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These two guys seem like they should get together.

This article needs an editor the way that Austen Allred needs a conscience.

> Transitive is providing the engine used in Apple's Rosetta software, which translates software for its current machines using PowerPC processors so it can run on forthcoming Intel-based Macintoshes. "We've had a long-term relationship with them," Transitive Chief Executive Bob Wiederhold said Tuesday.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-brains-b...

The article is boring and repetitious. I love a well-written long read. This isn’t.

Bad writing? Maybe the article was edited or processed to show more ads?

Interesting story told poorly in an atrocious UI.

> I don’t really like the idea of blaming others for one’s lack of curiosity about a subject… I’m the one who changed, not the way plate tectonics are taught.

100% agree.

The author seems to be arguing that it’s someone else’s duty to point out what’s interesting. I suppose a essayist or columnist needs to believe something along those lines.

Who needs someone else to tell them what’s interesting?! Isn’t “Golgi apparatus” enough to get you going? If you’re relying on a teacher—or some blogger,for that matter—-to call out everything that’s worth finding out about, you’re going to miss a lot of stuff & most of the really good stuff.

I’d like to see Chris Nolan follow-up “Oppenheimer” with “George (Marshall)” and “(William) Knudsen”

At least those that talk publicly about company culture. It feels performative and inauthentic, but maybe that's necessary to compete? They are selling culture surveillance technology of some sort.

Reminds me of mandates to get more on the engineering blog: makes an organic, authentic good into something performative.

It's a masterpiece as well, for sure.

There are a lot of great covers of the tune. I love Dean Wareham's. Every time he plays it, he seems to find something new.

His cover tends toward melancholy. Peter Hook's, a little angry, sometimes triumphant. There's a cover by Day Wave that's almost happy. Several ambient covers that range from, I dunno, anhedonic to transcendent.

We use:

E = \frac{1}{2} m (\dot{q}^2 - \omega^2 q^2) + \int \Gamma (s) ds + \frac{\sum_{n=1}^{N} (T_{\text{amb}} - T_n) \cdot \text{W}_{\text{AR}}}{\sum_{i=1}^{N} \text{SP}_i \cdot \text{AU}_i}

E: Effective rate of innovation

m: Mass

q: State space coordinate

q': Time derivative of state space coordinate

ω: Frequency

Γ(s): Gamma function

T_amb : Ambient temperature

T_n : Individual temperature

WAR: Wins against replacement

SP_i: story points

AU_i: total active users

or in production:

function calculateInnovationRate(I) { const { a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k } = I; const L = 0.5 * a * (b * 2 - d * 2 * c * 2); const G = e.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + x * f[idx], 0); const N = h.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + (g - x) * i[idx], 0); const D = j.reduce((acc, x, idx) => acc + x * k[idx], 0);

  return L + G + (N / D);
}

“Culture Amp customers experience 2x the rate of innovation”

LOL

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Isn’t a merger generally more like cannibalism than the joyful bliss of marriage?

My impression is the Westerners’ best guess about the Mig-25 contributed significantly to the design of the F-15 and helped to make it what it is. Getting their hands on it was a relief, or even a let down.

The alternative scenario, where the Mig-25 really was generations ahead, plays out in the movie Firefox from 1982 where the US is so far behind they have to steal a Soviet Mig-31 superplane. Good for laugh today, but once upon a time…

The rumor I heard is Soviet intelligence infiltrated American industry and stole what they thought were plans for America’s next generation air superiority fighter. What they’d obtained were the plans for Plymouth’s Roadrunner Superbird, thus the Mig-25’s uncanny resemblance. Proof: https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/1970-plymouth-superbird-a...

I’m probably spending too much time with Bing Chat. As was foretold: https://youtu.be/5eWny2ZLCwU

Indiana Jones captures the benefits of stand-off weapons here https://youtu.be/vdnA-ESWcPs?t=120

I'd be curious to know which aircraft were actually better than their US contemporaries and by which criteria they'd be judged better.

The Mig-25 seems like a good example of a Soviet aircraft considered better than its US contemporaries, at the time. Misunderstanding and misinformation let the US to think they were far, far behind the Soviet Union. Viktor Belenko cleared that up! It was a plane good at just one thing, with downsides that would never let it through a (non-CIA-directed) US procurement process. On the plus side, competition, fear, and rivalry, drove the US to some amazing research, engineering, and innovation.

As a child at a local military airshow, the F-15 was awesome, dangerously beautiful. Shamed even the X-wings and Tie fighters I'd just seen on the big screen. Many years later, I had a similar feeling watching an Su-27 at Farnborough; Sukhoi captured some aesthetic that Mikoyan-Gurevich never seemed to get right, and did it better than any western contemporary.

Here’s what i gleaned from this article: (1) Ken Thompson uses Linux in a Raspberry Pi. (2) Linus Torvalds uses Linux on a laptop he likes better than a Mac with a bad screen. (3) the author likes using linux on ARM chips. (4) Ashashi Linux runs on Apple’s ARM computers. The author uses it.

Here’s what the author might add: (1) What did Ken Thompson find off putting about Mac OS? (2) What was wrong with Linus’ screen that couldn’t be fixed and how did switching to Linux fix it? (3) What benefits of running Linux vs Mac Os inspired the author to write this article?

Those three points, or similar, might make this article more interesting and valuable.

This project periodically intrigues HN readers baited by journalists or bloggers peddling some version of the Raskin was an under-appreciated genius myth.

No harm in pumping out such stories, but it seems lazy to write the same tired story. Isn’t there some other under-appreciated genius with some other failed project that hasn’t been written about a hundred times before?

He’s not even a Doctor!

Thanks. Of course I was kidding about texting while motorcycling.

I’m not kidding about Frankenstein. What a jerk! He creates a monster, releases it without testing, avoids responsibility for the results. His girlfriend dies as he mopes around. When he finally does react, he’s responsible for the death of some sailors. He bitches at the ones who don’t die & they ditch him on an ice floe. Where he dies. What a jerk.

I’m not going to read the article, not interested.

Just want to say that “Dr.” Frankenstein was a real jerk, at least according to Mary Shelley.

Can’t go into too much detail as I’m texting from my motorcycle, but this should cover it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0aqDUmTQA

I find that is not the case. At least if one cares about the outcome. Ever fight feeling that it would be faster to just do it one’s self?

There’s lots of skill involved in finding effective people, developing trust, communicating goals clearly, evaluating outcomes, adjusting.

That’s a great name for the president/coo of a rocket company.

As far as anyone has shown, the whole universe is devoid of dark matter—“the most abundant matter in the Universe”, lol.

The original version of Donnie Darko was “downgraded” from INXS to Echo and The Bunnymen, among others. The director’s cut replaced or repurposed several tracks. The original was better, a little too much tinkering, I think.

I remember the days of $800/cpu for a System V R2 license with no outline fonts :)

The sticker is to explain the price increase: why do these sneakers which cost $109 last week cost $179 now? The price increase is the deterrent, not the information.

Companies would be free to market their products as they see fit: “Nike Freedom Airs now made with 33% less slave labor.”, “IPhone 14: Apple’s first Child-Labor-Neutral phone.”