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I’ll do it for $120B

There is only ever selective prosecution. The government rarely goes after jaywalkers, but they could.

The three listed companies are some of the biggest in the country. If you want to start somewhere, seems like a good place.

When I served on a jury (minor drug charge), the judge explicitly told us not to think of sentencing and only to determine innocent or guilty.

Amazon realized that true productivity comes from RTO.

If you were really sneaky, could you add some small jitter to the network responses to make it more difficult to locate?

Fantastic question. There is so much IOT garbage out there that someone might slip into my network, what can I do to easily detect it?

I was aghast when my partner connected a pet watering bowl to the WiFi.

Everyone has their price. It is foolish to think that most people would not leave for better title/pay/job alignment/whatever.

The George Costanza approach to bankrupting a business.

The author’s example chose to use the syntax that returns None on missing. If they wanted clarity the standard API does raise.

  cache = {“key”: “value”, “some input”: None}
  cache.get(“missing_key”)

Vs

  cache[“missing_key”]

There are better examples that could have been highlighted.

They are pretty heavy and batteries already need to do adequate foundation work before installation.

Did you read the numbers? The volume growth requires a top down examination of everything, which is not going to be fast or easy to do. From 65 million to 7 billion inside a couple years is a ridiculous surge.

  At its GitHub Universe conference on Wednesday, the company announced that it is now seeing 7.4 billion commits per month. To put that into perspective, developers pushed 65 million monthly commits to the platform in 2024.

Did you notice the “co-CEO” title? He does not even have to do the job he was given.

It kept with UTF-16. New protocol is a chance to correct that poor decision.

Microsoft employs more than highly paid programmers. There are sales, janitors, cooks, admins, drivers, shipping, etc

Right? When management demonstrates their inability to plan for repercussions, how am I to believe a pinky promise covering the next three years?

Ah tech money.

Not everyone has options and unemployment can be the difference between being on the street or eating ramen.

File serving is cheap vs rendering a game. A single core can serve many video streams but may be insufficient to run even one game.

Most other illegal logging is not happening by trillion dollar companies. When a company with all the resources cheats, people get extra mad.

Fast, compiled Ruby. If you like that, there you go.

I am sure the NSA will keep checking on our behalf.

Check the release dates on those games.

  Reuters  reported first in September that Anthropic posted a net loss of $42 billion in 2025  and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing  and  infrastructure obligations in coming years.

$16B revenue and hoping to spend $500B in the coming years.

These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.

I justified one to myself to read papers that have colored plots. Eink performance is still so marginal that the experience is too frustrating to rely on, and I would rather use a tablet.

Maybe if you wanted to read comics that only ever had mediocre artwork?

You can buy a voice recorder that will hold weeks of audio for tens of dollars.

Back of a TV is a decent hiding place. Wonder how they found it -was it actively transmitting?

Do passkeys next.

Why would you ever connect it to the internet? Air gap forever. Physically rip out the radio, only load software by CD (ideally not through a USB interface).

HDMI 1.4 has been leaked and there are devices which will force communication to this protocol level.

It was revealed that Honda sold data on customers for less than a dollar a piece. It’s not big money at all, but they cannot stop themselves.

I saw a seemingly credible prediction from an energy analyst that global energy use would fall over the next five years. The rationale being that electrification can use less energy for the same work because heat pumps, EVs, etc are more efficient. Just pumping and refining oil is a huge sink of energy that disappears as more things become electrified.

The popular number is that every 18 months, China was destroying 1 million BPD demand.