>I'm guessing that they are using the screens and
>some novel and clever way to make the puzzle
>more interesting and complex.
hmm.
high voltage electrodes and needles on recessed solenoids would go farther than screens for this.
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Without their efforts, we could lose the permanence code!
None of our crime problems will be solved by sending the National Guard into a city for a few weeks. The only thing that this achieves is the destruction of states rights and possibly escalation toward civil war.
Proposal: Instead, fund and train law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, schools, and social workers. The first 3 address crimes that happened, the last 2 prevent them.
The best way to keep 'little Suzy' from walking past child molesters is to make sure her school isn't near the White House or Congress.
Fair. Agreed.
Sounds like it's for the better
Locally, yes, but the moisture that is accumulating previously evaporated and went somewhere else. What will the impact be there? Very hard to say.
the only think that doesn't "work" as vivo claims, at least that I can remember at the moment, is that season passes got sloppy on rescheduled programs--sometines it catches the reschedule, and other times it doesn't.
The rest are dropped features--some outright, like suggestions and continuous recording, and others hidden behind an "upgrade", like the ability to record all series premiers.
They've dropped everything that distinguishes a tiro from any other dvd--well, except for needing to pay them for s subscription, I suppose. And their rf remote control is nice; hopefully I can get it to talk to the pi for mythic (although realistically, I'd usually run it through my appletv and that remote)
If you're only managing 2 people and you're not going to be hiring more then yes, you should be cut.
Also note that google has had record layoffs in the previous months, so basically they fired a bunch of engineers, and only afterwards they fired the managers who now had tiny teams due to the layoff. Priorities.
The employees from that 35% went to the other 65% that had two employees and turned it into three. Problem... Solved?
That is essentially what happened. They didn't fire 35%, those 35% just transferred their reports to others and became ICs (Individual Contributors).
35% is a good start
The 35% figure at Google is misleading. The vast majority of those people weren't pure managers they were software engineers who managed small teams as part of their duties while also doing productive technical work. A policy requiring a minimum of 5 direct reports for each manager was put in place, forcing all of those people to decide to either increase their management and cease doing significant technical work or cease being managers and focus entirely on technical work. Many chose the latter option, often quite happily (there is no additional pay or other concrete benefit to being a manager vs being an IC (individual contributor)). This partitioning of people who were in mixed roles into roles that were either managerial or technical provided most of the reduction in line and middle management.
I mean, do you expect them to come out and publicly say something like, "We're giving the government all your emails and data to calculate a social credit score"?
Do you expect this government won't ask for that?
Do you expect Alphabet to decline?
Yes, I expect Alphabet would decline. I worked there for 15 years and understand the culture and motivations pretty well. Culturally, doing something like that would cut against the grain, hard. Pragmatically, they wouldn't like to oppose the administration but they'd get a lot more PR mileage out of leaking the request and publicly declaring their opposition than it would cost them.
You need things that are powered by BATTERIES if nuclear power (or any other type of electricity) is going to fix the climate problems.
You have posted anti-battery propaganda.
Therefore I conclude you actually don't care one bit about nuclear power and are just trying to be a nay-sayer. Good day.
I do believe "authentic" watermarks would help a lot. They will have to be locked to a lot of details about the file, you will not be able to color correct, resize, crop, or change the compression method. Probably allow cutting movies between frames however. Some one-way writing of the watermark is put into the camera, with the decoding key/result added to a database that does anything it can to insure only actual cameras are registered.
Watermarks people want to be remove can be made much harder by making the test for the watermark much more expensive, slow, and/or locked down so only authorized users can run it. Videos detected with the watermark are remembered so any similar-enough video also acts like it has the watermark, even if it has been manipulated enough to remove it. It also has to be very hard to create the watermark by anybody other than the registered creator so people can't use this to reject real videos.
They abandoned everything *in* the software that mad a Tivo desirable well before this. It had been just another DVR for some time.
Season passes that worked? Gone.
Subscribing to things like series premieres? Gone.
Suggestions? Gone.
We had a roamio with a lifetime subscription, and dumped it at yet another cox cable price increase.
By that time, we realized that pretty much everything we watched was on broadcast.
We got an orange pi (what a disaster! don't!), an hdhomerun quattro, and a terabyte disk.
we've been using the Quattro's dvd functions, and they've been "good enough" that other projects are ahead of getting the raspberry pi running.
Yes I think it is a requirement that the work have non-zero value. It's obvious that having a bunch of people standing around watching reduces crime, so that has non-zero value. I'm not sure what to do about the art to make sure its value is non-zero, possibly proof that people collect and keep it, or that organizations decide to display it.
Enshittification isn't just "products getting worse over time" - it is where companies take an existing service, and either add features that benefit another party at your expense, or remove necessary features for it to function. Ex: You buy an ad-free streaming service to stream a certain TV series. The company then puts ads on it and removes the series you were watching. Or you visit a web site regularly, but now you have to sign-up to access it. Or the site now displays a bunch of pop-ups and only works on a particular operating system or browser.
If it was capitalism, you would just switch to a different streaming provider / web site. But with enshittification, there are barriers preventing that. Ex: No one else streams that series, or all the similar web sites require a login. In capitalism someone wins and someone loses, but with enshittification everyone loses.
This is different from "You buy a new pair of jeans, and it isn't manufactured as well as their previous line of jeans."
Promising costs nothing, it's the delivering that kills you.
