tpmx

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tpmx··on Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops

The 2022 annual report says 110k+ employees.

The 2021 annual report says 95k+ employees.

The 2020 annual report says 80k+ employees.

Seems like they have acquired quite bit in the past few years, e.g.:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shipping-giant-maersk-cont...

Shipping giant Maersk continues buying spree after best quarter ever (November 2021)

tpmx··on Who invented file extensions in file names?

Just to be clear: Bill Gates and Microsoft weren't anywhere near inventing this. They bought what was mostly a clone of CP/M and called it PC-DOS/MS-DOS. That's where they got the file extension scheme from.

Digital Research (the creators of CP/M) also didn't invent this. For more details, see the stackexchange link.

tpmx··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood

As do I, but with mythicists.

tpmx··on Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

I feel that's insulting towards judges in Delaware. Are you saying they are that dumb? (that's where the lawsuits were filed according to the article)

tpmx··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood

I'm bailing out of this discussion right now. Sorry. I just don't have this energy/time to spare at the moment.

tpmx··on Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

Nokia going patent troll on small companies would not have gotten press? That is not very believable.

tpmx··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood

Old tv show eps that people have stopped caring about tend to be available on Youtube. That's the case for this one. Amazing stuff.

tpmx··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood

You should read up on genes vs environment vs outcome. Make sure to include twin studies in your research.

tpmx··on Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI in Hollywood

It's funny, because unlike her brother Jason, she doesn't really have it.

tpmx··on Microsoft is removing Maps and Movies and TV from Windows 11

I don't see the point. Storage is getting cheaper faster than even MSFT app sizes, over time.

tpmx··on Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

That East Texas court comes to mind...

tpmx··on Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

So afaik Nokia did not patent and enforce that.

Meanwhile e.g. Apple has very strongly enforced similarly silly UX patents. (E.g. rubberband/inertial scrolling and quite a few more.)

They have also very strongly enforced silly design patents - e.g. for rounded corners on physical devices.

tpmx··on Nokia sues Amazon, HP over video compression technology

> The usual technique is to go for the little guys first and then move up the food chain.

Stating the obvious: That's hardly the case here.

tpmx··on Millions of Fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles

The irradiation could cause random weird DNA permutations instead of just making the male fruit flies infertile?

tpmx··on Millions of Fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles

This Plane Wasn’t Snooping On Protesters In Los Angeles, It Was Dropping Irradiated Bugs

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33812/this-plane-wasnt...

A good example of this is a series of missions that one Beechcraft King Air A90, with the civil registration number N67K, flew over the greater Los Angeles area between May 28 and June 1, 2020.

tpmx··on Millions of Fruit flies will be dropped on Los Angeles

Better and also not blocked for European readers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/science/fruit-flies-los-a... (https://archive.ph/omrGI)

tpmx··on Building a Digital Audio Mixer

slides will get noisy due to dust ingestion, even if you're very careful.

I thought that phenomenon was primarily due to oxidation.

Hmm, maybe get a used 80s mixer and use the hardware as UX for a digital mixer (with some algorithmic smoothing of the inputs)...

tpmx··on Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant

"You are a Siri-style voice assistant. Be succinct and terse, but polite and helpful." seems to work okay with ChatGPT.

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

Okay?

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

Of course they are not ignoring the problem, internally. The issue issue at hand is that they are not being open about the problem.

tpmx··on Building a Digital Audio Mixer

Meanwhile I've been wanting like a 4-channel stereo analog mixer with nice slide pots and a UV meter per channel since the 80s...

tpmx··on WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

Thanks.

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

As did pretty much any PC motherboard/CPU/GPU combination from the past 25 years.

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

It's not "refreshing" to hide problems.

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

What kind of HW?

tpmx··on WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

Do you also base that on something more reliable than that vague article?

tpmx··on Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack

Yeah, it felt a bit evil, but I also really wanted to share this because it predates HN and deserves sharing. And then the MicroTCP poster went AWOL...

tpmx··on macOS Sonoma Boot Failures

It's a device bricking bug. For a $2.5-10k device.

tpmx··on WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week

Saudi oil money.

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