I have many not so fond memories of hitting a specific key sequence to allow loading an hdd controller driver or something like it when installing win2k. But it was miles better than 98se. And wow the contemporaneous ME was such an enormous disaster at the time— still remember one of the other computer nerds in high school espousing the benefits of what he saw as the soon to come “made for Windows ME” games.” Thankfully my dad knew better and saw through the ME hype, sparing the expense and the terribly buggy UX.
I don’t think the switch is about Apple providing better performance, thermal efficiency or anything like that. I think it’s simply cost control. Consumer Intel chips haven’t improved much better in a long time but they still command an enormous profit margin. And since Apple controls the compiler toolchain along with the OS and much of the other hardware, it can make the switch without the consumers it cares about the most noticing.
Ransom probably isn’t the right term, it’s more like extortion. Failing to pay is hardly the moral high ground. It’s just the least expensive option. Businesses aren’t held accountable for their breeches by the US justice system and so facing the courts and captive customers/staff is the cheap and easy way out.
All these great things that would reduce Apple’s profits. I’m not even sure it’s too unfair since developers know the state of things going in. It can also get a bit worse since so many developers continue to put out high quality apps despite it all.
Basically, Amazon's going to push and push until the courts push back. Business is dog-eat-dog coopetition, it's not some sort of place where people play nicely together. The irony here is by directing users to their private label and simply away from SKUs contaminated with fakes they may already be providing a better customer experience. Same goes for directing users away from items with fake reviews.
This is a neat company. Kind of interesting starting a new insurer at a time of near zero interest rates. My gut is by using “AI” they mostly have a cost advantage as opposed to better risk management but could be wrong and will read through the filing. For anyone interested in diving in, I’d recommend reading this first— http://www.columbia.edu/~dn75/Analysis%20and%20Valuation%20o...
I wonder if your student with nested switches was just bored with the assignment. Way back in college we had mandatory lab time which was cake for anybody with a little coding experience and I remember doing stuff like that, overflows, bit arithmetic, convoluted recursion logic and so on to see if anyone would notice. Nobody did... or so I thought.
My bet is they’re repurposing the delivery vans and light trucks normally used to restock restaurants, vending machines and like. If they get the route planning right it’s not so bad but probably gives worse margins than their grocery store channels.
To be clear, the UK is undergoing a clinical trial with hydroxychloroquine. Hopefully it works, but as of now it's not known if the harms outweigh the benefits.
The file was widely shared on Google Drive and linked to from a public twitter message— it was very much not a personal file. And the title literally was, “An Effective Treatment for Coronavirus” referring to hydroxychloroquine. Google’s doing its part to purge pandemic misinformation and prevent harm. The authoring “doctor,” as far as I can tell has never had postgraduate medical training and cannot practice medicine without supervision, is trying to achieve writing a document with a title like that I don’t know.
The short answer is you technically can but the ethics are foggy. On the one hand you do help even out the geographical disparity. But you're kind of buying an organ that would have gone to someone else who's probably poorer than you.
LOL. Reading that audit report made me immediately wonder who in the heck is blowing money on bringing new tech to their critical finance systems. And then I saw your post and, yes, that answers that.
Not even close (case studies linked below). Their examples only look at individual projects from several cities, instead of whole cities. They convincingly show a few houses paying $252/year in property taxes will only support X sq ft of road. But that's not really surprising-- more dense houses paying $1000/year property taxes in some other part of the city will subsidize the other parts and the city will avoid financial ruin.
It's very hard to take the article seriously without actual numbers. Why not find an example town, go over its finances and quantify the expected deferred maintenance compared with its income? If the town stopped growing and needed to make up revenue without counting on growth, where would it come from? Sales tax increases? Property tax? Government transfer payments? How much hardship would taxing the stakeholders the balance cause?
Since passive funds mostly weigh investment by market cap or some other indicator of size that’s already gotten smaller for these firms I’m not sure swapping out the smallest 30 would make up more than a few percent of allocated funds.. far from drastic for the passive investor. From the firm perspective it’s also hard to quantify the effect on stock prices from dropped firms when the reason they’re being dropped is their market cap shrunk— there’s a chicken vs egg quality to the situation. Obviously some institutions will be forced to sell but the market is generally efficient in the long run— it’s not like getting dropped affects the underlying business value. In the short term the businesses will have less access to newly issued equity capital however.
I fully remember picking up coffeescript because Dropbox had used it. I only ever used it on one project. I try and remember that every time I have the urge to go with Reason, Elm or even wasm compiling things. Long live JS.
I've read the book and its iterations 3 times. It may not be for everyone but it's been wonderful for me. When I was first learning Rust some time ago you were also a great resource on IRC. Thank you Steve.
The crux of the argument is showing different strains requires showing different phenotypes, and that that hasn't been supported with enough evidence. D614S is taken as an example, which purportedly increases transmissibility (thus would be a different strain), but most-likely doesn't. Apparently the data in support of D615S is just based on it being found in a lot of isolates-- but that would also be seen in the case of founder effect.
I wouldn’t put much weight on this. They looked at about 15 stored samples (actually 80 depending how you count) and got one positive. As far as I can tell that forms the entire factual evidence. Contamination/false positive works out to be a large concern. Clearly they wanted the result as well.
I'm sorry, but "freedom of speech," as in the first amendment protects the right to express opinions. It does not protect misstatements of fact.
Not all people are rational animals that objectively acquire and then review all the information in front of them to weigh the merits of "5g versus virus." Sometimes, when you see a guy gaining a following by telling others that vaccines have secret microchips in them and that humanity has to fight 5g in order to survive, you tell him to go to hell and host his vile videos somewhere else.
Someone somewhere is going to organize a series of JS packages with the continuity of a standard library and full of verification and tests. Sane versioning, consistent interfaces and so on. The npm ecosystem isn't bad it's just unwieldy successful.
Apple created the iPhone 13 years ago. Then Macbook Air a year later, the iPad line and so on. The A13 processor is the fastest mobile processor in widespread use, as was the A12 when it was launched. Do you really expect a company to innovate every single year? Google/Alphabet created K8s seven years ago, Glang, Android, and consistently refines its cloud platform. Its search and advertising platform is very effective and gives enormous value to its customers, even if it's not the "strictly do no evil" innovation of yore. Amazon has grown to enormous scale, innovating along its supply chain and AWS. Microsoft created Azure in almost no time, supports Linux on its own operating system and has embraced JavaScript and has some open source projects. I think, if you remember the Microsoft of 10 years ago (software-only, bitterly proprietary), that's quite a pivot.