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New comment by ambrose2 in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

ambrose2 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:22:37 +0000

Yea, I literally just bought an OEM dongle 20 minutes ago for this exact purpose.

New comment by ambrose2 in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

ambrose2 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:17:33 +0000

My mom got her battery replaced at an Apple Store and the process broke the phones ability to connect to the internet or the cellular network. They ended up replacing the phone.

New comment by ambrose2 in "The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?"

ambrose2 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:06:05 +0000

> three dots

The kebab

New comment by ambrose2 in "Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago"

ambrose2 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:59:14 +0000

My ball was kind of an indeterminate grey, too, but it was on a granite countertop of a kitchen island in an open concept kitchen/living room. Like one from a Bounty commercial or something.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers"

ambrose2 — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:35:01 +0000

WFH is great for life, not always great for work. Depends on your priority at the moment.

New comment by ambrose2 in "U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades"

ambrose2 — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:35:56 +0000

I really cannot stand sitting in a car in traffic and my last name starts with an A, interesting!

New comment by ambrose2 in "This is a teenager"

ambrose2 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:03:33 +0000

You can’t say that you can just not care about zero tolerance. I was the nephew in a similar story and was probably held back from membership in the National Honor Society because of the timing of the suspension, worsening my college applications.

New comment by ambrose2 in "When did dogs become our best friends?"

ambrose2 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:57:36 +0000

Definitely a high trust city (Vienna), but note that a few times a year they do check for tickets.

Because the monthly pass rate is so low, most people have purchased the pass on their phone and that must be shown a couple of times a year or else you’ll be charged a fine at the checkpoint. I’m actually surprised that the evasion stats are so low, since the fine isn’t terribly large and you might come out ahead just never paying the fare and only paying fines.

I have to say though, that system of spot checks makes the day to day very low friction.

New comment by ambrose2 in "GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a "materially better" update to ChatGPT"

ambrose2 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:56:18 +0000

Is there real proof of this? I’d love to read more about it because I’ve been so frustrated the last few months.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Akira Toriyama has died"

ambrose2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:34:24 +0000

Hmm, I was in Japan and there were some races (triathlon, 5k, etc.) and someone working at the event was dressed up for the finish line of the kids race as Master Roshi. The event wasn't anime themed or anything, but such major characters are a part of the tapestry and mainstream of Japanese culture.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning"

ambrose2 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:38:16 +0000

Very interesting!

Is there a particular Parker model you’d recommend?

New comment by ambrose2 in "The case against caffeine"

ambrose2 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:10:52 +0000

“very few people drink 1-2 cups” - I really doubt this, most people I know drink 1-2 cups.

New comment by ambrose2 in "GlobalFoundries wins $3.1B in CHIPS Act subsidies for NY, Vermont"

ambrose2 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:03:37 +0000

I used to work there, and can confirm that there’s plenty of space there for more parking lot, there’s woods in all 4 directions and it sits on an old super fund site (former rocket fuel testing).

New comment by ambrose2 in "Think Python, 3rd Edition"

ambrose2 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:17:05 +0000

Exactly!

New comment by ambrose2 in "Think Python, 3rd Edition"

ambrose2 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:53:05 +0000

Maybe, but I think the book really was different from any book I had read before. Most books teach the language, but Think Python showed me some of the why, what each data structure might be used for, it would quickly dip into some interesting implementation details to give me a more solid foundation and then zoom out and give me perspective on why something is useful and related software writing skills and tips. It was thorough, but also concise, and the exercises were engaging, so I found myself for the first time really getting sucked into the zone with the problems and time was flying by. This hadn’t happened to me with Java or Perl.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Think Python, 3rd Edition"

ambrose2 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 22:48:43 +0000

I enjoyed “Data Structures and Algorithms in Python”!

New comment by ambrose2 in "Sora: Creating video from text"

ambrose2 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:09:04 +0000

From what I remember reading, Open was never supposed to be like open source with the internals freely available, but Open as in available for the public to use, as opposed to a technology only for the company to wield and create content with.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Think Python, 3rd Edition"

ambrose2 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:04:15 +0000

Similar for me - I had learned some Java, Matlab, C, Perl here and there but it wasn’t until Think Python 2e that I was gripped and from there read many other books and changed my career to software.

New comment by ambrose2 in "TSMC to build second Japan chip factory"

ambrose2 — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:21:14 +0000

I used to work in R&D for leading edge node development and we had a couple night shift technicians to unblock long running high priority tests. However, we could have iterated much faster if we had dozens of engineers running additional tests at night. Some tests require you to be there at the tool to change temp and so on. And there are ton of possible tests you can do. If you get a result back in the middle of the night and have engineers to review the results and configure a new test then and there, that’s a much faster learning cycle time.

Another advantage of TSMC is how they have enough fab space dedicated to R&D that they can run prototypes through quicker because they aren’t competing with manufacturing to get processed.

New comment by ambrose2 in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

ambrose2 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:30:49 +0000

I definitely would, I generally don’t wear graphic t’s.