Until recently TDC had a very slow FCDO satellite link that required their website to be quite basic in order to actually be viewable on computers on the island.

They now have a fast Starlink connection, but I’m glad they’ve kept the website as it is.

If they hosted locally, it shouldn't have been an issue, they could have had a mirror system, but that's by the by, I love the website

Probably not that many. You underestimate how expensive either of those things are.

We have obligations to provide services like this to the people living in our overseas territories, and you won’t find many people who’ll oppose that.

The ferries would be brief enough though. Probably less than 100 out of the total 10,000 miles.

Parallels and VMware still do implement their own graphics virtualisation (among other things) for Windows and Linux guests on Apple silicon, and in my experience Parallels still works better than the alternatives for Windows.

DeepMind, which is headquartered in London, probably had a significant role in the development of the Gemini and Gemma models.

Yes, it might be a problem that the UK allows companies like this to be bought up by foreign countries.

Yet ASML is always cited as a great Europe great achievement, but it's hardly ever mentioned that without American's EUV research and patents, and without Cymer there would be no AMSL as we known of.

In all honesty I believe ASML's success is mostly their own. Still, lamenting "being bought up by foreign countries" is a lame excuse.

Without Google’s funding its not obvious i DeepMind would have went anywhere.

Unless the moved to US for funding while keeping a back office in the UK.

It’s strange to expect anything significant to come out from Europe when VCs there are either very risk averse and/or don’t have enough cash to begin with. It’s not like government or EU funding can replace that since its almost always wasted or missdirected

It’s a company containing such remarkable talent that I’m sure they would not have run into significant issues raising capital on international markets.

It’s not like VCs are only allowed to invest in companies in their own country.

Usually to maximize its funding the company would move its HQ to the US and if they are lucky have an IPO there and eventually become effectively American after a few years (e.g. Unity)

I have no idea why @wasfgwp is downvoted - it's very true. +1 on that.

I can’t imagine a standalone heart rate monitor would be very useful without logging to a smartphone

You could dump it to some website or an app on your computer, but that feels like much the same. For me it depends on the implementation. It the watch continuously push data to the phone, then yes, BUUUH!

What I'd love is a fitness track, without a subscription, that sync data with HealthKit whenever my phone is within reach, but buffers it, if it can't find the phone nearby. It's the assumption that my phone will always be with me when I workout or take a walk that triggers the "BUH" from me.

I'd also love for this device to not be a watch, because that limits my choice in which watch I can wear.

You can use a Polar watch if that's what you're into - I used a Polar Pacer Pro for a while that you can sync to a computer periodically, or just use it offline.

It sounds like you are describing a Garmin watch.

It uses an app to sync with Apple health but will happily run offline for a week until you can sync it.

There are also heart rate bands you wear around their chests since you mention non-watches. I am not sure if those will work without another device to sync with though.

Sure it would, for heartrate-based training.

$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?

I assume someone knows someone, backroom deal perhaps? I'm not sure either, when Cursor has a lot of risk and not that much moat.

My 2c: they need to pump xAI usage (which nobody is using) to be able to keep the hype alive pre-ipo.

1. Pay them with shares of SpaceX

2. Make SpaceX valuation even higher before IPO

3. Boost XAI/usage of Grok.

I thought Cursor has started making their own models. Did I confuse them with someone else?

Their Composer 2 model is Kimi (an open model) with additional RL fine-tuning, for whatever that information is worth to you: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/cursor-admits-its-new-codi...

Oh, I see.

Though, in fairness, that's probably the important part. Like a base model plus "coding smarts" is probably perfect for the situation.

But maybe not as much value as I was thinking.

They have a 'proprietary' model which is just an open source (kimi?) fine tune

Cursor has a significant enterprise userbase, that has to be worth something

For a successful IPO and attract more capital you need a very good story/narrative. That what is being crafted here. Business fundamentals matter less with elon!

How would this be money laundering?

Value shifting. Search for SolarCity and cousin Lyndon Rive.

That isn't laundering

Musk passing around his debt from purchasing Twitter.

If you filled the negative space on an iPhone 17 Pro/Max it would be a horrendously unwieldy phone. People who say this stuff seriously underestimate the disastrous effect on ergonomics increasing the whole phone from 8.75mm to 13.2mm would have.

Would only need to be at the top, to balance out the camera.

The only reason I use a case is that the iPhone is close to unusable on a flat surface without it.

The iPhone is already heavy as a brick, and a battery is a couple orders of magnitude heavier than a TPU shell covering the same volume.

People already do this by buying cases

Most would continue to buy cases which would only make these phones even thicker

I buy cases to make my phone feel thicker around 12mm. I have no idea what you're taking about.

Your M2 MacBook Pro really struggles? That is genuinely crazy, given that I use one as a daily driver and it feels just as fast as the day I bought it.

I think the Apple Silicon transition has increased Mac longevity far beyond the Intel or PowerPC eras, and I am quite baffled you think otherwise.

You’re right, it’s 6 year old, so a dinosaur by technology standards! I see your point.

Is it an Intel MacBook? I think those sucked for obvious reasons outside Apple’s control (Intel getting stuck at 14nm for ages) which they’ve already fixed (by abandoning Intel).

The M1 MacBook Air was more powerful than the top Intel i9 MBP config if I recall correctly.

I’m sorry but that README.md is full of extremely obnoxious AI prose for what is essentially saying “buy an old Pixel and install Claude Code on it”

It also tells one to SSH in from their PC. Why would I use a phone instead of my PC if that was an option?