I would rather chew on broken glass than give Elon Musk any money.

He's just a whiny baby pretty much 100% of the time. He's sad because nobody wants to pay him to advertise next to hate speech on twitter.

Or you could try something that has been proven to actually work in a community near one of the largest collection of large observatories (on the summit of Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii), they passed an ordinance that requires all streetlights to be shielded to minimize upwards and sideways light. So the large parking lots instead of pumping a bunch of light sideways and reflecting up all goes towards the ground where it actually is useful. They also use specific color temperature LEDs that the observatories can more easily filter out. Local article on what they did from about a decade ago: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbigislandnow.com%2F2012%2F... Sometimes low tech works just as well.

A few remarks...

> Meanwhile Huawei announced that it is increasing R&D spending

This might be a false comparison. Huawei and Amazon are very different companies. It would be difficult to directly compare them, and to suggest that the strategy that works for one would work for the other is at best naive. For example, it's worth noting Huawei is effectively a state owned enterprise of the PRC, and their business is subsidised by the state. It's also worth noting that the PRC tightly controls the public statements, censors everything, and many times statements are aimed at the domestic audience. Meaning that the CCP wants the Chines people to not be exposed to bad news, everything is just great with the PRC! Reuters acknowledged that in that link you shared, that they could not independently verify any of the statements made. So it's a bit weird you chose to cite a source with super questionable content. Also it's worth noting that in the USA several other big corporations are cutting jobs, and those might be a more credible direct comparison.

> This is so stupid. In a few years Amazon will be trying to hire these people back, having lost ground to companies that looked beyond the next quarter.

You might think it's stupid, that's your opinion, but I would suggest you might be fallaciously appealing to ignorance. That said, it was really amusing in an extremely ironic way, because you say "companies that looked beyond the next quarter", and I would argue that Amazon is probably doing exactly that. Consider that Amazon already cut 19K jobs, and is preparing to cut another 9K. Do you really think that is a company with a short term vision? They clearly believe the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, and if anything they now believe the economy is going to get much worse than they originally forecast.

Big corporations have teams of economists on the parole, they are not living in the same kind of denial that you might be. (no offence)

Has anyone thought "Maybe I shouldn't invest in this crypto scam" yet?

The world will be a much better place once

a) the "crypto bro" fad ends

b) Metabook dies.

Instead of looking for a camera that can push to an FTP/SMB server, look at setting up software that can pull RTSP feeds from the cameras. Almost any IP security camera made in the last 10 years supports RTSP. Any software package that supports RTSP feeds would let you pull the video feeds from the cameras and store the files locally.

Except that it's not that difficult.

I haven't released software under the GPL since RMS's insane rant at the LinuxWorld GNOME press conference about 20 years ago. Sorry, Bruce, I'm not on your side this time.

If Wx isn't that large, I might take a stab at porting it... who knows. :)

You will have to tell me how:

^10000.grep( *.is-prime).say; # Retrieve prime numbers from 0-10,000

Is incomprehsible bullshit and:

given $value {
    when Str { ... Do string handling ... }
    when Int { ... Do integer handling ... }
    when Bool { ...Do boolean handing ... }
    default { ... Fallback handling... }
}

Is mind wanking....

If you've really tried the language, why not give it a comprehensive review?

So they're going back to the Multi-Chip Module concept? Which has been used by multiple companies before, including Intel (Pentium Pro was the first).

Wikipedia:MCM

It's like technology companies are starting to behave like Hollywood. Come out with a rehash of what they did a few years ago instead of any new revolutionary ideas.