If he ever accidentally ended the previous sentence with ".. computer." things could go sideways fast :P
(I have lost count of how many times I or my wife have said "OK" in a conversation, followed by something even vaguely phonetically similar to "Google", and the damn thing decides we're talking to it and gets all busy with the gibberish it thinks we're giving it ...)
I am happy that things have converged over time to a single, truly versatile multi-bus capable port (USB-C/Thunderbolt 3) ... however, the vendors IMHO should be legally bound to supply down-converters for all the peripherals that used the older buses for the next 10 years, transitively for 2 generations of buses.
If USB-C supports bus 'X', then there should be inexpensive and easy to purchase down-converters from USB-C to 'X'. If Bus 'X' replaced bus 'Y' in the last 10 years then there should be a down-converter available from bus 'X' to 'Y'.
One problematic example is Firewire.. Apple used to make Thunderbolt-2-to-Firewire800 dongles, but they stopped and now they're rare as hens' teeth and ungodly-expensive.
They still sell Thunderbolt-3-to-2 dongles, but how long will they keep selling those?
Oh, and while I'm wishing for ponies, the drivers/specifications for all such adapters should be open-source and royalty-free.
Shouldn't I at least try the poop knife first?
I've wondered for a few years now if Garland was just an extremely deep mole -- at some point the willful inaction became indistinguishable from purposeful obstruction.
Yup. And before anyone says "It's ImPoSSiBlE the USA has ToO many PeOple to do hand counting" -- then just hire more people FFS.
Same for 'Medium dot com'. Another attempt at a walled garden for people's thoughts.
Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn't that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn't stupidly insane though!
Dammit TempurPedic. I almost had a clean slate there. Oh well, won't need a new bed for hopefully over a decade, so f'em.
What I find interesting, then, is what advantage the trilobites may have gained by using a basic mineral for the lenses vs. organic chitin. Chitin must have a transparent form in order to function for the eyes in modern creatures? Hmm.
I read in one paper that trilobites may have actually formed some kind of dual-layer in their lenses to compensate for the double-refraction property of calcite.
Ah! So the same as the rest of their hard parts, I suppose. I suspected as much, but couldn't seem to find any paper that explicitly stated this.
Thank you!
In regards to use of calcite vs. chitin: doing a quick search: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/earth-sciences/facilities/collections-and-museums/treasury-of-trilobites/index.html
Were trilobites also unique in using calcite in addition to chitin in their exoskeleton? Do any extant arthropods use calcite in any significant way?
Blockchain currencies and now 'AI' (glorified pattern matchers)... I wonder what the next huge energy/resource sink grift will be? I want to know so I can get in early, make a zillion and dump before everyone realizes how stupid and wasteful it all was.
What pisses me off is that LLMs are such a brute-force 'solution' that goes against one of the major goals of Computer Science -- to find algorithms that take less time and energy, instead of just throwing more compute cycles at things.
Hell, blockchain at least had a mathematical justification for why it needed such huge compute/power resources (proof of work).