Confirms the rumours I saw on spez's site last week. Someone got margin called or at least needed a huuuuuge invisible helping hand. I wonder how long the charade can last.
That's at least partly because the tax department itself is chronically underfunded. In the US the IRS literally avoids auditing really rich people most of the time because it's too much for their budget. Whereas, they can pick on less wealthy people, who also cannot afford to defend themselves in court.
Fortran -- because helping any of the idiot CxOs who embraced vibe coding will only reward them and delay popping the bubble. Let 'em hang by their greed.
I hope any dev who's asked to come back and fix vibe-coding demands 3x their previous wage, double the vacation and stock options.
There is adventurescientists.org which has projects (sadly most are US-only, but sometimes they extend into Canada). They aren't necessarily 'camp's with groups, but they might have something appealing to you.
I have installed Open-Shell on the win11 system I cannot avoid (Thanks for nothing ASUS for your total lack of effort in supporting standards on your laptops, BTW. Keyboard? Nah, we'll make its USB descriptors totally different just for the lulz. Sound? Intel HD, but why make it work with standard Linux drivers?).
Full article is paywalled, but the attempt at shaming in the first paragraph I could read -- that Conservatives in the US have any sense or concern about hypocrisy, is woefully naive. They don't care that they apply standards to others but not themselves. There is no 'pressure' applied to them in pointing this out, either.
I also suspect none of the people that matter even read The Atlantic either. Words haven't been enough to stop these fascists for a long time.
I've wondered at times if DNS resolution should be a vote system at the client side; one chooses a set of, say 3 DNS servers, and trusts the majority reply, reporting the dissenting one, if there is one, to some other set of observers who can then evaluate if something hinky is afoot.
And it's the same in the private sector; corporations that are rich enough just violate the law, and are almost never held to account. If they are, the fines are usually much less than half of the ill gains, so they just mark them as a cost of doing (illegal) business.
Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.
EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.
Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.
Is there any sort of legal or social contract here that the state(s) could argue is being violated, as grounds to draw up a resolution of secession? Would such a threat do any good? Maybe this isn't the 'hill to die on' but... what will be, if anything? Am I out of question marks? :p
I'm not American so I don't know if this even makes sense, but at what point will states have to take things to another level in their relationship with the Federal government?
I recently heard a saying which I'm still trying to take to heart and apply to my own troubles working on creative pursuits: "Comparison is the thief of joy".
We're all so connected and online these days, it's all too easy to see the work of others, and either feel "it has all been done before, what's the point?", or "this other person is so good I'll never reach their level".
Confirms the rumours I saw on spez's site last week. Someone got margin called or at least needed a huuuuuge invisible helping hand. I wonder how long the charade can last.