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There is a big poster at the end of my road, that is trying to recruit drivers, with a starting bonus, and reasonable hours and conditions. So all the drivers leaving the industry seem to have at least got their point across to someone.

People working in labs today must be speeding up nature significantly on a daily basis. Perform lots of concurrent experiments, apply different environmental stresses, provide different nutrition, cross different variants you find useful, automate all the processes and tests. I think the project referenced seems to be deliberately not doing that, to observe the natural speed of change.

The other problem with "Public companies are inherently evil by default" is that saying that "the whole system is wrong", is just providing leaders with an excuse. Public Companies can serve their customers, shareholders, and look after their employees while still being ethical, there is always a choice, and there are many positive benefits to behaving ethically, for one, it means you are a trustworthy company to deal with.

Waiting longer is ok, it is waiting a random time in a unplanned way with a missed date that is very annoying and becomes expensive, not keeping to schedule will make consumers look elsewhere.

We can clearly see that the current generation of tank the Russians have are useless. We will spend lots of money on very expensive equally redundant tanks. We can clearly see that the Russians were unable to gain air superiority. We will spend lots of money on incredibly expensive new fighters and bombers. We can clearly see the Russian fleet is bottled up. We will spend lots of money on new ships and submarines.

If we were interested in defence, all the (small) spending would be on anti tank and anti aircraft missile systems, logistics, and training our national guard, firemen, police and other citizens. We (the west) vastly outnumber the Russians, have more advanced technology, and hugely larger industrial capacity.

This defence spending is obviously not about Russia, and not about defence, it is firstly and mainly about making money and creating jobs to get ourselves out of the current economic disaster, and secondly about preparing for war with our next official adversary, whoever the Americans decide to nominate for that.

Especially annoying when reams of nonsense also gets 'unexpectedly' sprayed into the web browser of some poor sod using an enterprise app, just because Java is having a bad day. This seems to happen less than it used to a few years ago, so there is some progress going in in software engineering, somewhere.

Interestingly it is the base M1 that is still the most interesting device, lower cost, lower heat, good single core performance, capable of most tasks, and reasonable graphics for a lower power device. Other fast laptops are all about the heat and the fan noise (my tiny work laptop is the loudest device in my room) A number of times I have got off the train with a laptop almost on fire in my bag, because windows failed to notice the laptop lid was closed. Ill be getting the M1 laptop next time I need one.

Reading is a great deal faster than watching videos. Presumably doubling the speed must also make the presenters sound like chipmunks or voles or something. Perhaps just fiddling with the sound frequency also works.

There is something different or odd about it though. I don't think anyone is arguing that the low number of Women in tech is not a problem, understanding the root cause is presumably important or we will continue to miss out on a significant talent pool.

I am not a rust fan, but `ever` is a long time, and if operating systems are re-written in rust (which is preferable by far than writing them in C), that is going to be a lot of very widely used code.

Never thought of an MBA as technical, that is an interesting perspective to think about.

If you mainly use Linux that would be a reasonable point of view to take.

However it runs in many environments so it is more like 'a cross platform framework'

It is native code, so in that sense it also native.

I think other operating systems could also benefit from this reverse engineering work as it shows how to create the drivers needed.

If Apple had provided a bunch of binary blobs for Linux, that would have been great - for Linux only.

It will be ironic if the mac mini becomes the most open hardware platform for alternative systems.

The 68k was certainly great fun after 8bit systems, and the x86 was almost just more of the same. ARM32 is also nice, apart from some corner cases. I think everything has corner cases, apart from x86 where the whole thing is an ugly mess.

Makes sense if Intel was planning on manufacturing the processors for a regional market rather than for global export.

Macron stamps his feet and this happens. You better watch out down there.

Makes sense, It is also easier to read and understand a book than it was for the author to write it. You can also think you understand something while you read it and later realize that you misunderstood it.

European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived. How this ends up filed under Camel art is a mystery.

Boom Boom

If people were the same back then:- Most people hung out and watched the Camels being carved, many watched others `reacting` to the Camel carvings, and a few critiqued the Carvings. Only a few did the carving.

Smalltalk famously let you code inside the debugger. You can run code with methods that don't exist yet and add them in the debugger when it notices they are missing.

I suspect you are right. Rebinding an inner function inside another function that contains variables probably will not work. But you could still alter and rebind the entire thing. And that is still flexible; you can still change a running program on the fly with only that ability. And you can always reference objects at the top level.

Acorn (early ARM personal computers) had a hardware sprite mouse cursor; because moving the mouse in software was expensive. A fun thing is you can have a monochrome graphics mode and the mouse cursor will still be blue.

Those would be our Europan visitors :) Explains why they care more about the sea as well.

We will be getting tasty Kangaroo steaks soon from Australia. Be jealous.

The thing I have never really understood; is why countries outside of the EU; pay the slightest bit of attention to these EU directives.

I always think that as well. Except, there is a large air show that takes place up the road from me; and I get a ticket some years. The aircraft are literally displaying themselves. Getting a decent picture of them whizzing past is far from easy.

The Mac finder always drives me nuts for the same reason. Both the finder and explorer are tedious to use. I drag the explorer to the task bar and open it by right clicking File Explorer. Both seem to prefer creating new folders to creating new views of the file system.

Right, I agree with you completely on Covid.

Setting the actual tragic pandemic to one side.

It is not true that there are never going to be reasonable motivations to deploy a virus:-

It could be viewed as a tool to alter population demographics in an ageing society.

It might be deployed against an adversary.

It might be used to reduce the human population to avoid a predicted ecological disaster.

There are probably dozens of very reasonable motivations.