I have a 100% fix for the last mile problem.

Local Utility Company, that owns and maintains fiber.

All fiber brought back to a COLO facility where Vendors offer their services to the local utility customers, directly AT the COLO facility. Choice to the Consumer. The COLO and Fiber are maintained with fees extracted as part of the rental agreement between the vendors and the local Utility CO.

A consumer purchases service from the vendor(s) of their choice directly, based on their desires and needs. No Government needs to be involved. Increase Options creates competition.

Its a wonder smart people haven't figured out that Government Franchise Agreements has stagnated the status quo into doing nothing.

ROFL

Exactly

Prequel!!!!

The most correct date function is yyyymmdd:hh:mm:ss

Anything else is stupid, just like DST.

All of this is true, but Havana Syndrome has all the hallmarks of mass hysteria, and no plausible explanation that doesn't either venture into the realm of science fiction, or else seriously misapprehend the laws of physics with regard to RF propagation and physical effects. Just because they're out to get you doesn't mean everything you experience is a consequence of that.

Not really -- especially for something where you need (or benefit from) a lot of expertise in one place, it's an effective use of resources to concentrate in one geographical location. We see this with everything from chocolate to finance to aerospace. You can try to spread things out artificially, but whichever location starts doing better will create a positive feedback loop, drawing in more talent and eventually playing an outsized role.

Carlos Slim. Mexican Telco Tycoon.

of course, that probably will cost you more time than doing it yourself from the start.

Not if you have AI do it for you.

Even if the history of Russian 'import substitution' weren't littered with farces where someone gets a gold star for domestically producing tractors...from imported Polish kits with the serial numbers filed off...or the like; "game console" seems like a strikingly hard target, especially relative to its value.

It's a consumer product, rather than the state or state owned or heavily influenced companies being the customer, so there's a lot less leverage in terms of just making 'domestically produced' patriotic and mandatory; and it's a toy that only some people are even interested in, so it's even more difficult to distinguish between people who don't buy Super Motherland 3 because they just don't play video games and ones who don't buy it because they are playing Genshin Impact on something imported from China or a cracked copy of CoD on the wintel they say they use for work. Obviously possible, if you wanted to divert even more statesec guys from keeping an eye on planned terrorist attacks in order to do traffic analysis to look for game pirates; but not obviously worth the trouble.

It's also a pretty demanding category: customers tend to be pretty cost-sensitive and tend to expect frankly remarkable levels of hardware and software punch that are deliverable only thanks to mass production at all levels(whether you are talking ICs, game engines, asset packs, or very large numbers of sales of the final product). This isn't some military thing where you'd like more; but it's workable, and arguably worth it, to be able to reliably deliver domestic clones of some 20-year-old TI DSP even at twice the market price. Unless you are running a crackdown on the alternatives that would make North Korea blink that's not going to work on the gaming side: expectations are high and prices are low; and 'good enough' is defined in large part relative to what other people have, rather than to specific requirements.

Free Enterprise.

More regulation rarely fixes the problems and creates more problems that only large multinational government tied corporations can comply. Example, the repeated problems with the Banking industry, one of the most regulated industries that has been repeatedly bailed out of bad banking by taxpayers. Filed under "too big to fail"

There is clipping in low bitrate Digital. It USED To be a thing back in the day of the very first digital playback devices (not CD players). CDs haven't changed since then.

I know "Okay Boomer"

CD Audio is digital. It literally offers no difference to all other Digital Formats, excepting for bitrate differences. Most listening is via some sort of digital conversion.

Vinyl is analog. There is a real benefit to analog, as it does not have some of the clipping effects digital is known for. Can most people tell the difference? Probably not.

At least on initial inspection "bespoke teams" and "long-term collaboration" sounds like they will be at odds with one another:

I'm curious whether the assumption is just that people who aren't the author are fungible cogs to be picked up and discarded with as much 'agility' as possible; or if they believe that first-time authors getting decent sized advances is an inefficiency and they seek to rectify that by ensuring that authors who don't sell can be discarded at minimal cost; just with a less-depressing focus on the part where authors who do sell do get paid.

Yeah, no. You either want a solid enterprise-grade system, or something that's accessible and fully transparent to non-technical users (like a spreadsheet). Some cobbled-together database by someone's nephew who "knows computers" is neither.

ERP systems typically don't fail because of their databases or frontends(and, when they do, they tend to be big, huge, must-talk-to-all-the-legacy-systems-and-support-analysis-and-reporting-at-nontrivial-scale situations that isn't a trivial matter to handle with just some basic web experience). They fail because the process of capturing(and where necessary taking a hard look at and changing) all the business processes so that the dev side can implement them or make sure that they are handled by the product they've chosen is ugly and complex.

Similarly; nobody picks excel because of confusion about its power and capabilities: overwrought-but-inadequate excel is what happens when there is no effort, or no successful one, to get business practices codified into requirements that can be shoved over to the devs and implemented; so you get ad-hoc development of local bandaid tools; typically bolted together by a fair amount of manual copy-paste and futzing; implemented in whatever the people who are familiar with the processes are familiar with. Not uncommonly excel ends up being that; as it's at a pretty favorable intersection between "power" and "number of basically nontechnical users at least partially qualified to work with it".