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Gives me the chills. :-D

On Sunday, June 25? Maybe that was a typo and it was supposed to be the 15th. Alternatively, the last time June 25 fell on a Sunday was in 2023, which tells you when the AI was released that wrote the post, and the only question remaining is which AI created the video.

I don't put a lot of faith in anything posted on X these days.

Iran buying? The bigger problem is the other way around. Iran is supplying drones, missiles, etc. that Russia is using in their war with Ukraine.

Good comment, but next time, don't forget to mention that Powell was a Trump appointee, confirmed by a Republican-majority Senate. It helps drive the point home of who is really responsible for all of this, and explains why Trump's damage to the economy didn't end when he left office.

I wouldn't say that Israel has been legitimate in their war tactics against Hamas. The civilian casualties have been incredible, and the number of times that they've blown up aid convoys and hospitals to kill a handful of Hamas people, and other similar war crimes, is staggering. The latest was just hours ago.

I suspect the only reason they seem to be trying to be legitimate in their attacks on Iran (at least so far) is because they have gotten so much blowback from their war on Gaza.

Yeah, it's a steaming pile of garbage, with 10% coming from friends and 90% being suggested s**t from random pages that I have no prior association with. At this point, I'm operating under the assumption that most of the remaining users are bots, and that they're doing this because there's zero actual organic user engagement. Eventually, the advertisers will realize that their ad dollars are being wasted, and it will be a self-correcting problem as the whole thing goes belly up.

In the Navy,
startups sail the seven seas...

You think your data is in that disk image? As If!

But seriously, I'll think about trusting it in three OS releases. I remember all the problems with sparse bundles and Time Machine, so that's not an "I'll trust it in three releases," but rather an "I'll start experimenting with it in three releases."

Ugh. That will teach me to use the mobile site. Useless because of Unicode bugs.

If itâ(TM)s #1, thatâ(TM)s a design problem. The controls for the two engines and the temperature readings should be in sufficiently different places to make such a mistake impossible.

We will soon find out which is stronger: the CCP's censorship or the Streisand Effect.

Wikifunctions isn't even part of Wikipedia. It's an entirely separate Wiki that just happens to be run by the same organization. It's like saying you don't watch NBC News because Universal Pictures made Howard the Duck.

Could have. Didn't want to. They were more interested in low-end CPUs with specialized hardware to accelerate gaming, targeting game console manufacturers and set-top box manufacturers as their primary customers..

Pretty much, yes. Apple left AIM because nobody could build an efficient laptop chip. Apple left Intel because they did, but only briefly, and then sat on their laurels while the iPhone CPU basically caught up.

2017? Three years to build M1? Seems optimistic. I'm pretty sure Apple was building Mac OS X on Intel internally even back before it was called Mac OS X as a hedge against PowerPC not keeping up, and it remained as a skunkworks project until they needed it, at which point they polished it and shipped it. It seems almost certain that Apple also had builds of macOS running on ARM (likely iPads) long before 2017. There were rumors that Apple was testing ARM-based Mac hardware back in 2014 (though this *might* have been confusion because of the Touch Bar using an ARM CPU), and rumors that ARM-based Macs would happen go as far back as 2011.

It was never really a question of whether Apple would switch the Mac to ARM. Once Apple started designing chips, the writing was on the wall for their future with Intel. The only question was the timing. Did Skylake increase the pressure to build a desktop-grade chip sooner? Maybe. Was it the reason Apple switched? No. That was always going to happen, for the same reason Apple switched from VxWorks on the Airport Base Stations to Darwin, and switched from Pixo OS to Darwin on the iPod. They like to be in control over their destiny.

Monolith?