Before IBM (weather.com) bought Dark Sky, Dark Sky was my favorite weather app and had the best radar forecasts, which are important to me. After Dark Sky disappeared and I assumed its quality would appear in weather.com, I switched to the latter. What a mistake. Weather.com has been very, very slow and much less accurate. Even this morning, at 10AM the 24-hour radar map showed a completely different radar map for 10AM-5PM than the default 7-hour radar map did. Iâ(TM)m not optimistic about a private equity firm acquiring it.

I note that thereâ(TM)s not a single physicist in the key group. Of course, a history AI has been built without historians, by feeding in books and articles. But it has huge errors. I expect the errors in a physics AI to be much, much worse. And physics isnâ(TM)t even based on facts. Itâ(TM)s just based on the best theories of the day.

In retirement I am still on a few non-profit boards and steering committees, and do maintain contacts on LinkedIn. None of these would be active in Microsoft Entra. I still fly enough to have pre-TSA, travel enough to have a passport and boat enough to have a passport card also, and would think that one of those or a driverâ(TM)s license with Real ID should be enough. I certainly canâ(TM)t verify a job, but verifying identify shoulld be simpler than what LinkedIn is suggesting.

I accidentally posted my previous comment before finishing it. I started programming Windows apps in SQLWindows in 1989 or 1989 and started using PowerBuilder about 2 years later as an alternative. I used both for a number of years, while also writing some C code. Unlike VB, SQLWindows and PowerBuilder had good support for object-oriented coding and design so productivity was much higher on big apps than in VB.

I got into Windows programming in 1989 or 1990. I had a beta of a product that was supposed to become VB but was completely unlike the product released a year or so later. I think it was entirely pint and click with no coding at all, but am not sure I recall that correctly.

The first one I worked on alone, running jobs for my Dad while he went to dinner, was an IBM 1620, around 1957-1958. It was punch card in, and punch card or console typewriter output. No disk drive at all. First programming on an IBM 360/30 and 360/40 was in 1966. First PC I used at work was an IBM PC/XT in 1984. First computer for home use in 1984 was a Compaq âzlunchboxâoe portable 2650, used with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. I actually spent a good bit of time on groups in Compuserve starting about then.

Comparing the Lightning connectors on our iPhones with the USB-C connectors on our Macbook Pros, the USB-C is a terrible interface. On both of our laptops, the USB-C ports have become fairly loose, and when I move my laptop from the desk to my lap the USB-C connector always falls out. If I have the leptop on my lap and move it a bit the USB-C also falls out. The Lightning connector is simply a tighter connector as well as a smaller one, and therefore much better in my opinion.

My very first Kindle had a great capability to move book into folders, e.g. "Unread Mysteries", "Read Mysteries", "Physics", etc. While the folders still exist when using the computer/laptop interface, they are not on the newer Kindles or Fire devices, and they remain awkward to use. I assume the reasoning is that a good interface for filing and finding makes you more likely to search what you have and less likely to buy new books. I can't think of any other reason. In any case, a library without a good filing system is idiotic, and a major red flag against the Kindle.

"NSO says phones with U.S. +1 numbers can’t be hacked anywhere in the world. But Americans using foreign-based numbers outside the U.S. are vulnerable." Possibly paywalled, but the quote above is all that most of us need to know. The Pegasus software was designed not to work on phones with U.S.numbers. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The excessive disk writing reminded me of a problem when virtual memory was first implemented on mainframes in the early 1970s. One of our Fortran programs reading input data from a tape and loading it into a 2D array in memory started going more and more slowly as more data was loaded. If you think about it for a moment, you'll realize that if you are looping on the wrong subscript, every time you bump the subscript by one to put data in a new cell you are causing a page fault, i.e., requiring a new page to be loaded into memory from the hard disk, and another one to be loaded out. I don't know what's going on with the M1. Some folks have complained about small amounts of main memory in base models and that could be causing a lot of page faults and excessive disk writing. Others say that's not a problem. I'm just calling attention to one if many possibilities.

Re the missing drivers: Some may be easier to write than most people think. Some around 1999-2000 I was writing the software for an early course on Windows that ran under Windows, with the course being on a Laserdisc and much of my software being some simple Windows simulations for exercises. With 2 different Laserdisc players and 2 different PC cards that supported them, we needed 4 different combinations of drivers. Only three were available off the shelf. I got estimates from several different developers on writing that driver, with all of the estimates taking 3-6 months. Then I got a bright idea and got it basically working myself in a day. The commands to the videodisc players were all simple strings, so all I had to do was write a simple serial port DLL that wrote strings to the port. And we only used about half a dozen of the 20 or so commands for the videodisc player.

This is the first verified re-infection by a different strain. That makes it very significant.

Carefully reading PDFs may not be as great as doing the same in other printer and digital mediums, but nothing beats them for visually scanning and digitally searching. As someone who writes history books and does a huge amount of research in old books, having a searchable 1,000 page 19th century book in PDF form is wonderful. I probably have over 1,000 19th century volumes in PDF form. I can search my entire computer for info in them, or search any individual volumes. I even have one 14 volume set totaling about 4500 pages in two PDF forms, individual volumes, and one combined volume. It's an incredible resource. PDFs have an important role in the world but like everything else, they can be used where they should not be.

While we already know the results of using most of these compounds, the completion of better clinical trials will help somewhat. But I have seen medical journals mentioning a few other hot candidates, the most interesting of which is indomethacin, which is cheap and readily available. Look up indomethacin with the additional word coronavirus on Google or some other search engine.

One of the big advantages of Apple having their own chip is the announced architecture that will allow running IOS apps on the MacBooik in addition to everything else.