Eventually Tesla turned a profit. They too didn't initially make enough money to offset startup costs, but eventually those costs got covered.

Ford is both dealing with legitimate startup costs and perhaps engaging in Hollywood accounting to shuffle expense where it signs to their financial strategies (maybe tax breaks on losses related to electrification or something, or bundling broader expense problems together under an understandable silo). As the supply chain stabilizes and the fixed costs are already incurred, I fully anticipate Ford will become profitable in that endeavor.

It doesn't even have a unit cost of 130k to produce, so it's disingenuous to claim each car sold costs then more.

While a transcript would be nice, I'm wagering they are going to be giving a synopsis. The purpose of a report is to have a digestable account of the events, and a transcript is unlikely to be ready to follow.

Yeah, I don't know where the *good* Sci-Fi authors went either? ... cry me a river. There are way more good SF books than you can shake a stick at let alone read.

Vernor Vinge just died. Read any of his stuff? Very well written classic SF.

The Expanse series.

The Dune books, not just the first one. Given, Dune is a tad overrated in some regards but the good bits are really good and well worth the read. That goes for the entire Dune series.

What about Cyberpunk, somewhat of a sub-genre of SF? Neal Stephenson, read him? If not you've got some catching up to do. ... William Gibson seems to put out a Cyberpunk novel every odd year and the latest stuff is still as premium as ever.

Cory Doctorov, Orsen Scott Card, Richard Morgan, Michael Weisser ...

If you get bored you can look into lore books. The RPG universe of Shadowrun is your type A Nerd fest but of the 80 novels or so they have the top 5-10 are really good and worth a look, even if you don't care about the franchise. I'm pretty sure other expensive IPs have similar traits. It's quite unlikely that the top 5 novels of the Battletech or Warhammer universe are a complete waste of time. The writers of those books tend to spend years working on the worlds before writing a book on them which does lead to consistency and a baseline of quality.

Bottom line: You likely have vast unexplored areas of SF still to discover. Old and new.

So many posts are clearly marketing campaigns, not sure that AI is needed to make it much worse.

I meant that the wider market. Even if Apple's strategy isn't going to be profitable, a subset of Meta's efforts can be (the devices can be profitable, but they spent way too much money on certain projects that will not pan out).

Apple may make a return to the market with an amended product that fit the business case.

There's a market, it's viable, but it's not set the world on fire. Apple's device aimed for a market that seemingly wasn't there (too expensive particularly for an unproven ecosystem). But other devices have done well enough to have a business justification.

KDE has been in Fedora a while, a lot of Fedora gets dropped on the way to RHEL. Fedora 34 would become RHEL9, and dropped KDE on the way.

I suppose I don't know the particulars of this protest, but *most* protests I see aren't standing up for Hamas but pointing out the broader treatment of Palestinians, whether it's as collateral damage in Gaza or continuing behavior in the West Bank, which is widely recognized as wrong by the UN/ICC/EU/various nations.

Broadly speaking, the muslims I have known personally are good folk. Extremists under any religious cover misbehave similar, though admittedly some Islamic extremists have more formally recognized power than is typical, but as it stands none of this is in evidence in the West Bank. Gaza may be more tricky by virtue Hamas, but most major powers have expressed a belief that Israel could have been more surgical but are instead inflicted way more collateral damage than should be acceptable.

apartheid:
  a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.

Seems like walling off Palestinians would be consistent. Also, you have the West Bank situation, which the ICC/UN, France, UK, EU, and US have all described as a war crime (US temporarily said it wasn't, but switched back in February). In Gaza the objection is the disproportionate response, even though the settlements did stop, but the West Bank still suffers from the settlements and associated forced transfer of property away from Palestinians.

Just because they should realistically expect to put their job at risk doesn't mean they did the "wrong thing". The "disturb the peace" line as a reaction to the concept of protest is a bit disconcerting.

Now if they were being obnoxious in the workspace chanting about injustice against palestine in some totally unrelated venue (e.g. if Google did zero business with Israeli government), I could see scoffing at the effort as noisy and disruptive to no end.

However, they are directly protesting their own companies behavior. Disruptively protesting in the workplace is pretty much exactly what their cause demands in this scenario.

I have grown tired of "there's no wrong way to protest" being spouted when people do incredibly stupid, unjust, or self-harm stuff in the name of "protest", but here it's supremely on point. Then I still see people with "protest somewhere quietly that no one has to hear", which closes off *any* form of protest and demands deference to some folks.

... only because some piece of software doesn't scale. Given, if you're hosts are clobbered with legit requests and you're still relying on uncashed PHP monoliths to handle the load you're being silly and should be let near a live server setup, but there are plenty of examples of perfectly successful large-scale companies built on PHP. Like Facebook for instance. ... Given, they eventually just built Hack which is basically a binary compiler for an updated PHP dialect, but the old saying goes for PHP just as much as for any other quick time to market web technology: If you have a scaling problem you don't really have a problem. And if somebody didn't know what they were doing in the first place it doesn't matter whether they used PHP or something else. It's likely their shitty design that broke their be app. Or bad management. I'd guess the latter.

As a thin server-side web templating layer API to the vast variety of well established tried and true FOSS C libraries that do the grunt work of most of todays computing needs PHP fits the job perfectly and does get it done pretty good too.

... was cancelled last winter and you could almost wade through the Rhine where I live last summer. Right now we just had 0C (freezing threshold) this morning before sunrise but 8 days ago people were walking around in T-Shirts with 28C outside.

Last year the tourists left the Mediterranean because it was too warm. The actual Mediterranean Sea was to warm, with water temperatures reaching 30C and more. Two years ago in summer you'd have 37C after sundown for days on end.

Not fun and bad news for Southern Europe AFAICT.

I can only speculate, but:
-I had heard that the IBM PC effort wasn't exactly fully supported by the wider IBM, so they had to make do and potentially might have had to be willfully overly optimistic to rationalize their plan to have so much of the system defined by freely implementable standards
-They might have hubris that BIOS was 'hard', at least the business leadership I could easily imagine thinking that, and no one is going to second guess them.
-They might have assumed copyright would have protected the interfaces, rather than technical difficulty.

But it wasn't that they were careful not to do damage, they were careful, but the damage was yet to be seen.

I think it's hard to say, as no one can point to a party that would have likely otherwise caught it, except some guy that noticed that ssh session establishment was 'a bit off'. In fact, if his random usage of xz had been a couple weeks later, he probably wouldn't have investigated because the attackers had released a "fix" for the performance impact. This was from all appearances pure luck that this guy happened to have the noticeable xz impact and cared enough to dig in, and did so immediately rather than maybe waiting a couple of weeks and it would have been "fixed". A two week window between the relatively obvious and the fixed version that from what we can tell, *almost* passed without anyone getting suspicious, except for that one guy.

Many eyes worked this time, but *barely*.

As I recall, they had enabled everything to be done freely except the BIOS. They thought the BIOS would be a lock on the core platform, but enjoy a rich ecosystem of peripherals and suppliers. When companies cloned the BIOS, they did try to sue. Think it became quickly obvious that clean room cloning of the BIOS was too easy and nothing illegal about that.