If you're new to using multiple desktops in Windows, they exist in both Windows 10 and Windows 11 (although we've made improvements to the experience in 11)
You can use them from Task View (WIN + Tab), but you can do it with keyboard shortcuts:
• WIN + CTRL + D: Create a new desktop
• WIN + CTRL + Left or Right Arrow: Switch between desktops
• WIN + CTRL + F4: Close the current desktop
To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
Fantastic essay worth reading in full and pondering. Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
Guys - if you've not seen the French football women's World Cup ad, you HAVE to. It's a piece of artistic & political genius
They are privileged, lucky and in some cases good at tech innovation. They are not wise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/17/elon-musk-technology-leaders-influence/
Crashes kill 43,000 people per year in the US.
Self-driving car companies claim to have the solution.
In Slate, I call bullshit.
@DataGeekB I am on it.
My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.
Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”
Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”
This is such a fun interview. 25 years since Satya came out. https://youtu.be/Mxyv3AWfXns
@Transportist this is an interesting. Never thought of it from that perspective.
@Transportist i do miss Google Reader.
SCOTUS struck down AA b/c it’s allegedly discriminatory. Here’s the Facts:
•AA benefitted white women more than all other groups COMBINED—plaintiffs never complained about that
•43% of white Harvard students are legacy or athlete students, of which 75% would not be admitted otherwise—plaintiffs never complained about that
•Asians are 6% of the population & 26% of Harvard admissions—plaintiffs never complained about that
This SCOTUS ruling is 100% anti-fact & 100% anti-Black racism.
One way to understand how Putin’s Russia operates more like an organized crime syndicate than a conventional state is through their systematic doping programs in sports. See Icarus on Netflix for wild window into that world: https://www.netflix.com/title/80168079
Bombayite in America. Partner, father, eater, reader, modeler. Books. Transportation. Data. R. Politics. Films. I hate the term Bollywood.