First, make it possible. Then, expand the market. The early adopters help pay R&D for later efforts. Every desk is a good goal, even if not hit by the first doodad.

It just feels too much like what they said about Apple II and early Windows. A play at nostalgia instead putting real thought into it.

I was an engineer at both MS and Apple, and wholeheartedly agree with you.

My question is, what happens to the people who use RTX cards for gaming? This new solution isn't meant for that. Do they need an "AI accelerator" and a gaming-centric GPU?

I would order that in a heartbeat. Even if it required proprietary Chinese-government drivers. I would try to segregate in a VM without internet or something. Please make this happen! Tokens cost too much in the current system.

Some examples of where it improves XSLT would be helpful. The first one I found in the docs looks roughly identical: https://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html#expressio...

In "peeking under the hood", it says quite honestly "SLAX is purely syntactic sugar."

I think that the XML syntax of XSLT itself was only one barrier for people to adopt XSLT, even in the XML heydays.

The main obstacles appear to me that the execution model is hard for people to graps; you need to think both as a parser (apply-templates/) and in a more declarative style at the same time. The XSLT can be in a completely different order to the document and in fact it can visit nodes in the document multiple times, hopping through nodes in a different order each time, with lovely constructs like apply-template with "mode" and "select" mixed with call-template by "name", plus you get to use xpath and for-each to boot. The control flow changes from the order in the input, to some predefined order, and back depending on when you decide to match(-template) or for-each. There's a lot going on at the same time! Fun times!

I’m still in the 30s but have found it to lower how much energy it takes to start something, rather than helping me stay focused. Same sort of idea, being in a higher-energy state, just pointing out that age doesn’t seem to be a requirement to get any benefit. I do also respond well the low-carb diets and heat that a lot from pro-creatine people so maybe there’s a connection to diet.

if it helps, i did keto fasting for weight loss monitored using a blood ketone meter, ate close to zero calories of korean konjac jelly and zero sugar drinks. and the drastic mental health benefit was a welcome surprise for me. even my physical energy felt infinite. but i experienced exactly what you described after hitting my target weight, very roughly at 15% body fat. at that point the fat burning noticeably slows down and my blood ketone levels drop. important to note that this is at a miraculously stable nondiabetic 70mg/dL glucose level, and zero intake of anything that may induce insulin production. a bite of chicken breast made me lose ketosis and felt the energy loss after a bit so there is that, the biggest confounding var will always be anything you eat that triggers insulin release that instantly halts ketosis, that can only be reactivated hours later. some other "paradoxical" benefit is control of appetite/absence of hunger pangs: https://brainresilience.stanford.edu/news/unlocking-secrets-...

I hear about tech bros taking creatine these days with the tone of voice that they use to talk about microdosing. So I can’t imagine it having zero effect.

What I worry about more is that it has more to do with fixing a deficiency. That being deficient in creatine causes a cognitive loss more than supplementing causes a boost.

As someone who's microdosed (though mostly normal-dosed and occasionally megadosed) in the distant past, the whole microdosing fad was equal parts entertaining and baffling. Anecdotal, but from all people I know that has taken psychedelics, only one doesn't find it to be a waste.

Maybe a better analogy would have been the Balmer curve. I wasn’t trying to imply psychedelics are unhelpful, just that we should be careful of suggesting coding productivity gains while on them.

Also IMO, the Balmer peak is a stronger effect than creatine.

“Ah humanity!” Ya, knowing this would have shaped my own reading a lot. I wonder though, if it wasn’t intentional, if the structure came from AI which would have had this in its training data. Asking one for help with outlining a story feels pretty innocuous.

TPM-only saves you against someone pulling your drive. Probably more than enough for a USB drive. Enable startup PIN if you’re worried about someone grabbing the whole laptop.

I think it does not make much sense to protect the USB drive, as you won't be able to access it from another computer which is what USB drives are for. It makes sense to protect interval drives, but it is unlikely that someone would remove the drives and leave an expensive laptop to the owner.

I think of TPM-only more like a privacy lock than a deadbolt.

An encrypted external drive though works like a safe. Put things in there you want to keep safe but don’t need every day. Air gapped while not in use makes it even more safe.

I'm asking about TPM attestation in general, not Bitlocker

Yes.

Some modern CPUs have moved the TPM inside the CPU itself. But traditionally, TPMs were attached via the LPC (low pin-count) bus, and you could absolutely sniff them or de-solder them and arbitrarily MiTM.

It is surprisingly good at rubber ducking and also that phase of code review which is more of a sanity check than a full review. I also like using it to build an index of source code in a new (to me) project. It is a tool and, like all tools, has things it’s better and worse at.

Fewer people than ever are comfortable doing that, even though the information on how is easier to get than ever.

I hope a repairable and upgradable Steam Machine would help more people dip their toes into it.

I fully understand being uncomfortable with a CPU swap, but a GPU swap isn't difficult.

Valve also could have gone the Framework route of releasing a motherboard+CPU combo so you can upgrade later down the line just by swapping the board out.

I guess they can earn more money by soldering everything on the board and having you buy a completely new PC every time you want to upgrade.

That would include trade off of locking yourself to single form factor. Less of issue with laptops with decades of design behind them. But unlikely to be preferable for first design you make.

You could use mini-ITX form factor.