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Microsoft has a new ergonomic keyboard

rwalle — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 04:44:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/2/24334283/microsoft-ergonomic-keyboard-incase-pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582529

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by rwalle in "SQLite’s Use of Tcl (2017)"

rwalle — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 14:07:24 +0000

I wonder -- if they were to restart from scratch today, would they do the same thing? If not, which stack would they choose?

New comment by rwalle in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

rwalle — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:54:59 +0000

Exactly.

Too bad Microsoft only cares about enterprise customers and never made the Surface line attractive to regular consumers. They could have been very interesting and competitive alternatives to MacBooks.

New comment by rwalle in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

rwalle — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:45:57 +0000

Have you had luck with Google's AI Studio with regard to text extraction?

New comment by rwalle in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

rwalle — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:41:12 +0000

i5-1135G7 is from about 4 years ago. If you look at the latest offerings from Intel/AMD the gap should be fairly small.

New comment by rwalle in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

rwalle — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:39:23 +0000

Your comment might win you the argument on a random non tech forum but not here.

much more efficient in what? mops the floor by what? which year's i7?

Don't get me wrong, I 100% believe what happened, but if you mean "my macbook is faster than my i7 thinkpad" you should use those exact words, but not bring RAM into this discussion. If you want to make a point about RAM, you need to be clear about what workflow you were measuring, the methodology you were using, and what the exact result is. Otherwise your words have no meaning.

New comment by rwalle in "Making the Web Boring Again"

rwalle — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:27:45 +0000

Well, if Apple really wanted to do more, they would have implemented new APIs sooner and be in sync with Chrome and Firefox regarding features they support. (Currently Safari is often 1 year late in supporting lastest features.) I would not count on them.

New comment by rwalle in "Linux from Scratch"

rwalle — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:18:30 +0000

Haven't tried it, but I guess if you were doing this again today, ChatGPT would help a lot.

New comment by rwalle in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

rwalle — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:07:10 +0000

As a reminder,

https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...

> Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer

> Leaders work every day to create a safer, more productive, higher performing, more diverse, and more just work environment. They lead with empathy, have fun at work, and make it easy for others to have fun. Leaders ask themselves: Are my fellow employees growing? Are they empowered? Are they ready for what’s next? Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere.

New comment by rwalle in "Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles"

rwalle — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:28:48 +0000

Not once, for one second, did I have any motion sickness.

See the problem here?

New comment by rwalle in "$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU"

rwalle — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:41:49 +0000

Well, yes, but to lots of people they use it for the same thing. You can find projects people post online that uses raspberry pi to control a basic motor, which is a bad use of raspberry pi and a horrendous waste of resources. But people do that. You understand the difference but not others.

New comment by rwalle in "$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU"

rwalle — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:36:58 +0000

Not sure how meaningful this is. Try looking at base model MacBook Air, and it is a very different story.

New comment by rwalle in "$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU"

rwalle — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:34:09 +0000

I would guess most consumer purchases of pi's are setting in a drawer gathering dust. So less RAM is less of a waste of money.

(Don't ask how I know it)

New comment by rwalle in "$50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU"

rwalle — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:31:33 +0000

Sounds like this is a use case where none of size, power & cost matters very much, and faster development is desired. It may even prefer "heavier" libraries if it makes development easier. Which is completely different from most consumer devices and many commercial devices.

Well, if that's true, have to agree raspberry pi may be better than esp32.

New comment by rwalle in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

rwalle — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:52:20 +0000

So why does HN text look so small under default settings on the desktop, and I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size on other websites (that require no special treatment)? Am I using the browser wrong, or something is not quite right with HN? I am inclined to think the latter.

New comment by rwalle in "WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing"

rwalle — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0000

And I just want a reasonable font size. On desktop it is miserable -- I always need to zoom to 133% to match the font size I see on other websites. On mobile it is ok.

New comment by rwalle in "Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?"

rwalle — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 13:17:52 +0000

can't read? parent clearly says "ARM macbook".

New comment by rwalle in "Content Injection Attack on GitHub"

rwalle — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:16:43 +0000

That's the point, isn't it?

New comment by rwalle in "Apple Vision Pro review"

rwalle — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:39:37 +0000

expecting a lot of insightful counterarguments from a musician and educator with such experience. got hand waving instead.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by rwalle in "Apple Vision Pro review"

rwalle — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:17:56 +0000

exactly. Those who think VR headsets are good music teachers probably have never taken any serious music lessons or master any instruments themselves. If you have just taken one month of lesson and have been practicing daily, these things will start to prevent you from making progress, not help you.

(coming from someone who has been taking piano lessons for the past 8 years and have a Quest 3)