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I think the complaint about Google specifically is that they seem to do these things and commit to what seem to be whole lines of business without an actual business plan to make it viable.

It’s one thing to take risks. It’s another thing to just guess without a plan.

you can use a company that is self hosted like Unifi and have complete control over your data, still have remote access, and not pay a subscription. “self hosted” scares people off but its literally a box you plug in and forget about. Pretty trivial.

I dont understand why anyone chooses Ring when the costs of Unifi are so much better.

The ring app also sucks imo and all their hardware is quite slow.

It does it quicker if you already have this tool installed. nmap is everywhere.

We use nanosecond precision driven by GPS clocks. That timestamp in conjunction with star tracker systems gives us reliable positioning information for orbital entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker

They also have one displayed at the Cleveland Clinic main campus _cafeteria_

Imo focusing in “showing off” instead of “providing value” is a bit of a product-smell. Maybe thats just the point tho, IBM seems to prioritize impressing C-suites over actually accomplishing anything

and also by ‘some countries’ they mean about 4% of the earth’s population, or 1 in 25 people.

I would throw Rimworld into that list as well. A fine game by itself, if a bit simplistic. But the mods make the game massively customizable and lets the player do basically whatever they want

motivated to show you results that get sales, not that are the best solution to the problem

Target had been pandering to the LGBTQ community for a long time, they released many shirts and ads that tried to present itself as inclusive and forward thinking.

But the very second things change on the top, they flip.

Yes quite a few people are upset at this. They concretely damaged their brand, ruined trust, and pissed off a bunch of their target market. There is an intentional boycott now and it is clearly affecting their stock

Well no, because they are employees / contractors of the film studio, who presumably claim all copyright of what they captured.

However, the camera operators likely do own the pictures they take with their own cameras on-set, provided the contract they are working under allows for such ownership

You’re basically describing Roblox.

Another perspective is Google is stifling American innovation by its megalithic presence in markets. Suppressing local growth in exchange for short term profitability.

Separately, why is having tech giants a pure advantage? These companies got big by innovating, but the innovation slows down when they are big. Sounds to me that we should be regularly clearing old growth to let new ideas break through

Well an un-hardened flash drive would probably stop working within minutes of being exposed to all those rads, but I’m just being pedantic :p

> access to unclassified data in every government agency.

Is this even meaningful? We have the FoIA, can’t any company acquire unclassified data any time they want?

I suppose it’s an ease-of-access thing, but for a large corp it seems you would be constantly data mining the government with FoIA requests.

If I want to produce a device, am I required to put work in to maintaining it forever? An iPhone 8 is really old by this point, honestly I’m impressed it still works.

What timeline would you recommend that is fair to both consumers and producers?

Ironically the _lack_ of dogfooding GCP products at google is often quoted as one of the reasons AWS beat GCP to defining the Cloud market. Amazon builds AWS on AWS as much as possible, Google has only somewhat recently pushed for this

> won't try to fetch the default path until after the <head> section of the page loads for HTML content

That's a really interesting optimization. How did you discover this? Reading source?

In my understanding, a high rate of lethality is very counter-productive for viruses. If you kill the host, it can’t really spread.

I have to ask what motivates that. Defender has been extremely unproblematic and pretty good as far as MS software goes, for my experience at least.

> I also like to make things in Rust

Seems like a good enough reason to use it to me, but perhaps I’m just another cult member.

> we use Rust in production because we thought it would be easier (well safer) to teach to interpreted language OOP developers than c/c++

I think rust is just safer period, regardless of your level of expertise or background. Or are you saying that every memory safety bug was written in by someone inexperienced?

Not to mention the concept of “sharing code.” See I may write garbage tier rust code that basically glues together a bunch of libraries, many of those libraries are written by programmers way better than me, and I can gain performance and safety from using their work. The performance difference between languages like Rust and JS is huge, even if I, tainted by my background in Java, write dogshit code.

Ah yes, following the winning strategy of Fire devices

I think it’s likely we have passed the peak of R/D spend on ICE, but the momentum of research that has gone into it for decades is going to continue to produce innovations for a while longer.

As long as you dont loose your backup codes and your MFA device at the same time, you're safe.

I found the link to the actual filling. I can’t really read legalise but it seem like this is accurate.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25041321-disney-arbi...

Amazon sales and business teams are constantly focused on reducing costs for customers and they celebrate this internally too.

I have seen dozens of big ticket “we saved this customer $xxxK/year” posts on slack and other internal venues, the customer obsession is real.

Yes and the fact that my software’s UI looks like Windows 95 makes it vulnerable to all the same security vulnerabilities.

/s

The systems don’t run on W95, they look like W95

Lost? Nothing has been deprecated, Java edition is still supported and kept in feature parity with Bedrock aka MS Edition. Yes, Bedrock is not mod friendly like Java, but the modding community hasn't stopped.

And yes they moved the license server from a Mojang server to the MS login system, but what is the real difference here? You still have to login, you just don't like MS for unrelated reasons.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server

https://hub.docker.com/search?q=minecraft

https://old.reddit.com/r/admincraft/

The total cost of ownership differences between asphalt and concrete roads is astronomical.

A single pothole in concrete is a very invasive fix with significant amount of debris, but asphalt can be almost infinitely recycled.

Replacing asphalt means eating up the debris and putting it right back in the ground. Replacing concrete means toting truck loads of the stuff _somewhere else_ to sit

> Google had to be forced to allow this?

When were they forced? Takeout came out in 2011, I don’t remember them being forced to do it

And de-incentivizes supply. A real solution need to be available to balance the supply and demand of power such that the rates on both ends are predictable.

A market where a good fluctuates between profitable and not is not one very attractive to investment.

Playing the video game Victoria 3 has taught me a lot about healthy markets. You have to play both sides of supply and demand to get to the prices you need