“It also wasn’t long before Boca Raton was regarded as the place you needed to work if you were an ambitious IBM executive. Suddenly, everyone was a PC evangelist, including many who the original PC team knew had been actively hostile to their efforts before. One member of the original “dirty dozen” later described Boca Raton as IBM’s Woodstock: Everyone would claim to have been there when it started, and the vast majority were lying.” https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-misfit-who-built-the-ibm-pc
What are the first apps you’ve ever bought for your iPhone? Not showing on this image is “Enigmo” from Pangea Software (best game of 2008)… still available and updated last year to run on the latest models! #WWDC24#WWDC
“This isn’t an argument for trickle-down economics — we don’t need to put more money in the pockets of the wealthy. But the money they have is better spent in the economy than hoarded in the market.” https://www.profgalloway.com/hoarders/
“The superwealthy have weaponized the tax code to hoard wealth and then take the moral high ground as much of their philanthropy is camouflage for taxes owed. For every dollar a billionaire donates to charity, the government loses 74¢ in revenue.”
"So what is it? It is a reuse error. The SRI horizontal bias module was reused from a 10-year-old software, the software from Ariane 4.
(…) It is a reuse specification error.
The truly unacceptable part is the absence of any kind of precise specification associated with a reusable module.
The requirement that the horizontal bias should fit on 16 bits was in fact stated in an obscure part of a document. But in the code itself it was nowhere to be found!"
20 years ago, I watched the "Argentine" final of Roland Garros live on TV: Coria vs Gaudio, quite an electric one. 2 sets down after one hour… 2 missed match points by Coria… and Gaudio managed to win the cup anyway.
“According to the study, putting a specification in place before development begins can result in a 50 percent increase in success, and making sure the requirements are accurate to the real-world problem can lead to a 57 percent increase.”
"The GMP server has been under serious load due to a barrage of clone requests from Github. Its setup encourages "forks" of their projects, which by default pull in parent project changes. Around 2023-06-15, a project known as FFmpeg decided that it would be a great idea to clone GMP in their CI scripts, meaning that every one of their commits requested a compressed clone from the GMP servers. (…)
In effect, Microsoft's cloud performed a DDoS attack on the GMP servers."
“One million Blackwell GPUs would suck down an astonishing 1.875 gigawatts of power. For context, a typical nuclear power plant only produces 1 gigawatt of power.”
The 4th edition of "Linear Algebra Done Right" by Sheldon Axler (one of the most recommended books about the subject) is now freely available to download as an Open Access book!