It amuses me that networks alternate between "packet" and "stream" every few layers. Ethernet media is physically a continuous unreliable stream; the MAC divides it into frames; TCP runs streams on top of IP; TLS is (loosely) message-based but pretends to be a stream; HTTP is (roughly) message-based, and websockets are very message-based.
As Robin Hanson says, building the sheer variety of products we have is actually bad, because it increases unit costs. This is especially clear in laptops - there are far too many laptops with too little to distinguish them and too many nonsense minor issues. As such, I think we need a new streamlined and harmonized lineup of all laptops:
Cheapest Possible Technically Functional Laptop
Mediocre Office and Home Laptop (to be issued to most office workers and people who want to edit spreadsheets or emails and such)
CEO Laptop (reasonably fast, expensive, big battery for CEO activities)
Programmer Laptop (ThinkPad-like focused on CPU performance and reasonable portability)
Gamer Laptop (16" Legion-like with middling battery life and decently high-powered CPU/GPU)
Gamer Laptop (Big) (17"-18" desktop replacement)
Technician Laptop (smallish thick and rugged laptop with many ports)
Multimedia Laptop (Mediocre Office and Home Laptop with a nicer display and better graphics)
There would also be a version number updated whenever new components are available, of course. There can perhaps be two or three variants of each (with the same chassis, board, etc but different components) with different pricing, but no more.
Experiments
Various web projects I have put together over many years. Made with at least four different JS frameworks. Some of them are bad.
Collect Arbitrary Points and achievements by doing things on this website! See how many you have! Do nothing with them because you can't! This is the final form of gamification.
It is pitch black (if you ignore all of the lighting). You are likely to be eaten by Heavpoot's terrible writing skills, and/or lacerated/shot/[REDACTED]. Vaguely inspired by the SCP Foundation.
A Reverse Polish Notation (check wikipedia) calculator, version 2. Buggy and kind of unreliable. This updated version implements advanced features such as subtraction.
Your favourite* tic-tac-toe game in 3 dimensions, transplanted onto the main website via a slightly horrifically manual process! Technically this game is solved and always leads to player 1 winning with optimal play, but the AI is not good enough to do that without more compute!
Type websocket URLs in the top bar and hit enter; type messages in the bottom bar, and also hit enter. Probably useful for some weirdly designed websocket services.
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