But... all of that feeds the AI training engine. I know some people are looking forward to "our new future". I just see all the bad things that are going on now getting much much worse.

Red Hat: "We are kings of damaging our brand!"

Broadcom/VMware: Hold my beer.

All they need now is somebody with the smarts with regards to corporate naming, and they'll be good.

Interesting. I thought I thought a change along these lines had already happened. ScummVM has been on the AppStore for a couple of months now. You can hook it up to cloud services (Dropbox etc) or copy files from iCloud/etc to ScummVM storage on the ipad. It works really well.

Scientists: There is no god.

Also scientists: There is likely a god, and he lives in his mom's basement.

Or Larry Wall of Perl. Was a music and chemsitry major, ultimately did linguistics and language.

I'm also a Liberal Arts major and grad schooler. I was 2 classes shy of an undergrad computer science major (2 prereq math classes I didn't care to take) and I've never felt that has held me back!

I'm running OCLP on a 2017 imac and it runs about 98% fine. The 2% is that occasionally, like once a month or so it will fail to wake up from sleep. I haven't had to disable anything. I guess ther eare some issues with the old GPUs in the 2014 model? What did you have to disable?

Which hypervisor?

My experience with "eco centric people full of zeal", is that they actually support a ton of really bad things... It all depends what the "current trend" is.

For example: Industry bad. It's dirty. Get it out. (that is, we need it, could you send it to a different country with cheap child slave labor?) etc.

They don't consider what it takes to switch away from plastics (world wide)... and in all fairness, the vast majority would not accept their new world. They just wouldn't.

i full expect this to get clobbered here, and it only goes to justify my position. Just saying.

I lack confidence that IQ means or strongly correlates with what you say it does. I know plenty of high IQ people who hyper fixate on their own problem while ignoring everything else around them. (The bookish and distracted professor?)

I read the article differently -- a reminiscing of what they went through as teens learning computers and of how different things are today.

I was programming in the about the same year, though I was younger. I was one of the very few kids who came into my first computer science (early 2000s) class knowing C and C++ (and Perl and Pascal) and having written actual programs in Assembly before.

Even then, the professors were saying don't worry about optimization, compilers are so good now, speeds are improving so rapidly, you have better things to focus on, etc. I actually got points marked off on a test once because I came up with (what I thought was) a nifty loop optimization for solving a problem. It was correct but marked off because of "premature optimization." (I tested it later and my answer was indeed far faster than the model answer.)

Today, almost nobody ever needs to program in asm. Today, almost everybody is programming by gluing bits of often highly optimized (but often not) libraries together. It's how even simple programs can have 50+ dependencies now. Probably for the vast majority of programmers, even those who have been programming for 20+ years, this IS a fascinating look into the past. It reminded me of some of the things friends and I did in highschool! Our highschool had a couple of games that had been developed over multiple years by successive groups of students. One group wrote the initial code, another group pulled the Doom networking code into the project, another one updated that form IPX/SPX to TCP/IP, etc. Not unique, but fun times.

The "Stanford-Binet" test was originally devised for children, but the revisions upon it--that make it the modern IQ test--coming from Stern and Terman in large part, seem to be statistical modifications to do exactly what you're saying it can't. So, even if (your position) the test is not meaningful, the intent was to make a generally comparable measure of intelligence.

You said "IQ was never intended as a general measure of intelligence." The argument I'm making is that it seems as if that was exactly the intent of creating the IQ test.

In response to your other questions:

Unsure, but I would say no in terms of thinking about it as some kind of normalized distribution.

I'm not sure anyone has ever proposed that IQ is the ONLY measure that matters for ALL aspects of life. But, there's very strong evidence that whatever IQ measures has a statistically significant correlation with a number of life outcomes (job performance, income, health, educational performance, etc.).

I heard a lecture years ago where the speaker talked about IQ in terms of mental plasticity / learning flexibility. The example given was being a cashier at McDonalds. This is actually be a fairly mentally taxing job. You have to be able to listen to customers, understand special orders, know the buttons on the register to press to get the desired order in, accept multiple forms of payment, make change from cash, multitask with getting different orders to different customers, etc. Almost anyone can do this job (though as anyone who has been a fastfood customer can attest, some workers ARE better than others!). What impact does IQ have the ability to perform this job? Not a lot. The impact of IQ is in the ability to learn the computer system, learn how to handle new and unexpected order combos, etc--the learning portions.

My own crank theory is that human intelligence almost all boils down to pattern matching on steroids and that genius is pattern matching on a level that most people can't understand (or, differently, recognizing different kinds of patterns from what most people see).

Lewis Terman (Wikipedia):

William Stern (Wikipedia:

It seems that the point of the IQ methodology, added on to preexisting intelligence testing, was intended to come up with a general measure that was comparable across populations. Disagree?

Completely agree re the 8gb, especially as that is shared between desktop and RAM. However, having used one of the minimal spec M* macbook airs before, it was completely fine for average desktop usage (ie web browser machine, maybe Word/Excel).

The 256gb I don't think matters at all for many people.

In this particular case, all RAM is part of the processor package. So yeah, it's a bit different than adding a few dimm slots.

I feel you on the local bank. My local bank, one with a long history in my area and the first bank I opened an account with in highschool, got bought out by Wells Fargo and it just went to hell. I'm still sad about that one. I'm not surprised that Capital One was similiar when dealing with a local bank.

On your other points, I've never had any issues with Capital One website or tech. I've used the chat function a handful of times over the years (I had an accidental late payment on a credit card once; one check I was depositng was having issues clearing; etc) and they were very good. Removed my fees in the case of the late payment, figured out the failure to deposit. Basically, nothing to complain about. I don't doubt your experiences at all, I just haven't had the same.