audience. His videos are definitely part of what got me (and many other people) interested in tech.

I would interpret ‘the computer forgot my password’ as someone accidentally getting logged out of their password manager

I agree with the chef.

He got most of paypal by default early on as his product (the original X) merged with theirs, and then was kicked out (but retained a lot of stock) after doing a bad job at management.

still one of the richest people in the world I think

I never even use emojis. I’m just saying that ambiguity isn’t an emoji-specific problem.

This should not be a surprise to anyone