I did. At 35 I sold my Domino's, moved to NYC and started doing freelance tech support. I never looked back and am much happier
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Putting all this circuitry into a bulb with a limited lifespan seems silly to me, like the old TV/VCR combos. When I used to sell televisions we always steered people away from those because invariably one would fail before the other, making the device far less useful.
You think this article show that TechDirt wants internet pornography to be available to children? I'm confused how you got there.
> the law they’re defending sweeps in paintings like Manet’s Olympia (1863)
It wasn't a bad attempt to "illustrate what pornography is", but an example of what most would agree is NOT porn, but would be effected.
As much as I wish it, Google search is only the secondary focus. They multi-billion deal with Apple shows the massive cash stack developed from search, which would lead one to believe Google lives from search. I would have no problem with this co-dependant relationship, except it show the darker side of Google. Anything for installs. If Google was suddenly forced to be ONLY a search engine, I maintain they would fail - No gmail apps. No slides. No voice. A "nothing but search" Google would make unimaginable amounts of money, but it would only be clicks. Quick impressions, that don't generate the revenue Google stockholders now depends on.
The clicks themselves should be enough. My mind explodes at the concept of counting Google's click-thru revenue; thank god for 64-bit CPUs! As the world's finest data-mining corporation which {likely, obviously, as proven in court} funnels untold data to `todaysTLA {}` they have show time and time again, they care not for their free-tier customers, employees or paying "customers". The amount you pay pales in comparison to how much the revenue stream is from `{data mining data points for gmail, android etc}, of course they are going to monetize you. The massive income increase and the thankful government's soft-hand approach is the underlying motivator. The amazing ability of Google's lawyers to keep the vast majority of the current anti-trust trial relatively hidden screams of influence.
This being said, who do we turn to? Who's the stalwart, effective and visible protector of the internet now? Obviously not firefox, gnu, debian or mullvad. Where is their a major-league player that can take us back to the internet of old, the internet of a useful GeoCities page? I use Firefox on every device I own. I'd cross-compile before I go to Chrome, but they don't just own client-side-internet, do they?
The internet before capitalism was a wonderful thing, but we had a problem - someone eventually pays. Someone eventually pays for everything - email, www, gopher, newsgroups, ftp. Even today, at some point, you realize "the cloud" is just someone else's machine, which they pay for. Universities fronted the bill for years, but quickly bowed out.
Maybe one day we will reach a point that a `cloud_server {4-core arm cpu, 4GB ram, 40GB disk};` is so cheap as to be offered for free. Until that day, the internet is for those who pay in either money or information. I do not agree with the way TLAs work the system. I think the google tradeoff is bad. I understand that my ability to browse www.mario64speedruns.com depends greatly on if I trigger a captcha through Cloud{Flare,Front}, based mostly on my ad-blocking.
And even once we reach the promised land of free 4/4/40, it will only survive because of actual, paying, CC-on-file customers. The sooner we come to "horrible acceptance", where we realize the free-love-1972 isn't the world we live in, the better. It will quicken the people a thousand times smarter than me figuring out a way to keep 1% of the web free.
None sucks; better than none sucks less; therefore 1% is amazing,
Just look at stock price, dividends and/or executive compensation. They are obviously much more important than the people who actually make the product, provide the service or interact with the customer. For any actually important metric, CEOs add more value to the people who determine what value the CEO adds more than any other part of the business.
All hail our true lords, NASDAQ and DJIA.
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Their are 485 leap years between 2000 and 3999, inclusive, for a total of 730,120 days.
"{I, a loved one} is hungry; I will steal to feed {myself, them}"
is an amazing thing to me. I am so glad people exist who can't understand this thinking.
Not because of any moral idealism about "stealing is wrong", but the fact the person thinking this has obviously never been in a place where the options were "stealing" or "starvation".
Not to go Les Mis, but it is an easy choice for me if my wife was hungry, to go out and steal some bread.
Please tell me this is a troll. Please....
* Eating it anyway when you learn how to cook.
* Buying anything on sale, because you can't buy anything else, and anything is better than nothing.
* Mom/dad don't bother saying "we'll buy it next paycheck"
* Clothing is something we only buy for the oldest.
If these things are foreign to you, I am very glad. No one should have to deal with these choices.
I will accept the idea that many (most? almost all? i don't care) shoplifters could have paid for the product. That still means the idea that "being poor enough to need to steal" is incomprehensible tells me that you either never experienced poverty, or forgot.
I've been lucky enough to not need to steal to provide for my family. If I was hungry, I'd might steal some food.
If my wife was hungry, I'd do a hell of a lot more than stealing food.
https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/9chhz6/backblaze...
// Here's a cake if you thought about inspecting the code before executing it:
let css = 'font-size: 36px; font-weight: bold; color: red';
console.log("%cNEVER paste code you don't understand into the development console.", css); console.log("%cThis is the best way to compromise your account.", css);
It seems that this is the way Douglas Adams' Finite Improbability Generator functions. [1]
1: "The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood"
explodes fine as a regular user
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation.html/
Their is a pull-down to direct your donation to the Hawaii Wildfires.
1: https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/08/11/hawaii-news/...
https://www.eqt-marcel-offer.com/websites/3004_ma/English/10...
That's not to detract from everything AMD has done, but hardware is only the first step. Software that properly uses the features your hardware provides is just, if not more, important.
I love the fact AMD is pushing Intel so much. Pre-C2D days were amazing because we had two vibrant, innovative companies pushing to the edge of possible; trying to out-do each other. Pre-Ryzen was a horrible time. Do you want to spend $500 to upgrade from a 4-core intel 4000-cpu to an intel 5000-cpu? You'll get DDR4 and 1% IPC.
Now we get massive IPC, clock speed, ram and PCIE improvements on a regular basis. Competition is great, especially for the consumer.
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