Yeah, A company that we were working with once insisted that we got a third party audit done. It was such a joke. They basically just checked that we were following our own procedures that we created for ourselves. It really didn't even matter if those procedures actually made any sense or had any real value.

Seems like someone tries to engineer away things like air filled tires and now air filled balls every few years. Has anybody found anything that works close to as good as the original? It seems like something that very hard to mimmick with just materials without having the tire/ball filled with air. As you compress the ball/tire, the pressure inside the ball changes, which changes how much it's pushing back. But with an empty ball, it can only ever push back with the material that is in contact with the surface. Even things like exactly how the ball deforms will affect how it behaves in terms of how it bounces.

Does it have the same bounce when you launch it across the court for the buzzer shot? Does it have the same bounce when you just let it fall from your hands? How do the holes affect how the ball rolls or how it can be gripped with the hand?

Isn't that just CNC Machining/cutting?

Most of us would probably have a hard time saturating a 10G connection even with multiple devices.

Netflix says they only require 15 mbps to stream a 4k movie. Even something like a UHD bluray only has 92 Mbps data rate. So you could stream 100 BluRay discs at the same time on a 10 Gbps connection.

Edge already had advanced features like the ability to annotate PDFS. I've used it quite a few times to fill out PDFs that were sent to me by people. Works so much better than printing them out and writing by hand.

I also have a drawing table which is great for quickly adding notes to PDFs.

These same questions were asked 20+ years ago when the internet was gaining popularity. There's no need to create new laws just because of "the metaverse" or "the internet". The medium of communication shouldn't define whether or not these activities are legal or not. If it's illegal on paper, then it's illegal on the internet, and it's also illegal in the metaverse. Can I draw a picture of these handbags and sell it as art? If yes, then I should be able to do the same on the internet, or in the metaverse. If not, then there's no reason simply doing so on a different medium would make it illegal.

Microsoft has an API for One Drive. Anybody can use it. Google is just choosing to implement code to access the API. they could have done that ages ago.

It seems weird that they would be increasing integration when they have competing products like Google Drive and their own office suite.

I guess that there is still a big demand for Office 365 that they feel like people are holding off from using ChromeOS if it means they can't use the other tools they need.

I don't see it as being any different than how programmers are paid. You get paid by the hour for the work you produce. And the company you work for owns that completely at the end of the day. We need to stop thinking of artists as something different than any other type of employee. If you want to own the work you produce you pretty much have to go independant. But there's a lot of work that goes along with that.

While there is some good anime, I kind of agree with you for the most part. If you look at some of the anime out there, it's pretty evident that it is just thrown together with the most limited amount of work possible. Quite often there's only one thing moving on screen at any one time. Often when someone needs to talk, the scene remains completely still while only the character's mouth moves. Or even the action scenes have the character is a non-moving pose while the background moves behind them instead of actually showing them running.

It's the animation equivalent of the old Batman TV show where they rotate the camera to make it look like they are going up the side of a building or just add in Cartoon BAM! BOOF! effects rather than having a well coreographed fight scene.

There are of course exceptions to the rule. There is some anime that is quite amazing. But the vast majority of it is just shovelware type content.

It's not different than using a calculator to do math, or a more advanced programming language like C vs programming in Assembly. It will save people time and give them more time to spend solving real problems.

Every time a new technology comes along, people say that it will be the end of humanity and that so many jobs will be lost. But the new tools provide new opportunities for people to do more innovative things.

How much do musicians really deserve to be paid for listening to a single song? Youtubers make about $0.005 per video view and quite a few of them make pretty good careers out of it. And that's for an entire video. Some of them are a few minutes, like a song, but some video are over half an hour, or even over an hour.

I think that artists are just over-valuing what a play should be wortth. Most of the time when people play a song, they aren't even actively listening to it. It's just background noise. They might listen to 100 songs a day. At that rate, a month of songs would be about 3000 songs. For the $10 you pay, that only adds up to $0.003 per play. That's without even accounting for costs to run Spotify. So even if you raised the price to $30 a month, you still aren't going to get a singificant amount of money going to the artist.

Spotify opens up a whole new market of people paying for music. Before Spotify came around, I spent close to $0 on music. Because it just didn't make sense to me to buy music. My tastes change over time, very few CDs had a significant number of tracks that were worth listening to over and over again. Now I spend money every month, artists get some money, but only as much as makes sense. For the few CDs I did buy, I've played them hundreds of times and the artists have probably made less per play than they do on my spotify subscriptions.

75% of my job as a programmer is to take requirements from customers and managers and turn them into something that actually makes sense.

Every time we have a big breakthrough in technology and someone tries to come out with a product that allows you to automate tasks without code, it makes the programmer's life easier, but it still doesn't get rid of the need for programmers. Look at the average spreadsheet made by someone in management. Full of errors and inefficiencies. They can't even communicate with other humans what they want. good luck getting an AI to understand them.

Normally I associate "fired" with the employee doing something wrong leading to their dismissal. Whereas "laid off" just means the company can no longer afford to keep them around. Sometimes "laid off" is used when the employees are replaced by offshore workers or automation, but it's still generally used in a situation where it isn't the employee's fault.