Even if this was actually accidental rather than 'accidental'; it's a bad look. Someone just deleted litigation-critical data? No data classification? No "let the retention policy handle the deletion instead of just cowboy purging stuff"? And then they tried to recover the data in a way that lost all file and folder names, rather than just restoring backups from your backup mechanism?

I'd honestly be curious to know what OpenAI's IT operations look like. Charitably presuming that it's not just outright destruction of evidence; it sounds like they've got eleventy-zillion dollars worth of 'AI' specialists and enough data scrapers to plunder the internet twice over and some engineers keeping the APIs running and so on; but the boring-beige-IT-computer-janitor-nonsense maturity of a vastly smaller company.

Heck, I worked for a random town's school department over a decade ago and they had backup policies set up that included the ability to mark things as under litigation holds and exempt from deletion through normal manual or scheduled actions(usually pretty low stakes stuff; but at least once or twice a year a parent would get really fighty about an IEP or something, and there litigation is litigation in terms of data preservation).

I don't have much hope for McIntosh. The business model of Bose is to take cheap components and make something that sounds OK. They cost-reduce EVERYTHING.

Not just cost-reduce, but then sell the resulting product at a premium price.

When I think of cheap commodity audio gear Bose is the first brand that comes to mind.

Cheap? Bose? Bose stuff ain't cheap. They may be cheaply made, and use cheap parts, but Bose stuff is not cheap.

You can buy a mini PC running windows for $200. Sure it's not something you're going to run a ton of VMs on or do heavy calculations with, but it certainly can then remote into a more powerful PC when you need to. Your email and word processing can happen locally while your simulations happen remotely on the powerful machine.

In 386 mode, it virtualises the underlying DOS and only calls out to it occasionally for things like accessing storage devices that it doesn't have a VxD for. Windows 3.1 in 386 mode is more like an OS that uses DOS as a fancy bootloader. Novell NetWare used DOS as a bootloader, too.

And this is where Windows got into anti-trust trouble.

When you started Windows 3.x in 386 mode, Windows "sucks the brains" of DOS - that is, it pokes inside private DOS data structures and extracts information like the list of open files, where the various DOS drivers are loaded and then passes that information into the Windows executive. Open files are then marked as open in Windows and things like the current file pointer are set to the value they were at in DOS, so the virtual DOS environment can read files exactly where it left off.

When you exit, Windows updates the DOS structures as necessary to reflect the current state. So it looks like DOS was running all the time even though in-between the processor mode switched and it was lifted into a VM.

The anti-trust part of it came out because of this - while it was true alternative DOS implementations like DR-DOS could have different file structures, in the end the ones that Windows used they kept identical to MS-DOS. But because Windows checked other things (the AARD code) it led to problems. Interestingly enough, the AARD code was only present in the beta - not in the release of Windows, but it was enough to trigger to ire of the powers that be.

There is nothing 4-bit in the genealogy tree of DOS, Windows and Intel x86 CPUs, however. Intel made some 4-bit CPUs, but they were a dead end, unrelated to x86 stuff.

Well, in the geneology of Intel CPUs, you had the 4004, which was a 4 bit CPU. That begat the 8008, which was an 8 bit CPU. Which begat the 8080 which fixed a lot of things about the 8008 and which may be actually seen as a CPU. The 8080 was really popular, and Intel worked on the 8086, which was a 16-bit CPU to complement the 8-bit 8080.

The architecture of the 4004/8008 was kinda awkward, the 8080 made it better and the 8086 enhanced it still, but it does show its heritage.

The stops are every few hundred metres, max. If they padded the schedule like that, it would be faster to walk. The worst thing a bus driver can do is leave early, so they will have to wait those few minutes every stop. No thanks.

No, what you do is you split your route into several checkpoints. At each checkpoint, the bus will be there at a certain time. There's nothing special about checkpoints - they are regular stops. If the bus is early, it will wait at the checkpoint until the time is reached, then it will go off.

The time between checkpoints should account for traffic - during rush hour, the time should be extended, during lighter periods, it can be tightened.

So if a bus takes 15 minutes to get between checkpoints in rush hour, the schedule might say 17 minutes.

The stops between checkpoints well, you have to estimate. If the bus is supposed to hit the previous checkpoint at 15:35, and the next checkpoint at 15:52, and you're in between the two in the middle, you know the bus should be there around 15:43 or so, but just in case, you should plan on getting at the stop around 15:40 or so so you should be there before the bus comes. The bus might be earlier if the traffic is light, or there's few people to pick up, or it might be later if the traffic is heavy or lots of people are getting on and off.

The funny thing is after hitting preview, I decided to go back and change "reasoning" to "syllogism" because I was engaging with the unstated premise that "all things that are not evidence-based are religion".

You are correct, the actual deduction is not flawed, just the premises.

I think you're missing that there's an angle. This news story isn't coming from nowhere.

The person saying this is the Prime Minister who just assumed office while being the main opposition when this (still popular) policy was drafted. And since Bhutan remains a Monarchy with only a facade of democracy, he can't be seen to oppose a policy that King Wangchuck has directly supported, if he wants to end the program and instead implement his more socialist reforms of focusing more on agricultural productiveness by providing agricultural equipment to struggling peasants, he has to say the program succeeded to end it.

While your conclusion is correct, your syllogism to arrive at it is not. Plenty of perfectly normal non-religious things are not evidence-based

Is cooking a lasagna for my family evidence based? No I just follow a recipe I've been given. Is it a religion?
If I play games with my friends for fun, is that some evidence based assessment of what's best for me? No.
When I got married(A very important thing to do right, you'll agree), did I consult some careful analysis of what kinds of pairings make the happiest life? No. Is that a religion? Well... maybe. ask my wife.

Evidence is a good way to tell good arguments for truth from bad arguments for truth, but it's a poor differentiator of religion from non-religion.

It also seems like a sensible move on DeepComputing's part. Framework parts aren't free; but compared to what it would cost to bang out some low-volume laptop bits to suit your dev board they are pretty attractively priced and widely accessible for minimal additional effort.

Not really a replacement for the sort of dev board that breaks out a zillion headers and DIP switches and things; but compared to just your basic rectangular bare board it presumably cost a pretty modest amount to make the board in a shape that allows people to slap it into a laptop format quickly and easily.

And... why do we expect authenticity from advertisements? Have people not cottoned onto the fact that it's purposefully dishonest fluff designed to mislead you?

Never mind you about Salesforce, just taking on all the flavor-of-the-month open source ERP/CRM service providers is going to be a mess. If you're already looking for Salesforce then you are not listening for anything else, anyhow. Typical open source ERP/CRM service providers are not sustainable models of business... it is more akin to multi-level marketing schemes.

This is especially as ERP/CRM systems are not packaged software you can buy off a shelf. They are heavily customized applications.

If you're a small business, sure you can start with one of the many programs out there. But as soon as you do, you'll find you'll need to add to it because they will never cover every case - your company will do something unique, and that has to be added. Then you let it become a bit more - because if it can do one thing, just add a bit more to it so another part of your business can be handled by it. And eventually it becomes a heavily customized application running all sorts of aspects of your business.

If you're already a big company, then you're hosed because your ERP/CRM system would've developed organically the same way and now you want to migrate to a new system, which requires retraining people on the new system, but even more, requires data migration as well as getting all aspects of the old system into the new. There are bound to be odd niche use cases used by someone to run off a report or other thing.

It starts off as a simple database of customers and orders and manages leads from that. But it often grows well beyond that.

Most companies eventually build their own ERP system organically - it probably starts as a spreadsheet, then someone decides a database is better, then things are bolted on. Of course, this usually results in a horrendous unmaintainable monster within a few years.

All the CRM systems offered are just platforms for customization to get them to start application development, hopefully in a way for them to result in something that's still maintainable in the end.

Presumably only if he has dual-boot storage set up otherwise what's it going to boot?

Presumably the storage would have to be unplugged from the motherboard during the swap. This would be an opportunity to swap in an SSD with the OS on it.

Let's not forget that a bunch of younger Chinese are choosing not to work and other things beyond a sustanance level. I.e., they'll do the gig jobs to earn a little money for food and housing, but are otherwise satisfied with life. They're not looking to work harder to make more money - they're comfortable right now.

Why work 40+ hours and burn yourself out? Work less, enjoy having less, and enjoy life.

Given the surplus of housing in China, and the relatively cheap food and other things, it's entirely possible. Sure you give up a lot - less technology a smaller living space and such, but you get more time back.

It's part of the "lay flat" movement in China - where they aren't going out to seek a spouse, a high paying job, a big house, the latest technology or other things Sort of a push back against those wanting people to work 80 hours a week for not very much more money.

There are lot of people who have older iphone and 3.5mm in standard for professional (music-making) headphones!

Apple will blame the EU (and other countries) regulations for forcing USB-C on them, so they're going to discontinue all Lightning accessories because USB-C is the mandatory port.

And Apple will happily sell you a new iPhone and USB-C to 3.5mm headphone adapter to go with it.

EU didn't say Apple needed to keep old stuff going, so they're going to blame all the e-waste on regulations.

Of course, in practical reality, there are options. The Lightning USB Camera Kit is an important one, since you can plug in a USB DAC for headphones.

Or get a third party adapter - there are still plenty of them available. You don't have to get the Apple version.