Well, a lot of them are willing to act as if they believe it which often amounts to the same thing.

But some, I think, believe The Donald and other conspiracy theories because during Covid I heard about people who got Covid and went to their deaths saying things like, 'I am not dying of Covid. Covid is not real.' That's the message they chose to send to their families. Not 'you should get the vaccine and avoid crowded spaces.' Is that not a True Believer?

It's a nonsensical claim without stating what they were getting paid. Generally silicon valley engineers are paid a LOT for a high level of commitment.

I don't deny this is bad news and signals an incipient recession. But what about credential inflation? The number of college graduates has nearly doubled since 2000:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feducationdata.org%2Fnumb...

Have to wonder if demand has kept pace with that huge increase in supply.

People are always talking about how great college students had it in the 1960's. But you have to realize that was a very small, select (not necessarily by merit) population of college students back then. Grant some privilege to everybody, and it tends to dilute the value of it.

First, I think your recollection of last year's election is a bit hazy. Biden was not on the ballot on election day.

But secondly, you cannot deny that Trump has a lot of really adamant supporters who would vote for him over anybody else you can name. Not grudgingly. In fact they automatically believe anything he says, which is quite a feat.

China has reached a kind of crossroads where they need some kind of transformation.

The usual answer being that China needs to increase internal consumption, becoming more of a consumer-oriented economy.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcarnegieendowment.org%2F...

What I don't understand is why this is hard to do. Don't people love to spend money and increase their standard of living? Better food, nicer transport, more clothes. Then Uber Eats and a couple jet skis and a big towing vehicle. As an American the, concept of people not wanting to join the rat race, or being too principled to do so, is really foreign to me.

I'm not up on this but what are you referring to? It doesn't look like they're jacking up the price on any hardware they were already selling at a lower price.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fwh...

Raising prices on existing hardware is pretty rare in tech. Moore's outlaw?

Games, ok, that's a labor-driven thing. Nobody thinks the cost of the dvd media or download bandwidth are driving the price.

It looks to me like if you set your desktop to a solid color the 'dumb' way - with a small (e.g. 2x2) bitmap of the color you want and let it get scaled or tiled - you would not get the delay.

Disinfo bots yes - but how about marketing? Virtually the entire web is this same experiment, except to sell stuff. Collecting demographic (including political leanings) and puchasing info to present the most persuasive message to individual potential customers - from simple ad placement to custom text - is a many-billion-dollar business. Maybe trillions? Sounds hyperbolic, but that's what drives google, facebook, twitter, the lot.

Does Lufthansa not carry thermal containment bags? I thought they all did now. (Note the old age of my link - 2016 - is actually a plus in this case... airlines have been taking action on this for years.) If the iPad isn't even in runaway, sealing it in there just in case seems like you have covered the risk very well.

It's interesting to hear about an under-served niche in what sounds an awful lot like what a lot of us were doing 20 to 30 years ago. I liked programming at that level. But if I were young now, I would be afraid, very afraid about the long-term prospects for that specialty. I believe you when you say you are thriving, but the total number of people employed industry-wide (especially domestically) in that work is a small fraction of what it was. I say enjoy it while it lasts, and put some money in the bank.

A CEO suggesting anybody not buy their stuff is always a bit edgy. Like that Yoga pants CEO who said maybe fat women just shouldn't buy our stuff. He didn't last long in the job.

Yes at some point simply adding nice thin add-on displays has to be the way.

I too have a relatively huge 17" Dell Precision laptop, I have a smaller one too, but if you actually have to sit down and use the peripherals and computation that the box provides, the big Precision just slaughters. Sturdy too.

Weird-screen laptops never catch on, but kudos anyways.

A laptop base just has to be a certain size to fit a keyboard good enough to justify it over a phone. If you make the base that wide, and in normal proportion, you have something close to a rectangle. So if you double that height, you get something awfully nonsquare - like this lenovo for example.

And I'm sure the suitability of this screen for today's close-pitch airline seating will be noted....

I'm no reverse engineer so this is more of a question than an assertion, but I would guess there's a shit-ton of formal computing proofs precluding major aspects of reverse engineering - that information is not preserved, or massive parts of it are NP-complete, or that some things must be incomputable. Turing halting-problem type stuff.

Granted, smarter heuristics can get you a much higher-quality answer to an unanswerable question, so long as it doesn't have to be rigorously correct all the time. And maybe that's 99.999% of the practical gain to be had, I don't know.

Whatever dude. I've read the paper and implemented MCTS.