More likely it's the engineers that they wanted, and grossly overpaid for them. Most likely the back-end was OpenAI anyway.

Cisco used to do a ton of acquisitions like this, ones that look pointless, but serve some function. And the function is to get pre-screened engineers, as well as stymie a potential competitor in a field that they might want to enter in the future. Of course, Altman being Altman, they massively overpaid for this one. Effectively they are paying $3B to acquire 191 employees, not all of which will be kept. That works out to around $15.7M per employee before layoffs. By contrast, Cisco used to pay around $100M per company, and inflation isn't THAT bad. Also, Cisco had enormous profits and swimming pools filled with cash to do this with. OpenAI loses $5B/year, and you could heat a city of 1M people with the heat of all the cash they burn.

What it means is that the party line from Meta is that it's full of lies, but they know it's all true. Hence blank accusations instead of refutation. Bozworth proving once again that tech executives are at least out of touch, if not complete idiots. I long for the days of press releases instead of social media tirades, too.

Muskovites think that they're going to manufacture methane on Mars for the return trip using the Sabatier process. No idea where they plan to get sufficient feedstocks, equipment, or power.

F9 Can't get enough of them up there to populate the full constellation before the first sats reach EOL and need to be de-orbited. Starship is necessary for StarLink to operate.

I would really like to see the results broken down by experience level. For juniors? Sure, and that's been replicated in many studies. I want to see how their tools work for developers with 5+ years experience. Or are they just firing every experienced dev and replacing them with bootcamp grads armed with an AI coding tool, since they're so much more productive now?

I've never had a problem with 3rd party toner, but I only use B&W lasers. Overall, my experience with Brother laser printers is that they are the most un-printer-like printers I've ever used, in that they are absolutely reliable, even on WiFi.

Do you also make backstaffs? Or should that be backstaves?

The power to set tariffs was given to the executive decades ago. Congress has no say in the matter, and even if it did, the GOP is just going to roll over and play dead for Trump on every topic.

The fact is that phones represent the worst trade-offs in UI/UX. Multi-touch does not make up for small screens, smaller targets, and the lack of a real keyboard.

When I was last dating, I decided that Android use is a dealbreaker.

The enshittification of reddit accelerates.

Stranger in a Strange Land was intended as a satire of counterculture. Musk was Heinlein's kinda guy.

It has nothing to do with reaction speed, and everything to do with collision algorithms. A target can only be hit if it's visible, and the higher frame-rate allows more frames where the target can be hit.

More detail: take the case of a projectile traveling between the player's weapon and a target that appears for n milliseconds, and a frame-rate r in frames/sec. The number of frames that target is visible, and hence can be hit by the projectile, is proportional to n * r. With a lower frame-rate, the target will be visible, and hence available to be hit, for fewer frames than it would with a higher frame-rate, reducing the chance of hitting the target.

LTT did a video on this a couple of years ago. But I'm lazy, and I'm not going to look it up.

Yes, you'd get Gary's Mod on a cocktail of LSD, DMT, and mescaline.