Gell-Mann ammnesia.
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Players new to the series would be better served by playing the original Half-Life than Black Mesa.
The FAANG companies and other technology platform companies have separate technical and management career tracks. Only those who want to be managers become managers.
If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.
The ones described in the video are UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID tags, which differ considerably in design and protocol.
That was not motivated at all by the open source movement. The only reason AT&T Bell Labs didn't charge a significant amount for UNIX is because they were under a consent decree which precluded them from entering other industries at the time, see https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/should-we-thank-...
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc5hIxdCMZ0 for a visual example.
Hell, no. Technobabble has been a staple of science fiction all the way back to its origins.
I wish I could agree with you. However, the QA layoffs at Microsoft were in 2014; if something like was going to happen, it would have happened by now.
For those curious, the Xeon Ds are designed for low-power servers; one can get a 8 core/16 hyperthread D-1541 that has a TDP of 45W. Makes for a nice home server but Intel has been charging a lot for them. AMDs offering will hopefully be a good alternative that's more reasonably priced.
That presumes you put in a big enough FPGA/CPU or whatever fifteen(!) years in advance that has enough resources to handle the increased processing requirements for a future protocol (expensive and wasteful and there's no guarantee that you didn't guess wrong and it's still too small/slow) and that your RF signal path was designed well enough to handle the new signal requirements (expensive and wasteful even if you were prescient enough to guess what future requirements were). And that's on top of the fact that inexpensive electronic devices simply aren't built with components rated to last 15 years.
tl;dr software doesn't change the laws of physics
Probably the last series of 80186 PCs ever made were HP's 100LX / 200LX, a palmtop DOS based PDA that was released in the mid-'90s IIRC. It was an amazing little gadget for its time.
There appears to also be presentation slides for a preview of this paper at: https://siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/FITZPATRICK_Age62mor.... Apparently, the effect is not that large; ~2% jump in mortality rates for males and ~1% for females.
So? Transistors used in modern computers directly depend on quantum effects (semiconductor physics was an outgrowth of QM) as well, yet we do not need to take into account QM when writing software or designing microprocessors.
If conclusive evidence were found that human consciousness is fundamentally dependent on QM processes to function, that would be a Nobel Prize-worthy discovery. Aside from some minor papers exploring the topic, no such evidence has been found AFAIK.
"Microsoft Announces Azure VMs with Dual 32-core AMD EPYC CPUs" - https://www.anandtech.com/show/12116/amd-and-microsoft-annou...
Wouldn't be surprised to see an equivalent AWS announcement soon, either.
There's no direct value in any of those. Google gets very little direct revenue from the things you list nor could they ever hope to transform any of them a significant revenue source in the event their primary revenue stream (ads) went into a downturn.
Google is poorly diversified and even Amazon is not as well diversified as one might think.
It may be expected but large numbers of people don't do it. The 20 min. thing is a bit odd but I can see how it could be a net positive.
The "magic voodoo witchcraft" is Microsoft's "Hardware Compatibility Specifications for Windows".
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...
Linux and the other free OSes run on commodity x86 hardware by targeting the same Microsoft-issued specification. There is no standards body or other neutral organization that defines what an x86 PC is.
The lighter tools generally are missing one or more of the above and the larger tools are A) significantly heavier and B) contain tools that aren't that useful on a daily basis (e.g. file, saw) and aren't really all that good IMO when you do need them.
Ken Thompson had a MS in EE/CS and Dennis Ritchie had degrees in both physics and mathematics, all of which are far more difficult than programming. Most of the other great names of the '60s/'70s have similar backgrounds, invalidating your point.
It is a rare person who has enough work ethic to force themselves to use their own free time to improve in a field they don't have any passion for. If that weren't so, we'd see a lot more self-taught physicists, mathematicians, and other STEM people.
> The vast majority of people, including those who excel at their respective fields, don't love their jobs.
People who excel in their fields don't love their jobs? As kids nowadays say, "[citation needed]".
For BYOD laptops/PCs, keep the receipt (which will usually include the serial number) and store a photocopy at the office in a place where you can easily keep track of it. If it's something shipped direct from the manufacturer, keep the box with the shipping label on it as additional evidence. You can also let your manager know that you have equipment that you personally own on-premises and give him an itemized list with serial numbers. For small items like mice, keyboards, etc., they're generally not worth enough to lose sleep over if lost.
Beyond that, the general rule of never bringing anything to work you're not willing to lose applies. Just like any other kind of BYOD device, your employer is not going to reimburse you if your personal hardware is stolen or accidentally damaged, so take appropriate precautions.
Lastly, make sure that you secure _and_ backup data on your hardware at least as well as your IT team does for company issued hardware. Your manager is not going to be at all sympathetic if you lose work due to a hardware failure on your BYOD device or due to malware.