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As fresh graduate at your first job, I suppose you follow the instructions from your boss a bit more and still have faith in your boss and upper management, a bit more than a senior, more experienced employee. Just look at the military, it's quite easy to scream at 18 year old recruits and have them crawl in mud and being screamed insults at. Try the same with a 45 year old.

If you want to boycott the US, I would say it's better to use Bluesky and make it a strong and viable competitor to X.

But then there will be no comments to summarize.

Someone commented somewhere above that deepseek avoided using CUDA. So it means you can achieve very good results without Nvidia's CUDA.

"They skipped CUDA and instead used PTX which is a lower level instruction set"

Please, not too many sensors. Long battery life and small size and low weight is more important. All the other smartphones and fitness watches have these sensors so get one of those instead.

Maybe a HW interface to attach other sensor modules could be an option, but could also easily become a distraction and pull down the overall experience.

[Edit] A wireless i/f (bluetooth, LP RF) is of course better to use as interface to any peripheral sensor modules.

But what is conversion cost and the transaction cost to convert USD to USDC and then back?

It's of course not the criminal use of crypto that has caused the price to increase so much lately, but the use of it for criminal activity is one of its main real use cases (apart from speculation which is not a real use case).

Why did you use Western Union instead of Wise or some other lower cost alternative?

It's not "all the time", but any time they want. You have to declare goods all the time though (if above limit) as there are limits in place for meat, alcohol etc.

In theory it all sounds nice, but in reality I have never seen any website or product adhere to what you (or GDPR) states.

If you answer yes in a popup by fat-fingering, stress, mixup whatever you are screwed. The popup typically comes up when you do not want it, i.e. when you are about to use the product's main function.

> Under the GDPR, retracting consent should be as easy as giving consent.

Well, the popup to give consent comes up all the time wether you want it or not, but there is no popup coming up to retract it. You have to search deep in the settings. It's quite unlikely people will do that on embedded hardware or cars.

And if first given consent by mistake, they have already fetched data in the meantime until you turn it off.

> Violates both the rules that consent should be given freely.

What do you even mean? Of course no one is pointing a gun to your head, but they put up the popup asking for consent and I might push the wrong button by mistake. I might also not notice I pushed the wrong button because there is never a confirmation step.

[EDIT]: And there are typically a huge bunch of switches and checkboxes asking for different kinds of approvals which makes in even easier to make mistakes.

I guess GDPR is a good idea, but in practice it has limited value. I suppose all that is needed is that the user accepts (consents) by answering yes to a popup question. It can be asked over and over. If you answer yes by accident at some point you are screwed. You can maybe(?) retract your answer, but maybe you don't even know you answered yes at some point when you were stressed and had to drive somewhere, while your nav/media system asked you this question.

The main problem is that this sort of thing (tracking of cars and storing the data in a central database) is considered normal by corporations and is allowed by law. Would we like to have big corporations place private detectives outside our houses and when we leave they follow our every step, take photos, record audio and track our GPS position and report all that data to the corporation in realtime? That is what they do now with their cars and phones and appliances. The reason they did not do it in the past was that it was expensive to have private detectives track each of their customers, was considered spooky and abnormal and it was probably also illegal, but now it is cheap and somehow considered normal.

It must be quite common sense to actively contact the people you know were friends or family to your parents. Not necessarily by phone unless you also know them well, but by email or text or whatever contact details your parents have in their contact book.

I very much would think your parents would expect that of their children.

>I'm not going to call everyone in my life to tell them

It's particularly the people in your parents life you should inform, not necessarily the people in your life.

Don't forget that your social media network is not the same as your parent's social media network (if at all they use it).

Not OP, but Atmel AVR or TI's MSP430 are good choices if you need low power. The nRF24L01+ from Nordic Semiconductor is a good RF alternative for low power and long distance.

How much energy is that hot water tap wasting by keeping some tank with water hot throughout the day (and maybe night) for just a few cups of tea/coffee?

In Switzerland you still have to vote for politicians who take decisions on their own. It is only on some specific questions where the population can vote. So it means you have to keep track of more, both the politicians you vote for and some of the questions you can vote on.

A bit of a drawback with having the general public vote on some of these questions is that it is difficult for the general public to be well informed about these questions so they vote to keep things as is or they take the easy path. That's probably why Switzerland often are behind on many questions, for example voting for women, environment etc.

They wave with the "antisemitic" flag and no-one dares to object in fear of being called antisemitic. Just see the mayor of Amsterdam.

If they are willing to pay for this kind of eye surgery out of pocket, then I suppose it is not too much asked that they pay a treatment for glaucoma, cataract or macular degeneration out of pocket.

I agree with your example and that this functionality sucks. However it cannot be an engineering issue as it must be technically very easy to implement in a better way. It must be a product/UX/marketing kind of decision behind it or just plain ignorance.

But it was Trump demanding lower interest rates while he was president and which in turn created the high inflation we have today.

I hope you will enjoy your flight to another state the next time you are sick and need surgery.

At least the source would be correct so 50% less chance of cheating i.e. the cheating did at least not occur while producing the vote.

Why would the EU introduce import tariffs then?

Imagine you are a baker in the end of 1930's Germany. You deliver bread every day to a synagogue. Imagine cell phones and apps existed. The Nazi government could now with little effort see you went to a synagogue everyday for the last couple of years so they decide to send you to a camp, although you are not a jew. Meta data is not dangerous you think?

But in terms of compute/watt those 10 year old data centers are going to suck and that is what counts for a data center.

But a revenue of $3.6B is peanuts compared to a company valuation of $156B.

So if someone steals a box of iphones, adds a few grams of explosives inside each phone, and then resells them or gives them away, then Apple is at fault?

Is it that ecologically damaging? Maybe in the old times when silicon wafers where produced in Silicon Valley and when no-one thought or cared much about the environment. But today, I would assume the damaging effects of semiconductor manufacturing are less profound. But I do not know. Any inputs are welcome.

I doubt that the descendants will be that interested to be honest. It's not like we today pour over the images that exist of our parents and grandparents.

Having thousands upon thousands of images to look at does not make it better.

It's nice to have a couple from each year maybe, but the huge amount of pics we have today is just ruining the experience and value of the pics somehow.

As they are stored somewhere digital on a device or cloud makes them also somehow less accessible even though technically they are more accessible. If they lay around in an album on a coffee table or a book shelf makes them more visible. It makes it also a nice way of talking about the pictures with friends or relatives when someone pics up the album.

Often as in much more than 50% of the time for fortune 500 companies. If the CEO and the Chairman of the Board is the same person then there is sort of a conflict of interest. The Board is there to oversee the work of the CEO. The board is headed by the Chairman of the Board. Thus, if the CEO and the Chairman is the same person, then the CEO is accountable to himself.

Not sure why you include investors all of a sudden, as I didn't mention about that. I have no issue with shareholders having a seat on the board.

In the US the CEO is often also the chairman of the board so they are accountable to themselves.

Which is kind of weird and illegal in many countries, but in the US it is almost the norm.