Anyone who can piss away a billion dollars on a B-movie trash fest like Rings of Power that was clearly written by a teenage power-fantasy fanboy isn't broke. Well, maybe wasn't broke before that.

For streaming services, not even that. It's a fool-me-once issue.

When I already pay for your service, and then you ask me to pay AGAIN for not having ads, that's a type of protection racket you are running, not a legit business.

Oh yeah, and the TV UI for all streaming services I've seen so far fucking SUCKS. In capital letters. It's aweful. We've had better UIs for 30+ years. The only reason I can imagine these get out the door is that the entire UI/UX team is permanently unavailable due to collective seppuku.

So yes, if your service is shitty and you make it worse by adding ads, and then ask for prote^H^H^extra service fees to remove the things you added just so people need to pay for removing it again - you seriously expect to be treated like an honest business partner?

So the big news here is that all the cool media players spy on their users.

But does mpv? Users are obviously demanding this feature, or else these stats wouldn't be available. How hard is it, to add code to betray the user and tell someone else how fast they watch videos? Free Software just doesn't keep up. All it does it work perfectly, time after time, until the user dies of boredom from the lack of drama.

That's the official line, but it's a blatant lie.

To the extent that Google cares about account recovery at all, they want it to go away, and you get a new account every time you get a new phone. They've been systematically *removing* ways to recover accounts. Among other things, you can't do it with an automated computer-generated-voice call (that reads you a one-time code) any more, and for a while now you haven't been able to do it with just your password once they have your phone number: you have to have the phone (or at least the same phone number), or the account is dead, full stop. Additionally, they keep making it harder and harder to log into your account from multiple different devices, because they do NOT want you doing that. They want every account tied inexorably to a specific individual smartphone, preferably an Android phone (though they also work with Apple, reluctantly, because Apple users are ridiculously loyal and too numerous and too moneyed to completely ignore). For the time being, if you've given them an email address that goes to a third-party email account (from e.g. an ISP or employer), you can still get a one-time code sent to that account every time, and thus log into the Google account from wherever you are on the network; but I expect that option to go away before too many more months pass. Also, needing to do it kind of defeats the main purpose of GMail. You *should* be able to just log in with your password, but that's no longer allowed, unless you are on the same device you've used before. So if you're ever going to get a new phone, better do it before you lose the old one, or the Google account will die.

I am *guessing* that the motivation behind all this, may have something to do with smartphone apps, and the lucrative nature thereof; but this is a guess.

I know people who still *try* to use Google, and then they invariably come to me asking why it can't find what they're looking for any more, or why it gives the wrong answer now, or whatever. And I'm like "They decided to get out of the web search business, because they think there's going to be more money in AI." And the users just look at me confused, because they don't know what any of that means. "But why doesn't my Google work any more?" Eh, keep it simple: "Because Google is broken. It's not just you, it's broken for everyone."

What I wish I could give them, is another search engine that works anywhere near as well as Google did in 2021 or so. But there isn't one.

The average employee lasts well less than a year at a fast casual; this had little to do w/her background.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fastcasual.com%2Fblo...

I am absolutely certain many of those kids are great at writing code; what I have found in the last ~3y of hiring candidates out of undergrad and/or masters programs is that they DO NOT interview well.

They can answer esoteric technical questions about software dev (I *assume* this is because they study for coding interview questions) but they cannot possibly answer more general questions about themselves, how they would operate in a real-world business setting, and/or how they might build something from soup to nuts.

I'm not asking them to give me real-world experience; but, I expect a college graduate to be able to think about questions asked critically and provide a coherent and thoughtful reply to that question. Even if it's technically 'wrong', the conversational nature is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for any work I have done in my 25+ year career.

Anyone can have AI solve most esoteric technical coding problems now; interfacing ability w/others on the dev teams and the rest of the business is what is important in getting shit done.

Colleges need to start investing HEAVILY in leveling up their students in how to interview well.

"Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle."

I think this single sentence says more about it than anything else in the article.

I know some on the right decided to make up some ludicrous definition at one point that right vs left was "freedom vs tyranny" and it looks like you've bought into that

Uhr? No, to me, the essence is slow, careful changes vs fast, possibly-not-thought-out, experimental changes. If I had to do it in 4 words, they would be "degree of risk aversion."

That is how Trump appears to be the furthest-left president in US history, and how even FDR (and LBJ, etc) look relatively right-wing compared to him. Comrade Trump is breaking things which had good, proven track records. No conservative (or even centrist or lightly-left) person would do that.

Well, if your government is a shitshow, it just means your people need to vo--

Sigh. Why, yes, I am an American. Why do you a--

[hangs head in shame] Ok, fair enough. I'll shut the fuck up now.

When I hired people (as developers), the last question of the interview was "How many gas stations are there in the United States?"

The answer I wanted to hear was a quick, succinct, "I don't know".

IMHO "Hmm.. let me think about how to estimate that" would also be a great [start to] an answer. (Though now that I think of, we have The Internet now, so "lemme google that" might also be a pretty good answer.)

First time?

It's fascinating that there are so many people acting like this is their first taste of Maintenance Hell.

Learn from it. After some poor choices and orphanage heartbreak, I eventually had a last time, swore NEVER AGAIN, and I haven't looked back. I'm sure there are legit gripes about Linux but the one gripe I know nobody will ever have, is "they fucked me." It's never hostile, at all. It never tries to not work. The code isn't making any decisions, ever, which would translate into English as "fuck what the owner of this computer wants." Never. It's always on your side. Always. And to me, that's what I consider to be "normal" now.

The absurdity of recent versions of MS Windows requiring TPM is right there in your face. That's a deliberate defect, making it hostile for no fucking reason that any customer ever asked for.

They hate you. And you want more from those people? Really? You must hate you too.

If you ever change your mind, there's a way out.

My neighbor is a general contractor. As in, he owns the general contracting business and is the license holder for the company's operation. As the GC he's either visiting the various jobs around the state that his company has contracts for, checking up on the work of the subs, meeting with the customers, meeting with the inspectors, sometimes acting as part of the demolitions or cleanup or gofer crew depending on if there's something that needs to be done that isn't strictly covered by the various subs or needs to be done post-haste. This calls for driving a lot of miles. He doesn't need a heavy truck, but he definitely needs a truck.

He just bought one of these Silverado 4WT trucks, and installed a 50A charging circuit at home as the main panel is right on the other side the wall of the garage from where he parks. He charges at home and so far for work, has not had to use a charging station anywhere else. He's pleased as punch.

It's good that they're doing this testing. This won't affect the current product, but it might well contribute to design considerations for future products.

They should also look at what happens with more realistic driving speeds for other parts of the country, see if any of the other simple changes contribute much compared to typical battery mileage.

WTF is with people calling Republicans "conservative?" I don't get it. FDR was relatively conservative, next to this guy. No?