Being good at chess isn’t about being “smart”, a lot of top chess players will tell you as much. It is however about things like spatial awareness and pattern recognition, and some studies have demonstrated those traits to be, on average, stronger in male subjects. I’m sure evidence to the contrary exists though.
Not really true for a lot of Europe, but yes, it is a good thing.
His program was more of a virus than a lot of computer viruses out there.
I don’t know how much you care about this, but even within each product class (i5, i7, etc) there can be a huge performance delta between specific models, especially in laptop chips. The same applies to AMD.
No, I’m talking about the hypothetical algorithm that fills a page with things you might be interested in. Twitter has it (even though it’s not necessarily good), even Reddit these days has some of that, it’s a feature in most social media websites and sometimes quite a useful one, and Mastodon just lacks it altogether.
You can, but the feeds that are supposed to help you find people to follow in the first place are important, and Mastodon’s are awful.
Don’t forget that he inflicted the blight that is JavaScript upon the world.
Since the App Store sits in between the ad click and App launch, there isn’t an easy way to track it without that.
How does that work exactly? Does the App Store pass along some information to newly installed apps or something? My company’s app, which I worked on for some time, also uses an external service to track installs (not Facebook or any social media), but I didn’t work on the implementation of it and never really got to grips on how it works.
Hear hear. Water all day every day, with the occasional beer or glass of wine.
If you look carefully at Meta’s actions in the last few years, you’ll notice they’re slowly stepping away from the Facebook brand and product. I suspect that they no longer internally consider Facebook to be their main product, giving way for Instagram, which at the moment is a lot more popular and despite the obvious association doesn’t have a tainted name the same way Facebook does.
What would that look like though? The current streaming model was pretty easy to predict ~15 years ago with the advent of online video streaming in general, especially mainstream forms of it such as YouTube. I have a hard time imagining how any other business model for distributing video content would look like, but then again I don’t have a very entrepreneurial mind.