My first computer was a Mac Plus.
I got to experience Apple's customer hostile practices.
Many years ago l decided never to buy an Apple product again.
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I got to experience Apple's customer hostile practices.
Many years ago l decided never to buy an Apple product again.
April 20: National Get High day.
Age 42.0
St Elon is risen and is now running Army recruitment.
"VitruvianOS is an alternative Linux desktop with a singular philosophy: the human at the center."
It is silly to have AC to DC converters in all of my wall connected electronics ( LED bulbs, home controller, computer equipment etc )
Yesterday everything was Agentic.
Everything was AI last week.
Waiting for AGI Agentic AI Crypto toilet paper to be in the supermarket shelves , next to the superseded Object oriented UML Rational Rose tuna.
It is not a cap on the price.
Posting the above would have taken you 60 seconds.
Pinterests algorithms have beaten you 60 to 1...
But very Eurocentric.
Where are Kalidas , Mahfouz , Soyinka or the Mahabharata?
Seems a bit like Ted Talks. Lightweight popcorn for the simple minded.
There are massive tax, fuel, land tax, health care subsidies for our farmers.
Even doctors who cater to the remote areas where farmers dwell get extra payments from our governments.
https://www.health.gov.au/topics/rural-health-workforce/clas...
I began reading newspapers in the 1960's.
Most journalism even in those days was bad and of dubious quality.
A code reviewer is a reverse-centaur, a servant to the machine.
Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI.""
Seems like a triumph of hype over reality.
China can do breathless hype just as well as Nvidia.
AI is a convenient way to hide their their poor strategy and execution.
It is a great excuse for underperforming and incompetent CEOs.
It provides the CEO with a wonderful excuse for sacking people.
The money presumably goes to some good cause ( her thing at the moment is some rare pediatric neurological disorder ) and the organisers get to socialise with each other and wear millions in clothing and jewels.
BYD is more reliable and arguably better by metrics that matter to people.
BMW still has more cachet and is bought largely for the brand value.
HypocrAIsy...
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"
I studied it in school as did my children at their school, decades later.
They also studied the Caesar' savage Gallic Wars ( in English and in Latin ) and Thucydides History of the Peloponsesian War.
Thucydides is essential reading these days.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/opinion/america-china-tru...
More importantly languages are interesting !
I am back to working on my Finnish now and the grammar and sentences are fascinating !