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by vaxman 3y ago
In the post-mainframe era, tech centric companies have learned to age discriminate by shifting the platform out from underneath their workforces causing older workers to stumble, typically laying off those older workers and/or turning
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Because the hackers know, they may also threaten to report their victim’s tort (arising from any failure of their victim to self-report the data breach): https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/18/why-extortion-is-the-
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by vaxman 3y ago
Anyway, there are reports from Bloomberg’s Apple reporter that Apple will ship all new models of watches with a different form factor and new features like BP monitoring in 2024. PS: Was all set with an app design for the Samsung devices a
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Now we need FTC to step up and impose this on privately held companies that hold large numbers of consumer profiles, regardless of annual revenues. Several states already codify such disclosure requirements, but the (education and) enforcem
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I think you like it, like it, to be told, what to do, ain’t that true? https://youtu.be/XbLKWm12yx0
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Their need to sell future (high-end) machines to developers should keep that from happening. Microsoft OTOH, may do it.
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“Everyone is doing it” machine broken rWars/lWars were sprileg verboten in earlier versions of The Matrix. Now, with all the resources around to waste (WASTE!), such discord can be used to form (or manipulate) popular opinion and herd
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During the evolution to machines that Hawking pontificated in his later years, this research could lead to a new definition of “AI-driven” workforce.
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Show us on the doll where Elon hurt you.
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You’ve gone out of your way to be anonymous to your users, so you’ll only attract naive/ignorant/reckless users to let your code on their Mac, which might be enough for your purposes.
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Yep, that vendor is a major HMO for Defense workers with Top Secret clearances. Does SiteLink have issues too? I think they do.
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Push is a just technique for minimizing (scarce wireless) bandwidth, battery and RAM consumption, which was critical in the mass deployment of the initial iPhone on AT&T. iPhone developers typically aren’t very skilled and they will stu
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Sounds like it has great potential as an experience in VisionPro, that is, if it's connected to a live (though not necessarily exclusive use) balloon drone.
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use caution... The initial WiFi 6e routers were trash and some of the models you listed implement surveillance capitalism schemes. Also concerned some of those manufacturers have such poor production control, it is trivial for Chinese malwa
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I don't know, the idea that you could produce a sophisticated business system that suddenly stops one day because you bet on OpenAI seems like a really bad idea and one that nobody will say you didn't see coming.
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Radio and TV evangelists that steal money/time from people have been around for many decades. Leave it to the government(s) to deal with them or lose your Section 230 immunity. For fun, lookup the history of Zzyzx Road off I-15 in Cali
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On one hand, you have self-absorbed assholes like this one (check out the titles of his "Wednesday Wisdom" posts on that same substack) and on the other hand, you have Big Tech shifting the platforms to intentionally cause their o
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They like easy cash with BPO rather than making their own products, so this is not totally unexpected or newsworthy. But wait until a future leader there nationalizes the new iPhone factories, loads their own operating systems and branding,
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> I think this is more about manual labour When I was young, I saw older engineers and ops people die after hours in their offices (of heart attacks, trying to keep up with recent grads who had just spent four years learning something th
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QA/Integrations/SQM and how to avoid rejection was one of the skills taught hands-on AFTER university by the great masters who were unceremoniously forced into other occupations like: auto leasing, banner print shop, etc. when the
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by vaxman 3y ago
Maps is not run by a man (except philosophically speaking). Perhaps the contrast was adjusted because of the emergence of P3, XDR, OLED, Liquid Retina, etc. Trust me, Google is very lucky to have her magic. ;) https://youtu.be&#x
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When you type Softlayer.com into a web browser what happens and why?
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yeah, all they have to do is pray for humanity to not let the magic AI out of the bottle and they’re free to have a $91b valuation and flaunt it in the media for days.. https://youtu.be/2HJxya0CWco
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It could be hard to do that while paying a penalty to FTB and IRS for what they’re suspected to have done (in allowing a for-profit subsidiary to influence an NPO parent) or dealing with SEC and the state courts over any fiduciary breach al
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Erm, 37+ years at a senior level, more total years of industry experience than Apple has been in business (and still years younger than Apple's youngest founding employee) has led me to agree with the original poster, deal with it. (St
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that's not really the same thing as GPT4turbo APIs, custom GPTs, etc.
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This means that they'll have to settle, or both parties will need to reveal their relevant algorithms (for ad placement and detection), something they're likely to want to avoid.
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Isn’t it just their rehashing from reading Hacker News followed by interview with Altman from long ago (early last week)?
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by vaxman 3y ago
You mean like being fired by a board member as part of their scheme to breach their fiduciary duty by launching a competitive product in another company?
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That is exactly right.

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