Let’s spend millions in tech, and more millions in spoiled food, just to avoid having to hire an employee to occasionally (among other job duties) make a round and check all the fridges. Corporate logic!

Sierra Leone became a country before Slovenia. First come first serve.

become worthless

Finally something I can be good at!

I’m still waiting for them to announce the upgrade path. My remaining pair of Allbirds shoes still doesn’t have any AI functionality. No care for old cusomers.

Malicious compliance

If wonder if they will just fill it with non-printable unicode characters. It would be the easiest to implement, and fairly effective for most casual users.

Sure it’s trivial to make a tool to strip the text of those characters. But someone would have to be dedicated to cheating to bother.

Saudi obsession with acquiring anything related to sports is something to be studied.

Nothing wrong with loving sports, it’s the way they go about it that’s offputting.

I’d bet on massive reduction in disposable income.

Patreon is based on the idea that most people have some amount of money, relatively small from own perspective, that they’re willing to give away in hopes of getting more content from their favorite creators.

Anecdotal evidence: 5 years ago I was spending about 100€ per month on Patreon. These days I’m down to 15€.

Now, I’m just one person, not necessarily representative of a trend. But I have a feeling it’s a trend.

R&D is an ugly word in contemporary (non-Chinese) corporate culture

No not really. They were always a subsidiary of Oppo, since the beginning.

I’m not sure he actually fleeced the big buyers. One of the main “problems” in paying a bribe is how to present the payment as something legitimate.

If you can maybe just innocently “invest” in some crypto scheme. Totally legitimate investment, just so happened it failed, oh well.

We need to separate the feeling of driving from practicality. EVs are pleasant to drive for sure. Having to plan your trips around charging is annoying, there isn’t really much progress there.
The only reason I want a car is to do spontaneous trips to less populated areas. I already have range anxiety, I top up as soon as I’m below 1/3 of the tank. Batteries make it worse.

Surprisingly not completely out of touch, companies suffering from middle management long predates AI.

Of course he falls into the same error as most corporate people assuming that people are born with skills rather than trained for them. Why not retrain that 20% into builders and sellers.

Did they try making it good?

What sucks even more is that Palantir are actually good at what they do. They delivered an IT project to a government agency without going insanely over budget, or failing completely. I hate it when bad guys are competent.

The 2 remaining devs using Copilot will leave it.
It’s rare to see such a clear example of first-mover disadvantage as GitHub Copilot.

Ah, I see you were exposed to Scott Manley’s narrative style

Partially. If they get stuck a human is alerted to take over remotely. I think they are Filipinos though, based on some other news here.

Walmart ​employs about 2.1 million ‌people worldwide

Getting rid of 1000 is just another Tuesday for them

10 years? Ain’t nobody got time for that