The eight security guards, I can kind of understand. Four vice-principals makes no sense unless the school is way too big to function, in which case there's your problem. Same for twelve counselors; unless your school has 7k+ students, that makes no sense.

My guess is that your school is big enough that normal administrative processes start to break down, and that's why it is accumulating excess administrative overhead. Small schools are inefficient because you can't pay for enough teachers to cover all the classes. So you don't want schools to be too small. But economies of scale only work up to maybe a thousand students or maybe two thousand.

Above that threshold, the larger the school becomes, the harder it is to manage, and the deeper the management hierarchy tends to become. Not being able to get things done quickly enough causes people to throw more people at the problem, which makes getting things done even harder and slower because of communication overhead, and the problem snowballs.

And school systems have a similar problem, where larger, more complex districts are harder to run than smaller ones. At some point, the best thing you can do is break them all up until they stop being too big.

California average school teacher salary: $101,084
Equivalent salary in Little Rock: $56,726.84

It's still technically probably a little bit above average at the moment, but it sure isn't what most people think of when they hear the words "six-figure salary".

Nine years? The acquisition wasn't finalized until December 2019. It took them a little over five years to get from where Intel left things to silicon that worked well enough for them to ship it in a product, likely because Apple was working around Qualcomm's patent minefield.

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that 80% had the potential to charge at home. You're leaving out a lot of factors with your estimate:

• Lots of suburban houses don't have a garage, because they converted it into an extra room, and it can be a decent bit harder to do charging if you don't.
• Condos that you own don't necessarily have their own reserved parking for each unit, and EV charging pretty much requires either that or something like ChargePoint billing, and they take 10% off the top cost-wise, so you'll pay considerably more that way.
• Houses built before about 1980 are way less likely to have adequate electric service amperage.
• Mobile homes are way less likely to have adequate electric service amperage.
• Condos are all but guaranteed to not have adequate electric service amperage.

So being possible doesn't necessarily mean that it is practical or easy. It is probably easy for 20%, and by the time you get to 80%, it is likely to be really hard.

They had LTE modems shipping. They did NOT have 5g modems shipping. The first iPhone with 5g was the iPhone 12, which was released in 2020, long after Intel sold off their modem division.

Citation: Intel's announcement about exiting the modem business. From the press release:

"The company will continue to meet current customer commitments for its existing 4G smartphone modem product line, but does not expect to launch 5G modem products in the smartphone space, including those originally planned for launches in 2020."

Second citation: Wikipedia page on Intel XMM modems. Intel had planned two different 5g modem models, both of which were cancelled before the products were released.

These *are* Intel's modems, albeit the 5g versions thereof.

And no, that's not at all accurate. According to Qualcommon, Apple was all set to dump them entirely. Qualcomm reported that in 2018. But Intel couldn't pull off 5g, and in 2019, they announced that they were exiting the modem business, so Apple went crawling back to Qualcomm because they had 5g and Intel didn't and never would.

Two months later, Apple announced that they were buying what was left of Intel's modem division so that their supply chain would be under their control. Six years later, they finally got 5g working. Now we understand why Intel gave up. It turns out that 5g was a much harder problem than they anticipated.

But the key point is that it is done and working now, and what remains is performance optimization and future revisions.

Let's be fair here. Intel never got their 5g modem working/shipping, so part of what they were doing during that time was making it actually... you know... work.

Lower power, no. The Apple chip uses 25% less power than Qualcomm's modem. And it is unclear how much of Qualcomm's superiority in those other areas was because of the modem itself versus other aspects of the phone (antenna design, for example). It's way, way too early to call the game.

In particular, having good download performance and terrible upload performance could indicate an SWR/impedance matching issue or a transmit power optimization bug or any number of other issues that have little to do with the modem hardware itself.

Apple will use it to negotiate better prices, yes, but the fact that they have one working at all means that the writing is on the wall for Qualcomm's relationship with Apple. It has long been said that the only thing worse than Qualcomm's modems are everyone else's, and having complete control over the device, the modem hardware, and the software stack likely means that Apple will be able to improve their modem's performance more rapidly.

I'd give it five years, tops, before Qualcomm is playing catch-up, mainly because Apple was angry enough at Qualcomm to buy an entire modem division from another company just to get away from them, so they're not going to stop throwing resources at the problem until they're in the lead.

Fremont closed way back in 1992, and it was because they failed to get the manufacturing volume up to expected levels, despite the plant being highly automated. I guess the tech just wasn't ready. Meanwhile, two hours' drive from there, the Elk Grove assembly plant kept building Macs for another decade.

Elk Grove shut down shortly after they moved manufacturing to China, because assembling in the U.S. didn't make much difference. The Elk Grove facility is still owned by Apple, though. I think it's an AppleCare repair depot now, plus warehousing and distribution, which I guess they also did back when they assembled things there.

Compliance being voluntary doesn't change anything. The web spider companies comply because it gives them a reasonable belief that their usage is authorized.

That said, if such a scheme existed for AI, you would have reasonable cause to sue companies that don't comply, as by making it crystal clear that their usage is NOT authorized, such crawling becomes prima facie illegal under the CFAA.

It's also a crock of s**t. When the web came into existence, folks came up with a robots.txt file that gave permission to spider the site and, to a limited extent, serve snippets of the content. There's nothing preventing an ai_robots.txt file with a standard format that dictates whether the content can be used for AI training, whether it can be used for training of commercially available AIs or just fully open source AIs, etc. It won't kill the industry, unless the assumption is that nearly everyone will immediately create an ai_robots.txt file on their server with "deny" as the first line.

Opt-out is reasonable, at least after some reasonable period of time to allow site owners to update their sites. Not allowing opting out is not so reasonable, and makes it look like you know you're doing something wrong.

Napster A. didn't charge, and B. didn't provide "similar stuff"; it provided identical stuff (ignoring compression artifacts). So no, that's not the argument Napster used.

I have this strange urge to write a post about page tables and spell it "copy on right" and watch the chaos. But yes, this annoys me, too.

I could be 40% better by working a three-day workweek instead of five. Done.

Depends on how you define "better". It need not mean "more productive". :-)

Yes, it should. Or else three-day workweeks. :-D

Sadly, no, because they still need income.

To that end, I'm a little baffled by this bit:

I would argue that's still a negative. Employees, for the most part, don't want to have less tedious work so that we have more time to do hard work for a company that will pay us exactly the same for doing it. We want less tedious work so that we have more time for the things we want to do, while still getting paid a reasonable salary.

This does the opposite of that. It takes away all the tedious stuff that provides a mental break from the heavy mental gymnastics that we do the rest of the time. So now you're expected to be mentally "on" continuously. And by the time you get home, your mind is gone, and you can't do any of the other things you'd like to do because you're so thoroughly burned out.

There are quite literally no upsides to this for tech workers, IMO, at least so long as those same managers don't follow that sentence with the words "We're going to a 5-hour, 4-day work week for the same pay. Thanks for making this company great."

Alternatively, it's because senior SWEs recognize that the 26% increase in task completion mostly comes from extra tasks fixing bugs introduced by junior developers who didn't take the time to fully understand the task or the code, and instead used AI to avoid having to do so. So the senior SWEs don't bother really using it meaningfully, but get very good at making it look like they are using it so that the management folks will be satisfied.