Monday, September 02
Daily News Stuff 2 September 2024
All Chickened Out Edition
All Chickened Out Edition
Top Story
- Intel is expected to sell off its Altera division and freeze plans for a massive new factory in Germany, but not spin off its manufacturing division. (WCCFTech)
This makes sense. Altera was a standalone business until 2015 when Intel bought it. Intel already started moves to spin it off late last year, so all they would be doing is bringing plans forward a little.
Separating the entire manufacturing division would be a major upheaval for a company that is already a little too upheaved.
Tech News
- After Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake - Intel's next generation chips which are set to launch... Tomorrow... Intel is planning Panther Lake. (WCCFTech)
It has more bits.
- How to escape an Anaconda. (Paul Romer)
If (a) you are using a Mac and (b) are kind of stupid.
- Boeing's Starliner is haunted. (Ars Technica)
Well, that's just great.
- What is it that LLMs actually model? (The Register)
If they are supposed to be modelling language, but aren't, then what the hell are they doing?
- Arresting civil rights activists is good, actually. (Platformer)
The author of this piece of fascistic drivel is formerly a senior editor at The Verge. The tech press is one big incestuous cesspool.
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I really don't want to say that "a) using an mac and b) are kind of stupid" necessarily go together, but sometimes dots demand connecting.
Posted by: normal at Monday, September 02 2024 10:29 PM (bg2DR)
Posted by: Frank at Monday, September 02 2024 10:56 PM (+i6Xr)
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So, Anaconda is the MacPascal of the 21st Century, poor teachers cover the bare minimum required with no thought for what comes next, and the how-to for cleaning up the mess is written in baby-talk. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the students who need this help will never use Python outside of a class.
On the bright side, he managed to include a good example of Apple's user-hostile interface design, the undocumented and invisible Command-Shift-. magic key sequence.
-j
On the bright side, he managed to include a good example of Apple's user-hostile interface design, the undocumented and invisible Command-Shift-. magic key sequence.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, September 02 2024 11:27 PM (oJgNG)
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Well, on the one hand, the ISS has Russians involved, and when is the last time we had a priest up there? Boeing may have also skimped on the prayers, and stuff.
On the other hand, electronics gone funky seems like it should be quite plausible. Space, charged particles, over schedule, possibly design shortcuts.
Though, if we really want to be cotnentious, DIE can be understood as deliberately promoting possessed wackadoodles, and trying to prevent any praying over stuff that might drive the wackadoodles away screaming.
On the other hand, electronics gone funky seems like it should be quite plausible. Space, charged particles, over schedule, possibly design shortcuts.
Though, if we really want to be cotnentious, DIE can be understood as deliberately promoting possessed wackadoodles, and trying to prevent any praying over stuff that might drive the wackadoodles away screaming.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, September 02 2024 11:28 PM (rcPLc)
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forgot: I like anaconda, and have not found it particularly crippling on Windows. But, my use case, like my use case for R, is quite limited, and not requiring 'the full power' of what the language can do.
IPython in Spyder, like R in RStudio, lets me do everything that I need. So I am a cripple where someone who uses it to operate a server is concerned.
I just do a lot of one time only take input from file, look at what it does to the data, maybe spit data out into a file. (So, still actively learning, and maybe also a moron, and maybe a garbage programmer.)
I do think that folks trained at a university even twenty years ago may fail to realize how bad some of the secondary schools, and tertiary schools have gotten recently. But, I am probably far too much of a doomer where that stuff is concerned.
IPython in Spyder, like R in RStudio, lets me do everything that I need. So I am a cripple where someone who uses it to operate a server is concerned.
I just do a lot of one time only take input from file, look at what it does to the data, maybe spit data out into a file. (So, still actively learning, and maybe also a moron, and maybe a garbage programmer.)
I do think that folks trained at a university even twenty years ago may fail to realize how bad some of the secondary schools, and tertiary schools have gotten recently. But, I am probably far too much of a doomer where that stuff is concerned.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, September 02 2024 11:36 PM (rcPLc)
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Aalso, that "Language is more than just words!" article is a whole level of stupid drivel down from what I thought I'd get from clickin' on that there link. El Reg is in dive mode and the ballast tanks can't get filled fast enough.
Posted by: normal at Monday, September 02 2024 11:59 PM (bg2DR)
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Pat, I don't think it's possible to be too much of a doomer when it comes to US schools. My mother spent decades running K-12 programs all over the state, taught grad-school Education classes, and was one of the few PhDs (actual PhD, not Dr-of-Ed Jill Biden credential) in the field who regularly spent time in real classrooms dealing with real kids. TL/DR: she'd like to burn it all down and salt the earth.
The problem I have with Romer's advice (in this specific case; I tried reading some of his other stuff and found it to be worse) is not the use of Anaconda, but the combination of it having a terrible post-install experience on the Mac, the lack of concern by teachers for students who may need to undo that mess in order to take later classes, and the way Romer looks down on the students he's supposedly helping.
-j
The problem I have with Romer's advice (in this specific case; I tried reading some of his other stuff and found it to be worse) is not the use of Anaconda, but the combination of it having a terrible post-install experience on the Mac, the lack of concern by teachers for students who may need to undo that mess in order to take later classes, and the way Romer looks down on the students he's supposedly helping.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, September 03 2024 12:11 PM (oJgNG)
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