It's frivolously suing people right now, as in this example. It's basically acting like a jealous girlfriend who can't accept that the guy did the breaking up instead of her. What he does on his own time isn't Apple's concern as long as it doesn't interfere with his doing his job at Apple. Unless Apple can demonstrate such, then it's completely in the wrong, and even Apple knows it, but since it's pretty much standard practice there to sue everyone for whatever it can, it's making a big deal out of this. Not that it will matter; it's been among the most anti-consumer companies out there for years, yet even people Apple has abused remain loyal to Apple... while complaining about the abuse.

That DOES put current AI ahead of the average flat earther... which doesn't reflect well on where humanity is headed.

By the time we have terminators, the average human will be so retarded that the terminators will appear to be geniuses. They won't need to be particularly smart to win. Odds are however that the idiocracy will bring down society long before the singularity happens.

It IS a common thing in film production; being able to add a video I/O box is a huge asset for a computer being used for media work. A good graphics card isn't always enough, you also need to be able to get an SDI I/O option in order to use software like PreLight, for example.

For serious media production, you need a LOT more computing power than for programming... for working with for example 8K footage in real time while grading, or with dual 4K streams at 120fps... hence Baselight X includes a couple of GPUs.

I'm sure there are other examples, but most programmers aren't anywhere near the most demanding users, as far as computing power goes.

It's fun until you end up debugging someone else's crap, which is most paying coding work these days... and since most companies hire the enthusiastic but not competent type, most code is quite bad.

There's no doubt that it's genuinely malicious, but Trump itself is simply too stupid to pull it off. The malice is from the entities who own it. And of course, by "it" I mean, "The Asshat in the Oval Office" who really doesn't deserve to even be called a person.

That's a very optimistic view of american "productivity" based on anecdotal evidence. The reality is that while there are a few places where american workers are actually rewarded for getting things done, most of them are rewarded based on time worked.

Most software shops I've worked in have been spending the vast majority of their workers' time on servicing technical debt, while promoting the people whose primary contribution was that debt.

From a professional point of view, the difference is actually even bigger. The latest generations of GPUs have a heavy emphasis on compute, which is a huge deal for a lot of professional non-linear editing, compositing, and color grading software. Converting raw footage into RGB is also extremely compute heavy, and is nowadays largely GPU based even for 8K Redcode.

It was badly designed for its intended market from the outset, so the trashcan monicker's spot on.

That's why Amazon has such high turnover and is experimenting with a 35-hour work week also...

I worked with people like you, and discovered very quickly that even though a lot of the people I was working with who were working a lot more hours than I was had quite a bit more experience, I was getting a lot more done. And helping them get their stuff done. And rewriting their stuff when it didn't work due to simply being very badly written. And all that in spite of working a lot fewer hours.

Reality says the opposite. Never keep overtimers on staff. Ever. The negative work they produce wastes the time of the competent workers, and just slows things down. Teaching people that overtime ok ruins them for the industry as a whole, and it's bringing the entire industry down.