Posts by Stjalodbaer

Object

Like most programming languages, it has no formal logical or mathematical basis and is just a bundle of nostrums, as it seemed good in someone’s judgement. The lack of definition leads to uncontrolled growth.

This is a heaven-sent opportunity to bring back the spacious, cool running 17 inch MBP. Apple ? Looking at you.

No more tinkertoy pseudo-languages

We don’t know what the language of 2020 will look like, but it will be called Fortran.

But we’d like it to be ML.

Obligatory

What watch ? Apple watch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Th0G8rkhBqg

Like the lady, all the girls I meet wear Apple watches.

Watch as standalone phone could be here but for telcos.

Now for some cognac ...

Close ...

What one really wants is something with physical format à la Blackberry Passport, but with a truly modern origami keyboard (in some cool material like a titanium-carbon fibre blend) that collapses into the frame.

angst

Is this the Reg Spinoza page ? They’ve solved the mind-body problem ?? By denying the body ?!? Kewl. Actually, also what about out-of-body experiences ?

Conspiracy theory

I thought the codes proved Baco wrote Baa Baa black sheep.

Suicidal naïveté

Nothing happens in China without the concurrence of the PLA, who own a share of most industries. To quote an economist acquaintance, the PRC is the first economically successful, technological, totalitarian regime. It’s beyond implausible that they are not using their tech kit to gather intelligence world-wide. By all means read Ken Thompson’s Turing Award paper mentioned above. Would be nice to see some studies of who’s phoning home.

Blackberry appeared unbearably arrogant. They were punished in the market. But much of their tech and concepts were good. Gaining control of QNX, which makes Android, iOS, etc. look pretty tired amd ancient, and developing BB10 should have led to a revival. The Passport, however flawed its build, is even now a view of the future; its design is a prototype of that combination of phone and tablet that will probably be the single standard device until miniaturized holographic hands free systems arrive.

More history

Stephen Grossberg

Elements

Is there a writeup somewhere that offers a definition off what versioning is ? And perhaps some mathematics of it ? Many of the features of existing systems seem like ad hoc assemblages done by smart people to be sure but lacking formal cohesion, and so not really discussable.

M0ngo still just p0wned in game of life

Make whole macbook pro input surface of clamshell combination of haptic keys and touch display with everything relocatable and configurable by user and apps. Why why only touchstrip ?

Don't touch

Why whole kyeyboard not haptic glass ? Help Mongo understand ...

That Swiss thing is pretty tired sauce. For 25K one would hope for a nice real thing, not just a sub-thing with attached polemical notions. Apple charges somewhat too much, but they do seem to be trying to offer a real thing. All it would take is commercialization of one of the exotic new battery technologies and another step in miniaturization and Apple could dispense with the tiresome recharge burden and the iPhone. Mr. Cook ?