This is great news for Pixel Watch users in the southern hemisphere, since Fall is about to start over there.

Misread the headline and thought Meta was closing in one month. It made me happy for one second.

A 70-year-old grandma was 32 in 1984, the year the Macintosh was introduced. It's likely she was already using a computer at work at the time. Sure, not everyone had the same level of exposure to technology in the early years of the personal computers and the internet, but those who had are perfectly capable of keeping up with an evolving UI. This idea of the elderly feeling overwhelmed by technology is becoming less and less relevant with the years.

I wonder what the next anatomically correct addition to avatars will be

"Semiosis" (2018) by Sue Burke is a Science Fiction novel where space colonists arrive to a planet inhabited by several species of sentient plants.

"To give a sense of the scale of the attack, that is like receiving all the daily requests to Wikipedia (one of the top 10 trafficked websites in the world) in just 10 seconds."

You don't need to know how much traffic Wikipedia gets in 10 seconds. All you need to know is the difference between 1 day and 10 secods. It is like saying "The Ithaca Regional Airport received in just 10 seconds the same amount of air traffic that JFK usually gets in one day". You don't need to know anything about air traffic to understand that's an extremely chaotic situation.

Open source licenses generally don't disallow charging for redistribution.

For example, quoting from the GPL "preamble": "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)"

Based on the blog post referenced by the article, it doesn't look like Google will be having their own internal versions of the libraries with bug or vulnerability fixes only available to paying customers. They will just provide the same code available elsewhere, and only "rubber stamp" it after scanning it for vulnerabilities, plus distributing the copy of the code from Google servers that are presumably secured against tampering from third parties.

As long as this "vetting" process is the only thing Google is charging for, I don't think they would be out of compliance.

37% of fully remote workers admit they are juggling a secret second job.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

According to the video, people use different strategies to get away with having multiple jobs. Some of them are detrimental to the employer. For example, people will routinely decline participating in meetings so they can use that time to work on the other job .People doing this also recommend to be mediocre at your job and never exceed expectations so you can handle the double workload without stressing out. There's a website dedicated to sharikng these tips: https://overemployed.com/set-l...

It's obvious companies are realizing WFH means they are paying top dollar to get sub-par results and they rather have you in their offices where it's easier for them to make sure you're not doing side stuff on company's time.

Yeah, alcohol kills brain cells. But only the weak ones!

A large number of Googlers want to work from the office (I'm guessing 50%+). A separate group would like to be remote most of the time. Google actually lets people become fully remote (with potential pay cuts, related to your location).

Re: productivity - Google actually made tons of money while everyone was remote, so it's not clear that productivity was less.

Your system cab be built quickly, cheaply and correctly. Pick two.

A thousand engineers are going to have much better prospects of gainful employment than a thousand Gender studies or Philosophy majors.

Imagine how much better the world would have been if Mark Zuckerberg had to take some courses in ethics.

Set up a gofundme-like website but with the Apple logo and have people send them money in exchange of nothing.