> Yacc is called Bison

And when they named ‘Yet Another Compiler Compiler’ something tells me they weren’t being deadly serious.

> What I'd really like is a TV with DisplayPort.

Issues with HDCP support maybe?

DisplayPort supports all HDCP versions, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Fasces or fascist?

Apple has a p/e of 38, Nvidia is 46, Microsoft is 34. S&P has historically averaged around 20, so on that metric Apple and Nvidia are more similar than different.

> My friend's Fitbit works way better than my Apple watch.

I went through three FitBits. After the third failed just outside warranty I got an Apple watch, which has outlasted all three FitBits.

> Shares of Apple Inc. were battered earlier this year as the iPhone maker faced repeated complaints about its lack of an artificial intelligence strategy.

Everyone’s shares were battered earlier this year, and it had nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with tariffs.

I think it was mostly Buffett's dumping. He's a smart guy and the world's best investor, but I think this was a mistake. The winning play is long on Apple, short on Microsoft.

You’ve never seen the movie Poltergeist?

My daughter understood what the Chrome icon was for before she could even spell ‘Chrome’.

> I actually also have a dedicated Copilot button on my new Lenovo laptop powered-by-Windows-11. And, guess what, it does exactly nothing!

A physical button? So it’s like a mechanical placebo? If you have AI FOMO you can keep pressing it to calm the anxiety.

Ad machinam. “To the machine”.