We kept whipping and whipping but the work never seemed to get done. The only excuse they have is that half the team died from exhaustion or suicide, and they aren’t getting severance!

How unkind to not rewind.

A regular Johnson can get AIDS. He got cured. He’s a Magic Johnson.

Could soar? Like, it’s preventable? How? Oh, vote for Harris/Walz to not see tariffs used again.

It’s been the same “vision” since the late 90s - the CPU is the computer and everything else is peripherals.

The idea is to remove weather as a risk for farming. It’s remarkably hard making reliable predictions for yields with climate change on the horizon.

It will end up like every other Russian knock-off: made by the Chinese when Russia eventually gives up

Just use what Bell had before: a monopoly on virtually all communication to pay for crazy ideas and irregular output. Also, stomp out all competition so no one else can make any discoveries of their own. Can’t have rivals muddying the history of who invented what.

The response from SimpleX reads like a naive idea that just because there are Nazis here doesn’t make us Nazis.

The Wired article by David Gilbert focusing on neo-Nazis moving to SimpleX Chat following the Telegram’s changes in privacy policy is biased and misleading. By cherry-picking information from the report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), Wired fails to mention that SimpleX network design prioritizes privacy in order to protect human rights defenders, journalists, and everyday users who value their privacy — many people feel safer using SimpleX than non-private apps, being protected from strangers contacting them.

Yes, privacy-focused SimpleX network offers encryption and anonymity — that’s the point. To paint this as problematic solely because of who may use such apps misses the broader, critical context.

Like, guy, the Nazis are using that idealistic vision of a shared private world and staining it with bigotry and hatred. If nothing is done, SimpleX is a Nazi network.

These last few months, each picture of Elon looks like another transition snapshot of Smeagol turning into Gollum.

I always thought it was an apt metaphor for HBO as a service. Starts out analog and low resolution (because of the compression issues but it helps the visual) that clarifies what it is before having proper branding arrive. As a former user of HBO Go and HBO Now, it’s nice to see them finally find their identity.

But yeah, that logo bumper needs to change.

The Sarmat missile is Russia’s largest ICBM, with a height of 115 feet (35 meters). It is capable of delivering nuclear warheads to targets more than 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) away, making it the longest-range missile in the world.

On paper, it’s impressive. In person, it’s embarrassing.

Someone heard Trump and thought, “I bet that guy can carry a note.” That’s terrorism.

Thin things look nice in industrial design. It’s why phones stopped being chunky as soon as the battery packs could be scaled down. It’s why EV cars are in higher demand than EV trucks/UVs. Watches became a prestige product when they were thin enough to wear on a wrist instead of fitting in a pocket. Flashlights became a collectors hobby after they shrank down to be palm sized while retaining their brightness. Cameras became ubiquitous once they stopped needing a tripod and flash powder. Smaller things, thinner things, are more attractive to consumers.

It’s diminishing customer experience creep, except the company doesn’t understand what the user data means. They run A/B tests of different layouts, seeing what kind of feedback each gets to learn more about design choices and users. Each version should get its own feedback and then that data is compiled by data scientists into actionable feedback, things that can be done to improve the website in the direction the company thinks is an “improvement”.

Twitter abandoned those data scientists with the initial layoffs. There is no one to tell them what works and what impacts the customer experience, which is why each time the internal question of “how do we open up for engagement?” they answer it the same way, “Use existing user bases by linking their account to Twitter.” The result is several login requests all looking for the same cookie.

It’s lazy or inexperienced management. Knowing the type of person Elon hires, it’s probably both.

This is why voting is so important.

American companies don’t compensate unless legally obligated.

Conservatives act like crabs in a bucket. If one gets money they will try to stop others from getting it so that they will have as much as possible. The mindset is that to be valuable, to be useful, you must have a purpose as no one can exist without purpose and we are all here for a reason. Being rich shows you are valuable and important.

Conservative pundits are the hype men. They are themselves unable to live their fullest potential but they can cling to people who have and by extension prosper like them. Pundits don’t tell their own story, they don’t talk about their own path because it would invite competition. Conservatives hate competition. Not that they don’t think it should exist; competition is what proves strength and ability, it shows success. But they hate having to try so hard all the time and will actively work to stymy others. Conservatives are like crabs in the bucket - if one crab escaped and then stuck around the edge to knock other back down.

If you are hearing a message of “money sucks, don’t try” then it’s part of a broader effort to make folks not have money and this is he messaging for them to accept the arrangement.

Unless Intel can fix their production quality, no, you will most likely see Intel purchased by Broadcom or Amazon.

Intel has deep production cycle problems, a QA crisis unfolding, and billions tied up in a new chip factory in Ohio and a remodel of its Arizona plant. There isn’t much that they can do to change what the next 2 years brings because that was locked in years ago. And those decisions are killing Intel.

Keep in mind, Intel decided they are getting into GPUs too and those have to survive this quality crisis too. Most of what Intel does is no longer the best and, frankly, probably not second best anymore. It is very difficult to see a path out of this for them short of a few billion to float them through this period.

Arachnid now decapod.