Literally every industry publication and BOM analysis since... the first iPhone?
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From what I hear, they are being extremely tight with their budget, while simultaneously demanding aggressive timelines. These things are for the most part, mutually exclusive.
I live about 10 minutes away from the plant and anecdotally from what I can see of the Taiwanese employees, most seem to be people who are in jeans and cotton work shirts... not button downs or polos.
The follow up from GN [1] was interesting as well... ironically many of the techniques Linus used in his response are taught in PR and crisis communications, telling me that they didn't really care or understand the scope of the issue.
When I changed jobs there in 2007, I had just come from a hosting provider where we had engineers that managed 500-1000 servers per person, depending on their role or the amount of automation. It was like I stepped back in time to 1999 and everything was manually managed/maintained.
I’m a firm supporter of holding the US government accountable when they do bad things, however, Assange is most definitely not someone who is partial or somehow morally correct in his behavior.
During his years of activity, he has been a willing conduit for a number of foreign intelligence services and has actively put his thumb on the scales to harm US interests. His closeness and willingness to launder FSB, GRU and MSS data stolen from western governments make him a legitimate target for the US government.
He isn’t a hero like some people want to believe. Fuck that guy.
Most use rolling codes, but those have a fairly small key space, which is further reduced by manufacturer IDs.
We have a canal that goes to the Colorado river, and Phoenix is in an active management area (AMA) water district. The state is actively working to be at a point where the canal isn't necessary to supply our water needs, and any excess capacity gets "banked" into aquifers or water reservoirs. People love to shit all over Phoenix for being in the middle of a desert with no rivers, but there are some extremely well managed and healthy aquifers out here (and ones where it's the Wild West, which is what you hear about on the news, like in Rio Verde).
In fact, the water management here is probably one of the most forward thinking and strategic in the entire country.
Our aquifers in Phoenix have been RISING since we enacted more stringent measures in the 1980s. Read that again, because it surprises people, but we have more water in most of the Phoenix metro water wells than we did 40 years ago.
Last I heard, we were planning on being entirely water neutral for our water aquifers in Phoenix, Prescott and Tucson by 2025. That means like 80-90% of the states population will be located near water sources that are sustainable and well managed.
Chinas activities in the South China Sea, the fact they openly say they will integrate Taiwan, by force if necessary and unemployment being 20-30% for young people are just a few red flags.
Things like laser glitching are feasible in the $thousands range and power or RF glitching is in the $hundreds range.
With low cost fiber laser cutters and etchers, lots of techniques can be applied. I imagine with the high resolution X-ray stuff starting to come onto the used market, lots of things for hardware hacking will become extremely affordable.
IIRC the cartridges were effectively just PROMs (I could be wrong and maybe they were fabbed / silicon and didn’t get programmed) which held the application code.
You don’t get to facilitate in illegal shit and hide behind your legitimate customers. Likewise, if you are a customer of theirs and know they heavily transact with illegal services, it’s on you for getting blocked.
Just because they settled, doesn't mean the whole story is being told. There is nothing any of these companies have been doing that are massively novel.
The things they were talking about with regards to target ID and recognition have existed for many, many years now. Most counter battery radars that I am familiar with could be fitted with electro-optical systems for ID, and that was at least 10-15 years ago.
It shows how having distributed EW capabilities are really important if you wanna keep your vehicles alive.
They were possible before, since there was much less content available at any given time. The media industry is in a bit of a death spiral it feels like, with a race to the bottom in many ways.
When broadcast tv was a bigger thing, syndicated shows were licensed to stations, who typically sold ad slots, allowing them to pay the licensing fees.
The problem is in many ways streaming platforms just really aren’t that cheap to run in the US when compared to old methods of distribution and the margin is almost entirely going to the platform, not the people making the content.
Meta is an ad company and has a device business and happen to use social media to sell ads.
Amazon is rapidly shifting to be an ad company, who happens to use an e-commerce platform to place ads. They bought a healthcare company who collects massive amounts of PII and provide affiliate programs which funnel traffic into their ads and marketplace.
Apple, Microsoft and Google all have ad units that are major contributors to their overall profitability.
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IMHO the biggest disservice to students in much of the education system in the US (including some colleges and universities ) is the focus on memorization vs focusing on problem solving. The older I get, the more I reflect on how much opportunity was wasted with poor quality teachers who just wanted us to memorize facts and be able to reproduce those facts in tests.
I don’t need to memorize maxwells equations to know that they exist, what they focus on, or how they can be applied to certain problem sets.