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The RPi Compute Module is mush better with on board flash. Completely removes the SD Flash Achilles heel of the RPi.

Patents actually hurt innovation. Patents are the tools of lawfare and are used to limit competition, keep lawyers employed, not improve innovation.

I've seen too many companies use the patent system to prevent progress because the innovation would cut into their profits.

It might be new cars. I could see new car buyers having an iphone bias vs android.

It doesn't help the truck size is usually inversely proportional to driver height.

Tech hiring has been broken for decades. AI just makes it so obvious how broken it is.

I use time as a filter. There is more good stuff to read than time to read it. I have no need for slop.

If you are going to put Linux on a Laptop you must make sure its supported. Lenovo sells laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. Its a breeze with the right hardware.

We have a gym at work. We can have half the team generate tokens and half the team use the tokens.

Put up a leader board in the gym on tokens generated.

The efficient mode of transportation is a human on a bicycle.

Surprisingly, I managed to pay off a house early, retire early, and put kids through college, all without working for Meta. And I manged to build cool stuff that saves lives, instead of building an advertising engine that has made us more lonely, more isolated, and more divided.

There is more to life than money. I've turned down FANG roles my entire career, especially Meta. There is lot of work out there.

Our hiring dis-function is because there a lot of people that dislike conflict and firing someone.

Thats the thing I love about recruiters. I won't be looking for a job, and a recruiter calls me about one that sounds interesting.

Come interview time someone will ask why I want to work there. My answer is: "You called me, why should I want to work here."

They are using the resource the most.

"Operating profit" is a weasel word phrase. It doesn't include capital expenditures, financing, stock compensation dilution, or long-term infrastructure commitments.

They should get rid of the gas tax and tax all vehicles by weight and miles driven.

Automating white color work in the next couple years will cause the greatest demand destruction humans have ever seen.

I work in design services and see clients already being cost sensitive to AI bills. They have wait lists, rationing, push to lower tier / cheaper models. This is all with subsidized pricing.

People are going to decide its too expensive for everyone to use AI agents and un-subsidized pricing.

The french perfected it.

Isn't this just saying cloud AI providers are heavily subsidizing the true cost of the service.

It should be SOP for any country's diplomats visiting another country.

The article specifically argues that it's extra bad beyond just corruption. That's the part I'm pushing back on.

They are elected officials that are supposed to be working in our best interests, or at least the interest of their supporters.

Are they making decisions in our best interests or what makes their pocket book fatter? Poisons the whole system.

Chip manufacturers are used to boom bust cycles and are always hesitant to bring on more capacity, since it costs billions to do so.

They will let the hyperscalers buy their supply at a premium and wait for the bust. Then they will shift back to the consumer space.

Hardware is going to be expensive for awhile but its not as dire as the article makes it out to be.

Its not a clean ground-up rewrite. They dis-assembled the original binaries into assembly and started from there.

You used to get the lyrics when you bought the music. Came in a nice booklet with the tape or CD, and then you would read along while listening to the music.

Should be the same with streaming. If I can listen to the song, I should be able tho see the lyrics.

Depends entirely on the state. In Wisconsin, the "dairy capital of the world", its illegal except for incidental sales directly from the dairy farm.

Reason being they don't want outbreaks to be linked to Wisconsin's dairy industry.

Its brain damage from people coming from Java.

Just put your state in an anonymous namespace in the implementation file.

Yes the places that buy used books respect the stamp. They usually take all the books and take them to some place Half Priced Books https://www.hpb.com/ for some quick cash.

Places like that won't buy them if they are stamped.

They could try selling them on Amazon or E-Bay, but that's too much effort for quick cash to get a fix.

They don't care until the whole thing collapses in on itself from the technical debt. Then they have surprised pikachu face when it takes an insane about of effort to add a simple feature.

So is AI generated code not copy-rightable?