Re: WhatsApp wasn't banned already?
Banned? Yes. Inoperable? Yes! Available in the app store until really quite recently? Also yes.
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Speed tests are down from early 5G, but I'm generally able to do what I need to do. Teams and Google Meet sessions are pretty reliable. Manchester is problematic with EE (especially in the centre), where I often need to switch mobile data off and back on again when on the move (even with an apparently good signal). I think they have a problem handing off between cells. This was not a problem in the early days of 5G and might (I think) be down to the replacement of Huawei equipment not going smoothly.
“ One intriguing finding is that Copilot was the most useful to the most experienced programmers.”
Far from intriguing, I would describe that as a statement of the bleedin’ obvious. It has been pretty clear to me from the start that someone with a good foundation and experience in a given subject matter would benefit from the emerging LLMs. For those who lack foundation and experience, it probably becomes the crutch that stunts their development.
Even by the time of the fire sales (and it was tempting then), the QL never made sense to me*. It was clear it was never going to get the software (especially games). It was all a bit too grown-up at the time! My move to 16-bit didn't come until the Amiga 500, which ended up making a great deal of sense given the many similarities to the grown-up OSs we used at University. That said, I'm rather surprised at the following the QL has to this day.
* I'm the classic 80s child. Got a ZX Spectrum for "homework".
It's not just computers. Certain large companies, in a variety of sectors, have become very closely intertwined with government at all levels. If you want better value for money, for large IT, infrastructure, education and health projects, then a way needs to be found to break that. We have a lot of very good SMEs who are more than up to delivering an awful lot of government-funded work and who, at the moment, would never stand a chance.
At the time, I think it only really needed a decent desktop search option (though Google Desktop search could do this - albeit, I suspect, at considerable risk to your privacy). That said, I don't mind 10 and 12 either (I prefer the Mac, obvs), probably because I only use the search part of the start menu.
Lots of options. Vim and Neovim* happen to be what works for me. Unless Microsoft brings something new and innovative, I assume their efforts are better spent elsewhere.
* Keeping it simple, though - you can expend much effort getting to work a thing that installs and works with a single click in VSCode.
“ It has and does all of those things, and has an i5 processor that lets me run a complete software dev environment - Xcode, eclipse, Visual Studio, git .... even VMWare for Windows if I'm desperate”
Having picked up Chromebook Plus for curiosity money, in the sales, I can report that Chromebooks do that. Well, not the Xcode bit, and Windows virtualisation is a bit new, but a dev environment is fairly straightforward.
“ Mexico City is one of the highest-elevation cities in the world, sitting at 7,349 feet (2,240 meters) above sea level”
Ouch - Nairobi was hard on me (seriously unfit back then though) and that’s a couple of thousand feet lower. Marginal if elevation was a factor in Woz’s minor stroke though. Time up there can actually be good for health.
The only thing stopping the prosecutor from asking for the Chair is a little thing called the law, and the prosecutor will have half an eye on their next political office.
Also, does the US do jail for posh people (like the so-called open prisons we have here) or is it next stop Super Max?
M1 and M1 Pro owners, like me, who are sitting pretty with systems that are still overkill, for us at least, three years down the line. Unless I find I need more than 16Gb, there is no need for me to upgrade. If I do find I need more than 16Gb, I doubt I’ll buy new.
With these new releases, I think Apple is targeting segments it has already saturated.