Posts by Bibbit 182 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2016
The film “Rain Man” and the book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” I do think planted the myth in popular culture that autism of whatever flavour was synonymous with being an (forgive the archaic phrase) “idiot savant”. My youngest brother is on a spectrum and had tourette’s and growing up this was not easy and no, he couldn’t count a bunch of matches on the floor with one glance or create fabulous art.
But I thought there might be more fanfare/comment about the Apple M1 support. I only say this because of all the fuss and plaudits being rightly sent the way of the boffins at Asahi Linux. Does M1 support mean it is good to go on the new silicon? Impressive if true and I bet it goes like stink.
Should a cushy week. I recall he did a story a while back on a research ship that went to Norway. They could measure distance to shore in the fjords by sounding the foghorn and seeing how long it was for the echo to come back. How come he gets all the best gigs? Or is it recompense for having to sit in on all those dreary court-cases he has to cover?
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