Sadly, Intel was run by nincompoops who kept adding useless instructions like the infamous GF2P8AFFINEINVQB instruction, which i asserted is never used, and a doubter scanned over a billion EXE files and found ZERO occurrences They really blew their lead, but still make good eqp

The issue of device drivers, which are not written by MS to begin with, will always be a vexing problem for Windows ARM But Windows has been run on so many chipsets, it isn't a problem for MS at all. They have a phenomenal C compiler. For laptops, Intel & AMD keep improving

One thing brazil really has going for. It is the fact that they are staying out of wars, and their local clinic system is saving them many hundreds of billions of dollars compared to what the US is blowing on our hospitals which are gouging customers and milking the public

"One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas." -- M. Thatcher

I was just in Curitiba and after leaving Brasil 15 years ago i saw major progress in honesty; if only because everything is done cashless and therefore prices are clear and transactions are clean Brasil's money pump (i.e. Petrobras) hasn't been ruined (compared to VZ), growing

In my 50 years in startups, if the VC's have sufficient board control, they will merge an underperforming startup with another company in their portfolio so as to be able to declare an exit there is a lot of failure in VCs with companies that dwindle to a handful of people

This grim statistic accurately reflects watching my friends and their various startups I do find that some people have a knack for getting out while the getting is good; they have a great sense of timing when to jump Most companies end up walking dead; slow growth little profit

In the history of programming language adoption, the herd has always selected the worst of the top two candidates too many programmers looking for billable hours AI is ripping the profession to bits with job losses but AI can transcode so finally we will have freedom to choose

there is an epidemic of fake job listings that needs to be stamped out companies have learned that web crawlers look for help wanted ads as a leading indicator, so HR depts oblige by posting fake ads cruel to job seekers a soft fraud

this is one of the best explanations of when an AI harness is So many people are talking about this because it is what connects the AI to the rest of the world And there are many levels of sophistication of this kind of harness

she is one of the worst justices in history. Her opinions are absolutely illogical and it's a tragedy that she's gonna be there for decades.

The real estate is dead, really cracks me up because the AI enhanced world is going to make real estate so incredibly valuable relative to other things because no amount of AI can generate a title deed to a piece of dirt a problem for society when real estate gets too expensive

if you make the tiniest mistake in BGP, bizarre things can happen that are quite mystifying and you can do a lot of damage A Very poorly designed protocol trying to fix a fundamental flaw with the IP architecture sadly IPv6 made it worse

What an arrogant statement to make While people were spending nearly every penny, they earned to live they should've been saving? Meanwhile, they're tax dollars or being pissed away on foreign wars and incredibly wasteful projects? System needs to be fixed, cheaters punished

that you deny that there are different glandular types is a medical statement not supported by any empirical evidence or by general medical knowledge I suggest you read "food is your best medicine" by Dr Bieler from 1965, it's still 50 years ahead of current nutritional medicine

having programmed for 56 years, my career is one pile of abandoned knowledge after another A dozen languages have been dominant, and i had to shift operating systems at least 8 times UI principles don't change much though, humans didn't change

some people change so much in the process of the relationship that they are unrecognizable compared to their old personality Women usually change the most, as their true nature is often suppressed by group effects and timidness at the start Quitting because of boredom is evil

The young people being unable to get on the housing ladder is going to cause a very bloody revolution They are gonna have no sympathy for older people and wealthy who owned too many homes Gonna get very ugly as jealousy gets inflamed

ai tools are good at De compiling code and it's going to mean a lot of legacy software that is put back to source and thus pirated Huawei had already stolen all of Cisco's iOS, and then gone onto improve it, we will see many more Companies steal the IP of another

skill in programming is not related to body type Ectomorphs, Endomorphs, and Mesomorphs all can be skilled Look at top pianists; most are in good shape But Fats Waller and Oscar Peterson were not in good shape yet were supreme exponents in their field