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thewileyone··on Should European housing politics be Americanized?
It like watching car crash videos ... It's hard to look away ...
thewileyone··on Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely
Something innately creepy about creating new content in perpetuity with a voice that no longer exists.
thewileyone··on Can China build its own ASML?
R&D is difficult and expensive which makes this "logic folding" more impressive. It might not have been a new idea but Huawei, against all the demonization against it over the last 10 years, is commercializing it and that's a huge achievement.

R&D is difficult and expensive which is why the US and Europe gives up on many cutting edge technologies and relies on the tried and true and discounting opportunities. This will be the end of their dominance.

thewileyone··on Federal judge rules Trump's $100k fee for H-1B visas unlawful
Has your friend changed her mind about Trump or is now just blaming Biden for Trump having to these things that impacts her?
thewileyone··on Doing nothing at work
If you're still learning or giving opportunities to learn new things, stick it out. If you're stagnating and not allowed to learn new things, it's time to leave.

For the first 10 years or so, this is relevant. After that you can figure out what you really want to do.

thewileyone··on Doing nothing at work
I've argued the same for 30+ years. Having some slack is healthy so that teams can be simultaneously proactive and reactive to issues. Even the best athletes do not train or compete 24/7.
thewileyone··on Huawei executive credits bans for accelerating domestic chip independence
The West thinks that making things difficult ends with subservience, meanwhile the East just sees it as a challenge to solve.
thewileyone··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Good enough for a relaxing sh*t break.
thewileyone··on Inside the unraveling of U.S. diplomacy under Trump
The fall of an empire in real-time.
thewileyone··on UAE to leave OPEC
The 3 generation cycle has proven to be true in the past but families are smarter today.
thewileyone··on A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination
Occam's Razor ... it's the simplest explanation isn't it?
thewileyone··on Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
Just one more step Mark, one more step needed.
thewileyone··on Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?
Or it's all just the "Big Penis Strategy"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEKb9Ktqhc&pp=ygUgc291dGggc...

thewileyone··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
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thewileyone··on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora
It all seems like a big pump-and-dump scheme doesn't it?
thewileyone··on Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny
It's not much of a mystery. It's pretty apparent what is happening.
thewileyone··on Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died
Desktop publishing was my first career and a very happy memory for me. PageMaker4 and QuarkExpress were my tools but if I needed to put something together quickly I would always use PageMaker.

Later on, used InDesign to write my MBA papers cause I had lots of charts and graphs and wanted explicit control of the page.

Thanks Mr Brainerd for sparking a lifelong interest, may you rest in peace.

thewileyone··on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
This is the end

Hold your breath and count to ten

thewileyone··on Elizabeth Holmes asks President Donald Trump to let her out of prison early
She doesn't meet his "criteria" for release.
thewileyone··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
Everything here I learnt in my first 2 multinational companies. Eventually I learned when to let, and not to let, the other team burn.
thewileyone··on A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall
This was probably Barron Trump
thewileyone··on Things I want to say to my boss
"In the end, good leadership is never proven by what you say about yourself. It’s proven by what people say when you’re not in the room."

The Whatsapp corollary is if your team has a separate chat group without you in it, you should look at your leadership style.

thewileyone··on Trump-Licensed Presidential Seal Beer Pong Set, Bible Could Violate Federal Law
Even if they do violate federal law, there's no one that can or will stop it.
thewileyone··on Girl boss or tradwife? How a workforce built for men has failed women
It's also failed most men.
thewileyone··on BYD builds fastest car
Tesla relies on US govt subsidies as well.
thewileyone··on Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty
By his logic, if I spoke to another in a language incomprehensible to him, I would be forced to divulge my conversation.
thewileyone··on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him
No shit Sherlock. As in everything, just follow the money to find the true villains.
thewileyone··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
Laptop yes cause you can't change it. Desktop maybe if the cost is within your budget.

I always recommend people set an honest limit to what they're willing to spend and buy the best that limit can afford.

thewileyone··on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring [video]
Early 2010 models with the AMD GPU were ALL cursed.
thewileyone··on "None of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of FL's Book Ban Bill
They don't want to have to pay royalties to Margaret Atwood when they implement the handmaids headgear.
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