I had no idea of the influence of 'The Cheese and the Worms', but I also didn't know how long it had already been around when I chanced upon it in 1989. Time to read it again.
I’m with you: I read the link and think they are referring to BLE advertisements. The frequency of such advertisements is configurable. AIR, the advertisement interval has to be a multiple of 0.625msec. Per the spec, a random delay of 0-10msec is added in between the interval to aid in collision prevention.
I’ve mainly seen “BLE beacon” used to refer to types of devices, especially ones that primarily advertise.
There are some devices, like BLE-based remote controls, that advertise very frequently, I assume to reduce latency between a user’s action and response by the receiving device. It makes for a very noisy environment if you’re playing at home and not filtering based on MAC, etc.
In the free tier, Suno owns all of the Output. I'm wondering when someone will make a song, realize it's pretty good, and attempt to recreate it after creating a paid tier account.
Subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, if you are a user who has subscribed to the paid tier of the Service, Suno hereby assigns to you all of its right, title and interest in and to any Output owned by Suno and generated from Submissions made by you through the Service during the term of your paid-tier subscription. If you are a user of the free tier of the Service then, as between you and Suno, Suno owns all Output generated from Submissions made by you through the Service, and, subject to your compliance with the terms of this Agreement, Suno grants you a license to use such Output solely for your lawful, internal, and non-commercial purposes, provided that you give attribution credit to Suno in each case.
I transitioned from Apple Pascal (based on UCSC p-system Pascal) on the Apple ][+ amd //e to Turbo Pascal on DOS in the early 80s. Turbo Pascal was a blast: the very quick compiler, good feedback, colorful editor, and use of the Wordstar keybindings, which I already knew, made for a great experience.
I recall writing programs large enough to require use of the overlay facility, which essentially let you page in different parts of your program under DOS.
I also recall meeting David Intersimone, a great ambassador of Borland, sometime in the 80s - might have been later 80s - when he visited my university as a guest of the local ACM chapter.
Read the article and found myself nodding along. If you work with larger Contract Manufacturers, they often have design for manufacturing centers that will perform mold analysis and suggest modifications. They often have the advantage of having worked on lots of different designs.
And even further down the road: make sure to account downtime in your production schedule for mold maintenance.
I see others commenting on registration, certification and approval matters and I’ll only say: do not underestimate the time and cost of that for a global product. This landscape changes all of the time. One minute a country will accept evidence of an FCC filing; the next minute they require in country testing with a local authority.
I note that one of the few dentists he mentions by name as providing a diagnosis consistent with his panel and a reasonable estimate is still practicing: Dr. Henry Wah in Marion, AR, apparently still has a good reputation and has been joined by other family members: https://wahfamilydentistry.com/
I have a small connection to an early part of this story.
In 1982/3 I worked for a local data processing / software consultancy / hardware reseller doing a variety of odd jobs. One day the owner came in and said they were going to become a reseller of a new computer, a Victor Technologies machine, as computers and terminals on IBM System 3X machines via Perle protocol converters. I remapped the keyboard of the Victor to allow the right shift to serve as a 5251 Enter key.
Victor had rented space in a new office tower and held a grand opening a couple of weeks later. I demonstrated our wares. There wasn’t that much interest, so I wandered around all of the display booths, learned what they were demoing, and in some cases took over. I remember 3 distinct features:
1) variable speed disk drives, which meant the Victor could store more data than am IBM PC.
2) a built-in codec for recording sound, especially speech, and aiding playback.
3) a stylus/touch-screen monitor option, which could be used for CAD etc.
I had an option to buy a machine for half price. I was an Apple IIe guy at the time and couldn’t have afforded it anyway, but it was a sweet machine. Sadly, that didn’t matter much, and Victor went out of business soon enough.
IBM pioneered the “embrace, extend and extinguish” approach to using their monopoly in mainframes to kill off competition in PCs. Intel and Microsoft then took over as monopolists after the consent decree restricted IBM. These were then restricted by the US government as well: AMD was founded with assistance from the US military to allow Intel chips to meet dual-source requirements, and the federal settlement with Microsoft saved Apple from oblivion.
Our current generation of monopolists - Google, Meta, Oracle, Amazon, and still Apple - will they likewise be taken down by government anti-monopoly efforts or allowed to continue indefinitely like major banks? We shall see.
As someone who programmed assembly on a one's complement machine* 40 years ago, this discussion is interesting, from both the "haven't we learned anything" and the "makes sense to me" camps.
More interesting to me is how they are introducing this change, both in the previous OTP and next, and how they will arm people with tools to hopefully identify and understand the impact. I wonder how many folks will actually be impacted?
It's very... civilized. I was riding my bike on part of it without knowing I was. It's not what I would call a backpacking experience to compare with the AT, CDT, etc. I'm sure this isn't either, as there's no real wilderness in France, but it sure is more appealing to me than El Camino.
Yeah the Ways of Saint James is a pilgrimage route (or a catchment thereof until you reach the Camino francés), so it's supposed to be accessible to most everyone, and would have way stations all along as pilgrims of the early middle ages could hardly be assumed to carry months worth of necessities.
No one carries months of supplies fwiw. Two weeks of food is the absolute max on the PCT and the AT is much less. 2-3 liters of water is the most you need even for the Mojave unless you are very late (or early if you’re SB). I imagine this French linkup is to the AT what the AT is to the CDT.
For those who don't know, the Chemin Saint Jacques (or Camino de Santiago, or Way of Saint James) is a pilgrimage route (or rather a network of pilgrimage routes) which goes all the way to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Spanish "Santiago" = French "Saint Jacques" = English "Saint James the Great".
The good part of this path is the logistics. A lot of people travel though it so there are a lot of cheap lodges, good signaling and places to buy food or have a meal
Not really an alternate. I did the Camino de Santiago from vezelay and it was along roadways for the most part. Some beautiful, out of the way roadways, but still roadways. This trail network seems much more in the wilderness, considering they recommend bivouacing along it.
Me too! Had a little less time than I'd have liked, so I started in Burgos instead of St Jean Pied de Port. Nonetheless, it was an amazing experience. Finisterre might have been one of the prettiest places I've ever been to.
