From my experience, the controllability of an individual is correlated with the amount of education they have received. Universities tend to create the best worker drones. General intelligence seems to counteract this to some extent, but it's not as malleable as most people think. TLDR More School != More intelligence.

Put a bunch of solar panels on the roof of the TSMC fab they are building in Arizona. That's why the Sunbelt is awesome. Solar works great there. Domestic manufacturing allows us to better control the carbon footprint.

Learning to program is great, but CS majors are generally highly impacted and inundating Universities with a bunch of bright eyed high school students with dreams of becoming Software Engineers might have some negative consequences at admissions time. I want those who are really good at programming to enter CS, not those who simply have the best grades. Bring back subjects like shop class, teach students how to run CNC machines and learn some welding, so students can learn to be creative in a wide array of subjects rather than funneling students into a single field and then filtering them out at University admissions time.

Software engineering is as much of an art form as a science. I can teach the math, but the aesthetics of a really well written program is something that many smart people often don't value and it contributes to technical debt due. A lot of students get filtered out at admissions time and they have the aptitude to write great code.

I see no problem with shaming my friends and family who have bought Apple products. Turn about is fair play.

Epic can't piss off their customers like Apple does. Gamers are fickle. Not like Apple fanboyz. Apple is like a cult.

Retaining employees with free money doesn't imply a significant desire to retain employees. The fed has been pumping trillions of dollars into the economy, creating misallocation of capital. One of the largest benefactors is big tech. With all this money sloshing around the financial system, once in a while they have to make an attempt spend it on something productive rather than stock buybacks. I don't know how productive giant bonuses are, but it's the best they could come up with. My guess is the real ROI on giant retainment bonuses will be negative, but the money is free in nominal terms and they don't have any better ideas for which to spend the money.

Rename it Big Brother.

As a software engineer I prefer things over people. I get plenty of in person socialization from my wife, my children, family and friends. I don't need to see my coworkers faces, but sometimes it's nice.

If employers would agree to make work from home permanent, most can afford home offices in cheaper places. It's a trade-off. Right now, we're in limbo.

I can be more effective from home in my role.

What about the runtime? I guess RISRT doesn't have a nice ring to it. I believe ARM performance was one of the motivating reasons why Dalvik was designed as a register machine. A lot of developers never touch compilers anymore.

Qualcomm-based Samsung devices get screwed again.

The open source project needs a name change. Chromium from a trademark standpoint dilutes the Chrome brand. Google extracts value from the brand, not the source.

Now that Chrome and Edgium are effectively the same, the question most consumers are faced with is "do I want to use a Microsoft account or a Google account?" and that determines the browser they use.

I think this has more to do with the fact that Google wants more control over the camera activity. For example, if you say "Ok Google, take a picture" it should work the same on every phone. Vendor apps and 3rd party apps can break this.

Just use the one from your previous car.

As long as it doesn't have Ads I don't think most consumers care. On the other hand, if you're paying the Sonos tax for speakers, why would you want to listen to ad supported content when you can afford ad free content?

American diet fads fade quickly and war on meat is not sustainable. Meat is not unhealthy despite what vegetarians and cereal companies might have told you. On the other hand excessive carbohydrate intake is linked to a number of neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. Fake meat is a risky market and all it takes is some recommendation from some expert on TV to kill the whole thing.

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