Apple? TSMC? Intel? A new foundry backed by some big company or country? Double your bet and tell us which year.
Which personal projects got you hired? Which personal projects were so good you hired someone else?
March 23, 2021, 10:51am In honor of the 182nd anniversary of the first-ever appearance in print of O.K. (in The Boston Morning Post) I am here to start an internet copyediting war. As you can see, the original “O.K.” was very clearly an acronym, in this case of “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of…
Implicit in the discussion and consternation around vaccine hesitancy has been a wish: If only there were a message that could break through skepticism and persuade unvaccinated people to get their shots. What a world that would be. But over the past year, this really did happen. While there are still too many holdouts, many…
by Simon Tatham Introduction Some friends of mine play the board game Settlers Of Catan. In this game, each player rolls two ordinary dice on their turn, and the number which comes up determines what resources people get for the turn. When a seven is rolled, something special happens: no resources are generated, and instead…