I love Bromptons and they fold down into the tiniest package of any folder but my god they've gotten expensive in the last couple of years.

I've been eyeing an Urtopia Carbon Fold 2 as my next folding bike. It's electric but I prefer those nowadays.

I run Asahi (the previous release) on an M2 Air and it works great except for high power drain when sleeping.

I still want to run it on an M3 MBP so it's nice to hear progress on that is happening.

Do you use a docking station and an external display?

I don't. I never got into external displays because I travel a lot and write code in strange places.

Not OP but external display only works via HDMI directly atm (m2 mb pro).

Another nice feature of these old diesel engines: They're not vulnerable to EMP. So after a nuclear holocaust they'll still run. Assuming you're still alive and can deal with fallout of course. And assuming you can find fuel. Which won't be a problem because these engines will run on the rancid oil in the vat behind what used to be the local McDonalds.

Protons are also called "hydrogen ions." Stuff that donates protons is called an "acid." So this is an acid chemical process but I'm not enough of a chemist to know more than that. Would welcome comments from someone who is.

Seconded. This book enlarged my brain.

Gall's Law:

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked."

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/galls-law/

In my naive youth I always thought top-down design was the sensible way to build systems. But after witnessing so many of them fail miserably, I now agree with Gall.

Well said. And similarly, it always seems to be the simple, bottom up, “let’s just build something simple and minimal that works” projects that get iterated on that do can do well, and start to strain when the technical debt and complexity accumulate.

Cardiovascular risk increase is not a feature of aspirin, the original NSAID. Aspirin lessens cardiovascular risk which is why we give it to patients in the initial stages of a heart attack: It decreases the likelihood of further clotting.

I have to give props for him for keeping basically a simple blog with the same layout and still consistently pulling in over $40,000/month in weekly sponsorships after 20+ years.

No drama, never in the spotlight much nowadays, just posting on his blog and raking in insane money.

I had no idea Markdown had an inventor (but obviously someone had to do it) - I guess I thought it evolved from usenet on its own.

And I only knew of Gruber as "the Mac guy" and (am embarrassed to admit) that I thought the daring fireball was another Mac guy.

They're now building the best cheap laptop ever made. That feels mass market to me.