Isn’t that this one that temporarily died due to Texas legal stuff until 1 month ago when Amtrak helped save it? Yeah I hope it succeeds but there’s a lot of influential Texans who want it to fail or kill it.
“The regulations exclude revenue from audiobooks, podcasts, video game services, and user-generated content. The exclusion of revenue from user-generated content is a win for Google's YouTube.”
Yeah it also makes sure Montreal’s thriving video game industry isn’t negatively impacted either. And Google have branches in Canada employing Canada maybe Netflix doesn’t have as many I wonder about that.
This is another reason why I hate it when countries do stuff like this because they always implement it very hypocritically too. They didn’t innovate the wildly popular product that has come into their country or “being dumped” into their country which is usually their word choice driven by envy and their local competition can’t compete so they pull nonsense like this to get at some of that revenue.
India and China have done variations of this for years but now Europe and it looks like Canada are doing it or planning to and I’m sure soon other countries.
Even here in America this has started with Biden’s recent moves on China and Trump wants to double those if elected. So both parties are moving into this mindset.
Most American multinational companies generally thrive in a global marketplace, same with Japanese, Chinese, South Korean, and German companies. I know Spotify was Scandinavian but they moved to the US some time back right?
I guess rest of the world got fed up with this small set of countries dominating the Consumer Tech and Entertainment marketplace and wants to grab at some of their revenue when it’s coming from people living within their borders using the international product.
Companies will probably just pass these costs on to the consumers and try to minimize absorption.
Hmm at Berkeley 10-14 years ago during undergrad we used MIPS in both our computer architecture class and compilers class and I wouldn’t call it obscure. Uncommon yes but not obscure.
It had a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) which at the time was considered academic but not popular in real world computers since CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) ISA like amd64 was all the rage but since Apple Silicon and its RISC-based (ARM) architecture that notion has been turned on its head. And the upcoming Qualcomm ARM laptop chip is also following the trend on high performing RISC architecture chips.
The ARM comeback has made RISC popular again for uses beyond mobile phones and academia.
It's been blurry for over 20 years at this point. ARM has had "cisc-y" complex instructions for almost as long as x86 has been splitting instructions into "risk-y" micro ops.
I think that distinction only makes sense when the hardware executes instructions directly. Like a microcode processor or one that uses jungle logic. But when you decompose optimize and cache the instruction steam on the fly, there is little meaningful difference. Offhand comments from friends more involved in that lead me to think that architecture caught academics flat footed.
If it makes you feel better I saw this and I don’t know what a “front page on Hacker News” is because all HackerNews articles I see are from Facebook or Twitter (before I left Twitter) I don’t actually visit Hacker News website directly where ever that is.
His RISC being “No” most would agree is somewhat incorrect though it seemed correct back in 2015.
But it kinda goes to show how these yes/maybe/no things can evolve unexpectedly over time and not be to taken as gospel that will stand the test of time.
Meh I don’t judge others but I personally don’t want an arranged marriage I feel like in most cases it’s always focused around the man and not the woman so the woman ends up with a suboptimal match which I think is wrong.
It’s interesting (but not surprising) how people of the same race and religion can have very different cultures based on the region of the world they were born or grew up in.
Malaysians like my parents who are Indian genetically/ancestrally (been in Malaysia for multiple generations though) and Hindu by religion date in high school, Pre-marital sex is not uncommon and some speak openly about it just like here in the “West”, and usually get love marriages.
Same applies to Malaysian Chinese Buddhists and also to a much much lesser extent Malaysian Malay Muslims.
But in South Asia, Indian Hindus and Pakistani Muslims (not all of course) have this arranged marriage notion (Although I’ve been told it’s less common now) and dating in high school in very rare and I’m guessing Pre-marital sex is either very rare or you can’t talk about it openly because of social stigma.
Same race from a genetic point of view, same religion,
But different views of feminism, sexuality, and dating.
Not surprising of course.
As an American myself my views are mostly “Western” since I grew up here and I guess my parents were pretty progressive (at least on this issue my mom went against her parents to marry my dad).
The society in which you grow up in plays a large role in how you end up seeing the world and people around you.
> Scheme and parenthesis hell when writing code on the midterms....
Writing code on paper sucks in many (all?) languages. At least the ones I have tried. Python might actually have an advantage on that front, Haskell, too.
Having worked at Microsoft and now at Apple (and a startup before these two), in my opinion
The overall distribution of proficiencies and talent across engineering teams (both hardware and software teams) in my opinion were about equal across the three.
(One major difference though is finding engineers who don’t mind doing nitty gritty dirty work like Dev ops and/or setting up test automation stuff is harder in big companies because somehow many of the senior engineers at big companies feel that if the setup isn’t given to them by someone else, it’s not their job to set it up for their team, so they just use what’s available/existing even if it’s insufficent for good quality.
(Not trying to bash on any oldies on my existing or previous teams of course there were few exceptions)
At startups though engineers don’t have this “that’s below me” Attitude and will put in the time to set up automation if it makes the team more agile.
In fact setting up developer automation was one of the first things I set up for my team before getting to my feature development tasks and team has acknowledged it made huge difference in the overall team agility and reduction in regressions found by the QA folks every time code was checked in
)
Anyway this made me realize the importance of good marketing which Microsoft lacked a lot imo and also engineering leadership product vision
Since generally I’ve noticed you’ll get about the same distribution of engineering talent
And what really makes the difference are a good marketing team and good engineering management team
who believes in the importance of code quality (ensuring things like checkstyle and findbugs are enabled as required to pass for check in and having required code review approvals for check in) and automation in tests (ensuring some set of unit, integration, and functional tests are run to be passed before check in), and automation in deployment.
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