Yeah, i'd like to see this against the base rate failure of all games. Or games that require a community or some other reasonable benchmark.

Even for non-crap games and good games it's really hard to gain and keep users because of the huge amount of competition. It's a pretty brutal industry overall, with market dynamics a lot more like entertainment than tech: i.e. a small number of highly successful participants and a long long tail of people who have to wait tables (or work at a web design / marketing) to pay the rent.

the video on the article shows it's at least not vaporware. They show some reasonable sounding stresstesting. That said, it's pretty concerning/disappointing that 10 months after said video there's basically zero additional news about consumer availability (or its presence in an OEM product. Suggests there's at least SOME significant shortcoming.

and apparently they invested in IFTTT as well a couple of years back (per https://www.computerworld.com/... ), which might be some extra motivation to cut off free API access.

The whole article seems to be written by someone not familiar with cloud instance pricing. The default usage mode for cloud instances is already just on demand. , not long term lease. The "new" thing is some new scheduling / pricing (?) offering in this slightly tweaked reservation system.

You can already use these machines, "p5.48xlarge" (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p5/ ), for $95/hour whenever you want, unless they're unavailable for some reason in your zone at that time. just like other sizes and types of virtual instances. So you spin one up... use it for a couple of hours... then turn it off and that's all you're charged for.

Amazon seems to be announcing a new "reserve ahead of time" for a particular day and time over the next few weeks type system that's somewhere between their "on demand" usage (and prob. lower cost) and their general "reserved" usage where you're on the hook for some minimums.

google has their "a3" type machines in some sort of closed beta / preview state but, like the A1 and a2 series before them they're probably going to be prorated to something like the minute level of usage.

I can't speak to ultimate management focus efficiencies, extracting profits, "unlocking value", and these various things that these corporate engineering efforts try to maximize.

But from a long term strategic pov it's hard to see how a major storage company with an outlook of years and decades is going to be well served by spinning off its solid state division. Surely even if the future is not pure "nand", it is some form of multi-tiered hybrid, rather than pure spinning metal disks.

Tend to agree.

Original IE was pretty bad in various ways, and it was a tool of MS's attempts to control HTML and JS standards etc.

Even original Edge (2015-2020 with its own EdgeHTML renderer) was fine. I've been lately (past ~3 years) using a combo of new Edge, Firefox, and Brave and they're all pretty reasonable (w/ added pluings such as Ghostery , ofc).

To me Chrome is now the big "we'll drive web standards", "this site looks better in Chrome" , "please log into your Browser", "can i log you into this website w/ your google account?" behemoth framework of ... questionable to negative intent.

I agree until the end of your statement. Agree that money wise it is just a transfer of money from the company to lawyers. And also that the reparations to the class members are almost always useless.

However they DO serve to change company behavior and act as a deterrent for them and others just as much as fear of any other losses/lawsuits.

This is great: wave a cash rebate at low-income car buyers to encourage them to take on a $30K+ car loan at like 9% and both of those numbers are on the conservative side since the price might be 2x that. "Look, you get a car and we write YOU a check for $5k today! You'd be an idiot not to take it!" (assuming they keep $2.5k for a down payment )

The summary misreports TFA:

"Went into the back of..." means made contact w/ the back of the van here. Then the van put on the brakes to stop the car and then , once stopped, the police entered his car.

"digital nomads" are totally different. From the point of view of the "various countries" they are moderately wealthy tourists who come in and spend money that otherwise wouldn't enter the local economy and they don't participate in the local labor market.

From my POV this is on the site developers to write their sites in such a way that they don't share any sensitive stuff. My contract, such as it is, is with Intuit (or whoever owns TT now). (that said i also still use the downloaded product rather than the web version and hope it continues to be available)

Data scraping is something society generally accepts at some level, though i hope that level becomes "less". But what's being described in the suit mostly sounds like just the state of the market and thus this seems like an abusive lawsuit.

When it comes to financial sites specifically, anyone who pays attention (even at just the level of running something like Ghostery and noticing the number of trackers on a site) has know about this risk for many years. (i for one was Karen enough (before that term existed, even) to write an email to customer service to either TurboTax or one of my banks to say: dudes, why are there so many ad trackers on my account pages ? is this safe?)

And if you ever look at the number and variety of trackers on airline booking sites, including their address and payment pages (like American , United, etc ) your hair might stand on end.

This one was very telling since it's from an insider who played the game for quite a while until he got out. He also presents a nuanced view about how you can manipulate the narrative without actually lying, but just by being selective.

When I was younger I didn't appreciate the power of such things...

My point is that 2 deg C or or even 3 deg C avg warming over 1850 temps is still not going to turn Portugal into "an unbearable furnace", as one of these plaintiffs claim in TFA. If he believes that, and he well may, that's not because he understands or is listening to "the science", it's because he's suffering some sort of anxiety disorder because of exposure due to climate change alarmism of the past couple of decades

sigh. that link is to "Moral_panic" (i should prob learn how to do links)

You're right, this sure is established fact:

Portugal is on the verge of becoming an "unbearable furnace". Even stipulating the IPCC anthropogenic global warming scenario, this court case and this language (if sincere) is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... not about science.