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New comment by medion in "Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy"

medion — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:50:46 +0000

Or re-surfaced down the track as some kind of heritage outdoor brand.

New comment by medion in "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"

medion — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:47:50 +0000

Even with some co-mingling of facts, is 5 months detention still proportionate? That’s the crux of it.

New comment by medion in "I'm addicted to being useful"

medion — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:11:42 +0000

Being useful can often be a curse without strong boundaries - in work and relationships, I personally have ended up becoming overly extracted... Which later seems to lead on to resentment and in the worst case, contempt.

New comment by medion in "Arvo Pärt at 90"

medion — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:08:49 +0000

This piece always brings me to tears. I was lucky enough to meet Part, have a brief conversation and shake his hand after a performance in Hamburg… A moment I will never forget.

New comment by medion in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

medion — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:07:31 +0000

No. All great things come to an end - artistic movements, cultural, nations, etc etc - the end of the internet is now.

New comment by medion in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

medion — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:52:38 +0000

This is all part of the continuing trend toward luxury - brands are abandoning the middle class and below, focusing on higher margins and lower volume - brands make more money, engage with easier buyers and have to work less. I don’t know how all this works in the end but it does seem to be a real trend.

New comment by medion in "Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)"

medion — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:11:39 +0000

It’s a nice list, but honestly, none of these improvements are really life changing (except the reduction in crime that has been noticeable and good). Things otherwise got a bit nicer and a bit cheaper and a bit faster - but life would have been just fine without these improvements.

New comment by medion in "An image of the Australian desert illuminates satellite pollution"

medion — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:08:16 +0000

Sadly, true. Those who work on the industry will never rebel, the pay is too good and the nerdy excitement of being able to solve very interesting problems is too addictive. Our greatest minds are wasted in the finance sectors and big tech.

New comment by medion in "Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat"

medion — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 04:19:34 +0000

It was with a freighter, China to Panama bound - no one on watch - about a quarter of the way across to Hawaii. My boat was so small it was mostly invisible to radar - I spotted it on the horizon, but it appeared to be on a parallel course so I wasn't too worried - I went back to sleep and was woken by engines. After crash gybing out of the way, I radioed the vessel many times, with no response. Out of paranoia I then did the rest of the leg with a strobe on - my next encounter was a vessel that had stopped because it thought I was in distress...

New comment by medion in "Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat"

medion — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:36:21 +0000

Did the same voyage in a similarly sized boat, solo. Departed Berkeley then out under the bridge to half moon bay, then off the deep end for Honolulu. Took a bit longer than expected and was nearly hit by a passing vessel, but smooth sailing otherwise!

New comment by medion in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

medion — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:43:51 +0000

I had an old i5 Mac mini laying about I wanted to use desktop Linux on the other day. The last time I tried, was about 20 years ago. I note nothing has changed since.

New comment by medion in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

medion — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:20:38 +0000

Can anyone comment on why Wenfeng shared his secret sauce? Other than publicity, there only seems to be downsides for him, as now everyone else with larger compute will just copy and improve?

New comment by medion in "Training AI models might not need enormous data centres"

medion — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:27:49 +0000

Aren’t there a ton of blockchain projects trying to do this kind of distributed compute / LLM with tokenisation rewards etc? Theta project comes to mind

New comment by medion in "The Origins of Wokeness"

medion — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:04:10 +0000

Why are the tech elite and right so obsessed with this term? It’s such a bizarre phenomenon - I can’t wrap my head around it.

New comment by medion in "McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis"

medion — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:47:46 +0000

I don’t think he actually has the kind of money to be as slippery as, say, Trump, McKinsey, etc.

New comment by medion in "Spotify has shut down several API endpoints"

medion — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:12:28 +0000

Amen. Man, I found so much new music back then.

New comment by medion in "Wait Until 8th"

medion — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:46:29 +0000

Sounds like contrarian nerdism to me.

New comment by medion in "Wait Until 8th"

medion — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 21:45:59 +0000

But they weren’t using them as e-readers. Why would they, kids books with beautiful illustrations are 1000x better.

New comment by medion in "Wait Until 8th"

medion — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 07:58:04 +0000

Sigh. Sometimes you don’t need 10 peer reviewed articles to just know when something is bad. Were you the guy in the 60s saying smoking was totally fine because studies? Sometimes you just know inhaling smoke everyday is probably not good for you.

Smart phones for kids is not good. It’s really simple.

New comment by medion in "M4 MacBook Pro"

medion — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:26:02 +0000

Except for the usb c charge port - magcharge was the best invention and I’ll never understand why it was removed.