Apple produced MacPro in US a few years ago, what about that facility and workers? Will this facility has the same destiny like MacPro?

Do you have your own dependency resolution algorithm? Can we have the most lightweight node_modules directory?

we do have an algorithm to calculate total install size

it’s not _exactly_ the same as if you install with npm and check the size of your node_modules but it’s a pretty good proxy

having said that, there’s room to make it better

I curious, maybe AI learn too much code from human writed compilers. What if invent a fresh new language, and let AI write the compiler, if the compiler works well I think that is the true intelligent.

> maybe AI learn too much code from human writed compilers

This was the aim. The reality is far away from it.

If he keeps boasting about world models but never go to deliver one that actually outperforms LLMs, then he's nothing more than an influencer.

Vapes illegal, but weed legal, that's great

I remember having seen that Linux is used a lot by Microsoft's .net team.

Linux is the best platform anyways to run your .net core application. With Avalonia you have a good cross-platform solution, albeit that they still depend on X11/Xwayland for Linux.

A shame .net isn't more popular. The MS branding is a problem though. Although .net core is MIT-licensed, most contributions are from MS¹. Still, if MS would ever ditch it (quite unlikely for the foreseeable future), I think the ecosystem will step up.

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1. F# is an outlier, that is a real community project with lots of contributions from companies and enthusiasts

I highly recommend trying C# on Linux, it works fantastic. Rider on Linux works amazing as well so hats off to Jetbrains.

This is fairly normal these days, no?

I will phase out this tool, definely

> it was a commercially unsuccessful product.

Was it?

According to the article "A Businesweek article cited sales of 215,000 units and said it was 1995’s best-selling PC laptop." As the article says, $3,799–$5,649 was "not cheap, but not absurd at the time."

For reference the PowerBook 500 series sold "almost 600,000" units in 1994-1996 according to Wikipedia and the color screen models were $2,900-$4,840.

I doubt its discontinuation had that much to do with the price. A lot of Japanese market electronics until ~2010 were intended to capture that season's bonus pay in one big batch and then go out flush by the next one, more like movies than cars, or iPhones today. All all-new and groundbreaking every halves of years.

Moore's Law was in full effect too, everything was going obsolete as quick as time itself. Specifications values inflated in orders of 10^2 units per week, whether it was megahertz or megapixel or megabytes or grams. Making last year's new product, even with parts upgrades, was waste of time.

The big thing is screen sizes obsoleted the need for the expanding keyboard when they became cost-effective for "normal" keyboards and the device itself could be lightweight by being thin rather than small.

"Thin and large" is specifically American obsession. Those weren't just major technical challenges, Japanese users cared less about those two aspects. People wanted an inflatable do-everything brick. The butterfly keyboard served that demand.

I'd say the foldable screen-not-broken-by-hinge large tablets ASUS ZenBook 17 and Huawei MateBook are in the same spirit - innovative and expensive. One can live without, though would be nice to have.

I'm still using it.

If some AI answers I'm not sure or suspicious AI crafted it, I'll search it for cross validation.

Amazing, there is still new sort algorithm today!