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Long-time "lifestyle" software entrepreneur (small company since 1990), grizzled Silicon Valley start-up scene veteran (1980's), homeschooling father of 8, Harvard grad.
Oh, wait, now you're the fascist.
Also, I noticed a while back that connecting to the iPhone with a USB-C-to-Lightning cable got me a hardwired hotspot.
https://web.mit.edu/uricchio/Public/Documents/media-in-trans...
The main problem was compiler complexity -- the hoped-for "junk parallelism" gains really never panned out (maybe 2-3X?), so the compiler was best when it could discover, or be fed, vector operations.
But Convex (main competitor at the time) already had the "minisupercomputer vector" market locked up.
So Multiflow folded in early '90 (I had already bailed, seeing the handwriting mural) after burning through $60M in VC, which was a record at the time, I believe.
I.e., while the tech moguls may dream these SF visions, they're really just a front for dark forces.
If you print dollars (created out of nothing), the value of each dollar goes down, since nothing of value has been created or destroyed. You have more dollars chasing the same value.
But of course the official narrative has to shield the Fed from criticism, so they can run the dollar machine with impunity.
Steelseries Apex Pro (https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke...)
With some lube, this Hall effect keyboard comes as close as I've found since the Tom Knight MIT AI lab Microswitch keyboards of yore. What it still lacks is the perfect "heft" of the TK keyboards, balanced key weight & springs which gave it a certain "je ne sais quoi" I've never found in 40+ years. (And I've tried dozens of mechanical keyboards.) But it's damned close.
I've tried adding weight to the keys with magnetic putty to mimic the original TK "heft," but the switches aren't up to the weight, nor do they have enough throw. So I gave up and am still very very happy with the lubed Apex Pros.
Can't recommend his blog enough: https://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/ .
Those modifications force pages which were created on forking a child process as copy-on-write (meaning they share the same physical page until the page is modified by the child) to be copied and thus blow out any memory savings that would normally happen with copy-on-write.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/07/12/reality-check-no-we-didn...
Hey, I was one of the "get some fresh middle class white nobodies from the San Diego area for diversity" legacies in 1972. ;-)
He figured, what the heck, and ordered a meal in Latin.
The waiter, without missing a beat, said "You must have been gone a long time."
True story...
>Overall, the long-term trend in Antarctic sea ice is nearly flat. (in contrast, the glaciers and ice sheets over land in Antarctica are losing mass.) The satellite record spans more than four decades, and although the ice has shown increasing and decreasing trends over portions of that record, few of those trends have been statistically significant. Year-to-year variability has dominated, especially over the last decade. Since the year 2013, Antarctic sea ice has exhibited its highest and lowest extents in the entire record—the highest-ever winter maximum occurred in September 2014, and the lowest-ever summer minimum was in February 2022. But the overall trend, as of early 2022, is close to zero.
When I started undergrad there in '72 (yes, even some generations ago), if you didn't have close to an 800 verbal SAT, you had to take a remedial writing course as a frosh.
Oh, wait, that's not noSQL skills, that's people skills.