Comment Auto apply tool that works? (Score 1) 63
What auto apply tool for jobs actually works properly? I’ve looked at them and they all seem buggy.
Comment Sure...plans... not promises (Score 3, Insightful) 39
IBM plans to do many things...doesn't mean they will. Well, except for firing their more senior employees.
Comment Non-Paywalled LInk (Score 2) 39
Comment Expensive and reminder of death (Score 2) 58
There are two main drivers of age bias:
1) The conscious, economic one.
Experienced workers cost more. While experience can generate efficiency gains, those gains rarely show up on a balance sheet after the first year. The loss of that institutional knowledge only becomes visible later—often when organizations end up rebuilding or reinstalling the very systems they dismantled.
2) The subconscious, psychological one.
Older people remind younger colleagues of aging and mortality, which creates discomfort and bias even when no one intends it.
1) The conscious, economic one.
Experienced workers cost more. While experience can generate efficiency gains, those gains rarely show up on a balance sheet after the first year. The loss of that institutional knowledge only becomes visible later—often when organizations end up rebuilding or reinstalling the very systems they dismantled.
2) The subconscious, psychological one.
Older people remind younger colleagues of aging and mortality, which creates discomfort and bias even when no one intends it.
Comment Re:Uh where is the Wired article link? (Score 1) 41
Thanks never noticed that.
All moot since its a paywalled article anyway.
Comment Uh where is the Wired article link? (Score 1) 41
I know slashdot editors like to play hide the article link, but this time they didnt even include an link to the wired article from which they copied their blurb text.
Comment $4000 a terabyte! (Score 1) 19
$4000 a terabyte! Forgot how expensive a 1tb spinning disk was back in 2001!
Comment Re:Not a good look (Score 2) 26
Not really. Apple has a history of tech partnering until it decides that it wants to do it itself (maps, CPUs to name two examples).
Im confident whatever apple does with Google it will put privacy protections in place that matches it's corporate policy.
Comment Re:Apple is Immune to Memory Price Hikes-unlikely (Score 1) 27
Why would RAM on the SOC make them immune, the RAM in the SOC comes from somewhere?
Additionally, Apple does have multiple year supplier contracts, however if prices dont come back down at time of the contract renewal, Apple prices will go up.
Comment YouTube Computer Chronicles is stolen from archive (Score 3, Informative) 19
The YouTube episodes were stolen from Cheifet posting them to archive.org.
Comment Way to hold the line...not. (Score 2) 42
As usual, all these declarative dates mean nothing with politicians. Good luck to the next generation swimming in a sea of single use plastic piling up everywhere.
Comment Game Support and MS Office Apps (Score 1) 231
If MS Office were available on Linux and games had direct support (not just interpretative engines) then Linux would take off. MS office on MacOS is partly why MacOS is a viable OS platform. Unfortunately, what MS did with its office formats makes other office app suites unable to perfectly render its files
Comment Non Paywalled Version of Article (Score 1) 26
Here's a link to the article on another site which doesn't require a subscription. What do slashdot editors even do anymore?
https://www.insurancejournal.c...
Comment Re:Do they Need More Money? (Score 2) 51
Take a look at the size of Wikipedia's bank account. They constantly continue to solicit for funds as though they're desperate for funds on their site despite having billions upon billions of funds, enough to last pretty much off of the interest alone.
Work in AI, eh?
So... you didn't actually look at the size of WikiMedia Foundation's bank account.
WikiMedia absolutely has enough money to run Wikipedia indefinitely if they treated their current pile of money as an endowment and just used the income from it to support the site. They don't have "billions upon billions", but they do have almost $300M, and they spend about $3M per year on hosting, and probably about that much again on technical staff to run the site, so about $6M per year. That's 2% per year. Assuming they can get a 6% average return on their assets, they can fully fund Wikipedia forever, and then some.
So, what do they do with all of the donations instead, if the money isn't needed to run Wikipedia? It funds the foundation's grant programs. Of course, you might actually like their grant programs. I think some of their grants are great, myself, and if they were honest about what they're using it for I might be inclined to give. But they're not, and the fact that they continue lying to Wikipedia's user base really pisses me off, so I don't give and I strongly discourage everyone I can from giving, at every opportunity.
Wow I had no idea. Do you have a citation so I can read more?
Comment Penny change level of investment (Score 3, Informative) 23
SoftBank, the company that invested $16 billion in we work alone. Intels Intel's revenue for 2024 was approximately $53.1 billion and its market cap is over $107 billion. This is a press release for attention, not a significant investment for either company
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