Which, to be clear, is protected here in the U.S. under the First Amendment -- contrary to what A.G. Pam Bondi said (then walked back, but probably still wants to be true even though she seriously should know this), and many on the Right complaining about anyone saying anything against Charlie Kirk (as just recent examples).

Seems to be ignoring that said information is often obtained from someone who shouldn't be releasing it. Journalists aren't stealing this information, it's being given to them. [*cough* Signal *cough*] If that information is new-worthy, especially if it's about the military/administration doing something wrong, illegal or suspect, it's their job to report it. The public casts the votes and pays the bills... This Administration should (try to) remember who serves who.

Perhaps expert politicians.

Since leaving my mega corp of the past 21 years, I've been working with startups. They uniformly don't give a shit where employees are. Everything is online and people are employed all over the world, where they are.

When you care about the costs, efficiencies and efficacies of engineering, WFH is the best option for design work. The data supports it and small companies are way more sensitive to costs. RTO is the preserve of large companies with lots of case and warped priorities.

>I've always wondered if it's true or not that the mostly Indian workforce in US is paid way below.

I came in on an L1 for a temp assignment. I was paid competitively. I did bring specific skills that were unavailable otherwise.
25 years later I'm still here. VP of engineering in a tech company and doing ok.

I'm not Indian though, although I work with many. Skills tend to count over origin in my field.

The knowledge is free.

The skilled professionals to persuade the pupil whose civil rights include refusing to learn to absorb it are not.

You can lock a kid in a library but you can't make her think. When ignorance is virtue we have lost.

50 years of shutting down American manufacturing has ensured that strategy is no longer viable for us. The US is a tech and service economy, and there is no way to go back in time without racing to the bottom of the world economically.

A chip that I played with a long time ago can only be programmed through 32-bit register access (limitation of the ARM bus). The address space for I/O peripherals can run out quickly and it's a hassle to move or expand them later. So a lot of small values get tightly packed into the register map. Here's one used for filter coefficients for the display.

Horizontal scaling filter is a 6-tap filter with 4-bit positional phase.
* Coefficients 0 and 5 are 3-bit signed value ranging from -4 to 3.
* Coefficients 1 and 4 are 5-bit signed value ranging from -16 to 15.
* Coefficients 2 and 3 are 8-bit unsigned value ranging from 0 to 128.
* Coefficient 0 is the multiplier for the earliest pixel (P0) in the group of 6-pixel and
* Coefficient 5 is the multiplier for the latest pixel (P5) in the group. The output pixel positional phase is defined as centered in P2 if the positional phase is 0 or proportionally in between P2 and P3 if the positional phase is larger than 0.

(source: 29.10.2 DC_WINC_A_PALETTE_COLOR_EXT_0)

If by "will go back" you mean "will be deported". If they're even allowed to stay long enough to graduate...

Make it an Xbox game -- try to import things while avoiding / minimizing tariffs.
(Ironically, there will probably be a tariff on the game.)

Great news for Canada, Australia, UK, and EU. They have a vibrant tech culture and it will suddenly get a new influx of labor that can bring about a lot of profit for many businesses.

Trump is playing a loser's strategy at globalization. Ultimately the stakes for him personally are low. But your average working class American is going to be hit hard when the money dries up for the fastest grown and fourth largest industry by revenue in the US, the information technology industry.

>They didn't say whose value it strengthened.

LG's, Westinghouse, GE, and so forth!

Actually, if they had the testicular fortitude, your Samsung would display an add reading, "if you had bought LG, you wouldn't be seeing this!" :)

hawk

>Has about the same importance as smart tech in a fridge for me.

I live in the desert, you insensitive clod! :_)

but seriously we doohave many days of 115-117F most summers. Self-replenishing ice is *important*.

it's not why we bought it, but our LG actually has two ice makers; one in the refrigerator door, which you can actually clean out, and another for larger square tubes in the upper freezer drawer (which we turn off for the cooler half of the year)

>A fridge will last for a decade or more,

you would *think* that, but my prior fridge was a Samsung.

The ice maker died of its own buildup just out of warranty, the drip tray for the water dispenser caused rust lines through the paint below it, and the whole thing failed at 4 or 5 years--we came out one morning and it was at 50.

Compare to the Samsung dryers whose stainless steel barrels tend to crack and go out of round, wanting a $400 replacement!

The refurbisher who came out with our temporary dryer told us that from his experience (primarily washers & dryers), Samsung had the highest failure rate, while the other Korean brand, lg,had the lowest, with everything else in between.

>Agree, and don't even allow my TStat's to connect to wifi.

Have you *read* the license on those?

I brought home a wifi thermostat, thinking it would be nice to be able to change it half an hour out when coming home, and then read the terms.

It was like a parody of the terms you find offered sarcastically around here.

Pretty much, "you agree that we can send armed goons into your house, torture your dog, rape your cat, and sell your children into slavery. We may do anything we want with your data, and even more so if someone is willing to pay us for it."

It went back.