It's like Einstein's theories of relativity, you see? Only applies at near the limit, at near the speed of light, which we do not (yet) experience in our mortal lives.

— Trishank ∞ Karthik (@trishankkarthik) November 8, 2018

No. Relativity applies always, but it might not need to be figured into calculations depending on the application and precision needed.

GPS makes use of the general theory or relativity while radar, particle accelerators for medical use and other applications depend on the special. Additionally, electromagnetism wouldn’t even work if special relativity weren’t true. I don’t feel like typing out why now (as it’s not very easy to understand) but Google will get you the answer to this at least.

This reminds me of Hertz, who discovered electromagnetic waves, but asserted that they were useless. (Hint for the smartphone people: it’s how your smartphone works.)

People can believe the most absurd things. And do.

She has just a remarkable voice. I wish she’d do like 30 country albums and 30 cover albums. This live performance is substantially better than the studio version.* Like absurdly better. (Yes, I know it’s from Hannah Montana.) She’s improved and grown as an artist so much since then.

She has the best American voice that I know of right now and in that performance she really throws everything at it.

*Because that is a movie, she’s lip-synching her own vocals there. She is not lip-synching in the video performance. In fact, she has a neutral non-karaoke mic with no reverb (which is rare).

The first 10 on today’s playlist:

The left’s and the right’s beliefs and stances on immigration are both equally stupid. The right’s actions, however, are more despicable so that does matter.

But this is quite true.

As I (and many others) have said repeatedly, if you prevent people from intelligently discussing the problems with mass immigration by tarring them all as “racists,” the only people who WILL deal with the immigration issue will be actual racists! And that’s what it has led to.

The Dems sure know how to self-own. It seems to be their specialty. These days you can be told you are racist if you don’t want the entire rest of the world to immigrate to the US at the same time. This is not a winning electoral strategy, to say the least.

This is fucking moronic. Which makes sense, because this is the fucking Microsoft moron who turned desktop Windows into a touch-centric interface — including the server version, which makes absolutely no sense at all. This dude is without a clue and no one should listen to him about anything. He is a full goddamn idiot. I hate this dud(e) almost as much as I hate Mozilla.

The problem is that tablets and phones are consumption devices. They will be hard-pressed to ever be more than that. Having lived through a few of these transitions, what Sinofsky is missing (other than a brain) here is that tablets and phones remove capabilities without adding anything. With a mouse *and* a keyboard, the keyboard was still there. Capabilities were added. Nothing was removed. Tablets and phones by definition remove capabilities and are less powerful by dint of this.

The maximum precision you can attain on a touch screen jabbing at it with a finger is about a 1/4 of an inch if you are very, very precise. On a real system designed for work, I can obtain pixel-level precision. (And that’s just one example of many.)

Don’t get me wrong. Tablets are great for some things. Casual consumption. Light work. Sending a quick email. Drawing, arguably. But for actual production of anything, no. Never will be. For the casual user they are great. They are nothing but guardrails with very little practical use. This is perfect for the people (about 60% of computer users) who can’t find their start menu even after using a Windows machine for two decades.

This dude is conflating two very different use cases is part of the problem: people who need to do work and people who are playing with some light work thrown in. These aren’t the same people.

I agree with Sinofsky that 80-90% can get by on a tablet because most people do very little.

But those aren’t all the people who use computers, and that’s what he’s missing.

Containers are kind of like if someone who didn’t understand much about computers designed something to function on what they thought a computer worked like.

It’s another example of choosing to do battle in the weak area instead of the strong one. Like high latency? Like poor security? Like opacity? Like ridiculous underuse of resources? Then containers are for you!