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Or Clooney’s character in Up In The Air ends up retiring in Florida, making him a very eligible bachelor.

Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.

I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.

Why the fuck would they delete the content?

The studio owns the content outright, so streaming rights costs should be nothing.

I feel like part of the problem is that management wants staff that can do a wide range of tasks when it ends up creating a staff that can’t specialize in a small group of tasks.

I’ve seen plenty of times where people can operate well as a cog on a big machine, but fall apart when they have to work in roles that require a variety of skillsets. Larger engineering companies can typically create enough work for people to specialize in smaller tasks than smaller engineering companies.

They don’t want to federate.

Though tough, through thorough thought, you can learn how to properly pronounce English words.

Verhoeven made the choice to make the movie a farce because he realized that making the movie serious would likely be interpreted as saying nice things about Nazis.

I don’t think tech companies got caught with their pants down, they just hit the far end of the S curve regarding growth.

A lot of other “tech” companies in the past saw massive leaps in tech capabilities, then hit a wall once tech got to a certain level. Computing has hit its wall.

Isn’t a broadcaster supposed to prioritize popular content that maximizes views and ad revenue?

There is a significant public interest component to broadcast, including producing some programming for the public good and providing fair access to all. Reagan dismantled a lot of those mandates, so I don’t know what’s remaining.

If there isn’t a written down set of features, it sounds like they want you to get done with as much as you can for less than $100,000.

That’s going to require more coordination in your end, since it means holding their hands while they prioritize what minimum features they can accept.

But you’re dealing with the mechanics on their side causing an issue with approval.

At that point, I’d look to remove scope to get under the 100k threshold.

You’re also having a problem that the new forms of distribution don’t seem to replace the revenue of old forms. A lot of people hoped that they could replicate HBO’s approach to streaming, but it turns out that it doesn’t work well if every streamer tries to be premium cable.

And if you raise prices too much, people stop paying.

That’s for actual residency. This seems to be able to exist in the country digitally. Other countries, like Estonia, have the same thing.

Given how costly it is to send inspectors on the tracks, I can see this being of value to MTA. This is also a decent use of AI.

A Google Pixel is dedicated recording hardware. It has a good enough microphone, great camera, and accelerometers to monitor vibration.

It also doesn’t have to be amazing, just good enough.

Not now, since Trump fucked over their finances.

I look at the Steam Deck less as an end product and more of a means.

The Steam Deck is absolutely getting slaughtered by the Switch in terms of sales, but it gives Valve an alternative to the Windows ecosystem that is becoming more hostile as Microsoft tries to muscle in on gaming. I also think that Valve could have designed a Steam Deck variant to compete with the Switch 2, but hasn’t for various reasons

Already, Valve has the technology to create a console to compete with a PS5 and Xbox Series X, but doesn’t seem to want to.

I can’t imagine it would be that much harder to make a Chromebook equivalent, giving it access to the PC market without Windows.

Since Valve is using Linux, developing the tech stack is cheap. Also, Valve seems to be selling hardware for a profit, so it may be more comfortable with slimmer margins.

They are waiting for India to rename themselves to Bharat so Pakistan can claim the name.

I read an Economist article about the expected impact of AI on worker productivity and it found a major bifurcation of impacts.

If AI output could be trusted as is, productivity gains mainly went to less productive workers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the hard parts of the job. This could reduce wages since you can lower job requirements by using AI.

If AI output needed human processing and review, productivity gains mainly went to high performers as they were able to benefit the most from a tool doing the easy parts of the job. This could reduce employment as high performers can do more by using AI.

Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.