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7 Feb 2023
If you want to reduce ChatGPT mediocrity, do it promptly via I, Cringely: My son Cole, pictured here as a goofy kid many years ago, is now six feet six inches tall and in college. Cole needed a letter of recommendation ... tinyurl.com/2bv6v2op
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21 Nov 2022
What about the layoffs at Meta and Twitter? Elon is crazy! WTF??? via I, Cringely: I first arrived in Silicon Valley in 1977 — 45 years ago. I was 24 years old and had accepted a Stanford fellowship paying $2,575 for the ... tinyurl.com/2pjnjdr8
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27 Oct 2022
Paul Graham's Legacy via I, Cringely: Last week there was a press release you might easily have missed. A Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) called OrangeDAO is cooperating with a small seed venture fund called Press ... tinyurl.com/2cahsnzq
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8 Sep 2022
What yesterday's Apple satellite announcement really means via I, Cringely: I took the summer off to move with my family from California to Virginia, thus escaping the inevitable fires of doom. I deliberately left my ... tinyurl.com/2jmdzuua
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3 Jun 2022
Apple's Space Ambitions are Real via I, Cringely: Last summer, a couple weeks before the iPhone 13 announcement, Chinese market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote that the iPhone 13 would include satellite communication ... tinyurl.com/27am52d3
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19 May 2022
Putin plays his asshole card via I, Cringely: It doesn’t look good for the Russian military in Ukraine. Better-supplied and -motivated Ukrainian troops are pushing-back Russian forces even in Donbas— Moscow’s more modest ... tinyurl.com/y5lmxfla
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29 Mar 2022
How to quickly end the war in Ukraine with $10 laser pointers via I, Cringely: President Zelenskyy of Ukraine is begging NATO for a no-fly zone they can’t risk providing. So I came up with another solution — $10 laser ... tinyurl.com/ybgc8n8w
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22 Mar 2022
Here's why Putin won't use nukes in Ukraine — Pass it on. via I, Cringely: President Putin of Russia has been talking a lot lately about his forces using nuclear weapons — presumably tactical nuclear weapons — in the war ... tinyurl.com/y759ontd
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7 Mar 2022
When is a no-fly zone not a no-fly zone? When it's an airlift. via I, Cringely: This was the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49. Post-war Germany was partitioned into sectors administered separately by the major Allied powers. The city ... tinyurl.com/ycw5ad68
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2 Mar 2022
A no-fly zone over Ukraine would be difficult to mount and could drag NATO into the war. It's much better to mount an airlift of supplies to Ukraine with the transport aircraft logically escorted by lots and lots of fighters and fighter-bombers.
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2 Mar 2022
A third group of fighter bombers coming from yet another direction then arrives to escort the transports home. And so it goes every hour, covering all of Ukraine with humanitarian aid while also disrupting completely the air war.
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10 Sep 2021
Bob's 9/11 post from 20 years ago — To a Man With a Hammer via I, Cringely: Some things are worth reading again. For the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, here — unedited — is my column originally published ... tinyurl.com/yeylset7
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20 Aug 2021
Einstein’s Fridge: Who knew the history of thermodynamics was so much like high school? via I, Cringely: Almost 50 years ago I had the misfortune to take two statistics classes at the same time. One was a required ... tinyurl.com/yf4k5we8
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