I always assumed from the memory footprint that it ran inside its own Chrome instances, 1 per channel or PM thread.

Sound is muted most of the day. Still see the red badge of not muted channels and PMs or in-application pop-up notifications.

The application is garbage with no middle ground of out of the way notification versus total distraction. Nobody instantly answers in a channel, asshats start going alphabetically through the channel members (and my first name is Aaron).

They're both horrible work distractions and productivity destroyers. Teams (or Skype) is the lesser evil only because individuals are more reluctant to use it.

Teams has just the right amount of friction to not be a huge hit to productivity. Slack is waaay too easy to bother individuals and channels with pointless bullshit. And with Slack, everything to quiet the noise is well hidden and often counterintuitive.

Talking with public health experts this is exactly the problem in India. A decade back, Walmart was trying to implement supply chain measures so less food would be rotting in warehouses while regions went without and even Walmart couldn't figure out the correct graft setup to make progress and eventually pulled out.

No, just Incels and radical feminists - both groups with nearly identical agendas - are the loudest, most retarded voices.

The real problem in the US is due to acceptance of diversity and inclusiveness of such extremist views, our legal system tends to incorrectly show such people tolerance where it does not belong.

Worse still, those radicalized nut jobs have greater interest in public policy, and as such persue policy positions more than reasonable people. End result because we fail to auto-fail such people from public office, many show up in the judiciary, a handful in legislatures, and a few as executives.

The reality is they belong in the shock treatment sanitariums of nearly a century back.

Not just this, but the mentality of all developer / software driven operations is that the only people worth anything to the organization are programmers and executives. Support and infrastructure staff are trash and to be under paid and abused.

Programmers in turn are only valuable because their contributions are highly scalable. Everything that can't be software and requires a person is an organizational failure to automate and scale profits.

There is still the i740 and Larrabee. So the phrase "First discrete" is still rife with dishonesty.

You need to unfriend that person.

Black crush was caused by consumers with incorrectly adjusted brightness, contrast, and gamma curves along with TVs with bad color processing. Low black values end up mapping to the same color of what the panel can display after color processing for current settings. Nothing having to do with plasma TVs caused black crush. While plasmas can't get the bright cd/m^2 required to do HDR, they tend to have a larger panel color space than LCDs, even the ones with local dimming. You have the history backwards -- poor handling of deep blacks on LCDs caused the HDMI body to specify 16 as the lowest RGB value. As a result, a lot of video codec tuning tends not to use 0-15 correctly and so the result is heavy banding and sparkling of dark colors.

Another plasma TV person here (1080P 50" Samsung). We have piles of contrast to work with which works perfect for fireworks as well as a certain infamous episode of Game of Thrones that all the LCD owners were whining about to no end. To leave my plasma, even in the same size 4k HDR, I would need to drop around $2k on a top of the line OLED/QLED to get close to the same contrast and black levels.

"reel from recent regulatory hurdles,"

Walmart has tried to get into India, most notably helping the nutrition issues with produce rotting in warehouses because logistics suck.

At the end of the day, Walmart pulled out because they couldn't deal with trying to deal with or standardize graft. There are zero regulatory hurdles in India if you pay off the right amount at each tier.

Class D amplifiers were commercialized in the late 70s and popular by the mid 80s.

As I said, beam forming (and room defined equalization) is really the only new thing, and that is only because the computational power needed dropped under $5-10 BOM in additional parts. Systems in the 90s used a microphone to calibrate output, but it was usually pricey stuff like B&O.

They were never a great product. Sonos has great marketing and faster embrace of smart phones and IoT than the better speaker and receiver manufacturers who were still catching up with 30-pin iPod / iPhone connectivity. Conveniently 30-pin was killed as soon as every A/V receiver company had good integration.

Reasonably, a company making audio products does not usually need to be some fast agile technology company. Very little has changed with amplifier or speaker technology since the 70's with the exception of Pro-logic and discrete 5.1 & 7.1/2 audio for video content. Arguably beam forming is novel and very useful for letting fewer speaker locations seem like a larger spacial array, but it's a bad kludge, and makes no sense for anyone buying discrete speakers.

We happen to be in the middle of phone technology plateauing as far as new functionality, and like automobiles, the home audio industry is doing a rubber band catch up with the obvious / trivial case integrations. Sonos just happened to exploit their lag and managed to sell massively overpriced gear to people otherwise naive and who traditionally would have been Bose or Home Theater in a Box customers.

Don't exclude the engineers and project manager who put those odds into his head. The rector has far less of a payday from this than the contractors doing the work.

Or maybe the ISPs will smarten up demand to be treated as telecommunications services.... I'm pretty sure that would give them some shielding admitting that they are simple information transport -- not content control.