Whenever a judge says something it is a ruling. Preliminary injunctions are rulings.

Perhaps you're confusing it with a finding, or a "final ruling."

PIC is often the cheapest at volume so gets used a lot. These days you can get a 32 bit ARM on a tiny 6 pin package, so that often gets used instead even for things that would work fine on 8 bit.

Personally I prefer AVR over PIC for 8 bit, because it has a GCC port and fits better into the same toolchains as ARM.

Z80 still exists but it isn't used in very many places. Definitely not popular.

That's already a thing, you don't have to "expand" it at all.

Also, MS hasn't noticed, doesn't care.

Proton is basically a wine sandbox packager.

The only way I can see that working is if the ambulance operator is allowed to give them a kickback.

Ancient wisdom from my dad, in an age before cell phones...

"In New York they don't want to get involved, but they'll call you an ambulance after they turn the corner. In Chicago they didn't see nothing! Even if they had to step over you."

I've heard both cities have changed a lot in the last 60 years, though.

This is all somewhat misleading because Zilog still makes 8 bit "eZ80" microcontrollers with Z80 compatibility mode. Though for new designs you should usually use their new 24-bit addressing mode for high speed general I/O and debugging. High pin count versions in stock at Mouser with no EOL warnings listed.

If you really want to experience the differences between that and a modern instruction set the simulation software should "all" cover it. Probably better off learning RISC5 if you want to get good at low-feature ASM in a more useful context.

The headline-writing AI doesn't even know that UFC is a brand.

URKL isn't UFC.

They lose all the lawsuits then, because the plaintiff can prove they were harmed, and you can't even say why you harmed them.

The actual reality is that you do have to check if the supposed "performance" metric scores people lower based on protected status or protected actions.

If taking family leaves gives people a lower score, you have two choices: You can throw out the whole metric, or you can apply a different, personalized metric for people who took family leave.

Waving your hands and saying "performance metric" isn't a magic spell.

And if they had an actual performance metric that they could weigh... why would they need AI? What would the AI be doing? How do you know if the AI said, "Well, the internet says [protected class] are less successful at this job, reducing the number of [protected class] improves performance."

If you're required not to discriminate against a class that often involves making a reasonable accommodation. You're saying they told, "Fire the bottom x% based on a unquantified performance metric that you'll invent, and completely ignore if they're a member of a class that requires an accommodation." That's basically the same as what you said. The result is that it is both gross negligence, and also malicious. If a disabled person requires some accommodation, and the score lower on their performance metric because the company did a weak job in providing that accommodation, and they fire them while intentionally ignoring their accommodation, then they're completely screwed.

There's no way for the AI to do something more than the human could do with the same data unless it is cutting corners and making biased assumptions. The AI doesn't have a God-view of the employees, it isn't an oracle of truth, it doesn't have performance metrics that weren't in the personnel files.

Imagine in a factory where an ignorant, passively racist department head subconsciously assigns people of certain races to less desirable shifts, and those shifts (eg, night shifts) have lower performance than day shifts, then your AI realizes people on the night shift have low performance, get rid of them. Using an algorithm to make broad firing decisions can present unexpected liability issues even when carefully considered, but when it's done using a black box, you're basically guaranteed that impermissible bias will result in actionable harm. When somebody's on a shitty shift but they get the same pay, they can't really sue you for anything. But if you fired them, now they can.

Labor is also cheaper than AI.

Companies need to burn thousands of dollars in tokens to get agents to do even vaguely equivalent work. Sure, the agent works all night and doesn't need breaks, but it also costs money literally every second you use it, and the end result STILL needs to be checked to make sure nothing insane happened.

Humans--even if you pay them a fair wage--are remarkably efficient at turning food (and coffee) into code and systems. The so-called 10x or 100x programmers (guys like Carmack) really DO exist. And while they're a nightmare to work with, generally speaking, they'll code circles around any agent. If you want something that nobody likes working with that will also give you hard to maintain code, hire a 10x programmer. At least you'll get a working system at the end of the day, and he didn't use a swimming pool full of water an a small gas power plant worth of energy to get it done.

Interestingly, literally the only person in my friend group that still drives stick is a woman. It's a relatively modern Honda (like, new enough that it has a backup camera in it). She's also one of the smoothest drivers I've ever ridden with. Her shifts are impeccable.

You had me at "State of Hormuz." I guess that's the 52nd State? And then later after Puerto Rico becomes the 51st State, they can recycle deep state to mean Hormuz. Which is course encompasses Canada, because... pizza.

There's too much stupid to go around on this one. So much stupid to go around that the media wanted their turn with this story!

If you can't find a negotiated military base on a map... you're probably too stupid to "abuse" radio transmissions until the radio trannies show you their documents and tell you where they came from.

Not only did they discover the location of well-known military bases, they also discovered the locations of hotels popular with foreign visitors. Golly... I knew online reviews were considered unreliable, but I didn't the location of popular hotels was actually a military secret!

They also apparently posted online ads... which puts them in some class of neer-do-well? That makes sense, but can we please expand this part of the analysis a bit... what exactly about privacy-raping ads is "bad?" I know, I know, but lets... add it up, provide a full accounting of what is wrong about that, and why.

Nobody is crying or asking them to stop, they haven't actually succeeded at counter-attacking anything.

I know it takes two brain cells to rub them together, but come on... you can simulate a cockroach with two transistors, try to at least simulate having two real brain cells.

Well, it is, but it's also "gross negligence." Which is to say, you may not have thought about it, but you're still responsible for it. More responsible for it than if you had made a bad decision on your own, incidentally.

Sounds like you should have retired a couple decades sooner to me. You probably would have if you had had time for more hobbies.