The biggest risk with any cloud storage is that it goes away without notice.

"That never happens" but it does. If they flag and shut down your account(s) they can, and have, hung people/small businesses out to dry that either didn't have a proper backup-to-the-backup solution or needed too long to restore the data and transition to another platform.

Your data is not private on DropBox and there's no option for Zero Knowledge Encryption/BYOK. 3rd party tools exist (ugh Vera) but they make the experience even worse.

I dislike Apple's ecosystem, but that's one thing they do extremely well, and pretty much seamlessly. I wish MS/OneDrive had a consumer-level option for this.

I used to get crashes out of DropBox years back when I moved many (many) thousands of files repeatedly and the database couldn't keep up but otherwise it was fine-just-fine in that regard.

> Winning
You would like losing a LOT less.

I'm no highly respected scholar on the middle east like you clearly are but a nuclear-armed terrorist-state doesn't tickle my happy places.

Nuclear weapons would give them actual /control/ of the Strait of Hormuz vs the temporary interdiction while they ensure the rest of their middle-eastern 'brothers' want nothing to do with them.

Trump is good at making enemies, but they still need him for better or worse.
Iran is making lots of enemies, none of which want or need them at all. Heck, even Russia who quite possibly would have /lost/ their war if not for drones and drone tech from Iran is doing fuck-all to help them out.

Funny thing that. You can buy digital goods that don't technically exist, labor, services, etc. ... you pay the apple tariff.

But you buy physical goods (amazon, walmart, temu, etc.) and ... no apple tariff.

... 1986 when the pols insisted on complicating an already very hard problem by building a "reusable" spacecraft with boosters from jurisdiction for votes while launching in another...then both cutting safety factors AND ignoring warnings from the actual engineers. I was a child and watched 7 people die on live TV.

The people who actually build rockets are AMAZING. When pols get in the way it gets expensive and dangerous. This is why SpaceX - literally - revolutionized space launch and everyone is desperately struggling to catch up to their soon-to-be-retired platform. Love em or hate em, Musk put the actual engineers in charge and ... yah. Winner winner chicken dinner.

When the goal is cost-plus we all lose. When the goal is 'do the thing' and then they'll come...we all win.

OMG NO!

You've hit on un-mined gold which...I hope will cause a revolt.

Imagine of monitor mfgs. build in a motion sensor to briefly activate and show ads? So you could still be 'green' but also abruptly blink-on with some stupid paid-for-reason-to-punch-a-screen?

It's bad enough...please no

Which CEO paid to have this "survey" article posted exactly? We already know the RTO mandate is solidly centered around corporations having long-term lease commitments and not wanting to look stupid having expen$ive office space mostly empty.

To be honest, a smaller, full office isn't so bad. But when you have a big, sweeping office with all the 'collab' spaces and it's a ghost town, yah, that's depressing.

Being realistic, companies are happy to dump the commute time/cost burden back on employees - why not? It costs them nothing but a bit of churn. If there's a negligible increase in productivity due to 'engagement' they still win. What we don't see if travel budgets cracking back open to 'engage' with all the 'offshored' employees.

Nope. You'll 'engage' with the staff local to your office, even if they have nothing to do with your line of work because it costs the company nothing and they *might* see a slight benefit.

Fuck all that. If your job doesn't need daily engagement then make a point to only accept occasional 'engagement' activities instead of the pointless 'hide in a conference room for meetings with people not-here' every day you're in the office for 'engagement' /rant

No, NO, no, and NOOO.

What level of stupid, pointless, and literally useless idiocy is this?

42 :) 69 = 420

Can we just ... not? I know pols always need to "do something." Dev managers...also yes. But can the people writing the fking compilers just...NOT?

Ok, plan B. If you're making a language that accepts emojis, it must ONLY accept emojis and classis operands. No text. Have kind kiddies. Let me know when you manage 'hello world' while the rest of us do something - anything - vaguely more useful.

> Government is incredibly efficient
Sarcasm? Troll?

Government is anything BUT efficient by almost every measure, at least in the US.

Per capita Medicare (and Medicaid which is the low income one) costs are HIGHER than private insurance. A quick google gets me 2021 data of $9108 median for Medicaid vs $7380 for employee sponsored plans (total cost, not just employee contribution). I do agree that Medicaid coverage is better.

So yah, think critically and google competently.

Agreed. They whole 'we need more profits so let's force-feed more random ads' has gotten way past the diminishing returns point.

When my FB feed (yes i'm old) is easily 80% 'promoted' 'recommended' 'xyz follows' 'direct advertisement' 'suggested whatever' 'outright ad not labeled as such' and so on...like why? You're not actually giving me anything out of your product that I want so I'll just stop using it.

I saw the new one, it seemed like a cheezy generic attempt at he MCU playbook. Faux Ironman and bots, obviously fake CGI (why? WHY???) over and over including the "star" of the movie.

Oh, and at least they skipped the gender politics (kinda) and only threw in mockery of other political topics. Eh. The movie wasn't really that good and seemed very formulaic.

Even with Natural Language (we are not there IMO) interactions it's still easier, faster, and arguably less distracting to turn a knob 2 clicks and make the AC blow harder. Basic interaction works best with basic (physical) controls you can manipulate by feel and never look away from the road.

Semi-complex interaction, like asking GPS for a gas station along your route in the next 20 miles is a decent use case. A human would probably pick a better option, but this falls under 'close enough' and can be faster/easier than doing it manually without any significant distraction.

Once you get to complex operations like scrolling around maps, find adjustments to things, etc. you're back to manual control being far superior to voice control (even if it's on a touch screen) because explaining those actions is too complex to do accurately.

The manufacturers want it. Multiple physical buttons are (apparently) expensive in the context of all the added wiring, etc. vs a single touch-screen that can 'do it all'.

BUT with all the focus on distracted driving the last decade or two, it seems awfully counter-productive to make people look at a screen to find the buttons to adjust climate control. In many ways, it's easier to hold your phone up and thumb thru things (so the road is still in center-view instead of hiding it in your lap like people do now) than look over to the touch screen and try to tap the right spots at arms-length.

Common controls like climate, traction, shifting, signals, and probably basic media control should all have physical buttons. Then just give me a screen for CarPlay/Android Auto and the remaining car controls. There's really no point in any kind of GPS/infotainment in cars anymore other than a pricey, bundled, upsell to pad profit margins. Even grandma has a smartphone.

Until it's my personal, private "AI" that's doing the 'thinking' about things...which doesn't share back to anyone...I've really limited interest in every cloud provider directly snooping all my data. E2EE is frankly the name of the game, and if you design your apps to access the decrypted in-flight data for 'monitoring' purposes then you've effectively built in the back-door the EU mandated recently.

In a perfect world E2EE should be available for all services - especially with things like cloud storage - and allow for a robust private key/BYOKey approach. Too bad that takes away from all the data mining that actually pays for the services.

Playing it out, you do get to that point. It might be an opt-in function to start but then the "let's do more" crowd gets the idea to background record everything in case if flags nudity and then you can auto-upload that to ... where ever police FYI something something.

Never mind they'll bury in the TOS that every call becomes 'anonymized training data' even if you don't use the service. There's a point where every interaction is scrutinized by some AI or algorithm and we're no longer adults but baby-sat humans. Most cloud storage providers are already scanning all your data/uploads for anything with a verboten hash.

It's a good argument for using BOYKey encryption for ALL your data and interactions. Too bad that's not consumer-ready, largely because it would prevent big brother from snooping on everything to sell more ads. Honestly if someone created a universal API with BOYK encryption to sit between your device and other providers...they'd probably make a killing.

That's ... not really accurate or how an IPO/opening cross works. The point is immediate liquidity for the listing company while the initial investors hold the bag and more slowly sell shares according to market demand. Read on for details:

IPO price is decided between the company and the underwriters. Too high and there's risk to the underwriters/investors losing money facilitating the IPO. Too low and the company leaves money on the table. This process guarantees the company an immediate cash return of a specific dollar amount in return for the shares tendered.

Then you have the opening cross match that determines the initial *market* price based on pre-open, pending orders aka demand. Those orders get processed, the stock priced, and trading commences in a fraction of a second. A point of clarity: all tendered shares are NOT immediately available on the open market.

A company will price as high as they can, within the range that underwriting will allow for. It's not risk-free money for investors either - they can't just dump all their shares on the market post-IPO without tanking the price. There's a lot that goes into how deciding how many shares are held vs sold, when, and at what price. You may have underwriting that will help support pricing on an IPO with open large buy orders - to prevent a stock from falling below certain price targets. In the end it means those 'insiders' get paid to hold a much bigger nut when a company goes public.

There's a direct listing IPO, but it's much less common for reasons not worth getting into.

Reference: I work for one of the stock markets.