They are going to spin it off eventually, aren’t they?

Maybe some Lua, as a treat?

Depends on wether I want them to understand. If I just say we are the ISP for universities and other schools of higher education then they mostly go, “Ah okay”, but it seems like no one has any idea what that means. I feel like despite using them daily people don’t even know what a network is sometimes.

They have offices and datacenters in the EU. So forced physical entry and interruption to their operations would be the next escalation step.

There’s generally higher throughout if people just stand on both sides.

Throughput isn’t everything though, for instance in train stations some people hurry for a connection, I would say let the latency sensitive ones bypass the others, except in situation where there is a concrete throughput issue.

And the fast blink while pairing can stay too. That’s a good use of the LED imho.

I don’t want to change game dev actuality. I just want the terms to reflect what’s actually going on.

Very good and sensible, I second this motion!

and even tennis.

Tennis?! Not even Serena Williams believes that:

“Andy Murray has been joking about myself and him playing a match. I’m like, ‘Seriously? Are you kidding me?’ Men’s tennis and women’s tennis are two completely different sports,” Serena Williams said. “If I were to play him, I’d lose 6-0, 6-0 within 10 minutes. Men are a lot faster, they serve and hit harder. It’s a different game.”

It did not simply analyze the best type of graphics card for the situation.

Yes it certainly didn’t: It’s a large language model, not some sort of knowledge engine. It can’t analyze anything, it only generates likely text strings. I think this is still fundamentally misunderstood widely.

Welcome to 2010 to you as well then!

It’s easy to create artificial maintenance costs there as needed.

That reminds me of the bricked polish trains, not only did they create artificial maintenance cost, they also tried to ensure that only they (and not their competitors) would be able to do that maintenance (unflipping the kill-switch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrlrbfGZo2k

Some software uses license servers where each client is supposed to request a seat temporarily. If more people use it at once than seats were licenses they detect that with phone home features. We had that with Matlab I believe, if you tried using it in the most popular time you might not be able to.

It should be treated with “utmost importance”, not with utmost importance. That ending is quite subversive!

If they are a company for grown ups why is he acting all controlling like an insecure little child instead of trusting in his employees like a brave adult?

Yeah you’re probably right.

Although the peak power you can withdraw from a battery is also an important factor, the energy capacity would be the expected size to be reported here.

Thank you for sharing that information.

Then it really does seems like some reviewers were just entering the grey zone willingly, to get phones intended for advertisements and used them for reviews anyway.

There are also some on Facebook’s, Amazon’s or ByteDance’s respective teats

The second half of the article goes into that a bit. Seems like some reviewers were also grouped into that program before, and the terms weren’t like this before.

The Verge spoke with other independent reviewers and freelance tech journalists who say that they were grouped into the Team Pixel program for review units in the past. For those in the latter group, the new stipulation is a threat to their integrity and livelihood. Matlock says he’s since quit the Team Pixel program over the new terms.

YouTuber Kevin Nether, who runs The Tech Ninja channel, also says the clause led him to quit the Team Pixel program. “As someone who reviews technology for a living, I work with many brands. To be cornered into using one product — that doesn’t work for me, and that’s nothing I want to participate in.”

Nether echoes that he’s never seen this kind of stipulation in previous Team Pixel surveys. Usually, he says, the survey gauges a creator’s interest in various topics, like sports or fashion, to identify areas for collaboration. In the past, he says he’s made it clear to Team Pixel representatives that outside an obligatory post, he will review the device as normal. Nether also says this exclusivity term is atypical. Usually, when brands demand exclusivity from creators or brand ambassadors, they’ll offer payment, have clear disclosure rules, and have limited timelines.

Either Google changed the focus of the program, or the intent wasn’t clear enough in previous years

Probably slightly less, Youtube came out publicly in 2005. But good call, that might be mine too. Or the Hotmail account I used back then.

Thanks for the info! For a comparison I’ll give you mine:

Switzerland has the worlds second most expensive healthcare system, also with private insurance providers. There are some differences to the US though. Having health insurance is mandatory and there are state contributions for people who couldn’t afford it otherwise. And we have a certain defined level of base insurance with defined coverage that the insurers all have to offer and that you can’t be denied for.

Anyway I pay $480/mo for mine, which has a few extras over the base, like sharing a room with only one instead of three people in a hospital stay. I haven’t used it much though, so I can’t tell you from experience what sort of co-pay I would be looking at, but I believe it’s capped. https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/versicherungen/krankenversicherung/krankenversicherung-versicherte-mit-wohnsitz-in-der-schweiz/praemien-kostenbeteiligung.html

This is while making $85,000/yr working as a Senior IT Engineer, and paying $2,700/mo for rent.

Oh shit, I thought IT people in the US made more than here in Switzerland?! Or is that only in specific areas of California?

I live on the outskirts of Zürich and rent for our 3 room flat is $3’200/mo. However, I started on about $100’000/yr as a Junior Network Engineer directly after completing my master’s degree in Computer Science in 2021.