I'm thinking "Larry Ellison"....

What exactly do they measure? SLOC produced? Job Postings? GitHub commits? Articles in magazines? Job openings that mention the desired language(s)?

(For the latter, I remember a company using job postings in the LA Times, their local ppaper, as their "independent scientific" rationale for selecting their preferred programming language. I responded, "By that measure, shouldn't you be developing this system in HTML, since that's listed as a programming language in the job openings you surveyed?" Then I said, "Look, if you want to pick a specific language, just do it. Don't -pretend- you did an independent language selection process.")

There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner mind to the outer limits.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quotes.net%2Fmquote%2F...

As others have pointed out, embedded software is hard, real-world timing problems are unforgiving. Now one possibility that occurred to me is the problems may be related to timing managed by the operating system. If they're using a typical cyclical executive with timeframes allocated for each task, and some tasks can't be completed within its allotted timeframe, then a faster computer would fix those problems. Comms protocols, in particular, often have timing constraints where if you can't complete the task, the protocol times out and the operation fails. Doug Jensen defined 'hard real-time' as a situation where the value of a computation after a specific time is zero. That includes the situation where the computation cannot be completed within the given time window.

Sure, you could argue that's a repair for under-specified, under-designed, and under-tested software, and I would agree. .

I disagree. This is much more a consequence of "Moore's Law" applied more generally. USB-C has much higher bandwidth and adds significant power distribution, at the cost of new connectors. Thunderbolt 4, using the same connectors, has even more bandwidth. But at some point, we could well see 'copper' replaced with 'fiber' or 'composite' cables, with fiber for data and copper for power.

That being said, it looks like USB-C and HDMI as form factors/connectors will provide a reasonable lifetime for connections.

Capability machines and tagged architectures have an interesting history. The first I know of is the Burroughs 6600 from the mid to late '60s: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... Then there's the Intel 432 https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... and the short-lived BiiN system that was a successor to the 432: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... But a lot of this dates back (like so much of computing) to Multics and its mandatory access control mechanisms.

We have a 7 segment AC powered alarm clock by Panasonic from about 1980. It still works, but the labels on the buttons have worn off, and we have to make sure we know which button to push to set clock time vs alarm time. It's the oldest still working vintage technology in the house. There are some Panasonic stereo components in the attic from about the same time, but those need to go to recycling.

Huh. Have you checked out parking in Madrid? We were once triple-parked when it was time to leave our hotel. But Madrileño are used to it, you just honk the horn and people come out of the bars and move their cars.

That's as good an explanation as any, and since "hallucinations" in AI are acceptable to a lot of people on the AI Hype Bubble, it relieves Microsoft of the responsibility for this.

Is that anything like "cryptozoology?" Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Scholars have noted that the subculture rejected mainstream approaches from an early date, and that adherents often express hostility to mainstream science. Scholars studying cryptozoologists and their influence (including cryptozoology's association with Young Earth creationism) noted parallels in cryptozoology and other pseudosciences such as ghost hunting and ufology, and highlighted uncritical media propagation of cryptozoologist claims. So it sure looks like it.

I looked through the paper, and frankly I couldn't tell. But I'm not an AI/translation person, so I might have missed something.

But I do note their example is English Croatian. So that just reinforces my question about translation between two arbitrary European languages.

I wonder if they're doing direct from say, French to German or Spanish to Polish, or using English as an intermediate representation. And, of course, there's always the idempotent test (translate from A to B, then send the result to B to A translation.)

dave

And why would you ever accept such an App on your device?

I dunno about Android, but on iOS there's a means to control whether an app has access to location data from the phone. I usually say "no."

But that is clearly different from location generated by Telcos from cell tower data. That data is under control of the Telco, not the handset. The Telco, or agents using that Telco data, must have explicit consent, as required by the law, to use location data from cell towers.

Suggest reading the decision: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.cadc.uscourts.go... It's pretty easy to follow, and it makes clear how the Court established what the law required telecom companies to do. IANAL, but I'd summarize the Court's summary as "Customer location data, whether or not they are actively on a call, is covered by this law. Therefore telcos, and companies they provide location data to, must have consent. There are a few exceptions where location can be provided without prior consent, particularly for emergency services/911 calls." The problem here was not directly T-Mobile/Sprint conduct, but rather conduct by companies that bought data from T-Mobile/Sprint. Some of those companies violated their contracts on allowable use. The FCC held that T-Mobile/Sprint failed to adequately monitor the terms of the contract to make sure the other companies were actually doing what they promised. That was particularly egregious failure after the bad practices by subcontractors were revealed in the press. So this was a 'failure to supervise/audit the terms of the contract'.