Yes, you're right. I wasn't able to double-check as the repo was deleted at the time. That said, AIUI making the tags read-only would still often be vulnerable to semantic-version exploitation.
Fair point, and correct (just one class). Myself, I'm fine with a field being important because well it's a mystery of the universe and well we just couldn't not scratch the itch. But I know that not all askers want answers like that, so I was attempting to dust off the "it's also useful" neurons :)
So he didn't create the vaccine, and he didn't provide most of the money spent on eradication, but he did sit down for a nice long dinner with an administration that is now pulling funding from the WHO and other international health organizations.
In the meanwhile, the technocrat administration we just got is putting the anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr up as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The progress we have made on eliminating Polio is at risk directly because of actions taken by this crop of billionaires. That is more on Musk and Zuckerberg than Gates, but these people cannot be trusted to use the power and influence they have for anything other than self-enrichment.
Which do you think is more likely, that Bill Gates sat down with the administration to try to convince Trump to keep funding Gate's life work, or that Gates talked to Trump to end polio funding?
Trump bad, has nothing to do with Gates or Zuck. If you blame them for trying to prevent Trump from doing bad things, you should look into what they will benefit from and how they spend their money
I am a professor for algebra at a research university. I make a point out of teaching my students that `a/b` is NOT the same as multiplying `a` by the multiplicative inverse of `b`.
The standard example is that we have a well-defined and useful notion of division in the ring Z/nZ for n any positive integer even in cases were we "divide" by an element that has no multiplicative inverse. Easy example: take n=8 then you can "divide" 4+nZ by 2+nZ just fine (and in fact turn Z/nZ into a Euclidean ring), even though 2+nZ is not a unit, i.e. admits no multiplicative inverse.
Wow, what a clickbaity title. The article just states that Tim Cook prefers a different mouse than Apples's own Magic Mouse. Now that might be because he finds the Magic Mouse bad. Or just that he prefers the one he is using instead for whatever reason. Actually the article even mentions he sometimes uses the Magic Mouse, so it can't be all that bad in his estimation?
Granted, some people love to hate on the Magic Mouse. Perhaps it is bad (I also prefer different mice). I am happy to discuss it. But does it really have to be framed like that? This makes me want to skip over anything that site produces, I just can't take it serious.
Worse, yes. But the title reads "so bad". I don't know if it's "so bad" and shit like that. I use a Logitech G502 wireless personally because I like the way it fits my hand. I've owned all sorts of others like the Madcatz RAT that I've liked or simpler ones that I haven't. That doesn't mean I think the MX Master is "so bad" I'd rather use the G502. Bunch of people all losing their minds over simple shit haha. Oh no, his Apple T-shirt is so bad he's wearing a Zegna shirt! It's a Sunday, my dudes.
Dogfooding has a big history in Sillicon Valley and kinds of software development culture way before blogging was a thing. Before the web was a thing too. It was a thing people explicitly referred to before it even had that name.
Take your brickbats. I don't run one now, but I used to.
All of this is irrelevant (and ad hominem) by the way.
The situation is simple: Apple doesn't make a mouse good enough for its CEO. It's as embarassing as if a Dell CEO used a Macbook.
Whether that's still fine business-wise ("we still sell millions of our own mice to less discerning folks") is irrelevant. We're criticizing their mouse quality and commitment to making a good product, not their money making abilities.
It's not really that embarrassing. My dad's a surgeon: fits femoral nails. I've had fractures. Didn't put a femoral nail in me. Just wasn't a fracture that needed a nail. Not embarrassing that guy who spends every day putting in femoral nails decided not to put a femoral nail in when it came to his son.
I think you're being silly about this because you've committed to this bit. If you make something for someone else, doesn't mean you need that thing. You might even need a different thing. I don't get why this is such a big deal.
But, well, I was wrong about you running a company. Maybe I'm wrong about this. I'll drop it. I have a feeling you'll look back many years later and wonder why you thought this. But maybe not.
Mice are very hand and task specific. It's why we have a market full of significantly different mice with different features, sizes and forms.
Apple sells one mouse so it is impossible they could serve all users optimally. Maybe they should sell other styles of mice, but it is a pretty saturated market covered by a lot of low margin players.
Shame that Mozilla is giving in to Google. It just looks like a delaying tactic - they don't want JPEG-XL to become popular because once JPEG-XL reaches a particular threshold of adoption, other similar encoding formats won't be able to compete with it.
I agree on the “shame” part, also I do not get why it has to be yet another encode, there already is one Rust even, jxl-oxide. Why not take this one and expand it or improve it?…
On the delaying tactic, you might be right, I want to be cautiously optimistic =)
> AFAIK he intentionally leaves them out, I don't get why.
Some people like to brag about the timelessness of their articles [1], and that might be one reason. (I personally don't fully agree though, even the linked original WikiWikiWeb page has a last edited date.)
