This is a good move. Now everyone outside the USA needs to do the same thing. The USA is no longer a trustworthy partner and you really don't want to risk the USA shutting down your operations if King Donald gets in a snit at you.

I've de-Big-Tech'd my personal life to quite a large extent.

STEM didn't even last two generations.

Too bad. So sad. No job for Bob.

Anyone with an IQ over 60 moved on 20 years ago.

To be fair, if you can code in Java, you can code in TypeScript or JavaScript. I mean, the object declaration syntax is an abomination, but other than that, there's nothing super complex about moving from one object-oriented programming language to another, though you may get non-idiomatic stuff. (As they say, "A good Java programmer can write Java in any programming language.")

That's sad.

It's probably worth noting that anyone with experience in industry probably doesn't have a portfolio site, so if you expect that, you'll be limiting yourself to new grads. If you like weird code related to PTZ cameras, I have a couple of coding-related personal projects on the side, but I can't show you anything else that I've worked on since I started in the industry other than some developer documentation (which many other people have worked on over the years since I last touched it). I doubt I'm alone in that.

At some point, folks do coding interviews because seeing how people approach writing code is the only way to know if they can write code. And it has to be done in person, or else you'll be finding out how good some AI is at writing code instead more often than not. And that's expensive, which is why people who don't live physically in the area you're hiring are challenging.

And this is why I suspect you're missing a lot of good people. As many people as have gotten laid off, most of whom were working successfully at other companies, they can't mostly be useless. Maybe they will take a little bit longer to come up to speed on whatever framework you're using, or whatever language you're using, but rejecting them out of hand for that is a bit like not hiring a construction worker because they've only worked with DeWalt tools and you use Makita.

Yeah, the obvious fakes are obvious. I don't know who they think they're going to fool, other than AI-based résumé scanners, and if someone lies on their résumé and gets caught, they'll still get fired even if they were working at the company competently, so they're really not doing themselves any favors by pulling stunts like that.

As for me, my résumé also includes my music background. It is surprising how often that gets noticed and has even ended up being part of interview questions at times. It may not get you past the bot scanners, but you never know.

It's only a single lane of PCIe, so the ~32 gigabit total throughput is probably not realistically enough for 6 links at 5 gigabits each, but then again the Pi's CPU probably can't handle the traffic from six saturated USB 3 links, either. :-D

There is no such thing. 8 * 1920 = 15 * 1024.

Anyway.... screens are getting bigger. A month ago I worked with installing multiple 100" screens in conference rooms, programming display processors to show a mosaic of four video sources on the same screen. When the source signal is the same resolution as the screen's video input, the sources had to be scaled down.
It might take some time before the equipment exists, but it would still be nice to have the standard ready before then.

And... 14 years ago, I visited this wall-sized touch screen exhibit. The pixels were huge up close.
Even earlier back at uni, I programmed a 3D virtual environment cube of screens surrounding a user inside. Of course the pixels were huge up close there too.

I think that a majority of welding in the manufacturing world is already done robotically these days. Given modern AI advances, it stands to reason that this will become more widespread in construction and other areas sooner, rather than later. I would be surprised if you could make a 50-year career of it at this point. I'd give it twenty years before the work starts drying up.

The same is true for plumbing and electrical work, but less so, because there's so much more of that, and so much of it is bespoke, making repairs a bit more challenging. Even still, you'll have robots doing a lot of the work by the time you retire, just maybe not all of it.

I'm also in Canada. Our system is very good... except that it's incredibly slow and access is difficult because there are not enough family doctors. Once you manage to get in the system, care is excellent.

The speed and lack of doctors can be fixed with adjustments to the system that don't involve bringing in private healthcare. We need to recognize foreign doctors' credentials more readily and not force family practitioners to also deal with owning a business and all the headaches that go along with that.

In Canada, some services (eg, lab work and diagnostic imaging) are done by private companies that are reimbursed by the government. I think that's a fine arrangement and would be open to that sort of "private healthcare."

Enough.

Not one of you have a clue as to what you're talking about. Unlike you, or any reporter, or any politician, I LOOKED IT UP about 10 years ago.
FACT: for Medicaid, they were spending about $7300/yr for men, and about $8400/yr for women.

Now, all you "we can't afford it" (but we can afford a $45M parade, and $155M in bombs for no fucking reason), my company, in the last few years before I retired in '19, was paying TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR PER EMPLOYEE. And most of us added to that, to get to the "gold" plan... which was about equivalent to Medicaid. AND we had a limited number of plans to get onto.

Go ahead, tell me any company would not like to save $4k/yr/employee.

That's not really true. Most EVs have sealed packs, and should survive flooding without catching fire, though the safety fuses will self destruct to prevent extreme discharge, which means the packs will have to be opened up to repair them afterwards.

And most EVs use LiFePO4 cells, which tend to be pretty robust against thermal runaway.

So if these batteries exhibited thermal runaway, it likely means A. they're older cell chemistry for cost reasons, and B. the cells had dendrites or other manufacturing defects, again pointing towards low-quality parts. Either that or C. they didn't provide adequate protection for the battery underneath and it got punctured during transport somehow. Any way you cut it, assuming an EV actually started the fire as the summary seems to imply, it points to a design problem or a quality control problem, not an accident, IMO.

Also, as others have mentioned, there is approximately no elemental lithium in lithium ion batteries. They do burn, but lithium salts don't react violently when you get them wet. LiFePO4 just dissolves in water. A little bit of the outside turns into Li3PO4, and you end up with some extra iron, but otherwise, nothing happens.

Who's been asking for that? *I* want brief to run in Linux.

So, tell us: does someone log on for you, and push keys for you? I mean, you're so fucking stoooopid that you shouldn't own a computer.

Moron, it's LOUISIANA. Filled with rednecks and MAGA hats. What they're scared of is THEIR ELECTRIC BILL going through the roof, because Zuck (who, btw, is busy deleting anti-47 groups on faceplant) will use so much.

And all the anti-trasn? What, you can't find anyone to date? You can't get laid? Not willing to pay?

Cheap shit. The prostitutes probably draw straws for who gets stuck jerking you off for 30 sec.

Nah, that's BS. The idea of everyone having a wearable health device so Americans would be made "healthy" is ludicrous, no matter who proposes it.

Also: Universal single-payer healthcare so Americans don't need to choose between death and bankruptcy.

The opposite would be far worse, the situation they have in the US with home owners associations (HOA) is that the neighbourhood Karen gets to dictate where you park your car, how your garden must look, what pets you're permitted to have, the maximum length of your grass, so on and so forth. Imagine if your local curtain twitcher got power over you.

I prefer the freedom of the UK, a man's home is his castle (or woman's, why be sexist), having to put up with the small risk of a bad neighbour is much preferred to having someone dictate what your castle must look like.

The 1960s called, they want their complaints back.

One of my neighbours has a EV SUV, you hear that 2.5 tonne monster rattling down the road at 5 AM every morning, it's louder than my other neighbours diesel van (who goes to work at 7:30 like a normal person). Engines have been quiet for decades now. My first car was a mid 90's Honda Civic (VTI with the 1.6L Honda D engine) and I remember having to check whether the thing was on at traffic lights because I was worried that I'd stalled it, the thing was so quiet and calm.

The majority of road noise get caused by weight these days, specifically the noise of the tyres impacting the road, especially with the harder tyres they put on EVs to reduce rolling resistance. EV drivers think they're cars are silent for the same reason Diesel drivers think their cars are silent, because the cabin has been insulated from any kind of outside noise or feedback.