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Their ambitious plan is to protect their desktop monopoly. Microsoft had planned on making gaming a major part of their revenue. However, they messed up so bad that it created the first true threat to the Windows monopoly on decades.

If the SteamOS tech stack can get consumers off Windows, then it makes it that much easier to threaten the Office monopoly as well.

They’re trying to get rid of expensive people. It just happens to be that expensive = experience = old. After all, why hire one senior developer in Washington when you can hire ten junior developers in Warsaw?

Isn’t remote work great?

That’s implied in the use of men as a descriptor.

Most research into AI tends to split is usefulness into two categories, it helps the top performers more than the average or it helps the bottom performers more than the average.

If it helps the bottom performers more, that industry is dead since it means that AI can credibly do the job well enough to replace people. If it helps out the top performers more, it means you can run on reduced head count, but the standards for the remaining headcount are going to go up.

What is being optimized in the end? Reduced headcount. The work may be slop, but if it is good enough, it will be cheaper to implement and cost may be more of an issue that quality.

The issue with Linux is going to be if there will be a single distro that dominates or if it will be more distributed. Right now, it looks like Google and Valve are the closest to making dominant distros, but I can see at least one EU government one being created as well. If there are few distros, then I can see development getting locked to those distros rather than across all Linux.

The same thing happened with Android, Google ended up controlling Android so the open source side got hollowed out and the closed source side controlled by Google became necessary to running Android.

Or Oracle will start stealth hiring in other countries like Poland and India to use that staff as their junior devs in a more sink or swim environment.

It isn’t just one country doing it, it is just the one most reported on in English language news.

If it weren’t for the bubble, we’d already be in a recession.

I’m taking about default behavior. 20+ years ago, the default phone call was pushing a piece of technology against an ear an next to your mouth. That hasn’t been the default for a while.

Probably how children were raised to speak to people over the phone.

Until the iPhone, I can’t think of too many personal phones that could put the call on speaker. So, if families with kids called other family, it was usually a form of one on one calls where people handed the phone off between each other. Nowadays, the default option is to put the call on speaker so everyone can hear everyone else. That set an expectation to where calls are on speaker unless there is a need for privacy.

I don’t know if just stopping the attack is going to work this time. Iran was significantly attacked and will want some form of retribution in order to remind the USA to never do this again.

The USA and Israel will need to pay costs for peace.

“In these two wars, security cameras are being hacked as a way to gain intelligence”

Fixed the headline.

Yeah. These quotes from Londoners before compulsory education show how bad it was:

https://youtube.com/shorts/i4TICZ67Ws4

I think it is the future, but the future is much slower getting here than people think and will likely be more bespoke than dumping the entire written contents of the English language into a computer.

I don’t see why not. Israel attacked oil infrastructure, showing this was as much an economic war as anything else.

Decades of conflict have seen millions leave the countryside for the cities, fleeing wave after wave of violence at the hands of guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, drug cartels and the state. And even where fewer people were displaced by conflict, youths have continued to drift to the cities, driven by a wage gap that has traditionally seen rural workers earn less than their urban counterparts.

Found it. Lower pay and quality of life than living in cities.

I know one engineer who bought the Meta glasses due to the form factor. For others with the Go Pro, they usually mount the cameras on their hard hat, which makes it easy to see since black hard hats are rare.

Outside of signals intelligence, what benefit is this going to have for South Korea? Canada had a decent military, but it is a shell of its former self.

In American banking companies, Vice President is usually the first promotion you get.

They are buying the Mac Minis since they are a cheap way to run a server where this would work. They aren’t create a safe environment for AI, but an access point on local hardware.