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They basically need a store full of vending machines. Then the items would be locked up AND you could actually buy them.

It's a fair theory and I agree it is one motivator.

But, I also know non-leader individual contributors who firmly believe that in person is better for collaboration, design, and problem solving. Yes, they prefer to be at home, but they believe they need to be in person to do their best work. So, I wouldn't be surprised if many managers believe this too. I disagree with this personally, but I recognize that different things work for different people.

I also believe there are some CEOs who don't own any real estate investments, but feel some responsibility to uphold certain economic values that they believe will help prevent a massive recession that may impact their business down the line.

In other words, I believe there are several factors that are influencing different people to believe in-person is right for their business.

Until we know the attack vector, I wouldn't say the network is compromised. Perhaps a specific message was used to detonate, that wouldn't require compromising the network. Perhaps there was a separate radio that wasn't using the pager network at all.

"Taiwan has no record of Gold Apollo pages being shipped to Lebanon or the Middle East"

"Gold Apollo founder and chairperson Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters on Wednesday that his firm had signed a contract with a European distributor to use the Gold Apollo brand. Hsu said the distributor, which he did not name, established a relationship with Gold Apollo about three years ago."

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-pagers-attack-he...

I guess it's good that Google's attempt to acquire Wiz fell through.

That's an interesting idea, and it wouldn't even need a firmware hack... a real time clock circuit with a specific date/time to detonate would be simpler and easier to coordinate simultaneous detonation.

Does anybody know how much money someone has to spend to be considered a mobile gaming whale?

I used to have an intellij plugin that would make a sound when there was a regix match in the terminal. It was extremely useful, I had it set to make a sound when a build was complete, or there was a compilation error.

Ugh, if they make an ad that has non-game game-play that gets a lot of clicks... why not make that game instead/too?

I completely agree. I almost forgot about Football too, that's one of the best game modes and it's only around for 1-2 weeks/year. I get that they're probably licensing the NFL brands for that time period, but they could still offer the game mode void of any NFL branding at other times of the year.

Ah, that's too bad Epic killed it. Epic keeps temporarily removing snow day and that hurts too.

Soccar

Very well said, it's so frustrating.

One thing that has always bugged me, and that I've never seen discussed, is that when I play solo they'll pair me up with two other solo players and then match us up against a 3 player clan!

Even if we all have the same rank, they're not at all considering the advantage of 3 players who play well as a team, and in the clan case... probably practice and play together a lot. Especially at the lower ranks, but sometimes in the mid-high ranks, a well organized team can demolish a random group of slightly higher ranked players who haven't established a playbook.

At times when the servers are saturated with players, I think they should only match parties with other parties of the same size. For example, parties of two would only be matched against other parties of two and then each party would get solo player(s) to reach the team size of a given match. Parties of three would only play against other parties of three, etc. I understand there are times of low liquidity and such matchmaking would be impossible, and that's fine... I'd rather play than not, but when liquidity is high then I'd rather wait an extra 15-30 seconds for teams and parties to be more balanced.

What do you think about party size aware match making?

This would be useful if I closed my browser regularly, but I haven't closed my browser in months.

Ya, it is kind of weird because the Dealer is actually the OEM's customer. But they measure in sales to the consumer, which is a more useful number because:

1. Dealers will order certain high demand vehicles all day long when they are allowed to do so ("allocations") even though they don't have specific consumers in mind to buy them.

2. When new models become available they will also order a bunch of that new model.

3. They will order some random vehicles to look nice in their showroom or on the lot. Fun example: I recently drove by a Porsche dealership that had a bunch of Macan's lined up out front -- one in each color!

So, sales to the consumer is more useful because it's the only way to measure actual consumer demand. This is also why you sometimes see a model that hasn't been manufactured for several years show up in these new car sales reports... they were sitting on a lot unsold for that long.

You can also find numbers for how many of each model they've manufactured each month, which is useful for different reasons of course, and sometimes they sit on the manufacturer's lot for weeks or months before they're delivered to dealers. We saw this coming out of the pandemic when there weren't enough trains to transport the cars (most cars leave the plant on a train).

Agreed. I use different browsers for different things but I always want my default to remain the same.

This makes me think the next generation needs an Oregon Trail type game for space travel.

Fair enough in some cases, not sure he's getting much benefit in Fresno though.

It's good for everyone except the company that the person leaves (more tax revenue for the public).

> He cited a lot of other articles, isn't making outrageous claims

One of these citations isn't even about chips, but he kind of implies it is. Not to mention, he said that apple stole technology. That has not been proven, the court case hasn't happened yet. Citing sources out of context, and making untrue claims about what the source says, makes the article less compelling in my opinion.

> Except they kill American “tech manufacturing” or whatever you want to call it.

This is the part I don't understand... they have placed orders with the new fabs that aren't even built yet. How are they killing American manufacturing if there is no American manufacturing for them to buy from?

It's a strange article. The title says Apple is the problem with the domestic chip industry and then goes on to state how Apple put in orders from both of the new domestic fabs 1-2 years ago.

Then it goes on to state that Apple stole technology when that is not actually a fact -- it's part of an ongoing legal battle that hasn't been proven (innocent until proven guilty in America right? Right?).

So, it just comes across as a weird hit-piece with some pretty shaky arguments.

Is there a formula to calculate the ideal depth at which going any deeper results in diminishing returns? In other words, how deep should future competitive swimming pools be built to provide the most world record opportunities (and perhaps more excitement for spectators due to increased world records)?

Ya, so hopefully it's obvious to them that every rollout needs some kind of batching. I get that all devices within one org might need to have the same config, but in that case batch it out to different orgs over 2-3 days.

Maybe the more critical infrastructure and health care orgs are at the end of that rollout plan so they are at lower risk. It's not ideal if one sandwich shop in Idaho can't run their reports that day, but that's far better than shutting down the hospital next door. CrowdStrike could even compensate those one system shops that are on the front line when something goes down.

Again, better to pay a sandwich shop a few thousand dollars for their lost day of sales than get sued by the people in the hospital who couldn't get their meds, x-rays, etc in time.

Love it! Thank you.

My favorite is the one that disables CORS... makes it easy to write local clients/tools that can get data from anywhere:

--disable-web-security

I was thinking the same thing when I saw the title. But, my next thought was: what a reasonable profit margin before it's considered "over charging"... 20%? 50%? 100%? 200%?

Is that even the right way to look at it? I mean, perhaps some company is providing enough value and enjoyment of their product that a 500% profit margin is gleefully paid by their customers.

It seems to work for me. Can you elaborate on the problem you're seeing?

Ya, the styrofoam is almost as shocking as what this solvent might be doing to the bodies of those who drink it.

This reminds me of a reddit post from about 10 years ago where people started to notice that when they get decaf coffee at work it sometimes bleeds through the styrofoam cup while the regular coffee never does. There have been several other reports of this since. The most credible theory was that sometimes there is solvent left over after the decaf process:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2m2fiy/o...