Meanwhile HR departments have started using Pangram like tools to detect and remove AI written job applications.

The flood of nonsensical AI slop applications that HR is facing has forced this.

Interesting thing to ponder: How much time, money, energy (et al) is being used in the (now) ever-escalating war between generating and detecting AI content?

This goes for HR, education, code review, on and on.

Bhai, Sanatana Dharma is ancient, but surely this statue is far older.

This statue is around 35,000 years old.

Hinduism is fairly young by contrast and is only around 4000 years old.

Nah, that is Hinduism as seen through the Western lens.

"Sanatana" in Sanatana Dharma means Eternal. The 4 cyclic yugas are well documented in every Sanskrit literature. We are currently in year 5127 of Kali Yug i.e. it started in 3102 BC with the departure of Bhagavan Krishna from earth after Kurukshetra war, which marked the end of previous yuga (Dwapara).

Kali Yug lasts 432,000 years. After which the next cycle begins.

Eventually after Brahma's lifetime is over, Pralaya occurs. Then the universe goes quiet for a long time, until Lord creates again. And this cycle of creation and destruction goes on forever.

Is there some really amazing Mac only software that would justify the effort ?

I genuiniely can't see why I would want to run Mac software on my Arch box.

I have used Linux since the 1990's and used the Mac back in 1988.

There are lots of amazing Mac only apps, but I'm not sure simply running them on Linux would be worth it. Without the cohesiveness of the UI as a whole you'd be losing a lot.

For me it’s mostly media apps - Fireworks CS 6, Reason 10, maybe some version of Garage Band. There’s alternatives but these apps hit a sweet spot that I could camp out on for decades if the tech treadmill didn’t like to make software an exercise in seeing shifting shapes in the clouds.

> Is there some really amazing Mac only software that would justify the effort ?

As others said, the killer app is XCode. Even if you can technically get it to run, you'll still need the full support and test flows of a native solution, so you might as well follow the proper path and use a Mac.

I can get Visual Studio to run in Parallels today. I still test with a real Windows machine.

Glyphs is like the only game in town for font editing. I’m an Omnigraffle enjoyer too.

it's really not, I see my colleague using https://www.fontlab.com for professional font authoring. I'll ask them about glyphs, got me curious.

Most of the apps on macos are for fixing os behaviors that make no sense.

Not a nice disease to get. Ranks up there with glioblastoma multiforme, advanced oesophageal cancer and advanced duodenal cancer.

I am aggressive and investigate aggressively to detect pancreatic cancer early. One even had a Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy ), since I detected it so early.

Despite that, the longest anyone I diagnosed has lived has only been 8 months.

Sad, they were all nice people.

> glioblastoma multiforme

Killed my dad the same year he retired. Really stuck with me about how important living for today is.

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I would estimate that 90% of software developers I have spoken to lack basic statistical understanding. Basic concepts like kurtosis, skewness, moments, the core Greeks all seem to be alien concepts to most.

> Basic concepts like kurtosis, skewness

You can probably lead a decent life without understanding kurtosis and skewness. You probably can’t if you don’t understand when a normal distribution applies.

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