Infinite Loop seems to have missed somehow. The old Apple with multiple dodgy buildings all over the show was perhaps a bit more chaotically creative. Now it all seems very rehearsed, architected. Too perfect, just like the campus.
Somewhat surprised that pcmag.com has not published an obituary. He was one of the load-bearing walls of the brand for what must’ve been two decades and certainly throughout the growth years.
Increasingly flake.nix is present in good repos. Zillions of packages are available. But yes, you will need to learn and sometimes File System Hierarchy assumptions need to be worked around. The rewards however, dominate the (few) inconveniences once you know your way around.
totally. In fact the current monopoly-coddling dispensation is antithetical to market economics, which clearly espouses real competition. It's kinda been coopted and hijacked.
The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.
With a new agentic-lashup tearing across the internet every week, pointing the way to "gradient descent" software development, any purchasing manager worth their salt is going to ask some serious questions about their enormous SaaS bill before committing to another expensive long term contract. It follows that valuations must decline. Even if only because risks to moats have increased, but also because it makes sense to negotiate hard on pricing when there's fear in your counterparty.
Personally I find it extremely rare that I need to do this given Polars expressions are so comprehensive, including when.then.otherwise when all else fails.
because method chaining in Polars is much more composable and ergonomic than SQL once the pipeline gets complex which makes it superior in an exploratory "data wrangling" environment.
"revolutionary"? It just copied and pasted the decades-old R (previous "S") dataframe into Python, including all the paradigms (with worse ergonomics since it's not baked into the language).
cool, but doesn't sound that great when you close your eyes and just listen. Other synths beat this hands down especially at > $1000, and can easily bring in the physical world already, including live workflows. The issue is when we get into the physical analogue world, craftsmanship, materials, shape, often age, and of course the varied kinetic interactions with the sound solicitor, bring depth and richness which no little electrically-excited xylophone will ever get anywhere close to.
Ultimately what's happening here is AI is undermining trust in remote contributions, and in new code. If you don't know somebody personally, and know how they work, the trust barrier is getting higher. I personally am already ultra vigilant for any github repo that is not already well established, and am even concerned about existing projects' code quality into the future. Not against AI per se (which I use), but it's just going to get harder to fight the slop.
I don't understand why Apple doesn't offer a headless MacOS or at least a path to a minimal install. Those mac minis make a great little server box but losing 8GB to hundreds of processes, before you've done anything, just feels wasteful and inelegant.
>> "The adversary has a limited ability to persuade users to trust the adversary’s agents - thus the number of social connections between the adversary’s agents and the rest of the network is limited." [1]
C++ features for complexity management are not ergonomic though, with multiple conflicting ideas from different eras competing with each other. Sometimes demolition and rebuild from foundations is paradoxically simpler.
I moved from Windows about 10 years ago and it took 6 months to click. It was an enlightening experience, like the curtains had been drawn back. The only comparable experience was finally clicking with NixOS, about 18 months ago. Will never go back to any other Linux distro.