Tech people love to classify things, including companies, as hardware or software. The really successful companies recongize that neither works without the other, there are a lot of opportunities that come with making both, and customers value not having to chase down various suppliers when they have a problem.

RCS isn't a good standard. It was so crappy that Google essentially bought it, added the minimum necessary to turn it into an acceptable messaging platform and made their proprietary version (as opposed to the original GSM's proprietary version) their messaging platform. Er, their fourth (fifth?) messaging platform.

Why? If she's an experienced speaker I suspect the VP of strategic alliances for a multinational private equity holding company is used to talking to a very specific type of audience. We even have a phrase for that that comes from a similar type of speaker: "preaching to the choir."

The real hilarity is that someone from a humanities college thought she'd be a good pick.

That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use

The definition of AI is essentially:

"to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

So no, by definition, the stuff those humanities students do is a prime target. We used to think that the creative humanities stuff was going to be really hard, maybe the ultimate goal for AI, but it turns out it's not.

They've created nothing new, just looked around an found markets they could cannibalize.

Ah, they've added competition. Terrible.

Many printers, including Bambu Labs', don't have endstop sensors. They run to the end and detect the stepper stall. They're direct driven by the stepper motors and don't have the power to "strip belts or cogs."

Hopefully. Nothing livens up driving like that surge of adrenaline you get in front of a long line of cars when you've stalled your cranky old beater and aren't sure it's going to start again. Something to provide the smell of a burnt clutch would be great too.

I rememeber when I was a kid my father telling me about how they used to stick cards in their spokes so their bikes sounded like they had motors, but then they realized it was slowing them down and stopped.

Nostalgia sells. Even better, it sells best to the people with most of the money.

Of course they are. People who know that the team bus got in late last night, Joe stubbed his toe, whatever. Or just "insiders" who actually know something about the sport and aren't just betting on their favourite team to win the way they do every weekend.

Most betting on things that aren't completely random is going to have a strong element of fleecing the casuals. The actual insider betting (and trading) is a gradient with a somewhat arbitrary threshold too.

Ah, another smart investor! May I point out that 10,000% is much more than 50%?

Sure, there are lots of records for that too. You know that little white bit of thermal paper you get when you buy something? You probably threw it away but lots of people keep them, and the guy on the other side of the transaction definitely keeps them.

Not that that's relevant though. You refund illegal taxes to the entity that paid them and those are all very much documented.

I should have said PC and server CPUs. ARM dominates mobile and embedded of course. It's not a market Intel has ever been a significant player in though.

The reason Intel stayed flat (market cap) even as they pounded AMD in the bulldozer era is that they were also becoming a niche part of the CPU market.

Yeah, this is the impression you'd get, reading Slashdot at least. There's a good chance you typed out your message on a "niche part of the CPU market," and you definitely used several to send it.

Someone realized that Intel still makes half of the CPUs on Earth.

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