I don’t understand how this is getting approved.

Because you get promoted for changing things, not for keeping things the same. Almost every change like this is motivated by someone trying to get promoted.

“Right to work” refers to the fact that in those states, unions cannot force membership or payment, or force you to participate in labor strikes. You can still have a union in those states, but it’s very difficult for them to be effective because most people will choose not to pay into it, and strikes have significantly less bargaining power if there’s no legal obligation for union members to follow through with a strike.

The result is that in such states, there are very few unions, and so very few protections against firing workers for arbitrary reasons.

Pascal’s little-known friend Luigi’s wager.

This is brilliant. Definitely going to try this tomorrow.

Not only that - they’re dying in the street immediately adjacent to vacant luxury condos.

A good pair of pliers, like the Knipex Cobra.

It seems silly to be distrustful of proprietary BIOS firmware without having the same skepticism of the actual hardware.

Wow, I had no clue. TIL

3 nanometer

That’s a silicon lattice just six atoms thick. What a time to be alive!

TIL a single T-72B3 costs less than $2M.

Inference, yes. Training, no. Derived models don’t count.

I had a linux 5520 and it was terrible. Standby and bluetooth never worked properly. Are the new models any better?

I think it’s more like “snuck up on us” than any kind of nefarious connotation. Kind of like “how did a niche game like BG3 sneak into the top ten games list”?

I have 7 trees on my property. If you pay me $700 I’ll promise not to cut them down for five years, and you can subtract 35 tons of CO2 from your environmental balance sheet.

That’s how carbon offsets work. They’re bullshit.

Blocked by my employer’s security policies.

Deliberately using software encryption mode is slow; no shocker there. Their same testing showed no significant difference when hardware encryption mode was used.

Say it with me everyone - CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE

It’s not even clear to me that the mechanism they’re using today is problematic. I don’t know what it is, but the author seems to think they do but aren’t sharing details beyond “trust me bro”. I agree that some kind of inspection-based detection might run afoul of the law, but I don’t see why that’s necessary. All you need to know is that the client is requesting videos without any of the ad requests making it through, which is entirely server-side.

I don’t even know why they’re trying; the only people I know who have comcast have literally no other choice. Their marketing could be “get fukd what you gonna do get satellite internet?” and their subscriber base would drop less than 5%.

It doesn’t really matter what you personally use if you’re going to make sweeping generalizations about the quality of streaming music. It’s like saying stainless steel knives are trash just because there exist knives made of tungsten carbide.