Yes, people report UFOs, and the government takes a look, and maybe they find an explanation, maybe it remains U.

But the point is that for those that there IS an explanation, it could be mundane (it really was a US weather balloon), or it could be something else (another Chinese balloon got through our airspace and our radar systems didn't see it).

So all the government is asking for is for people to just keep reporting them in. Not because 'aliens' but because it helps improve our ability to maintain security over our airspace, and also improves inter-agency communications (why didn't the air force tell the local airport that they were running a test near a commercial flight path?).

Yes, cell coverage can suck at times, and also the interfaces for actually selecting something to listen to on the phone can be very distracting if you haven't gone out of your way to create single-click playlists and/or streaming options depending on the music.

Android Auto requires apps to implement special APIs to support and not every music app does it (or in the case of youtube-music, does it for free). And those APIs are only partially compatible with the new "Android Drive" mode if you're only using the phone - they removed Android Auto as a state your phone can be in.

A risk for young drivers as well as old. As a kid, my first wreck happened because I wasn't paying attention as I flipped the cassette over. These phone apps can be all the more distracting.

I read that as "a leveraged buyout through crowdfunding". :)

Bilk the investor rubes for the cash rather than taking out unpayable loans that leave the remnants of the company saddled with forever debt (and the inevitable Chapter 11 that goes with it).

All playing account games with money and who cares who gets hurt in the process.

So yeah, we have an algorithm that can reprocess audio and make one able to hear the dialog better (mind you, I think that some of this is the problem of most TV mixing for surround first, and having poor 7.1 -> 2.0 conversion - in other words, the real flaw is the sound mixing engineers suck because they are unconcerned that most people have sound systems that cost less than $100).

Now can they do something about the total lack of visual dynamic contrast (aka, "why is it always so dark").?

I mean really, GoT was so poorly lit I totally missed the starbucks cup. And here I wish I could say "well, we lit it for being seen in a movie theater at 30-70ft", but even theater goers are saying they can't see what the hell is going on half the time, too.

crap. and i guess i can blame caching, 'cause right after i posted this, one DID show up at '4'.

ugh.

I'm just sitting here looking at the comments and their scores and not that nobody got even a '4' nevermind a '5'.

On this topic, with what appears to be some sort of deep controversy to be resolved...nobody made a post that actually mattered. Neither for nor against.

just...fascinating.

as the bi-annual argument over DST.

Seriously, we were talking about 'computer literacy' requirements in the early 90s, even before the WWW and public access to the internet. Here on /. it is pretty much an annual thing.

To quote the guy from Matrix 2, "we have become exceedingly good at it."

feel free to prove HOW. A failure to communicate is a failure to communicate. When somebody sees a red flag, they can pick up the phone and start the process to get a zoom call going. Those that show up make the decisions.

But to imply that it would have saved the company, you have to prove that at least ONE employee there, who wasn't in some meeting, would have been able to convince everybody else of the trouble.

You have to PROVE that face-to-face would have accomplished something that zoom or email or slack couldn't.

And it can't be done. This is a total fabrication of an article. "Hey ChatGBT, write 2 pages on why remote work caused SVB's failure". And this is pretty much what you get. Lots of assertions, and not one causal piece of proof.

There is no proof or support even for this to be a hypothesis.

I'm calling my hardware an SOB.

Some of the software, too.

Did the article give one specific reason How having employees (and executives) in the same room would have made a difference?

I'm guessing not. As other posts have said, take what you want to achieve, and blame the failure on that policy. WFH or "Woke" it is all the same.

Show me the *proof* that if 2 or more execs were in the same room, they would have done one thing differently regarding their unbalanced portfolio that was dependent on treasury bonds. Show me the proof that some middle-manager 4 levels down would have saved the company if they happened to be in an office instead of at home.

Show me the proof.

Until you have it, you can shut the hell up, WSJ and FT.

"Looks like you're making a resume. Would you like me to pad it with a better college and a Fortune 500 company in there? It worked for George Santos...speaking of which, you should change your name, too."

"You seem to be staring at a blank page. Shall I just go summarize the Wikipedia entry for you?"

"This paragraph on civil rights in the 50s could use a little humor. How about a nice funny joke about black people?"

"Is this spreadsheet to help you with your taxes? I think we need to split up and see other people. Maybe you can deduct that?"

The hardest thing each year is to get my one last VCR to switch from flashing 12:00's to flashing 1:00's.

The main why is that on the western side of each timezone, during that first winter, sunrise wasn't happening until well after 8 (in Michigan's case, almost 9am).

If you look at the "19 states" link above, you'll find that except for Utah and Idaho, the states that want to go DST-365 are all on the eastern side of their timezones (TN is an interesting split - likely the DST-365 push is coming from the western part of the state which is already in Central timezone). So if the sun is already rising pretty early (relative to others), you don't mind the move. If the sunrise is really late in your state, like Michigan, DST in the winter really sucks because much of your necessary morning day is dark.

not really. they prefer that consistency of their days.

It is more how far east into your timezone, the more likely you are to prefer DST. Maine: they've voted DST-365 (can't implement without Congress to pass a law).

But Michigan? They're very much against it because the sun doesn't even rise until almost 9am (as they discovered when DST-365 was implemented back in 1974).

Of the 19 states that have passed DST-365 (but can't implement it because of the law as written), only 3 I would consider to be on the west of their timezones (Utah, Idaho, maybe TN). Other states already split their western portions off to the next TZ over, like the plains states (when the plains give way to the Rockies' foothills).

with the twice annual discussion on /. of DST as if we've never had it before and maybe THIS time we'll actually reach some kind of consensus.

To say it is like clockwork?