I think they may be playing a game with the fight they picked with the math folks over the Navier Stokes finding, too. To normal folks that looks greedy and shortsighted. To a wannabe dictator, that looks like a magic mirror.
The corresponding author is Subir Sarkar.
He is a professor at Oxford who has done some interesting work about the expansion of the universe is NOT accelerating.
Instead, he is saying that there is a dipole effect because earth, and the galaxy cluster that we are in, are all moving in space, and that gives the effect of accelerating expansion!
He provides compelling evidence (for a non-specialist at least) for what he says and also casts doubts on the evidence for acceleration by analyzing their data (supernovae as standard candles, and their red shift), since a dipole effect is observed on that.
If his hypothesis is confirmed by other research and observations, then the 2011 Nobel Prize for Saul Perlmutter and Adam Reiss maybe for nothing
Watch his lecture on Beyond The Cosmological Standard Model.
This latest paper is yet another analysis towards that.
Let us see which hypothesis is supported by the evidence, current and future
I'm a bit surprised they didn't go for Rocky Linux. Nothing wrong with Debian, mind, but Rocky is downstream from CentOS/RHEL and would be an easier migration.
- I expect decent humans to stand up to authoritarian shitheads. Granted, Google leadership exited the "Decent human" category a long time ago, they've become the short of trash you don't call back. But the point holds; if you're going to support ethnic-supremacist authoritarians in my country, fuck you, you will not see a dime of my money and I will do what I can to hurt your business, because it is just as much my adversary as the rest of them.
- I empathize with wishing to avoid politics, but you cannot. Word to the wise - eventually politics comes for you, and then you're at a disadvantage because you were trying to ignore it.
Enjoy.
It really depends. ATT makes substantial amounts on their LEO customers. I understand Verizon has a similar program, and after Worldcom, all smaller the telecom companies fell in line.
Give Google and Zuckerbook and the others a decade of mature market profits and it'll get around to optimizing lines of business like that, too. They just make more money on other stuff now so they don't bother.
No, What Apple lost was taste.
They used to profit from producing products they'd want to use. Now they make profit-maximizing devices.
I'd argue that the OSes are starting to suffer, too. I mean, bugs are up again, but that's always been cyclic. But I feel like they're losing coherence, too. And a lot of subsystems more technical users like are rotting or being made much more difficult to work with (Gatekeeper and shell scripts, for instance). (I also find it ugly now, but that's subjective and it has has ugly iterations before, too.)
Anyway, yeah, Apple will make a ton of money for a long time to come. But I'm pretty sure it is losing its sense of taste. It might make the most popular and most profitable phone, but they aren't trying to make the phone people want anymore.
I mean, yeah, wouldn't surprise me if this thing phones home. But I wonder how many folks there are who own a 3090 or better who also can't handle Ollama or a firewall.
If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.
