You've missed off the slowly collapsing US dollar, internationally.
Trump will put the USA back 20 years, and as China was only about ten years behind, this will be an unrecoverable situation.
The complete failure of domestic political opposition is just icing on the cake.
There was no need for that either. All they had to do was explain it as the aliens realising that they were being attacked because of the networks and data warehouses and surveillance infrastructure and that they were going to destroy it to stop the counter attack. It was reasonable (as a basic alien invasion movie where they reasonably went straight for physical infrastructure immediately) right up to that 'they came for our datas' moment.
I watched it with the same lack of pre-checks.
The amount of context switching the guy does is quite stressful. Assuming the premise of an alien invasion and a guy in a top secret locked down government office that couldn't help his family but had top secret government spying/tech hacking stuff at his fingertips - running on windows no less, albeit IIRC an Athlon system from the reboot sequence so I guess budgets were constrained - I tried to suspend any disbelief (or take it as a warning about the future) and I could see why the family stuff was there. Couldn't suspend the disbelief about the roles his children had though, that was ludicrous.
Stock footage is given for any budget film, I could forgive that.
Amazed how quickly the media got hold of secret ops info, literally seconds!
The article shows that fibre rollout was massively limited by incumbent providers - BT OpenReach (i.e., the old monopoly BT who have that old monopoly mentality still!) and Virgin's cable network, and we all know what Virgin are like.
Once access to ducts was made mandatory, competitors (CityFibre, CommunityFibre) could rollout fibre without massive street works.
Note that older cities are far harder to bring up to speed with new technology than less dense newer cities.
But mainly fibre rollout is a political problem, and once politics sorts things out like access, then things can get moving.
Yeah, I barely use the site anymore because by default it does exactly what I don't want it to do. I want to see friend posts, in a timely manner.
What I get is mostly slop videos and trash, the odd friend post from sometime in the past week, etc.
Ah what you want is a video called "10 Hours of non-stop vibration resonance"
"One respondent said they sought permission to work from home after suffering multiple strokes that prevented them from driving. Amazon suggested moving closer to the office and taking mass transit, the person said in the survey. Another respondent said they couldn't drive for longer than 15-minute intervals due to chronic pain. Amazon's recommendation was to pull over and stretch during their commute, which the employee said was unsafe since they drive on a busy freeway... Amazon didn't dispute the accounts and said it considered a range of solutions to disability accommodations, including changes to an employee's commute."
Yes, making accommodations is something the EMPLOYER has to do, not dictate to the employee that they have to make the accommodations.
This should be a slam dunk in court.
Except this is Trump's fascist America we're talking about - any more complaints and the disabled people will be getting marched to a gas oven, and I don't write that glibly.
That'll be an interesting trip to the doctor in the future.
"Your bad cholesterol is high, I need you to start knocking back 4 pints of skullsplitter every day."
So this is again a trivial application in VB pCode that was translated.
It is impressive that it worked and ran first time, and also handled the embedded resources. It isn't taking a 20+ year old multifunctional complex enterprise executable and translating it however.
The entire thing reads l like an advert for ClaudeAI.
I came here and had to scroll half-way down to see the important relevant comments.
A very poor showing.
This seems sensible - plenty of cities and stops on the route, and fast enough to compete with going by air once you factor in airport travel and wait time.
Most likely it will get canned by NIMBYs and the short-sighted. These schemes do cost a lot and that will be used to stop the project.
If it is built, it will inevitably be seen as invaluable just a few years after.
Does this mean they will start loading Google Play Services and Play Store on the next FireOS update? Not that they are great with these updates, seemingly only pushing them to slow older generation hardware down to encourage new sales.
I guess that will stop everyone sideloading them as the first action they take on these tablets.
Simple, block TCS from being able to apply for any visa of any sort for five years.
Or put a higher salary requirement on this type of visa, as they were clearly using it to get cheap workers into the country under false pretences.
Send all the workers on these visas back if they don't meet the requirements for their actual role (past year) and salary.
Computer Science is NOT solely coding. Look at the curriculums that top tier universities have such as Cambridge, MIT, etc - very wide, very varied, and giving a very deep knowledge of computer science, not just how to code in Java/C++. I had several courses on Formal Verification and similar, and learned a huge amount of CS mathematical proof systems (which has faded since of course), but that's useless for your typical programming role. However the course on Compilers did come through when I was writing custom lexers/parsers in the financial industry 15 years later.
I agree that there should be a standard for computer science that will mean the graduates are on the path for what should be a formal Software Engineer title down the line.
This extends through to those trying for mid-level or senior developers, who can't explain simple concepts. There has always been a group of devs trying their luck - sometimes they get lucky, sometimes out of those, they put in the work and fake it until they make it. Sadly a lot are abysmal.
I also don't think it's down to AI. This predated AI. It's why any sane company has a telephone interview round to ask those insulting interview questions
I expect some level of BSery as people try to get a job, I also know that asking some questions that will never come up in the job itself is also BS of its own but you have to separate candidates somehow.
And dealing with India is another basket of cobras altogether. Professional Interview Takers! Sheesh.
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down. -- Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon
