Good luck getting unbiased and high quality opinions on that particular question here.

MacOS is a Unix-based operating system that has historically been a go-to for professionals who want the tools of a Linux environment but with quicker setup and less hand-holding required to maintain it.

It is currently an exceptionally good choice for privacy, with a great deal of forethought invested into answering the question of how to still offer basic features the user expects while separating concerns and locking everything down to prevent leaky software from surveilling you and blabbing to the outside, including their own software.

As a result, the operating system can be quite difficult to develop for, because the rules and their enforcement are draconian, but you asked if it was good on privacy and it is. For now.

It is not an open source OS but it does what it says on the tin. He should learn Linux but doesn’t need to rush it, and macOS can make that transition easier.

Not stuffy enough. Latin only from now on.

The infamous el guapo?

Wahster Queef

Gravelly drawl: “SOOKIE”

If you mean grades, I’d encourage you to disentangle your own retrospective self-evaluation. The point is learning, which is ultimately a personal journey. Grades are just an institutional proxy for learning outcomes, and when some students can afford private tutors when others have to work third shift to remain enrolled, the currency isn’t fungible. That is, grades are buttons and bottle caps. Learning, curiosity, discovery, and knowledge, for its own sake, is the only true currency in education.

Never let school get in the way of your education.

Caveat: I’ve said this brashly to several deans, when it seemed appropriately inappropriate, and while a few are now good friends, the others acted troubled and now seem to avoid me. That is, YMMV. Some lifer academics may not understand when you disregard the only rubrics they know.

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Loss of control

(Guitar solo)

Aw ha!

My calc 1 and 2 professors were from Africa and told us stories of this exact schooling tradition that they went through, with the caning and military-style drills. It does not sound like an easy way to learn. I’m sorry you were treated that way.

It’s a user-friendly wrapper for existing fake quantum. It’s not a “physics shortcut” and it doesn’t “tackle quantum problems.”

Also no quantum problems have ever been “reserved for AI.” Some quantum solutions borrow optimization techniques from machine learning, but classical machine learning algorithms aren’t designed to leverage (or even consider) quantum effects.

I’m putting this out there because there’s a tendency to lump together all the buzzwords, like AI and quantum, into one big category of powerful-technologies-I-don’t-understand that results in hyperbolic projections and magical thinking that thwarts progress.

In case anyone’s curious: it is likely a cell wrapper misprint/typo.

4300mWh AA lithium ion cells are a standard extended-life chemistry. 2866 mAh is their actual rated capacity.

Edit: 2866 x 1.5 = 4,300

Where’s the Fibonacci spiral?

Edit: I wasn’t actually disagreeing with the comment above. You should downvote me too.

Board of directors

Correct. The board defines the company, not the CEO.

CEOs are usually puppets. Whatever role they play, you can bet they were hired specifically to play it, and were incentivized to stick to the script.

Their job (legally, their fiduciary obligation) is to maximize shareholder value, to take the credit or blame, and fuck off.

The board (typically key stakeholders) are so pleased when the public focuses on their CEOs, even if it’s for their shitty opinions, behavior, or obnoxious salaries.

Because the worst thing that could happen to them would be for the public eye to actually follow the money, and it’s easy to see why.

If the rabble truly fathomed just how many of those “golden parachutes” stakeholders stockpile with every disgraced CEO, however ceremoniously disavowed…

Accountability would shift to more permanent targets yes but, more importantly, it would quickly become common knowledge that, all this time, there were in fact more than enough golden parachutes to go around.

Boom. Clerical collar. Now bless me father, for I have sinned.

This joke only works in Spanish.

Wait, is this happy tree friends?

Implications or assignment? They didn’t specify notation.

Because what we call intelligence (the human kind) usually is just an emergent property of the wielding of various combinations of fist or second-hand experience by “consciousness” which itself is…

What we like to call the tip of a huge fucking iceberg of constant lifelong internal dialogues, overlapping and integrating experiences all the way back to the memories (engrams, assemblies, neurons that wired together to represent something), even the ones so old or deep we can’t even summon them any longer, but often are still measurable, still there, integrating like lego bricks with other assemblies.

Humans continuously, reflexively, recursively tell and re-tell our own stories to ourselves all day, and even at night, just to make sense of the connections we made today, how to use them tomorrow, to know how they relate to connections we made a lifetime ago, and how it fits in the larger story of us. That “context integration window” absolutely DWARFS even the deepest language model, even though our own organic “neural net” is low-power, lacks back-propagation, etc etc, and it is all done using language.

So yes, language is not the same as intelligence (though at some point some would ask “who can tell the difference?”) HOWEVER… The semantic taxonomies, symbolic cognition, and various other mental tools that are enabled by language are absolutely, verifiably required for this gargantuan context integration to take place.

Ah but which of you generously assumes the task of thread-keeping and context-restoration most of the time?

Who kindly reminds the other that they were making a larger point, so we can say “oh shit, right! As I was saying…”

Whether it’s because you’re actually curious or just saving us from remembering the unfinished idea as we fall asleep…

You are hands down our favorite person to get aimlessly lost in conversation with <3