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New comment by AdamN in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

AdamN — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:29:39 +0000

Nice! Then you might really like ctrl+k. Go to the middle of the line and it will delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line.

Also Option and the right and left arrows to move from one word to the next. I don't really use this one much though

New comment by AdamN in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

AdamN — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:18:13 +0000

For those ctrl+a and ctrl+e are the way to go.

New comment by AdamN in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

AdamN — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:16:25 +0000

The carriage return is moving the typehead to the beginning of the line, not starting a new one.

Line feed is the command that is incrementing to the new line.

Those two commands almost always run together so it quickly became possible to invoke with a single CRLF command (in ancient computer times)

New comment by AdamN in "Theranos.world"

AdamN — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:07:41 +0000

Did we get their emails? Would be interesting to tease out the differences between the Enron culture and the Theranos culture (and similarities)

New comment by AdamN in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:35:47 +0000

I got my eyes checked a few years ago and they were literally using a VT100 interface. The person knew the keyboard interface like the back of his hand and it was so much faster than a mouse-based GUI that is so prevalent.

New comment by AdamN in "A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:34:19 +0000

I doubt that's a big blocker - the keyboard is one of the selling points and I'm guessing that you could just have 2 keyboards if you really wanted to (the Bloomberg one for auth and the other one for longform typing??)

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:22:48 +0000

Drop them like a brick is overblown. The US defended Taiwan long before TSMC became singular and will continue to even if SOTA is available elsewhere. Of course Taiwan is smart enough to know that the US isn't a monolithic decision-maker and just having companies like Apple on your side inside the US administration is important for long term security.

New comment by AdamN in "Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:20:19 +0000

Yeah that's what I said.

New comment by AdamN in "Gemini 4 Argon"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:19:27 +0000

This is classic innovators dilemma stuff and for sure the Alphabet board is aware of it. It's not an easy problem to solve at scale though.

New comment by AdamN in "Gemini 4 Argon"

AdamN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:18:05 +0000

Google said as much shortly after GPT3.5 was released. There is no moat.

With that said, there are some other moats and people are building them: training capacity, inference capacity, brain capacity (literally buying the best researchers and keeping them tied down), harnesses/subscriptions, etc...

New comment by AdamN in "America.gov"

AdamN — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:24:02 +0000

IE6 had real American values :-)

New comment by AdamN in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

AdamN — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:10:42 +0000

I'd say they're most useful in suburbs. You can charge them overnight in your driveway or garage so there's almost no reason not to have one unless you're really focused on the road trip scenario but that's an issue for city cars too.

New comment by AdamN in "Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?"

AdamN — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:45:52 +0000

What they're getting at is that people aren't able to sit down and digest a moderately challenging book. This is due to attention span, the habit of 'scrolling' vs turning a page, etc... Those people can still 'read' and are literate in a sense.

I would say most of us have this situation already but it's much worse when you look more broadly around. People without an interest in books used to read tabloids which for all their faults were still more edifying then what the TikTok or YouTube shorts algorithms are presenting.

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:51:29 +0000

And without the CHIPS act that would probably be closer to zero.

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:48:07 +0000

You're right - I was a little too fast looking it up. I was basing it off of the interview for the Acquired podcast which was awesome.

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:43:32 +0000

Aren't basically all high tech companies the inheritors of basic research funded by highly developed countries?

ASML is definitely a fully globalist enterprise.

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:39:14 +0000

They're making the point that you're wrong. The CHIPS act under Biden is a big subsidy to bring modern fabs to the US and without it there wouldn't be any orders in the US either (which has less regulation). The EU came up with a competitor to that subsidy but it wasn't generous enough to compete (neither regulation nor bureaucracy at play here).

On a side note, none of the TSMC fabs in the US are cutting edge. They're all at least a generation behind.

New comment by AdamN in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

AdamN — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:02:42 +0000

For testing? Why would a tech person buy one of these?

New comment by AdamN in "ASML currently sells no chipmaking machines in Europe, executive says"

AdamN — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:01:12 +0000

Most of their fabs are also in Taiwan.

New comment by AdamN in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

AdamN — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:58:01 +0000

Another interesting fact is that Che-Chia Wei (the man who made TSMC what it is) received zero equity. Everything he has he bought himself at the market rate.