They laid those people off precisely to afford more data centers. If they lose more, they’ll have to lay off even more people probably

More support is needed when switching workplaces to Linux as people are familiar already with Windows.

But will that remain the same? People are already using computers less in their personal lives.

It would be hilarious if she turns on Trump after being fired, but then she’d be admitting she lied in the first place. Plus she probably is a bit too cowardly to do it anyway.

Do you have any foresty bits on your acre? That’s honestly peak luxury in some ways. Person I mentioned in the previous comment has a forested knoll with a great view, but enough tree cover that you can avoid the sun.

Fixing things up on your own truly is magical. I do it with cars more than my home (because the former is often cheaper and quicker and I buy cheap-ass formerly-luxury beaters usually), but this summer I have some plans for my house as well.

I do wonder if Vance would stop the Iran war if Trump died.

He holds some pretty nasty views, but I don’t think he’s anywhere near as insane as Trump. There was an interview during Trump #1 where he actually disagreed with quite a bit of Trump’s shit IIRC.

That doesn’t mean that I think he’d be a good president or that he’s a good human being. Just that he might be quite different than Trump. Probably continue or accelerate the ICE bullshit, but maybe stop the stupid ass war in Iran?

The dream is to get rich programming and THEN start farming. When you don’t need to do it for income. Nobody mentions the first half usually though. I’m sure some do actually think they want to make a living off farming, good luck to them.

Think it’s actually a paygrade thing at some companies. Get a talented engineer (that yes, probably had open source projects already as a teen) and they kinda want more pay than an average engineer. Now they’re a senior engineer.

Of course whether said engineer is actually worth said salary isn’t immediately obvious and oftentimes you end up with young seniors that are better at selling themselves than they are at engineering.

I also know at least one company I worked for developed clear outlines of what your skills (both soft and… Hard?) and ownership of codebase should be for each level. At the time I had just over 3 YoE (2.5 from previous company and was essentially one biannual review away from becoming a senior, but threw it away for a more exciting job and since then I’ve not been at a company that differentes levels at all. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be a senior now lol

When they say the goal of many a software engineer is to become a farmer, it’s quietly implied that you have to first make bank as a software engineer and then farm as a hobby while at least semi-retired rather than depending on it for survival.

I know people who are doing this and are happy. Half time spent farming, half time CEOing a software startup (not a silicon valley hustle culture 996 one though), and you get to take meetings in your own personal forest.

Are they hurting? They still made a massive amount of profit, it’s just that their lead is shrinking. They’re still the biggest EV manufacturer by far, though Geely could catch up in a few years.

It’s not just cars. Electric cars became somewhat widespread before electric scooters. Those are awesome for getting around town quickly and are only feasible because of how cheap batteries have gotten. Cars could hide the battery cost easier than scooters, which you expect to be cheap.

And of course other forms of electric mobility too.

The only one of those that is locked behind a specific Windows instance is Credential Guard, which only works on Enterprise and Education because it has to do with auth tokens of the domain, not local windows login AFAIK

The rest are locked behind hardware features like TPM and UEFI settings like secure boot.

I hate Microslop as much as the next person, but they do actually try to push their security features on everyone because of the reputation they’ve had as the most insecure OS.

Neither is the military. Spending on healthcare as % of GDP is higher than many countries with universal health care.

Insurance, hospitals and honestly even a lot of doctors are against it.

You CAN self-host a search engine, look up searxng.

Yes it’s a metasearch engine, but so is Kagi for the most part, their own indexes don’t cover everything.

To be fair, a coal rolling Duramax is pretty expensive to feed.

Your linked AI slop post has a LOT of assumptions and it’s kinda expensive. If the total system capex is 50k for 1 kW load, it’ll be 500 million for a modern 10MW data center. Then covering the deficit off employee BEVs for peanuts a kWh: That assumes you have enough employees for that and that they’re willing to wear their batteries for this.

But yes, the whole ethanol requirement is stupid for a country that has its own oil anyway

Supposedly it was actually about someone wanting to sell Steam keys off Steam for cheaper, but I cba to find the proof right now so it could also be fake news.

That other one isn’t supposed to smell fishy

There have been reports of Valve telling developers they can’t sell their game cheaper elsewhere (such as on a platform with a smaller cut than Steam’s 30%). But I think that was refuted.

With the Apple Watch, there’s a fairly loud speaker and fairly decent mic, you can pretty much talk with the thing on your hand. No idea if this can do the same though.

Smart watches often have mics because they can be used to take calls without having your phone on you (still has to be near you unless it’s a cellular smartwatch), or to use the assistants or whatever.

The PineTime (Pro) is the one place where this shouldn’t worry you because whatever software you’re running on it was installed by you so you’ve hopefully vetted it for security.