His work in assisting the music industry extend it's grip on music distribution is now being felt with a dearth of options for musicians. It's little wonder why music from the 90's is still popular.

Agreed, Asshole Infiltration in I.T is a problem and it seems like Gen Z ... oh you're talking about Artificial Intelligence.

and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

I'd like to see what an LLM does with his long, verbose prose with sentences that, considering the depth of his ideas, combined with examples and depending on the topic, take, if one is not interrupted or sidetrack by thought and able to focus, 3 minutes each to read. You'd dump core too!

Two wheels and a chain.Enshittified in this case mean disappearing up our own asshole if we need software for an exercise bike.

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

Just as I hit post I recalled that the N1 was attempting hot staging and you can also see those lessons in SpaceX's latest booster design.

Can't wait to see them light that thing up again.

The fundamental problems were identical in the two vehicles though. SpaceX has clearly learned the primary lesson of running that many motors from the N1 program, testing and balancing the engine output to eliminate vehicle instability. Had the Soviet's mastered that aspect of the vehicle production I'd say the space race would have never ended.

True that, however ULA has a stock of rockets to launch for Amazon (and Spaceforce too). Amazon doesn't want to use SpaceX to launch Project Kuiper. Amazon will be using ULA a lot.

The implementation may be more complex, but that's exactly the kind of thing that ends up encapsulated in a library once the implementation settles down.

What they've got here sounds likely to be an intermediate step. I'm reminded of Tim Peter's series of posts when he was developing what is now known as "Timsort". The implementation combines multiple sorting algorithms (similar to how this is combining multiple shortest path algorithms), and went through many iterations as it was tuned for various different datasets exhibiting different performance characteristics. This sounds to be at the stage where "it works better for these datasets, now we need to make it work better for *all* datasets". An important step showing that it's *possible*, even if not finished.

BTW since then Timsort has been further evolved into Powersort which has provable performance characteristics (and better performance).

I was partial to the M2 which was lighter and quieter than the M whilst maintaining a good feel. I still have my Model M but it takes up so much desk real estate there isn't much room for anything else.

Still I think if a tank ran over my Model M there wouldn't be much damage to the tank, with the added bonus of if anyone has a problem with the keyboard being so loud, a good bang on their head with the M silences any complaints. That's why the M is the choice of keyboard worriers everywhere.

Looks like Citrix smells blood.