Mini PCs are amazing! But most people will probably have difficulty getting too excited about them, because they are pretty much just small black boxes. TLDR: Mini PCs are probably the desktop of choice for most people these days. Mini PCs (sometimes referred to as Nuc Boxes) are what happens when you take components designed […]
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Mechanical keyboards tend to be massive affairs. This keyboard is much smaller, about the size of a standard laptop keyboard but with much better key travel. And well, it has RGB lighting. And it is wireless. I bought it for travel but I ended up loving how much of my desk it freed up, so
Keychron K3 Review – for minimalists and travelers who like a good keyboard Read More »
Until I get around to writing something more interesting, I will share my most exciting purchase of the year: a Raspberry Pi tower cooler. It’s cool (literally). It’s also cute, a miniature of the huge coolers in an enthusiast desktop. It does RGB rainbow colors! For $20, this S2Pi Tower cooler can be yours from
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My bed at the parent’s farm was hurting my back – and with a old 5 inch spring mattress, it was clear the mattress there was a leading factor. A 2″ foam topper had not done much to help. When a friend start shopping for a mattress for their new apartment, it finally occurred to
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I spend a lot of time while developing in data science waiting for my current sample of code to finish running. In particular, my package AutoTS tries hundreds or thousands of models, and even with small data that can take a while to run. Another big factor for me is the environmental cost of development
Choosing a Data Science CPU (Benchmarking on Intel) Read More »
Overall: the Yoga 7i 2 in 1 is an excellent ultrabook offering everything one would expect from one of this class: slim & light, good screen, good keyboard, and good battery life. It even goes above and beyond, with impressive single core CPU performance and great speakers. Multi-core CPU performance and graphics performance are both
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To me, the ideal setup is two computers: a powerful desktop and a convenient ultrabook. Indeed, even a more budget user might benefit from having a combination of a Chromebook and Desktop – a $300 Chromebook and a $700 Desktop probably beats a $1000 laptop – especially if you build the desktop yourself, as you
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If you are part of that privileged group who has the money and need for a second computer, building your own computer is really the way to go. Everyone’s first computer these days should probably be a laptop, or maybe a tablet. Well maybe not these days because with COVID no one is going anywhere,
I had a nasty crash on a TT bike a few years ago. I made the mistake of saying ‘on your left!’ to two neewbies on city bikes while I was going fast down a hill. I gave them far too much warning, plenty of time for one to swing left, one to swing right
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Choosing a place to travel for a week or two is not usually a big challenge. With tens of thousands of awesome places to go to, it is likely that many will be equally satisfying, give or take whatever fate may throw at you. I won’t say it is easy to choose, but rather that
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