And that zip file might be not the version you thought it was, if it's not from a build server it might include any number of uncommitted or gitignored changes, more transfer steps mean more things that can go wrong. These automations are not about reducing keypresses, they are about reducing the number of trivialities to mess up. People tend to have other things on their mind when going through that kind of routine.
What's crazy about that? Religion used to be long term knowledge encoding (multigenerational). Evolved knowledge, the group that stumbled into a pig taboo just happened to be more successful than the group without. In an area where pigs are better not eaten, either the former would eventually replace the latter or the advantageous knowledge spreads. I'd consider it crazy to think of (the roots of) religion to be anything else.
> Evolved knowledge, the group that stumbled into a pig taboo just happened to be more successful than the group without
This doesn't really track though. Because by this logic, polygamous religions would have overtaken monogamous ones. Or religions like Jainism and Buddhism would have not lasted as long as they did. Religions are not solely evolutionary, nor are the customs and traditions of cultures over time. They aren't genetic traits that evolutionary theory applies to them.
Also consider, nothing about Judaism is disadvantageous by your logic but it has become a small minority religion largely as a result of persecution over the ages. There's not an evolutionary aspect there.
> Because by this logic, polygamous religions would have overtaken monogamous ones
Would they? Are societies where children are hardly more than a number to their fathers necessarily more successful, more stable?
Unlike genetic traits, religions and other cultural traits are software, not hardware. (yes, genetic traits are information, but so is VHDL). Individuals can change their mind, adapt the ways of a different group, not possible with genes.
You point out Judaism, that one's quite an outlier because it's so unaccepting of would be believers who weren't born into it. Turns out forks that do away with that part spread quite far.
Of course. Polygamous societies can afford to lose men in wars and riskier adventures that cause the society and culture to expand (by your logic).
Again I don't accept the religions spread solely because of their features that beat out other religions in adaptation. It ignores that people may be convinced about the content of the religion, which people back then would have cared about more, rather than the features of the religion, which we modern people care about nowadays more.
Many religions are unaccepting of people born outside. Hinduism is an example. Even only one section of Hindus was actually allowed to even study the religion at all.
Like I mentioned, and which you ignored, religions like Jainism and Buddhism would have died out. What about Zoroastrianism, Manicheanism, etc. caused them to die out vs something like Jainism.
Where the stationary work PC survives (I think): point of sale like desks that are half way between cash register (not personal at all) and notebook computer (each employee got their own). E.g. the computer feeding the screen at the hotel check-in counter. Not a big market relative to the number of systems existing because they aren't frequently replaced and when they are replaced, very cheaply, but the number existing is huge. And leaning to the PC side a lot, I think?
Workstation-grade, I'd say, is extremely limited and shrinking fast. Particularly outside of the tinkerer niche. Think "gamer", even if I suspect that actual gaming isn't half as big in that niche as marketing approaches would suggest. But in any case very much not-Apple.
The SRBs were collected from the sea for reused and the upper stage was reused after landing horizontally. The only thing not reused was the upper stage drop tank. That single use drop tank was rather big, true, but not a rocket, not a rocket at all.
The Soviet lookalike did use a single use rocket as its second stage, with the reusable part just being an orbiter.
Interestingly, the Buran’s Energyia launch vehicle could possibly have been made reusable exactly because the tank and the engines were one unit. At the expense of payload capacity, of course. And anyway the Soviets were confused about the whole shuttle concept because it didn't seem to make economical sense, reusable booster or not – but they assumed the Americans knew something they didn't.
How would Energyia become reusable? Tail landing? Is there more to this, something specific that would make Energyia a candidate for tail landing other than just "if F9 can do it, in theory every liquid fueled rocket could do it"?
Wow, that's ... ambitious. I'd imagine the extra mass to make an energyia-size tank+engines able to land horizontally to be enormous. It's not just wings (plus folding mechanism, if you believe that's worth saving a bit of drag on the way up) but also landing gear plus all the structural strengthening required.
Sounds suspiciously like one of those projects you propose when you want something finer short term but assume that they never survive to the point where they actually need to deliver?
And I think it's brilliant: it says "ca 2010 technology, the good parts". Technically, it's not exactly correct (according to Wikipedia Core 2 was discontinued a year before the Pebble launched), but it's one of the few lasting iconic names from that era in technology that aren't Apple. RePebble playing with that reference is exactly the same pattern as xyz-90 letter combinations reminiscent of audio cassette blanks popping up all over the music industry when the 80ies revival was in bloom.
Will it eventually end in a "we got sued by Intel!" marketing gambit? Certainly a possibility. Is assume they have played through both scenarios.
In defense of the "it's security!" position (which is not mine): I think they mean a similar vulnerability could exist on the client side of the API. As in someone sends manipulated media that targets a vulnerability on the third party device, the media gets forwarded through the API, now that compromised third party device does bad things over the API.
Personally, I think that it's really just a convenient third party lockout excuse, but the argument isn't quite as bad as it may seem at first glance.
My impression was that at some point, they went too far with the scientific approach. As in round up all the last persons who had never touched a computer, put them in an experiment and make their success rate as the only metric that counts. Established conventions? "Science says they don't work".
This attack on convention then paved the way for the "just make it pretty" we see today.
Oh, that US series! Never has a book license been touched more gently (pun really not intended, can't think of a good replacement to avoid it). "Yeah, we can't turn this into an at least tolerably good TV series, let's do this completely unrelated things instead". And yet they captured the spirit so well!
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