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People should zoom right out and think about the whole RISC-V project. When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still…

"Every M1 Mac .. due .. for .. refresh .. " Great, I look forward to Apple sending me an M2 to put into the CPU socket, or will it be a download to reconfigure my M1 into an M2.

Back in the day I joined evening classes just to get access to the technical college library. Reading books was a thing then. I do see some value in erasing human history and start…

If anyone was serious about democracy they would give tax payers the option to select the services they are willing to pay towards. Tick the box to pay towards a new Aircraft Carri…

I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens. Also I don't think it was a vision of the futu…

If Microsoft were a person; they would be a rich, lucky, lazy, easily distracted person who takes zero pride in their work, content to leave inconsistent garbage littering a produc…

There was a short story where children were put behind a wall and brought up to believe that magic was real; at some point it started to work for them.

I think the concept has been explored quite widely. Indicators might be that groups of physicists believe in new tiny particles and then discover them. Depending on how powerful th…

You are right and it is a useful thing to know. There is a commercial license to help encourage the big well funded customers to pay for the tools they need to compile millions of …

Any chance the UK can get a refund then? "Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carri…

I can confirm for you; that there is no rational reason to assume the authors own MacBook is a new M1 system.

In contrast we have Americans, a people who would never cheat - and perhaps do not even understand cheating as a concept. It must be grand to live in such a country that has no nee…

I agree we all learn by example; and by copying. I remember in the 1970s people used to say that the Japanese could only copy the west; they couldn't create things of their own; th…

As an alternative to ending free speech for everyone; perhaps users should have to pass a course on critical thinking; before being allowed to use twitter.

I think we would want to visit them; and that's the reason we hope they might like to visit us. And we hope there is some easy shortcut through space; that we might figure out in t…

The current iMac design is really great; there is nothing wrong with bezels on a desktop monitor, what harm do they do? The chin is a good place for the apple logo, it also raises …

Try taking a picture of a fast moving object in the sky with your phones camera, it is quite hard to do; even at an air-show where they all line up for you.

I seem to remember that when programming this OS; your app was responsible for almost everything; including things like animating the close button when you detected a user clicked …

I think the author underestimates how much this changes things. Assuming we know for certain there is no free will; the way we treat bad behaviour should change - people who behave…

It really was the original RISC in a personal computer; you could actually buy one (especially in the UK); and run it at home; the others were things that lived in computer rooms a…

"The entire reason palaeontologists make that split is because of a catastrophe that struck 66 million years ago." True; also the reason we have human people reading websites is pa…

I miss it too; Pascal (Delphi) used to be one of my favourite compilers; until Dennis in tech support refused to reset my version 10.2 license registration limit the other day.. Ti…

I think we search for possible explanations of our own very good luck that you outlined above; and partly this search is due to the way our own brains work; we believe there must b…

I agree; and this is why there is not one jot of extra risk in exploring and testing; our simulation could be shut down at any time for some incomprehensible and arbitrary reason; …

Or that Zeus had sometimes turned up and spoken to them.