That seems wrong. If you have a way to maintain enough propulsion for long enough you can escape the gravity well at any arbitrarily low speed. You "just" need to maintain that speed long enough for the escape velocity from the gravity well to go below it as it diminishes with distance from the mass.
There seem to be some 15 inch all-in-ones but these days if what you want is a small form factor the answer is surely a laptop. Even if you're just going to keep it on the same desk forever that's what you'd get if you want 15 inch or smaller.
I could see a “portable” all in one being successful. Something closer to the first Mac where it had a handle in the back with a built in screen. In the 10-14” screen range. Back in the day, my mom had an internet appliance (light browsing and email only) which was close to what we’re taking about. She loved it.
You’re of course looking at all laptop parts, but the form factor would be part of the appeal. Then again, an iPad dock would also probably cover this form factor for about the same cost.
I once made a criminal complaint because of a sewer line that was frequently allowed to overflow into a creek. The prosecutor refused to prosecute the case with the argument that the root cause was "real estate pressure" and so the county (that licenses and taxes any new construction) and the sewage operator (that coercively charges anyone that can physically connect) couldn't possibly be blamed.
Another advantage is you can place the fans all along the wing getting you better stall resistance as the flow doesn't detach as easily. There's already a prototype of a hybrid plane that does this:
Or you can use a horizontal-axis style helicopter rotor with variable pitch, and it gets you omnidirectional thrust (VTOL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclogyro
There are a lot of interesting possible alternate histories (only requiring a few tweaks to physics) where fixed wings never really work and horizontal rotorcraft dominate, especially in a world where lighter-than-air craft are common - something like a hybrid between a zeppelin and a paddleboat.
There was never any possible alternate history where those alternative lift or propulsion approaches could dominate. The fundamental flaw is that in case of power loss they can't really glide or autorotate. Perhaps useful for some limited drone applications but not safe enough for humans.
It’s a shame that grift claims everything.. once upon a time, Huberman was a serious person but he’s now just Joe Rogan with an advanced degree - platforming all sorts of bullshit for a check. At least there are other sources listed though so thanks for those.
That's great if you're compiling for use on the same machine or those exactly like it. If you're compiling binaries for wider distribution it will generate code that some machines can't run and won't take advantage of features in others.
To be able to support multiple arch levels in the same binary I think you still need to do manual work of annotating specific functions where several versions should be generated and dispatched at runtime.
I'm curious if that's still the case generally after things like musttail attributes to help the compiler emit good assembly for well structured interpreter loops:
> agents were previously spending 3-5 minutes after each call writing manual summaries of the calls
Why were they doing this at all? It may not be what is happening in this specific case but a lot of the AI business cases I've seen are good automations of useless things. Which makes sense because if you're automating a report that no one reads the quality of the output is not a problem and it doesn't matter if the AI gets things wrong.
In operations optimization there's a saying to not go about automating waste, cut it out instead. A lot of AI I suspect is being used to paper over wasteful organization of labor. Which is fine if it turns out we just aren't able to do those optimizations anyway.
As a customer of many companies who has also worked in call centers, I can't tell you how frustrating it is when I, as a customer, have to call back and the person I speak with has no record or an insufficient record of my last call. This has required me to repeat myself, resend emails, and wait all over again.
It was equally frustrating when I, as a call center worker, had to ask the custmer to tell me what should already have been noted. This has required me to apologize and to do someone else's work in addition to my own.
Summarizing calls is not a waste, it's just good business.
> They are perfectly good machines as servers and desktop terminals.
On the power usage alone surely an upgrade to a still extremely old 64bit machine would be a significant upgrade. For a server that you run continuously a 20+ year old machine will consume quite a bit.
Indeed. I still keep around a couple of old computers, because they have PCI slots (parallel, not PCIe), unlike any newer computer that I have, and I still use some PCI cards for certain purposes.
However, those computers are not so old as to have 32-bit CPUs, they are only about 10 years old, but that was because I was careful at that time to select MBs that still had PCI slots, in order to be able to retire all older computers.
The only peripherals that truly don't work in more modern boards would be AMR/ACR/CNR? ISA and plain PCI being reasonably easy to acquire expansion boxes (might be a problem for EISA though, I guess...)
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