Exactly. And the whole reason all these other services popped up is the IP holders realized they could make a lot more money with their own service vs licensing to an aggregator. I think it worked out pretty well for Disney+, because they have a huge back catalog of very popular IP. Not sure if anyone else is really making money with this new model, but they still don’t want to go back to ceding all control to Netflix.
That was one aspect of the auditing, but they also sent audit notices to random small and medium businesses who were not volume license customers. Basically fishing for license violations, which obviously were very common (and usually unintentional) back in the 90s and early 2000s. Things like installing windows XP or Office on multiple machines without buying extra licenses.
AFAIK it was mainly a scare tactic to pressure companies into compliance and mostly just involved scary looking letters from a Microsoft-hired law firm.
I’m a SW engineer at Arm, and as far as I know (and what I see on levels.fyi) the hardware guys in the same level (e.g. Staff vs Staff) make about the same as I do. The apparent difference is probably more caused by the type of companies that employ lots of hardware engineers. Chip designer at google probably makes about the same as a software engineer at google, but both make way more than the chip designer at Intel. But Google employs mostly SW people and Intel employs mostly HW people.
Same here. The table side reader thing is something I only see at maybe 1 in 10 restaurants in my part of the U.S. During the pandemic there was a big uptick in “pay by QR code” but that seems to have gotten much less popular (I believe the extra fees charged by Toast and similar are no longer deemed worth it by restaurants).
U.S. tech worker here. The only time I’ve ever worked 60-80 hour weeks was at a much smaller company, where for a month or two leading up to a trade show a whole bunch of work that had been put off was attempted to get crammed into the product. At my subsequent BigTech jobs I’ve never been asked/required to work more than 40 hours a week. I mean, nobody was tracking exact hours, but nobody was also pinging me at 8PM or on the weekend and expecting me to be working.
Can confirm as well, was laid off from Microsoft in 2023, and I kept access for about a week and a half (and then was paid for an additional 60 days after that, but no longer had access to anything, this was just the WARN period).
Yeah at the BigCorps I was at, old laptops (as long as they weren’t more than 3-4 years old) were usually reimaged and kept on hand as spares or for interns, etc. But I imagine after a large layoff they ended up with way more than they’d ever actually need.
In my school district, and I suspect many across the country, the same school buses are used for high school (pick up around 7am), middle school (7:45) and elementary (8:30). The drop off times are similarly staggered. Many buses also do two runs for a single school for dense communities, or do “late bus” runs for dropping off kids after sports or clubs. Point being, the buses get plenty of use even with 3-4 hours of downtime in the middle of the day.
I’ve heard this but I’ve never actually heard of any popular brand of TV that integrates cellular. I keep my LG and Sony TVs off the network and I’m 99.9% sure they have no way of accessing the Internet.
That’s definitely an exaggeration. I’d bet it’s closer to ~60% green left leaning, and another ~30% libertarian, tech types. Would still mean at least 60% of his former audience is lost.
There’s a saying about watching what people do, not what they say, that seems to apply well to Musk. The proof that Elon cares about wealth is that he keeps doing everything in his power to gain more of it (well, up until recently, but only because he found he can access power directly instead of indirectly through more wealth).
You don’t get to leave Tesla out of discussion of Elon. For better or worse, Elon spent a decade being the figurehead of Tesla, basically making Tesla==Elon. He owes the majority of his wealth to the company, and a lot of that wealth is due to an inflated stock that is based almost entirely on his cult of personality vs. the fundamentals of the company.
This is an extraordinarily dumb take. Even if you support the mission of streamlining government, rule of law is still a thing. The president is not a dictator.
So has the labels like "Autonomous 1x" actually been a thing that Google has used before, or is it actually meant to be an "inside joke" jab at Tesla's previous videos that had small labels indicating the video was sped up and/or being human controlled?
American fridges are generally much bigger than European ones. Mine is something like 27 cubic feet, which I understand is around double the size of an average European fridge.
I don’t think I’ve ever lost power for long enough that I lost anything in the fridge though, but there are parts of the country with a much less reliable grid (usually due to severe storms or other natural disasters).
Chipset, not CPU. For example, Nvidia was a well known chipset manufacturer around this time, shortly before memory controllers went on package and 3rd party chipsets died off.
Crazy. Around my area of the U.S., The Blood Connection has mobile blood collection buses that stop regularly at popular shopping centers, office parks, etc. Typically I don’t have to drive more than a few minutes to make a donation. And they’re also one of the ones that gives points redeemable for gift cards.
The ironic thing is, when Steve Jobs introduced this form factor, he made a joke about the “obvious” choice just being a flat slab with the computer guts tucked behind the monitor. But Apple would never do something that boring! https://youtu.be/k74NgDbR7gI?si=zEgsUiQazXB5f1dP&t=3777
But it can still wreak havoc if you use hardlinks or softlinks, because maybe there was a good reason for having a duplicate file! Imagine you have a photo “foo.jpg.” You make a copy of it “foo2.jpg” You’re planning on editing that file, but right now, it’s a duplicate. At this point you run your “deduper” that turns the second file into a hardlink. Then a few days later you go and edit the file, but wait, the original “backup” file is now modified too! You lost your original.
That’s why Copy-on-write clones are completely different than hardlinks.
That timeline isn’t even close to accurate. Apple was doing quite well in the 80s when Jobs and Wozniak were there. In the early/mid 90s was when they started going downhill (well after Jobs was gone), and by that time they had already outsourced a lot of their manufacturing (computers in Cork, Ireland and Singapore, and motherboards/components in places like Taiwan).