Robert X. Cringely
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Who knew replicating Silicon Valley would come down to curriculum?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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The transports are met by a second group of fighter-bombers coming from a different direction. They orbit overhead while the transports are unloaded. The fighter-bombers protect the unloading then depart on whats now a third route home.
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A group of fighter bombers escorts the transports in and then retires, defending themselves on the way home. Well probably not HOME, but a second route out of the country.
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Sending in the transports and fighters straight through areas of active fire would allow the fighter-bombers to defend the transports. Nobody lands in Ukraine except the transports.
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Humanitarian aid, munitions, diapers -- it doesn't matter the cargo since Ukraine at this point needs everything. Russia has declared its own sort of no-fly but they can't enforce it, so why recognize it?
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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