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Couple other people suggesting some great options, I'll throw a hat in the ring for building your own!

This May Pad kit is great (https://keyhive.xyz/shop/may-pad)

Also great options from keebio (https://keeb.io/collections/macropads)

The tidbit is also really cool! (https://nullbits.co/tidbit/)

Again, just options if you feel like this would be a cool project and you're cool with doing some soldering. Other people have suggested good pre-built solutions, and many macropads can do what you're looking for.


Agreed! A really young child has no notion of "physics". They are learning through experience and observation.

These models/robots aren't superintelligent by any means, but "Monkey see other monkey cannot go through wall, monkey don't try go through wall" isn't far off from how some animals/humans "learn".


I mean probably because they would break, no? I think glass-looking buttons are great (think Sony's Dualsense controller, Xbox controllers, tbh many controllers have glass-ish buttons)

I think it's a nice aesthetic. It obviously needs some tuning (contrast, transparency, etc.), but the idea is nice! I've installed the beta, and it isn't as bad as it looks, just takes some getting used to.

I also theorize this may be some grand transition phase to prepare everyone for the visionOS future apple wants to happen, but that could just be a stretch.


Currently replying from my iPhone 16 pro (granted, not old by any means) on the iOS 26 dev beta. MOST things actually feel smoother/snappier than iOS 18. Safari is a joy to use from a performance perspective.

It’s in beta so ofc I’m getting a ton of frame hitches, overheating, etc. but my summarized initial thoughts are “it’ll take some getting used to, but it feels pretty fast”


How can you get overheating and better performance? Is it just using the big cores for basic OS functions now?


My guess- GPU is probably being used a ton for the blurs causing the heat but the CPU is still free allowing for snappy scrolling performance.


> MOST things actually feel smoother/snappier than iOS 18

I have a feeling the whole smooth animations thing contributes to this a lot. Obsessing about the reaction time and feeling of how stuff comes on the screen. But yeah iPhone 16 pro is probably a bad performance test case


Real test probably iPhone 12 Pro. Anecdotally, I still see a tonnn of those in the wild.


  > It’s in beta so ofc I’m getting a ton of frame hitches, overheating
how is battery-life?


Since overheating was already mentioned, I give you one guess how that affects battery life.


After using it for a couple more days, battery life hasn't really changed from 18. I'm tempted to say that it's better but I don't want to make any claims before I actually track battery life across a week and compare it to my battery life pre-update.

The overheating is a common occurrence, but it doesn't persist. It seems to be certain things (setting the animated backgrounds in iMessage is a good example), but the moment I'm not doing one of those things the temp feels fine. My battery does drop a percent or two during those cases (which sucks), but my typical use of the phone hasn't yielded any noticeable battery life loss compared to 18.5


> Take the camera-based driver attention monitoring that works in my seven year-old Tesla, which notices IMMEDIATELY if I look away from the windshield for more than a second or two, and then require that in the human-driven cars

This. Put it on all vehicles that are driven (exc. waymo, zoox, and the like).

It looks like something similar is already happening in the EU (with momentum in the US too.) (See https://spyro-soft.com/blog/automotive/driver-monitoring-sys...)


> I'm pondering the idea of just using both and keep them both open

Do it. I've started editing with Zed and just keeping Cursor/Intellij open on the side. (Cursor b/c of the the free student plan, Intellij for school assignments).

I feel spoiled by the performance, especially on promotion displays. I've started noticing some dropped frames in Cursor and measured an avg of 45-60 fps in Intellij (which is somewhat expected for such a huge IDE). I basically exclusively write in Zed, and do everything else in their respective apps.


> It sounds like the feature will only add support for exporting text with markdown formatting and not writing in markdown directly

That's a shame. I was hoping for at least the option to edit in markdown (and praying for LaTeX support too)


>and praying for LaTeX support too

This gave me the belly laugh I needed, thanks!


a guy can (c/h)ope


I want to move on from LaTeX syntax as much as the next person (hard to read, etc.),

But as a consumer/user, wouldn't a more uniform syntax (large adoption of Typst, etc) be preferable to having multiple different typesetting systems. I feel like the prevailing aspect of LaTeX is its universality?

(Then again, who hates options).


I remember being 13 years old and stepping into an Amazon Go store in Seattle. Little me lost my mind. I think I walked in and out of the store like 5 times just to see the amazon charge. Sucks that half of the magic was a lie.

Shame to see another project fall to the strategy of AI = "actually indians". I wonder how many other companies have engaged in this stuff.



Depends on how you define real. I would argue that GPT-2 was a real LLM and it almost certainly cost a lot less than a billion. I'm sure there are much better examples.


Can you imagine Builder.ai using a model that argues with their clients or discriminates against them? I don't think so. GPT-2 is like bringing a knife to a gunfight in 2025.

If you want to compete with the likes of GPT-4, Claude, or Gemini today, you're looking at billions, just for training, not counting infra, data pipelines, evals, red teaming, and everything else that comes with it.

Builder.ai wasn't able to use GenAI to actually build software. And when the money ran out and no model was ever announced, investors lost trust and clients lost patience.


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