From what I gather, anything they've saved is going to tax cuts for wealthier Americans and increased military spending.
The 90% of folks at the lower end are getting tax increases, too, as of the latest plan I've seen.
How much DOGE is saving is very questionable, too. Less than 1% of the annual budget fwiu. And whether those savings are actually permanent, or whether they cost us when consequences of cuts come calling after some time.
One thing I have been considering for my immediate family, and possibly my parents, is setting up a small MDM. This seems more in line with allowing power users to do powerful things while keeping the less savy users from totally blowing up their devices with malware. I've never run an MDM though, only on the receiving end for work devices, so I'm not too sure about the complexity involved.
Yes. Also, nscd is irrelevant in at least a few ecosystems. Java and (I think) Go try to do their own resolving instead of using libc. Java's resolver, in particular, is braindead in the default configuration: infinite record caching, ignoring TTLs.
systemd-resolved solves this, as does running unbound or similar as a local cache.
Amdahl's Law is one of my favorite things from college. It's general principle, optimize the largest parts of a project for the biggest impact, is applicable across more than just programming. I've used it to help prioritize tasks within projects, both professional and personal, that have little-to-nothing to do with programming, and decide where to optimize project costs.
While I have no information here, I'd bet/conspiracy theorize that Tesla is looking to maintain exclusivity/low-ish congestion of its Supercharger sites for as long as possible, and using its position as a supplier of NACS adapters to do that. Demand for and purchasing of Tesla cars has gone down considerably[1], and I'd assert that Superchargers, which have historically been a positive for Tesla, catching a reputation for being "busy" would hurt Tesla even more. There are already regularly lines for charging at some of the busier Supercharger sites.
Just like how the Hyperloop was a scheme to prevent development of trains. Tesla doesn't try to make the best product, they just try to hurt the competition.
Supercharger is the best product, and without Tesla we wouldn't be half as far as we are with car electrification. I don't get the ludicrousness of statements such as yours.
Superchargers were the best product, yes. But then Tesla fired its entire supercharger team, demonstrating how little they care about it right now. They've been simultaneously dragging their feet on allowing third parties access to the network, as originally promised.
Single-use scenarios would be my first thought, especially food containers and utensils from food vendors.
I would think places where wood is, or could reasonably be, employed might also work. Table top game tokens, for example. Uses where environment factors (rain, contact with the ground, etc.) typically aren't relevant.
I just hope that if they're used for straws, that they work well enough as straws. All the alternate material straws I've tried typically suck. Especially Paper, but have tried a few bioplastics as well.
I agree with the difficulty of Starlark. I worked with Starlark a couple years ago to build some non-trivial things, which included writing custom Starlark providers. It was a gigantic pain. Documentation always felt very incomplete and finding existing examples were hard to come by (that has improved somewhat since I worked on that project, I believe).
I recently (within the last year) left Apple. 3 days in the office is mandatory for everyone except those with explicit work from home designations registered within the HR system. Anyone with a desk assigned in an office is required to badge at that office on their org's chosen 3 days per week. Most orgs chose T-W-Th.
The difficulty is that folks that had agreements with their management prior to Covid about flexible working arrangements were nullified with Apple's RTO. So, if M and F was your arrangement prior to Covid and your org chose T-W-Th, too bad. Badge-swipes are being tracked and upper management is applying pressure to managers to get their people in the office, regardless of individuals' needs.
So, yeah, it's technically hybrid, but extremely rigid.
Going full time remote is also significantly harder now, as it must be approved by an SVP on an individual basis.
Any of this may have changed in the months since I left, but I've not heard of anything changing from my colleagues that are still there.
On the other hand, Tesla has some notably, egregious incidents, including the reportedly-regular sharing of videos on internal messaging until at least 2022.
I'm not going to boil the ocean in a single thread, but recognize that there is nuance, lots of work ahead, and that consumer rights must be robust with punitive costs for willful negligence. There will always be control failures. If you're fine losing the functionality, pull the RF on your Tesla until laws catch up. I have managed the risk within my threat model, and accept the remaining risk. If all else fails, I will complain loudly to regulators and my representatives when needed to seek recourse, while also continuing to apply pressure as a citizen activist to keep moving towards better statute and regulatory rules around consumer data, data privacy, and so forth.
If we stop treating asynchronous communications mechanisms (chat, email, etc.) as synchronous (voice/video calls, face-to-face), the urgency issue goes away for everyone.
Async comms should regularly (and, perhaps, by default) be muted to enhance focus. Let them collect and allow the person to manage their own time. "No hello" allows them to have the question ready for them to address when they process their incoming queues.
Synchronous comms should be used to get immediate attention on an urgent issue that needs to be addressed immediately, or be used for tight, rapid iteration in a discussion (e.g. rapid design discussions). Because it necessarily takes attention away from another task, the activation energy should be higher.
The 90% of folks at the lower end are getting tax increases, too, as of the latest plan I've seen.
How much DOGE is saving is very questionable, too. Less than 1% of the annual budget fwiu. And whether those savings are actually permanent, or whether they cost us when consequences of cuts come calling after some time.
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