Yes I agree, if we can move the goalposts where ever we want, you might have a point for your own narrow view. But there will be people that believe what it delivers to be suitable for playing the games they want to play, in which case it won’t be underpowered. Which means its status as underpowered… is debatable.

No, I meant precisely what I wrote. The point being that if it were $4, “underpowered” would be an absurd way to describe it, because value is a function of cost versus benefit, where benefit is subjective.

You’re probably correct that there are other methods for perfect eggs, but I believe that is a bit reductive. Boiling first then reducing the temperature, while similar, is definitely not the same as periodic temperature change, aside from it adding the same total energy to the system. But the rate that energy is added is the critical variable.

Don’t get me wrong, your method is good, but I don’t think the method in the paper only has the advantages you list. The periodic temperature change is important, and they detail precisely why that is.

Having said all that, I’m certainly not doing this. I’m all about easy and don’t need eggs to be a certain way. I just thought it was neat.

If one really wants perfect, they should read Periodic cooking of eggs from the journal Nature earlier this year. Everybody that has implemented it, claims it works great.

For the periodic method, scientists alternated submerging the eggs for two minutes in boiling water at 100 C (212 F) and lukewarm water at 30 C (86 F). This cycle was repeated eight times for 32 minutes.

— from: Scientists developed a new method for the perfect boiled egg, and you can test it at home

And how would you feel if it were $4?

Yeah, well you know uhh, that’s just like my opinion, man. And without pricing it is hard to say if under or over powered. But I think it is thoughtfully designed. Looks like it is well-cooled, expandable storage, programmable light strip, and you can install whatever you want in it.

I thought the GabeCube was even better.

Valve crushed it out of the park. Great hardware and really well presented; beautiful and succinct.

I think Servo joining LF is one of the more exciting things of the last few years in software. I really hope they keep making progress.

The last reply is great.

Pretty on the nose. It shouldn’t be that easy.

How will you use the machine without applications?

I’m a big fan of keepachangelog. The only automation I recommend is that this is read from tag to tag and used as nice releases. But a human writing the changelog directly in the “Unreleased” section will always produce the most useful changelog.

That seems nonsequitur and doesn’t address either point.

Okay. You must realize it is weird to use the term “development team” to describe a one person side project. Also, are you willing to disclose to what extent and which models were used to create this project?

Forgive me if I sound negative, but when you say team… what do you mean? Seems like one person with a few commits. Not that it isn’t a very serious attempt at tackling a massive challenge; I’m just curious. Looks a bit like a vibe coded attempt at solving a few things you don’t like about Java. And hey, more power to you.

Greedy little pig boy

Also this fun old video.

No. You’re the only one I see implying there are no cases where data is private outside a VPN. Strictly speaking, if you need only the data across a connection to be private TLS is sufficient. Who is implying that is a complete threat model. You are building more and more strawmen against which to argue, but it really just sounds silly. I’m a professional that has been in the industry for decades, so your dick waving contest just doesn’t move me.

Yes, a more complete risk analysis in many cases may show that you’d like the host one is reaching to also be private, but nobody is saying such a situation doesn’t exist; you’re barking at the moon.

Are you saying TLS doesn’t make the data that traverses a connection private? If so, I think we’ve discovered the deficiency in your viewpoint.

e: missed a word