Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum) was literally one of the pioneers of cable broadband. It seems like the best way for AOL to “get into broadband” at the time might have been buying Time Warner.
There are zoning laws (barring anomalies like Houston). Datacenters are generally only built in areas zoned industrial. The problem is there’s often some type of residential construction on an adjacent residential-zoned parcel. The zoning usually doesn’t require any kind of buffer between the residential and industrially-zoned area.
When it’s running in reverse then it’s acting as an air conditioner blowing cold air into the house. So usually the heat strips are used then to reheat the air and prevent it from blowing cold air in the middle of winter. Not strictly necessary but most people demand it.
That’s weird, both times that I interviewed for Amazon (admittedly pre-pandemic) they paid for flights, hotels, and all meals, including lunch. The lunch was basically either before or after your interview (depending on whether you had an afternoon or morning interview schedule) and you just grabbed whatever you want on your own. But it was expected to be expensed just like all other interview expenses.
Yes GE is owned by Haier, which worried me when I was researching fridges a couple years ago. But apparently most of the GE appliances are still manufactured in the U.S. and haven’t really changed much despite the change in ownership.
IRS says you are “required to file”, but in reality the only penalties for non-filing are as a percentage of the amount of tax owed. If no tax is owed (and in fact you are owed a refund), then there are no penalties for not filing.
OTOH it would be a pretty dumb move since the chances that the amount taken out of your checks was exactly right is very small, and you’d be leaving hundreds or thousands of dollars in refunds unclaimed.
Except for all those above-the-line deductions and credits that apply even if you take the standard deduction. Like the new tip tax credit and senior tax credit recently added to our already incredibly complicated tax code.
It's definitely not that bad for the Pixel 10. One source[0] shows Geekbench 6 scores of 3701 single core and 9460 multicore for iPhone 17 (maybe add 5% more on each on the iPhone 17 Pro). While the Tensor G5 in the Pixel 10 is at 2345 single/6581 multi. So around 63-70% of the speed of the latest iPhone. Still a pretty poor showing but a far cry from 1/3 the speed.
When I first saw the $7.50 royalty, I was thinking he’d make a decent payday as long as they sell 10K-20K of the things. Very surprised they sold 100K seems like a lot for the mid-80s for a relatively niche Mac accessory.
When Microsoft talks about “making their own CPUs,” they just mean putting together a large number of off-the-shelf Arm Neoverse cores into their own SoC, not designing a fully custom CPU. This is the same thing that Google and Amazon are doing as well.
This isn’t true, I don’t believe GeekBench ever made use of AMX. They do use SME on any Arm-based platform that has it, which up until extremely recently has only been Apple.
Similar, but not the same. SME is much more powerful than AMX on the pre-M4 cores, and software can target it directly instead of using Apples frameworks. Which means that software is more likely to actually use it (eventually), even if hardly anything does now.
Or, as some OS maintainer once said:
WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! Seriously. How hard is this rule to understand? We particularly don't break user space with TOTAL CRAP.
There’s definitely counterfeit stuff, but it’s much more common in some categories than others. USB cables and chargers, SD cards, USB flash drives for example are commonly counterfeited (e.g advertised as made by Apple or SanDisk but actually being ‘cheap no brand Chinese garbage’). Many wouldn’t even realize it because the products usually still work, but have major defects like less capacity than advertised or being built much worse.
I recently saw a $20 bill left in the bill dispenser of a gas station ATM. I didn’t take it because I assumed there was a chance that whoever left it would realize within a minute or two and run back for it. But most likely the next person to see it grabbed it.
Signing bonuses almost universally have a 1-year clawback (or are otherwise only doled out periodically and not all up front), so not a good analogy here.
This definitely works. When I was at Apple I remember a number of issues in their weekly “bug review board” were classified as being high priority because they were going viral on Twitter.
The author clarified that he had enabled Sign in with Google on his Coinbase account. So if the attacker was logged in with his Google account, then they had access to his Coinbase account without needing a password.
I always forget that Launchpad even exists. I guess it doesn't now. I suppose it might be helpful if you just know "I need that app that looks like X" and don't actually recall the first two letters of the app's name.