Others have already pointed that mortality rates do not reveal the full picture. There are various factors that affect the mortality rates in different countries – masks being only one of those factors. There are more critical factors at play such as age, obesity, co-morbidities, access to affordable health care, etc.
While masks are shown to slow the spread of infection, ultimately the larger problem with handling the COVID-19 pandemic was the lockdowns and isolation. Lockdowns and isolating individuals definitely helped reduce the spread of the infection and probably saved a lot of lives but prolonged isolation actually reduced the overall immunity in our population. Human immune systems require constant exposure to all sorts of germs to keep it humming along. Isolation does the exact opposite and while it is useful in the short term, prolonged 'clean room' type conditions created due to isolation and lockdowns are harmful.
This is good and bad. This showcases the importance of CrowdStrike. This is a short term blip but in the long run they will learn from this and prevent this type of an issue in the future. On the flip side, they have a huge target on their back for the U.S. government to try and control them. They are also a huge target for malicious actors since they can clearly see that CS is part of critical US and western infra. Taking them down can cripple essential services.
On a related note, this also demonstrates the danger of centralized cloud services. I wish there were more players in this space and the governments would try their very best to prevent consolidation in this space. Alternatively, I really wish the CS did not have this centralized architecture that allows for such failure modes. Software industry should learn from great & age old engineering design principles. For example, a large ships have watertight doors that prevent compartments from flooding in case of a breach. It appears that CS didn't think the current scenario was not possible therefore didn't invest in anything meaningful to prevent this nightmare scenario.
I have suffered migraines for a long time before I knew what migraines were and also a long time after. I was ignorant. But over the years I learned about my triggers. Some may find this helpful so posting them here. Your specific triggers may vary. The ones I have learned over the years are Refined Sugar, Electrolyte Imbalance, Stress, Sleep debt, Acid Reflux, Excessive Hunger, Dehydration (even mild), Excessive Heat, Sun Exposure. This list is not exhaustive but it can help identify triggers that usually go unnoticed for years.
You're comparing a 600W system (450W TDP GPU + 150W TDP Intel Core i9-13900KS) with a 90W chip (CPU, GPU & NPU combined). You don't see anything remotely problematic with that comparison?
Per capita income doesn't reveal the actual income disparity. SF wasn't always expensive city to live. It was in fact quite the opposite. Last several decades have made the city inhospitable for the economically vulnerable population. Instead of looking at the per capita GDP, you should see the income distribution in the city. The median household income is $126,000 which is not a livable wage in the city for a family. The recent poverty rate is ~10%.
My perception is that, people were partying & were drunk. The Waymo vehicle likely was just passing through and probably got stuck. People simply took out their pent up frustration on it. It's nothing more than that.
Nothing fades into oblivion. The company is obligated to liquidate its assets which includes IP. This gives a big opportunity to build new products that may be more economically viable. This would not be possible if the company would be acquired by the incumbent who will just acquire the company’s IP and sit on it.
What the actual f*ck is wrong with Boeing's management? After the MAX fiasco that left several hundreds dead, I would have expected the new management to be more cautious about safety issues. As a consumer, I feel the need to vote with my wallet and feet. I feel it is time to boycott flying on Boeing's unsafe planes. Unfortunately, due to consolidation and lack of competition there are very few choices left for us.
The marketing material is misleading / naive. Cops routinely ask for ids at traffic stop and take them to their vehicle to verify the driver details in their system. I would imagine they would do the same with digital id and therefore one would need to hand them an unlocked phone as California digital DL doesn't appear to integrate with Apple Wallet yet?
Interesting read indeed! We need more innovation in this space. I am in the camp of cash users for several reasons. Increasingly, electronic forms of currency and credit are used as a means to exert control over vast majority of the population. The data can be misused by government and private entities to profile and target certain minorities. Crypto was supposed to solve this but that hasn't really panned out as governments do not want competition to their fiat currency.
Only M3 was made with this latest 3nm process. However, M1 and M2 were produced using N5 and N5P respectively. Samsung, Qualcomm, AMD all have access to 5nm processes. In fact Samsung fabs their own 5nm chips while AMD's 7000 series / Zen4 chips were fabbed using the N5 process. However, they are not nearly as competitive as Apple's chips. The whole premise of "Apple's M series chips are only fast because of the process is incorrect".
More importantly, Apple doesn't fab its own chips. TSMC does. Everyone has access to the same vendor. Similarly everyone has access to ARM cores. Yet somehow Apple managed to build an Intel/AMD competitor and others didn't? What am I missing?
You're missing the point. Instead of focusing on 'Bluetooth', focus on GP's underlying point which was that Bamboo should make it possible to have offline experience which is comparable to the cloud connected experience.
Now to address your original concern about Bluetooth. Bluetooth is not the best fit but Bamboo printers do have WiFi. They can host local web UI which is what pretty much every other product does. It requires will and resources to support offline tooling for users though. It also reduces the probability that the user will subscribe to their cloud services, if any.
Coming to the point of an App only working at home. Well, there are several ways to address this issue WITHOUT requiring a user to use their Cloud offering. A simple way is to EDUCATE your users that the app will only function on local wifi. Average users are smarter than you think. If the user would like their app to work when they're not home, offer them an option to connect to the cloud but do not make it mandatory. Next, the printer can use a combination of UPnP, Dynamic DNS to expose it over the internet. Yes, it is scary to do this but with the right security practices it is possible to expose your printer over the internet so your app can reach it. You don't need their cloud to be the intermediary.
Finally, these printers will likely stop working entirely if the company goes out of business or decides to wind down their 3D printing business or just plain planned obsolescence of specific models. All in all, subscription & online paid services for hardware products is an anti-consumer model.
This is a uniquely American problem and an American solution. American healthcare and society fails new mothers. Others have done a great job of pointing out the physical and emotional distress a new mother goes through. However, I'd like to point out the social aspect. New mothers in America are not supported by paid family leave. Vast majority of women are required to go back to work in about 2 weeks after birth. Fathers have no time off, leaving a Post Partum woman at home with a new born with zero support. This is incredibly hard. Other places in the world either have governmental assistance with paid maternity (and paternity) benefits and support of cheap / free healthcare behind it. In absence of governmental assistance, other places have societal support in the form of extended family, neighbors, friends, etc. Unfortunately America fails on both fronts.
You didn't work at Google. You CONTRACTED for Google. There is a BIG difference. Whenever someone claims they worked a company, the implicit assumption is that they were a FTE. I bet if you would've told people that you contracted at Google, their reaction would certainly be different.