Well, not quite....

Time zone alone is enough to make them dislike that arrangement.

Another is that navigating foreign employment, or perhaps even worse dealing with a middle man to take care of that for you is a nightmare.

Now you *are* in competition with people who might be later career and are happy to take a more basic salary in exchange from being able to maintain their lifestyle while living wherever they like. I know a few people that said they decided to commit their last decade or so to some rural living and taking just whatever job that goes with that, to keep their benefits alive and mostly keep letting their passive income grow.

Note this observation is *very* specific to the tech industry. The silicon valley phenomenon. Further, significantly specific to the west coast.

Basically, the tech industry from 90s to today in that area has experienced generally robust economic results and quite a few booms, so folks in that neck of the woods have gotten a bit pampered. But I would say it crosses generations, plenty of Gen Xers get caught up in it despite the money faucets turning on a bit later for them.

Most people know that outsourcing can be pretty expensive, but maybe less expensive than hiring local talent. The actual talent is cheap and may be easy to cheat out of an appropriate wage, but the middlemen are no fools and are experienced at making sure they get their cut and a decent rate for their minimal contribution. Also the middlemen are experienced at recognizing *any* opportunity to declare a request beyond the existing statement of work and demand more money before a fairly reasonable request can be serviced, incurring both budget and schedule increases.

Remote work opens up the best of both worlds, shopping around for cheap talent but still having direct control over the worker and not having to pay a middle man. That labor that doesn't know their worth and will never push back can now directly benefit the company. Maybe navigating foreign employment is still a bit much, but they can probably get plenty cheap labor by accepting folks from wherever within their own nation/province/state/whatever with the work from home benefit.

Really? I've never, ever heard that pitch for AI.

Also, the amount of energy required to reverse it... it's hard to see where that could possibly have come from.

The name of the product is "Bomb", and "Bomb" is the default Bluetooth name.

I don't know whether that makes you advice invalid, or all the more salient.

ROTFL

I guess so, looks like it is up to 950 now though, so guess it was a sale...

It was a yoga 7, but maybe it was a special deal for memorial Day. it is now 950...

Social engineering redux... except now you only have to convince a sycophantic and overly helpful AI.

Four hours is about halfway from NJ to Barcelona. I'm not sure I see the point in turning around.

I mean I just bought a Lenovo laptop with 16G of ram for $700 with touchscreen, a pen, and OLED screen...

Many people incorrectly think of proxies and VPNs (especially VPNs) as a security and privacy enhancement, but unless you're operating the proxy/VPN server yourself they're just as likely to be a massive security and privacy risk. The problem is that they concentrate all of the traffic you'd most like to keep secret in one server, and depending on exactly how the system works, may require installing software on your local machine with ~root permissions. If the operator is malicious, this is a really dangerous combination.

These are useful tools for location shifting and -- in fairly rare cases, and with VPNs only -- from hiding traffic from malicious. But third-party proxy/VPN services should always be viewed with suspicion. Obviously this is even more true when the provider is Russian... though it's pretty likely that wasn't made clear to the people who used the service.

A person can be sane and immoral, sane and moral, insane and immoral or insane and moral. "Orthogonal" is perhaps a little too strong, since it implies the absence of any relationship, but certainly all the combinations are possible.

In your case it might simply be that there was not enough of this kind of tasks in the training data.

It's probably going to be pretty credible, though they are thinking more 'openclaw' and less 'gaming'.

Though I despise everyone playing around with nVidia's "Superchip" terminology.