I don’t know. I just had to buy, and use, a Windows 11 pc. Remarkably, it shares a desk with a new M3 iMac, side by side. And equally remarkably, they’re set up so they behave almost identically, except that Windows 11 is a little snappier and has a few fewer keystrokes than the Finder for most operations. (And search works!). I quickly acculturated to it after a decade away. Entirely unexpected.
About two weeks ago, I had an epiphany that ‘Apple was dead’, since any cheap crappy device could act as a terminal to an AI infrastructure delivering a perfected and idiosyncratic user interface. Now, I’ve reconsidered.
In day camp in Brooklyn, we always had woodworking. In successive summers, we had an instructor who wanted us to round the corners and edges of everything, and another instructor who insisted we keep everything as square and sharp as possible.
Founder risk is total myth. I was at a startup where, when it was apparent there would be no more funding, the vc’s permitted principal founder to essentially embezzle the remaining few $M. He and his cronies then lived off the proceeds for the better part of a decade in a kind of “brown dwarf” of a company of the same name.
And it was the SECOND time he had done this in his career!
Paul Graham felt all development should be in Lisp. Problem is readability by maintainers in the future. To facilitate that, the number of characters in the comments would have to exceed that in the code.
While the considerations that this act addresses are real, strategically, the act looks so stupid, ineffective, and contrary to market forces, and the sponsors so obscure, that it is suspect.
I’ve asked this before.
I’ve noticed if my speed is slow, and I test it a few times, (I usually use the Netflix-owned site,) my speed rapidly improves. Do ISP’s throttle service, DETECT your visit to speed testing sites, and THEN speed things up?
The DFT has quite severe limitations that do not appear in the Fourier transform. In particular, the Nyquist criteria that there be zero signal energy for ALL frequencies above half the sampling frequency can only be approximated, and must be accomplished BEFORE sampling, i.e. in the time domain.
A while back, I asked a question here, roughly, why hasn’t someone written, say, a C to COBOL translator? Such a program might take a lot of work, but it seemed to me that with an impending dearth of COBOL programmers, there would be demand for such an app. I was informed that there were so many different COBOLs in use that the output of such a program would STILL have to be tended to by an experienced programmer in the output dialect desired. This is just the Copilot situation.
Experience has shown that a number of people win repeated lottery scratch-off jackpots with a statistically impossible frequency. My hypothesis: After-hours use of semi X-ray inspection equipment.
Position to position. 12 bits. Plus occasionally, an extra 12 bits for promotion. Promotion found by impossible position prefix. Whether it’s a capture, check, castle, what piece, etc. all interpreted by a reader program. What am I missing here?