Nah. Parson saw an opportunity to pander to his base using scary words like "Hacker" because he peddles in fearmongering. The Post Dispatch is a well known left-leaning newspaper in Missouri and is often critical of the Republican leadership of the state so Parson has his favourite target in his sights and just wants to de-legitimize the media he sees as his "enemy"

That's bizarre... every single reference in the cheat sheet is in the first ~30 minutes of the movie. Like, spelled out.

This... holy shit. I mean, Google could literally have just rebranded Google Play Music as "YouTube Music" with a lick of paint on the app and that honestly would've been fine. Instead they killed it for an app with half the functionality working in opaque and unpredictable ways or just flat out missing/broken. And instead of rolling in some of the code from Music, they just killed it to force users onto their new platform?

I still never got that decision. I used GPM all the time. As soon as I saw what a trainwreck YTM was (especially on Auto... my God the Auto experience with YTM is still fucking terrible) I moved my entire library to my Plex server and started running PlexAmp instead. Much happier with that.

I don't think anyone is arguing in good faith that it's supposed to be equal. It's the disconnect between what he says and what he does that has people angered, not the fact that he did it.

Hell, if he even announced that he has changed his mind on remote work and started to offer that perk to his employees then this tempest in a teacup would wane rapidly, but he didn't. He basically for years said "Remote work doesn't work" and then sent a tone-deaf email that said basically "I still believe remote work doesn't work, but I'm doing it anyway because fuck you."

Lead by example.

Promotions? In Corporate America? They haven't been a thing in years. The way you get ahead is you move on to other opportunities... heck it's virtually always been that way in the tech field.

I'm self-employed. I promote myself whenever I like :)

The actual number of people who get or need hands-on with prototypes at Apple HQ is in the single-digit-percentages. Most of their workforce is software and design; two things that CAN be done from home... even the design and prototyping doesn't require hands-on all the time either.

Remember, Apple hardware is DESIGNED in the USA, not made.

With an attitude like that, no wonder his business is on life-support and probably terminal.

Well, I know one co-working company I won't be doing business with. Ever.

Depends a lot on your use case. RAID controllers often mask the drives themselves behind a sort of "virtual JBOD" where they create RAID0 virtual disks for each individual drive. This works just fine, but there is an unknown element here then which is HOW the controller does the writing (and reading) to that virtual disk and that it is not directly under the control of the ZFS software. It might honour the cylinder/head/track write command or it might interpret that command and you have no way of knowing from the software side. It comes down to how much you trust your RAID card.

Similarly, it may also mask things like remapped writes due to failures which means unless you are actively monitoring the controller you might have a number of remapped or even corrupted sectors that ZFS and the operating system don't know about.

Now, if data is corrupted then ZFS absolutely will find that corrupted data during a scrub. For that reason running ZFS on top of a RAID controller is actually a good idea, but not because the RAID controller is better than a straight SAS/SATA connection to the disk but rather because the RAID controller is potentially worse from a data consistency standpoint. There are more unknowns with a RAID controller than there are with direct disk connections from the point of view of ZFS, so my policy has always been that in production I'll run ZFS on directly attached disks only because I want my system to be able to properly deal with disk issues rather than have a scrub suddenly produce dozens or hundreds of errors because the RAID card has been masking the corruption in the underlying disk.

Having said all that, hardware RAID has its place. I like to use hardware RAID for operating system disks because while mirrored OS's are quite good in software, there's still that underlying problem of bootstrapping enough of the OS to fire up the RAID from UEFI (or historically, BIOS). If the RAID card is supported directly in UEFI/BIOS then the operating system doesn't need to care. However, it's still good practice to ensure your hardware RAID has a good monitoring agent available for the operating system or is well supported by the OS so you know when one of the drives has failed.

Eh... if you limit it to direct play only and disallow transcoding you'd be surprised how many streams you can cram through relatively little hardware. Your bottleneck actually becomes your Ethernet connection rather than the processor. If the box is just streaming the media directly then those boxes can scale pretty far. For reference, I use 20mbps as a rough guide for 1080p content... so if reading from a NAS and streaming then double that. Of course, you can also add a USB network interface even to a Mac Mini.

Now, if you're transcoding then yeah... that's going to fall over after only a couple of streams :)

It's better, but more on-par with Linux gaming rather than Windows gaming. Both are still also-rans in that particular race. Having said that, both have improved dramatically, and with compatibility layers like Proton, Linux is actually pretty darned good. I don't know though how well the gaming runs on M1... I have a suspicion that it puts the Mac significantly behind Linux in gaming at this point but don't quote me on that as I haven't tried it.

A huge number of companies, probably most of them don't actually own their office space but rather lease it. It's these leasing companies that are going to be hurting if they aren't already.

I believe that others that have viewed this thread can probably draw their own conclusions about relative intelligence.

Thing is, you CAN buy the good stuff in the US as well. Unfortunately, you have to go a bit further out of your way to go to farmers markets or the more premium grocery stores and pay a premium for it.

When my kids were young, I went through the experience of being working class in the US and shopping for all my groceries at discount stores because I couldn't afford better. My kids gained weight normally but started to actively suffer from malnutrition which eventually landed my daughter in hospital (and got me a visit from the Division of Family Services). I started paying more attention to what was actually in foods and even getting myself into debt a little (credit cards) in order to buy from better but more expensive sources. It took me years to clear that debt, too.

Now I'm older, an empty nester and wealthier I still deliberately spend a lot more on groceries than many... I spend more on groceries than a lot of actual families do because I care what I put in my body. But in that regard I'm one of the lucky and educated ones... you go outside the cities in most of the US and the discount groceries are the only options for most rural communities. You can literally witness the decline of nutrition as you go further out as people tend to be heavier and even look unhealthier. The "fat American" memes you see are usually pictures of people from the outer suburbs who don't have a choice of where to get groceries except maybe Wal Mart and Costco. I really believe the rise of the really obese Americans have been due to the terrible nutrition in this country, and probably in no small part due to their bodies crying out for nutrients that their food isn't giving them, thus causing them to eat more and thus gain weight in a vicious cycle.

Funny, I thought that was called an "Episode" or a "Video".

OP didn't link the show, but an episode of said show that directly related to the comment that they quoted. The comment about the show was merely OP stating that the entire YouTube channel is informative and useful since it actually cites its sources and admits when it's wrong.

Amazing how little research it would've taken on your part that you apparently didn't do.

Your analogy falls down because I don't have to subsidise a Ford dealer by way of a monthly fee even though I'm buying a Hyundai. Similarly, last I checked I didn't have to have a paid monthly subscription in order to get my Big Mac.

But NOT being flippant; Ford dealers are not owned by Ford. That's the big difference. Similar story with McDonalds and Hostess; they're all franchises that are owned and operated by another corporation. The model they follow is actually far closer to the Netflix idea of licensing (franchising) your content (name, reputation and food) to a third-party distributor.

The only example you brought to the table is Tesla who actually DO operate on a similar model to Disney, CBS et al. And that's one of the reasons I refuse to buy a Tesla; because like Apple I don't like their business model and feel that they're anticompetitive on purpose in order to mask the fact that their products are crap.