Could you imagine if Amazon made a fire phone unfolded that’s opens into an e-ink kindle? I would own that.

I dream of a clamshell e-reader, with dual 7 or 8" screens, that reads in the traditional two-pages-at-a-time kind of book orientation.

It seems a no brainer to me. It would keep the fragile e-ink substrate safe, while being more ergonomic and allowing you to have twice the screen real-estate without ending up with the terrible reading experience with too-long-lines that you get from current large-screen e-readers.

Back in 2009/2010 I worked for a startup that was doing something like that. The screens were a bit bigger (maybe 10" or 12"? can't remember), and they were LCDs, not e-ink. The device was heavy, but the intended market was college students who could read textbooks on it, and take notes directly on the book's pages with a stylus. (It also had a web browser and dedicated note-taking app, among other things.)

The product's timing was off; the first iPad came out while we were still building it, which made it quite a bit less attractive, and it likely could be made much thinner and lighter today. (What really killed it was the founders' inability to secure digital rights from any textbook publishers... though arguably it would still have been a tough product to sell even without that obstacle.)

There is the double mode of the PadMu: two A4 ereaders with a "double mode" case for 1837€. Not quite what you're asking at all, but the closest right now as far as I know.

On a similar thread, I saw a post today for a Phillips 24" monitor with an e-ink extension display: https://www.anandtech.com/show/18859/philips-reveals-dual-sc... its pretty nuts.

I couldn't find any pricing info, but I would test drive one for a work setup if I had the chance.

Every time I pick up my Kobo I imagine it being exactly that - two of them connected with a hinge.

I'd buy that in a heartbeat

It’s kinda like a Marie Kondo vs a carpenter type situation and I get both sides.

As someone who works for a company struggling for marketing SEO, I can't imagine just giving up that goldmine in the photography space. Small comment.

Missed the mark releasing it as GPT-Pi on Pi day, and being an incremental 3+ release :P

I made a silly landing page for myself using some of the outline techniques. I think it looks fun: https://www.goodbarn.xyz/

Its just a pure html page, so you can view page source and see how rugged it is.

Curious, how long would Gzip take to uncompress? Is it faster since it is less compact / efficient on the compression side?

The bitstream format for Gzip files (PKZIP's "deflate") was established in 1993. In comparison, the much newer Zstd doesn't represent a different tradeoff between compression time / decompression time / size; it's just better overall. There's a nice graph of the different time/compression tradeoffs both can achieve about 1/3rd of the way into https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-...

Decompression speed is one of zstd's biggest advantages (in its class, lz4 is obviously faster in return for worse compression ratios). Zstd decompression is generally at least factor 3 faster than gzip.

Since the gzip’ed file is larger, it might well be slower since more IO is required. Depends on the case in question, obviously.

I don't care about wine, but the website is very pretty. I like the progress indicator on the left side.

Places where you want to auto-generate html reports or do simple data processing into html and not fuss over basic inline styles.

I have a few internal tools that use https://newcss.net/ and it is just a nice tool to have in your quiver.

One sad use-case is a few days ago I was able to one click deploy a dyno for an ESPN Fantasy Football discord bot that runs daily. I didn't have to configure a thing and was able to have this cool thing added to our discord.

Now overnight it's just gone.

I jumped at getting the iPhone 13 mini immediately and haven’t looked back. I remember having an iPhone 5 and how much I loved the formfactor for the same reasons OP mentions.

Sure the battery sucks and the phone locks up from too many things happening sometimes, but those are perfectly fine trade offs for a phone that fits into my life and isn’t my life.

When I bought my 13 mini I also bought the new iPad mini to have a larger device for content consumption and the combo is lovely

That's a shame - I heard the 13 Mini had acceptable battery life. And for someone that doesn't make their phone their life that's especially surprising.

I don't make my phone my life, and the 12 Mini has enough battery for me. I charge it every other day, but I have to admit it feels it holds less charge than my old iPhone 8.

I only use it for Whatsapp, bathroom break HN and a few calls a week. Everything else I do from my PC. Also, performance is great for me, I'm not planning on running games or k8s on my mobile.

EDIT: looks like you're talking about the 13 mini, I got the 12 mini, which IIRC has similar battery life complaints. Not sure if it got worse with the latest iteration.

Word on the street (and physical evidence of the larger battery in the 13 Mini) is a strong consensus that the 13 mini has better battery life than the 12 mini.

I've never heard anyone complain about the performance of the 13 mini before, maybe there's something funky going on with the OP's phone.

I've had my 13 Mini since they dropped. My battery is fine, always lasts the day with overnight charging. I'm constantly playing podcasts, talking on Signal, and have the dynamic weather service running.

It's not THAT bad, it just depends on usage. Lately I have been using my phone a lot more, and just spending an hour or two endlessly scrolling in the morning it goes from fully charged to maybe 50%. If it is on standby most of the day, it will last most of the day.

That being said, I also play golf and use a Golf GPS tracker, Pokemon Go, and social media most of the day. Coming from an iPhone 11 Pro which had incredible battery life, it is a major change. BUT, the lower battery life is manageable. I have external battery packs, I prepare for these types of things. I can make it last when I need it to.

battery life is good on the mini for me, as for locking up, not sure why you would see that, it's got the same chipset as the non-mini iphone 13

Haha I play Pokemon Go, battery life is like 6 hours TOPs. I charge it periodically throughout the day, just hover between 20-80 percent.

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Locking up, I think it comes from moving from my old iPhone 11 Pro to the non-pro variant. I felt a little spoiled with the Pro model.

Fairly sure battery estimation is rubbish. I've seen huge amounts of battery life between 20% and 0%.