Comment The disclaimer (Score 1) 124
Comment GCC is following GNU's lead (Score 1) 117
The GCC policy is largely in alignment with the greater GNU project policy (under which they reside).
The more interesting question will be if individual contributors (many of which are employed by major organizations that may already be using various AI enhanced tooling) need to change their development practices (and will they).
Comment Re:Sleazy (Score 1) 37
I'm surprised that Apple would climb into bed with the predatory pack of sleaze balls that is Klarna. I cannot see this accomplishing anything beyond reputational damage.
And "revenue" in the next quarter, the goal of most large corporation? Apple will just throw Klarna under the bus if individuals figure out that this is not in the individuals best interest.
Comment Is the actual fus__ro_dah being investigated? (Score 1) 222
Comment Re: Peacock is just okay (Score 1) 47
Peacock "premium" still has ads.
Yep, you have to move up to Peacock Premium Plus to go ad-free. Last I knew you could not take your free (to you) Comcast Peacock subscription and just pay the Plus kicker to go ad-free.
Comment Re:Terrible (Score 2) 23
Someone should report this to fbi.org!
Or whitehouse.com
Comment Re:It's amazing this doesn't happen more often (Score 2) 23
If I was going to transfer over half a million dollars, the sensible thing to do would be to first transfer and verify a small sum to make sure the account numbers are correct.
The town has a population of around 4200. I would guess the entire town staff is small in number and likely long term employees. I would not be surprised that being scammed was not even on their radar (that is what happens in the big city, not our safe small town). This should be a wake up call that all towns, no matter how small, need to make sure they follow the best practices.
Comment Yakety Yak (Score 1) 30
Comment Re:brew? (Score 1) 6
wine macos support is dead dead dead.
I suppose FEX might be able to be used to emulate x86_64 (and run Wine) after Apple pulls the plug on Rosetta 2 (although performance will probably an issue for some).
Comment Re:No dog in the fight (Score 1) 20
It's tenable to argue that acquiring Warner would be too much.
And the judge seemed to concur that the argument was at least viable in her statements in regards to the TRO, which suggested to Paramount lawyers that their best action was likely going to be to agree to a delay of the merger and to seek a speedy resolution (trial or negotiated settlement).
Comment Re:So what happened (Score 1) 80
But given the number of PR articles released, it's amazing how little we know about what happened.
Not really surprising. The Crisis PR team lawyers that are now involved will need a bit of time to make sure that the formal statements are made in ways to avoid future judgments (both reputational, and monetary). It is likely that the full set of facts and the internal work products in the evaluations will never see the light of day.
Comment Re:a lot of BS (Score 1) 20
no. just a few lines earlier:
Paramount had been keen to close the deal before Sept. 30
It will cost Paramount about $7 million per day as payment to WBD stockholders for delays beyond Sept 30th. Of course they wanted to close by Sept 30th ($650M each quarter is real money).
Comment Re:Sully’s Hudson Landing (Score 4, Interesting) 63
Actually Sully’s Hudson Landing might be a good example of how effective those briefings are.
I would argue that the flight attendants "screaming" at the passengers as to what to do were far more effective than the briefing itself (but because the flight attendants were trained on safety and safe evacuation, they knew what to scream). From having some emergency response training, I have learned that most people, in an emergency, are sheep, and will follow any directions that seems to be reasonable (given they, themselves, are in a panic and really don't know what else to do, and are willing to accept that someone else might know, so follow the direction). Sully may have made some great decisions, but the flight attendants were, in many ways, among the heroes of that incident in the saving of lives.
Comment Re:What’s wrong with leasing . (Score 1) 91
What’s wrong with leasing? Lets say you have a short term need, you lease a Mac for the short time frame. I’ve had companies do this for specialized equipment I need while working on embedded projects. It seemed weird since they could have outright bought the thing for the fees they paid to lease it for a non-trivial period. When I asked about this they told me there were tax benefits to leasing it versus an outright purchase.
Leasing can be deducted as an operational expense this year on your taxes. Purchasing requires using depreciation which (depend on the item) may require deducting a partial expense over many many years.
It is one of the (many) absurdities of our tax code that results in "interesting" choices by corporations to save money today to spend more tomorrow.