The iPad gives you touch interaction, hand-held operation, a higher quality (albeit smaller) display, and a more resilient operating system (albeit managed).

The Neo gives you a real keyboard, a bigger screen, and unified UX/software support with your desktop computer.

But are you sure you need two devices? Why not just get a MacBook Air (with the same spec as your proposed Mac mini) along with a USB-C dock accessory to connect charging/keyboard/mouse/video with a single cable? Also don't underestimate the value of having a battery in your "desktop" computer. It's a free UPS.

Isn’t the Neo 13” as well? Also the iPad is usually closer to your eyes in use, so is effectively larger in terms of visual field.

Like so much war reporting in the past decade, there's a lot of low-effort moralising and low-confidence maybes being strung together to create headline narrative that the body text simply cannot cash. And it waves away the critical distinction between bad intelligence and actively targeting civilians.

Surely nobody is arguing that an Anthropic AI, with perfect knowledge that it's a school, and that students would be present, chose to knowingly murder children. Assuming this was a US military strike and not a false flag, surely nobody is arguing that the failure here was in relying on outdated intelligence about an ex-military building.

The use of AI here is simply not relevant.

The criticism I have for the current US government is massive, and my disgust for the current leadership is as intense as anyone else here, I'd wager. But there's also no doubt in my mind that if they knew it was a school, they wouldn't not have targeted it. By contrast, Russia's government shows who they are when they target civilians in Ukraine. That distinction is important and we muddy it at our own peril.

I have a real domain name for my house. I have a few publicly available services and those are listed in public DNS. For local services, I add them to my local DNS server. For ephemeral and low importance stuff (e.g. printers) mDNS works great.

For things like Home Assistant I use the following subdomain structure, so that my password manager does the right thing:

  service.myhouse.tld
  local.service.myhouse.tld

A model should understand multiple perspectives on morality and avoid prescribing a single one where there’s no overwhelming prior consensus.

Alternatively, they should be trained on my opinion on everything. That would also be acceptable.

Tesla beat Hyundai and BMW to this meaningless announcement a year ago, and have already progressed from that to the inevitable “oh yeah, this doesn’t actually work yet.”

Give Hyundai and BMW time.

Like Neo from the matrix, the other port is still useful for mice, printers, DACs, arduino projects, and little USB powered fans.

Can’t believe anyone this is targeted at is going to plug in a mouse in 2026.

I’d wager that the great majority of Neos won’t ever be connected to anything on the regular (aside from a charger).

Man, that's just gross!

So long as you can use the slow port for charging, I think it’s an entirely tolerable trade-off. Remember, this is a machine for people with low technical requirements. It’s not a machine for someone who needs lots of high speed ports.

It shouldn't be a struggle. If you need colour quality (e.g. content creation/consumption) get the Studio Display. If you need real estate (e.g. technical work or programming) get the Kuycon.

A few years from now O'reilly will publish a bestseller called Swift: The Good Parts

The better version of this principle is John Rawls' "Veil of Ignorance".

In this "original position", their position behind the "veil of ignorance" prevents everyone from knowing their ethnicity, social status, gender, and (crucially in Rawls's formulation) their or anyone else's ideas of how to lead a good life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

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