Funnily enough, I don't consider the iPhone 12/13 mini miniature at all. Granted, my hands are quite small even for someone of my height (5'7"), but remember those times people made fun of the iPhone 5 and of how gigantic it felt compared to 4S? I don't think human hands have grown that much since then. And I still believe the 1st generation SE is the best smartphone Apple has ever released: a rectangular screen, no camera bumps, a fingerprint sensor (that is still faster than Face ID), a mini jack, light, affordable, etc.
Not really a question, but please do not deprecate mini_auto_complete! It is one of the most useful (despite being hidden/undocumented) features of ST to me.
The iPhone SE 2016 remains to be the best smartphone Apple has ever released. This year, my wife made me replace it with a 13 mini, and it feels nothing but a downgrade: too large, too heavy, camera bumps, no headphone jack, no touch ID, atrocious PWM, etc.
Sure, I understand people have different needs from mine and appreciate they have a choice, but it saddens me that I don't anymore, and all I want is a modern (read: not discontinued), compact device that can do what a 10-year-old smartphone could do and gets out the way.
Location: Japan (comfortable with a 4-hour overlap with PT)
Remote: only
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Technologies: distributed systems, database engines, knowledge graphs, search engines, recommendation systems, large language models, AI accelerators, compilers
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Email: yndi@me.com
Hi! I am a tech lead with 15 years of industry experience, ex-Google, ex-my own startup. I specialize in information retrieval and (somewhat ML-oriented) systems engineering. I can do pretty much anything from front-end to hardware design but really shine in mentoring and data science research (live experiments, human evals, product metrics etc.) I will help you build great engineering culture, state-of-the-art technology, and happy teams.
I don’t have kids yet but I’ve been thinking about this problem a lot. I personally don’t consider a no screen policy a very good idea, especially in the Information Age. After all, the technology is not a problem here. Instead, I’m building an intranet with an in-house search engine and a video streaming service which I’m going to populate with Wikipedia articles, my fairly decent collection of non-fiction books, some of world best fiction, movies, music etc. Besides that, no internet access for minors in my house. My fight is not with profanity or obscenity but with tasteless garbage like all that clickbaity ad-filled batshit YouTube is pushing onto me.
Hardkernel folks make some pretty amazing products. My home server is built on top of Odroid-HC2 coupled with a 3.5” HDD, and I feel that was some of the best $70 I ever spent. The whole thing is tiny, fanless, and it only consumes 2 Wh on average. I only wish it had hardware video encoding capabilities.
