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And also because it was possible to achieve deterministic performance as there was no (zero) virtualization.

+1. My brother and I had to do this for my Dad. We felt awful but it was necessary.

To inform the thread, UK accident statistics from 2024 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...

UK statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... The issue is that the rate of accidents rapidly increases after 70 and the easiest detectable indicator is deteriorating eyesight.

So where has the profit, paid as bonuses to executives and shareholders, come from? The UK water companies were paid extra to fix the infrastructure and the cash paid by the public has increased.

If you take a step back and look at your comment, you might realise that you are making the same point: businesses don't have to take any particular path...

Adobe has dodged a bullet; Figma was ridiculously overvalued.

The earlier victories won't have been reported.

Nokia must be desperate for cash. Developing video codecs is a painful exercise as some part of the implementation almost always relies on prior art. The company that I worked for were sued for our implementation of an MPEG-2 codec, because of a similar patent owned by a troll. These cases are what hold innovation back and are only attractive to the trolls because of how many h.264/h.265 codec instances are running out there. The usual technique is to go for the little guys first and then move up the food chain.

Someone has been reading Iain Banks.

No shit.

By doing so, don't you restrict the pool of talent that you can hire from?

What is the actual point of giving anyone $226m in pay? How would that motivate them to deliver any more..? Ratio of CEO:staff pay at 1000:1!

The counterpoint, based on the assumption that eating out is an experience, rather than a commodity: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/want-happiness-buy-experienc...

But yet he only has one arse.

It's semantics but you always can. ;-)

If your Father is capable of answering these questions (mine wasn't, due to vascular dementia) then I'd strongly advocate this approach.

Eh? An estimated 40-100 million people died in this outbreak.

Even 'Real 3D' is a misnomer. I work in the industry and we call it 'stereo' for a reason: it generates a feeling of depth but your eyes never have to converge so, via either route, your brain always knows that it isn't reality.

Fill and key is basic video manipulation. As to the aliasing, they also need to apply some filtering...

Clear case of Betteridge's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

It's what Baden-Powell would have wanted.

To complement this: Johann Johansson - IBM 1401 - A User's Manual - https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZqqvWwHzoVCxwdsaUaF9z

Rather than judging, I'll try a different tack: the company can only offer you a single job, with them, and you have already seen evidence of their behaviour. The recruiter has already found you this position and may well be able to find you others, with more scrupulous employers. I am sure that they will be grateful for your honesty.