Tech companies are terrified of becoming commodities, even though a good chunk of them basically are at this point.
Intel would probably be in a better spot if they’d just leaned into that rather than try to regain the market dominance they once had.
The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).
Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.
He’s 54, I think he looks pretty average for that age. He looks like an old dad, because he is.
He got old.
Why does a language have different words for different concepts?
It’s an abbreviation.
Not all abbreviations are acronyms, only the ones that take the first letter from each word. Lego takes two letters from each word, so it’s not an acronym.
On a similar note, some but not all acronyms are initialisms, if they’re spoken as the letters rather than the “word” they create.
FYI, DIY, PS are all initialisms, and also acronyms, and also abbreviations. ASAP, SCUBA, and LASER are acronyms and abbreviations, but not initialisms. Lego, appt, and st are all abbreviations but neither acronyms nor initialisms.
That’s…not an acronym. That’d just be LG.
Jira teams start with happy*
Most of those are just based on the same real-world animal.
How DARE you also put a wolf in your game!
Kakuna wearing a tux?
:q!
The first vim command anybody should memorize. Quit without saving.
I want something that’s basically like Windows 98.
Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition) and Kubuntu are, in my opinion, the two most windows-looking distros out of the box. They use the Cinnamon and KDE desktop environment respectively, you can do a little googling to see if those look like you expect your desktop to work.
Does everyone just always know what they’re doing at all times?
Fuck no, lol. I’ve done more stupid shit on Linux than windows would ever let me get away with. But Linux people tend to be a little more “tinkerers” than other computer users. Not everyone by any means, it’s really more of the other way around: if you want to tinker with your computer, Linux gives the most freedom to do so. And when you tinker enough and make enough mistakes learning experiences, you tend to pick up some knowledge along the journey.
But a lot of the modern distros are very plug-and-play, to where it’s not necessary to be a tinkerer to get going on Linux anymore.
“How much money are you looking for in this role” is very common. “How much are you making right now” is not allowed.
Ooh, self-burn! Those are rare*.
*Except for this fucking guy, who does it all the time
Yes
The article does call out that 1989 is a pretty arbitrary starting point, and extending that to 1945 creates a less lopsided (but still Democrat-favoring) picture.
I’d be interested in the comparison looking back to Nixon, as he was a stark departure from the republican party of Eisenhower. And of course he lead to Reagan, Bush 1&2, and Trump.
Fractals are not necessarily self repeating, they just contain detail at arbitrarily small scales.
Coastlines are indeed fractals, and a similar argument could be made for any border defined by natural phenomena (so like, not the long straight US/Canada border).
“You guys are freaked out because I’m moving quickly and you don’t have visibility into my own internal process, that’s all.”
Uh, yeah?! Maybe add on “and you refuse to see why that’s a problem”
Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.