My guess is it was 7 different managers in 7 different divisions that all got together one day and decided to lay off people and use 7 different AIs and none did what they wanted. Just going by my experince working with Ford. We literally called them the 7 headed monster because they couldn't get management consensus and pulled us like 5 directions at once, and also bought in on every new technology before it was vetted.

The problem is you've always owned a license to use a copy of the media. The same thing goes for music. You DO NOT OWN THE GAME OR MUSIC. You literally have a licese to use it. The whole reason you can make a backup of physical media legally is because you have the right to make a backup of licensed media you own. You can even sell the backup copy if the original media is destroyed. I was telling that to someone recently, where a jewel case for a CD and orignial liner had a CD-R copy of the disk they bought.

I've worked in both music and computer science. Both literally have the same model. If you want to own the actual media, write a book. You literally own the book. In fact, publishing encryption software code into a book and mailing it to England got around the US's 40 bit encryption munitions laws, lol. Peoplle published RSA onto T-Shirts and lauded it as munitions. Fun times.

AP1000s run with a negative reactor coefficient. Translation, if they lose power they shut down, not melt down.

Not that I'm a fan, but they are still built on old (but proven) technology. The US was well on its way to a much better design in the Integral Fast Reactor, but killed it in 1994, mostly based on reasons the IFR designed to fix, like nuclear waste. The IFR was a fast reactor, meaning fast neutrons are used to breed fertile Uranium (U-238, aka nuclear waste) into fissile Plutonium-239 and then burning it in the reaction. With onsite reprocessing, (which is a proliferation risk, but let's be frank, all nuclear power is in some way) the remaining waste will decay to background in 100 years. Incidentally, that is about the same as fusion due to deuterium and tritium created by fusion.

Yes, and the bug is irrelevant. I use Squid to watch Netfix when I travel. No users that can sit on my network and intercept, password protected as well. I get close to 4000 Chinese hack attempts a day (usually Chinese, 1% North Korean, 1% American), none have gotten access. I give them fake access and troll them. which has gotten me in trouble with my ISP (DOS is kind of not allowed, lol).

Monster cables may have actually supplied audio fidelity during the analog days. Were they worth the 300% markup? Probably not. Keeping that 300% markup once fully digital? Total scam.

if Trump could've hawked them, you know he would. They're plated in gold, just like everything he likes! Gold plated cables, $4 million dollars each, best audio fidelity for a digital cable, guaranteed! Of course, a $1 digital cable has the exact same fidelity, lol. Remember the Energizer vs Duracell battery wars? No battery lasts longer because alkaline batteries all last the same.

Nah, he keeps banging women and getting them pregnant and probably owes billions in alimony and child care payments. Being a deadbeat dad as a trillionaire will be frouwd on hard by the courts. 50 years hard time, minimum, unless he bribes Trump for a full pardon. Oh f*ck, he already did, they owe him $300 trillion.

And while I am still working on OpenWater and Alignable, the only thing I've gotten from LinkedIn in the past year is rewrite-your-resume scams

Given the reference list, I suspect not ChatGPT, but rather https://magisterium.com/

You missed the #1 gigantic reason that eventually got Microsoft in trouble with antitrust and then they invested in Apple to get out of it. Microsoft made exclusive deals with computer vendors where they could get the OS and later the OS bundled with Word and other products at a huge discount if you didn't sell any competitor's products. I worked for and we sucked at Microsoft's teat. MS is probably half the enemy to consumers Apple is today, but in the 90s, they were the devil. They still have the absolute worst file system. NX isn't horrible, but compared to Linux and Mac offerings, it is a piece of garbage.

I don't hate Microsoft, I think they should win competitively, and in gaming lately, they are losing, from what I've read and seen. When I helped porting some (freeware) games from Windows to Linux and Mac, they were beating the Windows version by 5-6FPS (same as the Linux version). That was DX vs Vulkan. I want to try something with, say, Unreal Engine. This was all custom stuff and maybe we were just better at optimizing.

Won't happen, in fact, Apple was probably given a short timeline to fix it. Why? Because Signal is an approved application for contractors to communicate with government employees, including Secret and Top Secret.calls as long as everyone on the call is approved. I've been on some of these calls. Not that anything that needed to be classifeid was ever discussed.

I've been looking since March 2024. Having no reasonable options in sight, have reopened https://informationr.us/

In this job search, Linked In and Dice- but MOST of my LinkedIn devolves down into one of the above quickly. The number of scammers on Linked In is truly awesome.

Yeah, what competitors, lol.

Everyone I know in farming today (and I'm a descendant of farmers) owns John Deere everything. There is no other choice. They pay $200000+ (1 Mil+, I'm giving you low end) for combines because the choice is... that or IH or some other brand that has no presence where they live and zero maintenance or parts. Hey, those farmers sit in the cab and make money doing nothing, my cousin reads books, so it kind of pays for itself - laws require drivers, but everything is automated.

I miss just blaming Bobby Kotick for this...

Worst. Boss. Ever.

Actually, that's not true, I like blaming Bobby, but the dot com bust was worse (after I worked for and left Activision). I kept my job, but I saw 88% collective layoffs (multiple rounds). We joked the floggings would stop when morale improved. The guy that told me that joke was laid off.

And 10 years later I was laid off... and got a job paying more than twice as much. Wish I'd been laid off sooner, lol. No unions involved.