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New comment by abujazar in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

abujazar — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:14:16 +0000

I have thoughts on the Air and all other iPhone models: They're too large. The iPhone 4 was perfectly sized and we have the technology now to build a super powerful phone of that size. I simply don't use my phone for anything that requires a larger screen. Smaller screens also encourages better UI design.

New comment by abujazar in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

abujazar — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:09:02 +0000

Exactly this. And the profit would be huge compared to any Mac. I suspect Apple dropped it just because they're making even more from selling oversized and over-specced phones.

New comment by abujazar in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

abujazar — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:51:27 +0000

Illustrated with meercats looking in different directions.

New comment by abujazar in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

abujazar — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:33:39 +0000

I don't think giving children tech adults don't fully understand is a goal by itself. But children shouldn't be limited by their parents' shortcomings either. Strict age limits may seem like a safe approach, but children and their capacity to bypass those rules should not be underestimated.

New comment by abujazar in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

abujazar — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:13:55 +0000

The problem is they were two decades late digitizing the classroom. Now we're dealing with the aftermath with the educational system still not being capable of keeping up with societal progress.

New comment by abujazar in "Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel"

abujazar — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:31:41 +0000

It's the main lane where all coastal traffic passes, and one of the most dangerous and weather sensitive regions on the lane. Larger ships sail farther out when weather conditions don't allow for sailing the coast, but a lot of traffic including fishing vessels carrying fresh fish simply have to wait. So it's not as meaningless as geography makes it look.

New comment by abujazar in "Agentic Resource Discovery Specification"

abujazar — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:06:20 +0000

But "search" doesn't have "agentic" in it. But oh wait, we can make it:

Super Explanatory Agentic Resource Catalog Heurestics - SEARCH

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:00:27 +0000

I guess it's a matter of taste, and the quality of the coffee, but I love the crema. Personally I think removing it sounds a bit like picking the olives off the pizza.

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:58:37 +0000

Absolutely, and I enjoy a lot of cold brew, but it's not espresso.

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:56:56 +0000

This is completely false if the espresso is brewed with freshly ground and properly roasted beans with correct temperature and pressure. The texture of the crema also says a lot about the quality of the extraction.

New comment by abujazar in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:37:04 +0000

Almost all of my iCloud relayed addresses are already @privaterelay.appleid.com, and they've been working perfectly. So I don't expect this to change any time soon.

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:05:09 +0000

You're right. But I drink my espresso hot, so I don't quite see how it can compare : )

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:07:40 +0000

The product is moving into a different territory, though. I doubt these guys even know how to pull a proper espresso shot as a baseline for the test. I'm sure you can grind espresso coffee beans to a powder and just shake it until it achieves a flavor similar to espresso, but that doesn't mean the resulting drink can really compare to something that was brewed at the right temperature and pressure.

Technically you can also buy a bottle of grape juice from the grocery store, let it sit on the kitchen sink with a yeast lock for a few weeks and call it wine, and technically it even is, but it's also going to taste quite shitty.

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:02:02 +0000

In that case I'd say espresso is not the right brewing method : )

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:29:38 +0000

And this is why you can't use "100 regular coffee drinkers" to judge the quality of the brewing method. Most people can't even taste (or care about) the difference between arabica and robusta beans or whether it's red or white wine.

New comment by abujazar in "Making espresso with ultrasound"

abujazar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:25:48 +0000

The crema looks like terrible, more like Nespresso, and having the coffee warm is kinda important.

But perhaps this can be used in the instant coffee industry or something.

New comment by abujazar in "Apple Watch for Your Kids"

abujazar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:07:42 +0000

Workouts for kids? Surveillance sold as «independence»? This is dystopian stuff, a few years ago I wouldn't think of Apple to sink this deep.

New comment by abujazar in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

abujazar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:33:31 +0000

That's due to your ISP's peering, not the server.

New comment by abujazar in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

abujazar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:31:18 +0000

This is like Bill Gates' 640 kB of memory quote. Lack of fiber and Gbps+ adoption is the reason why video meetings still suck and streaming has visible compression artifacts.

New comment by abujazar in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

abujazar — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:34:05 +0000

That's the in-house preprocessing hardware, not what they're training on.