You'd be amazed at how little effect firing execs actually has over the option of firing a bunch of low level worker bees .

Fire 1 exec for 12 Million salary
OR
Layoff 250 worker bees and save 25 million in salary expenses .

Nobody cares about workers at the level where these decisions are made.

Filed Under: "One is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" - Stalin (allegedly)

Jaguar was never going to survive. Have you seen the crap they make?

Let's start with in school prayer.
I was forced for years to stand up and pray to a bath towel with stars and stripes all over it every morning in a group. I had to pray as well to an imaginary sky deity too. I was gaslighted into a belief that we were one nation, under sky god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

In the educational system, I never really managed to fully understand what liberty meant, but as an adult, I have a pretty good idea and I'm almost 100% sure that it only works if you ignore things like being systematically forced to pray to a dish rag until you become a zealot who becomes offended that someone might call it a bath towel or a dish rag.

Public schools have a tremendous amount to do to compensate for the short comings of children being raised in a country where we're taught to strive for more. To want better. To improve. To anyone like myself who went looking for liberty and justice for all... and left, when I return on visits, I see a country more and more dominated by people lacking simple human values. I can't diagnose the problem, but it greatly disheartens me. I am sad that the country I remember from a different millennium doesn't exist anymore.

We were never perfect. There were always people like yourself who are willing to pay for your religion and beliefs to be forced on my children, but cry out in anger when someone else's beliefs are being forced on other children. And before you claim this isn't true, nationalism and patriotism is a religion or a cult, or whatever else you want to call it. I also take great offense by anyone who supports a two party government. And this means anyone who supports team sports of any kind. I absolutely hate schools who teach out children that we need to make ourselves feel better by dominating other people. I have no problems with kids playing a game. I do take tremendous offense that we teach children that they are better than other children because their school is better than someone else's.

American toxically forces division on the people. We have been and probably always will be forced to believe that every aspect of life is polarized. You're with us or against us. You're part of the solution or part of the problem. etc... We will be forced to choose team red or team blue. We can't like some Chinese people because 1.4 billion people are evil and horrible because we don't like a few people running the country.

American schools exist for no other reason than to teach hate.

See what I did there. I made a statement to be persuasive and to catch your attention. If I were a true American, I would let it stand. But unfortunately, I prefer to have morals and ethics.

American schools are far from perfect. And as an honest to goodness American and as your patriotic duty, you should demand that your taxes be spent to teach children perspectives you don't agree with. This is how we improve. This is how we mature. This is how we build our future. Where I live, in Norway, my civil liberties were severely violated. I was born Jewish and thankfully I've been recovering from that for some time, but my children were forced by the government to attend church and were forced to take many years of religious studies which often were "The jews believe this, the muslims believe this, but WE believe this". And at home, I would teach my children that faith is good, blind faith is wrong. That their grandmother needed religion. I tough them that they have their own choice to make. They can choose to believe in what they're learning at school, they can choose to believe what I believe, or they can choose to walk their own path.

If you don't like what is being taught in the school, this is why we have dinner tables. We can teach our children what we believe at home. We can take the time to raise them. When their friends come over for dinner, we can even share our values with them. This is absolutely our rights.

So, as long as there's forced prayer to nappies on a stick, school sports, etc... and civilized people like myself are forced to pay taxes to support that, you should give a little back. People are being forced to pay taxes to have your horrible beliefs forced children's throats, you can pay a few bucks to let someone else's horrible beliefs forced on other children as well.

Nerds.xyz has nothing nice to say to anyone outside of paid reviews. They are nothing but a hate rag.
Some of their points are valid, but their writing is so toxic that they make a poor source of information.

We?
Were you there?

Is that a video game thing? Or is that for creepy old people?
How does it effect cars? Here in Norway we measure in KWH

Wouldn't doubt it at all.

"It's not like SpaceX did not have any missteps on their path to creating reusable boosters."

They weren't really missteps. It was part of their design philosophy. Build it enough to get past a "goal" (say, get past the launch tower) and test. If it doesn't meet the goal, ID the failure, redesign and test again. Once it reaches that "goal", create a new "goal" (sat, reach 20,000 ft). Repeat until it's reliable.

While this involves a lot of explosions, the actual time it takes to get a workable and reliable rocket was dramatically reduced.

Looks less like a failure on China's program and more like China learning from Musk.

"even one time"

Unless you never use a password, in which case, you log in via all the other available options BUT password. You don't notice it missing. Passwords are so 1980s, get with the program.

I don't use biometrics because .. lets just say they are their own version of compromised. You cannot be compelled to give up your Password (legally) (hammer method is still valid) but a fingerprint, face ID etc that doesn't require you to speak can be compelled. I have no idea why people think it is "more secure" to use biometrics.

They've done great stuff, but I honestly don't feel dependent on them and simply don't see them as more than a one trick pony.

I'm 100% convinced that other than spending irresponsible amounts of money on building an infrastructure which is only competitive because they are willing to outspend their peers, they don't offer anything of value.

I currently am using glm-4.5 on a computer with 64000 cpu cores and 304 H200 GPUs. I share the machine with 10 other users. It's pretty fast. It gives me an idea of how AI will perform in 20 years.

But that's the point. OpenAI is interesting because they have computers that cost $1 billion. My little computer cost 1/20 of that. But, consider the NEC earth simulator cost $350 million in 2002. Performance-wise, it was about as fast as a $250 NVidia RTX 5050. It had 10TB RAM but the RAM performance could be matched by 8 2TB PCIe Gen 5 drives in RAID.

So, in 20 years, we should expect to see the biggest computer OpenAI has today for about $2000 in the size of a laptop.

OpenAI's edge isn't their IP. It's their spending.

Nonsense. Tor Indstoey's entire career is about being an alarmist. He studied at BI which is a school that explicitly shelters students from engineers and sells himself as an MIT attendee because he took two six week online courses with no entry requirements. He works in a group at Telenor who doesn't really do anything beyond look for ghosts and talk to the press. He's investigating Nio vehicles as if he could even identify the difference between the steering wheel and the computer in the car. Telenor employs way too many BI grads and its killing the company.

If you need to drive a bus into a tunnel to look for security threats, you already failed completely.

No government needs backdoors to shutdown these systems. You need a tourist and a funny hat.

Oslo's busses are electric and their charging stations are completely insecure, not even a fence. If I wanted to cripple Oslo's busses, I'd visit there driving an electrician's van one day with a gum to take the impression of the "lock" on the chargers. It's more of a security screw than a lock. I'd come back a day later and photograph the electronics. A few days later, I'd return with a circuit board capable of remotely shorting the contactor and also a component contains a corrosive that can be triggered to spray. I'd use a simple nbiot module with esim. Just label everything as Schneider Electric and it will be invisible.

Why sabotage the busses?

You can easily replace busses. The charging infrastructure is far more attractive and easier.

"I like things simple. I really don't deal with milage, or all the other things I consider minutiae. I deal with simple numbers. What this means is not filling out milage reports and the other stuff that clutters up to work. Perhaps I'm eccentric. But I like simple because my actual work is quite complex."

As is my work -- however, my mileage report isn't "minutiae". It' averages $300-$500 every two weeks (I do a lot of driving --- particularly for projects). And the process isn't complicated. Basically a date, destination and total miles per line. In a text file. No clutter -- just a review of my travel calendar for 5 mins every two weeks and another 2-5 mins to transfer that to my expense report. Automagically appears in my pay check 8 days later.

Most people would do just fine with a pretty simple tax app.

I'm pretty sure I could vibe code a PWA in a few hours that would work for 80% of Americans.

How would I fund it?

$0.78 for a stamp.
$0.10 per page to print
$0.50 for an envelope
Total $1.38

Consider payment fees and such and we can settle on $3 to click submit and I'll print and mail your tax form for you. Or, you can do it yourself. Same, same.

Thank goodness I don't live in the states. My taxes are "log into government web page, see if it's worth my effort to make changes, click submit".

So, here's the deal. First of all, this stinks of corruption. Henna Virkkunen will probably have a nice corner office at Nokia in 3-5 years because her work on this.

Next, using "safe vendors" leads to apathy. Nokia and Ericsson are worse than back doors. Their equipment is shit and their paywalled documentation looks like it was written during meetings held in pubs. Just hop on eBay, buy a used Nokia BBU, boot Open5GS and have fun. If you can't find at least 10 security holes in the first hour of looking, you're as drunk as their documentation authors. Don't worry about the age of the software, Nokia and Ericsson don't patch them. The only thing making Telcom software secure is that management is out of band, you need to hack that... But hacking is such a strong word. "Nokia security" is like putting a post it note on a bar of gold saying "don't touch, this is secure" then leaving it on an unattended bench in the park.

Huawei is far more secure. Every single thing they do is watched closely. They patch their security holes at breakneck speeds. Beijing would need at least 10 minutes to hack their stuff compared to the 30 seconds for Nokia or Ericsson.

"That's exactly my point"

Not a very good one.

"Commuting and using a tool for a work-related activity are not analogue one with another."

The *CAR* is the "tool" in the analogy, not the action.. I stand by my original post.