The list price appears to be ~USD 380, which is still a hefty saving compared to what they charge for the US model. There are of course software and hardware differences [3], but if it is primarily the hardware you are interested in, I see no reason not to at least consider importing one.
> I think the record was 5 million tons of bombs over Vietnam (170 kg of bombs per capita), still the collapse didn't happen.
Unsure about the tonnage, but the parallels to current events [1] and the illusion that a bombing campaign will suffice to end a war in a matter of weeks is rather eerie to me.
Always fun to read jcs@'s write ups. I am seriously tempted to look into getting one of these as light, fanless alternatives to run OpenBSB on the move are few and far between. My current main laptop is not big at 11", but it clocks in at ~1.7kg and that makes you reluctant to carry it around everywhere.
Main downsides with the DM250 seems to be that you need a USB-C dongle for audio (they are tiny though) and that you can not hook it up to an external screen for better ergonomics and presentations. Still, small, means compromises are necessary, and I do not think the external screen is a deal break if one would consider the DM250 as a daily commute driver.
It is an utterly amazing collection, although not the era I am the most familiar with. However, let me add a few as I love your initiative and went through them all and skimmed the ones below to get a sense of the quality.
Many thanks for all the code! The second hand market is currently flooded with Wii U hardware that is cheap enough to buy enough stock to last a life time for peanuts. Would be amazing fun for PowerPC development and if I had an alternative timeline where I went into low-level programming, I would love to push for OpenBSD support inspired by your work.
> I'm reminded of that scene in "Ghost in the Shell" where some guy ask the Major why he is on the team (full of cyborgs) and she responds something along the line of "Because you are basically un-enhanced (maybe without a ghost?) and are likely to respond differently then the rest of us; Overspecialization is death."
The scene you mentioned (amazing movie and holds up to this day) with the Major and Togusa:
While I frequently use a similar argument, "We need someone 'untainted' to provide a different point of view", my honest opinion is somewhat more nuanced. These models tend to gravitate towards some sort of level of writing competence based on how good we are at filtering pre-training data and creating supervised data for fine-tuning. However, that level is still far below where my current professional writing is and I find it dreadful to read compared to good writing. Plenty of my students can not "see" this, as they are still below the level of current LLMs and I caution them to overly rely on LLMs for writing as they can then never learn good writing and "reach above" LLM-level writing. Instead, they must read widely, reflect, and also I always provide written feedback on their writing (rather than making edits myself) so that they must incorporate it manually into their own and when doing so they consider why I disagree with the current writing and hopefully learn to become better writers.
Bitterpilled. Wow, the audio mixing on that clip is great. I miss art like this. I'm afraid that nothing will recapture the way I felt watching GOTS the first time.
Indeed, Heathrow security is the rudest I have experienced. They get aggressive if you so much as ask a question. Furthermore, I have on numerous occasions had them argue with me to go against the medical advice from both doctors and medical advice manufacturers. Last time going as far as claiming that a scanner does not emit electromagnetic radiation.
[1]: https://pomera.us/products/pomera-full-suite-typewriter-for-...
[2]: https://kakaku.com/item/K0001457601
The list price appears to be ~USD 380, which is still a hefty saving compared to what they charge for the US model. There are of course software and hardware differences [3], but if it is primarily the hardware you are interested in, I see no reason not to at least consider importing one.
[3]: https://pomera.us/pages/support-help-support-pomera-dm250us-...
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