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Turns out "cheaper always wins" ...

Who are these companies though? Even the tech companies that were supposedly eliminating people with AI turned out not to be eliminating those people for those reasons.

Do you work in the real world? Like the one where people choose to work when sick and there's nobody turning any thumbscrews on them? Hell I went to work Friday despite being sick so that I could be there while my co-workers handed me candy. That was entirely internal feelings that didn't come from my boss.

Sometimes they are valid, but they are often nearly impossible to happen in practice (and usually local only.)

I will add that on the "upper end" of reading, those of use who read enormous quantiles of books, we by and large had migrated to ebook subscription services and there's been recently a bit of death of those.

They were fine and fun through most of the pandemic but then apparently AI because just "good enough" that those books that were kind poorly written by amateurs could suddenly be written by AI. Sadly those books are just terrible.

Maybe we'll go back to paperbacks, but I'm not sure. Hard to say when you read about 320 books a year. (For about 30 years now.) Japanese eBooks are still a bit better, but there's less fluff books in Japanese.

They use 3d scanning to confirm the suits are "right sized" and yes it's sports for minor physical characteristics can have performance enhancements.

Having bigger shoulders in luge makes a performance difference. Having bigger cakes in skeleton has a performance difference. In women's sprint events, there's a performance difference for having bigger cakes as well.

The entire point of Vox Media was to milk viewers for more money because Tim Stevens was very against additional monetization.

Same here.

I stopped watching pretty much anything after 2018 or so.

Just random shit on YouTube or TV when I'm in the car (because our cars all have TV in them, not sure why that didn't catch on in the West, but it's universal in Japan.)

No and also no.

It's just Windows 10 with a new number added.

I work from home normally, but damn if the office workers couldn't make it to the office (which would realistically require an Earthquake) they still just work from home. But also nobody here works from office 5 days a week - exceptions being staff who's job is physical like data center staff.

The "cheap" brands have improved enormously. That's part of the problem for people like Sony, the bottom tier has almost come up to the top to the point where most people in the real world cannot tell the difference.

CIO speedrun to firing.

Azure apparently has significantly more Linux usage than Windows AND for locked in costs, its hard to beat.

We've migrated several customers to Azure who don't use Windows at any level.

Sounds all 100% like .COM boom comments right before it went POP!.