Looks like in the case of minor body damage you will have to cut and flush weld patches in the body instead of bolting on a new panel like they currently do. Aftermarket modular body panels are extremely cheap, and repairs consist of spraying a new panel and removing and installing a couple bolts and clips. This new method will make car manufacturers more money but will inevitably drive insurance and repair costs higher. This is a negative for car buyers, and the cheaper manufacturer costs won't necessarily be reflected in sales prices. There have been tons of manufacturing breakthroughs in the last few decades that have made vehicles cheaper and easier to produce and prices just keep getting higher and higher.
I am more worried about the google AI models that will never be shown publicly. I am sure that they have some truly dystopian shit involved in tracking and targeted advertising.
As a lifetime introvert that doesn't really care for human interaction I have never really thought about this perspective before. I have worked remote for years and commuting all the way to another building just to do the same thing I was already doing at home would feel like a pointless hoop to jump through at this point. I wonder how many people demanding that everyone return to the office are just lonely?
I am currently posting from my T420 and giving up this keyboard when the time finally comes will be a very sad day. I would gladly take a little more girth on a newer laptop if it meant I could have a real keyboard instead of typing on zero travel chiclet keys. I think the constant drive to make laptops a tiny bit thinner every year has been a detriment to usability. Luckily I have upgraded the display on my poor old T420 and don't use windows, so I still have some years before I have to think about it too hard.
I work in 3d modeling for a living and I have tried freecad so many times I have lost count. I am glad they work to provide a product for the people that find it useful, but I personally find it completely unintuitive. It just takes too many steps to do things that are a single action in ever other package. I want to like it, and I give it another shot a couple times a year, but I just can't get in sync with whatever the intended workflow was meant to be.
I don't care what it does to the economy. The only people against remote work are middle managers fearing for their future and building owners afraid of losing out on rent money. I have been working remotely for 5 years and I will retire and live in a cardboard box before I commute and work in an office again.
I can scrape linkedin with a python script. That doesn't mean linkedin can shut down python. I would think removing all the references to their company in particular would be enough for them to call off the dogs. For clarity, I am not a lawyer and I have thrown away every cease and desist I have ever received with no repercussions at all. You may not be so lucky and should probably talk to a lawyer.
VR is CEO bait. They can't let go of the idea of strapping advertising and tracking devices directly to peoples heads. It's just too tantalizing. Almost nobody has any interest in VR, but absolutely nobody has interest in facebook VR. It will never be anything more than a niche toy, and before long it will go the way of 3D televisions. We are going to see many more big companies burn heaps of money chasing this dream before it goes away again. They simply can't help themselves.
I have had a similar type of problem with customer service not taking it very seriously. After a month of getting the run-around I called one last time, gave them the case number, and cut them off mid sentence to say, "No, I just need to know the best contact address to send correspondence from my legal counsel". I got a phone call two hours later asking where to send a replacement product and a return label for the original product so they could inspect it to find the failure mode.
I fled because I was paying yearly for two day shipping that was closer to 7. Now in the situations where absolutely nobody else has something and I have to order from amazon my packages show up faster than they did with prime.
The first few years I was asked daily, "Jesus, are you ok?" when walking into work. Mine is 9 now and still wakes up to knock things over and turn every light in the house on at 5 am.
I also went through the "no price" dance when I went shopping for a new program for my company. Every website for the dozen or so companies that made software for it had no pricing, a webform to fill out so a salesman can get back with you, and a free trial that said salesman was supposed to email a key for. I tried to get a trial for all of them and got one email from a salesman that referred me back to the website for a trial key. When I told him the website wouldn't give a key and that it specifically stated that the salesman would contact me with it he promptly stopped responding. So much for "Providing modern solutions for confabuable womperdinks in a global world" or whatever the buzzwords were. Apparently if you aren't a multinational company that they can make bespoke software and group training bucks off of they aren't interested.
Looks like I am going to stop feeding then. Donating electricity and bandwidth to an open source project and donating to a massive corporation just aren't the same thing. Pay me and I will turn it back on, but until then I guess it is going to sit idle.
They aren't reading them anyway. 4000 word assignments are just a sadistic game they still play for some reason. You jump through the hoop and write the paper, then they run it through an automated spelling and grammar checker and make sure it passes the plagiarism check before skimming a few lines and assigning a grade. At this point it's just automatically written papers trying to fool automated paper grading software, like some sort of highly inefficient generative adversarial network.
The part where you actually sit down and type in code isn't the part that is fun for me anyway. I like solving problems and the problem needs to be solved before you know what code to write, so the fun part is over before I even open an editor. Maybe he likes programming but just doesn't like typing code.
If he seems happy and is paying enough attention to it to do well in class then I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I have the same issue, and I have found a bit of a way to work around it. I am always learning something new and looking forward to the next thing after that. It is who I am as a person and what drives me in life as a whole. What took me 37 years to figure out was that learning is stress and doing is stress relief. What I mean is that learning a new skill is inherently stressful, and if you do it constantly for years without breaks it starts to hurt you mentally and physically. If you don't take a break to use some of those skills and actually build something then you have all of the "I have to surround myself with information about this topic 24/7" stress with none of the "I just built something really cool" stress relief. Take a break for a bit and build something awesome. I promise it helps.
The better question is why is there a snap store? With flatpack and appimage already working well, why muddy the waters with another offering, much less one that it awful.
It was definitely more than volte that was down. I had full signal and couldn't talk, sms, mms, or connect to the internet for about 12 hours. I work in the field and I don't have an office phone. It was a peaceful day.
There are very few websites I allow to run javascript. I'm against the entire idea of running remote code for the privelage of having paywalls, cookie pop-ups, newsletter invites, scrolljacking, and spyware.
Javascript was a mistake.