I can't recall, but I think it was about 7 years. Some will say that's an acceptable lifetime, but I think I did the math once, and estimated it was only a little less than laundromat pricing (less opportunity cost).
I beg to differ that Samsung makes good stuff. We had a Samsung front-loading washer. The drum and the crank that holds the drum were made of two different materials, and in the presence of the water and detergent, a galvanic reaction occurred, dissolving the drum arm. Replacing the arm was $400 in parts and over 8 hours in repair time. (There's lots of YT videos of this exact repair.)
What kind of monkey designs something like that. It's obsolescence by design.
I went to the local state school, and had an apartment off campus. At the end of the school year, we'd go dumpster diving, and get all the stuff thrown out. We would take orders from people before going – generally things like TVs, VCRs, tapes, books for classes, etc.
In the first dumpster, you should get a couple of backpacks, rucksacks, and a broom handle (to aid in digging). We'd find all kinds of things. Books we'd resell, lots of porn, lots of perfectly good clothing. It was great.
The best thing we ever found was a giant projection TV (it was the 90s) outside a frat. We took it home, and it turned out the TV had been rained on, and a few discrete components needed to be fixed in the low-voltage section. A couple trips to Radio Shack, and we had a massive frat TV (it was a pain to move it). We went back to the frat a couple of days after we had fixed it, and asked them for the remote. They chased us off.
Dumpster diving in college towns is definitely something the townies do.
Well, it's clear this was leaked so they can throw Waltz to the wolves. "He was a rogue employee, and he is the only one who did this."
I am not conspiratorially minded, but I bet this was because Waltz had Jeffrey Goldberg's number. I bet Waltz leaked things to Goldberg in the past, and this is the Trump administration cutting ties with him in the most "sleep with the fishes" way possible.
A good friend of mine was friends with Dan Brown when they were both kids. Dan broke his back (or something else just as serious), and was in a cast for a year+. My friend used to say that he was normal when he got hurt, but turned into a real menace after the accident.
My friend passed away a couple of years ago, or I'd have him fill in the details.
I am not defending any of this fuckwits, but I don't know that it's much different than any organized religion. All of them are stories that get retold over and over until people accept them on faith. I can envision a world where our stories (movies, books) where history is lost of their creation, become facts. "Of course there was Jedi, we've just forgotten…"
Now, they're all fuckwits, but it's not outside the realm of thought.
Compilers take the code the programmer writes, and turns it into things called object files. Object files are close to executable by the target processor, but not completely. There are little places where the code needs to be rewritten to handle access to subroutines, access operating system functionality, and other things.
A linker combines all these object files, does the necessary rewriting, and generates something that the operating system can use.
It's the final step in building an executable.
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More complicatedly: a linker is a little Turing machine that runs over the object files. Some can do complicated things like rewriting code, or optimizing across function calls. But, fundamentally, they plop all the object files together and follow little scripts (or rewrites) that clean up the places the compiler couldn't properly insert instructions because the compiler doesn't know the final layout of the program.
I worked at FB for almost 2 years. (I left as soon as I could, I knew it wasn't a good fit for me.)
I had an Uber from the campus one day, and my driver, a twenty-something girl, was asking how to become a moderator. I told her, "no amount of money would be enough for me to do that job. Don't do it."
I don't know if she eventually got the job, but I hope she didn't.
Cross compiling is really defined as different platforms, not limiting it to instruction sets. Also, the M1 is an ARM, but the instruction sets aren't exactly the same.
Not all of those explode eventually, rather it's a small amount. Only the most massive stars explode into a supernova. The majority of stars are smaller, and will have different lifetimes. For example, the sun, an unusually bright star (brighter than about 95% of stars) will eventually turn into a red giant, slough off material then collapse to a white dwarf. It's estimated that the majority of stars are brown dwarf (very small, some not too-too much larger than Jupiter), and less than 1% of stars are massive enough to go supernova. The problem is that only the big stars go super nova, and the big stars also have the short lifetimes because they're burning fuel so quickly.
I recreated that in grad school, also using QNX. We set it up to run a paging (POCSAG) system that you could put the floppy into any computer, hook up a DSP board and modulator, reboot the machine and you'd have a paging system. My advisor showed it to Andrew Viterbi, and got us grant.
When I went to recreate it, I contacted QNX and asked if I could speak to the guy who did the work, and he had died the year before. So, I just took apart his floppy, and figured out how he did it.
The things you can do when you invest your time 100% in something.