Fourth grade? I don’t think I really thought about my life 30 years later. Maybe finding out I have ADHD; I’m not hyperactive so not the kind really diagnosed in kids.

That was just cloning

The USA, however, has no comparable limits, meaning that Qualcomm and Apple can demand more working hours from their employees, although the chip development teams of these two companies are also significantly larger, according to The Chosun Daily.

(Emphasis added)

“Is it the understaffing that’s a problem? No, it’s those lazy employees not working 84 hours a week!”

And just an addendum for non-Americans who also aren’t likely/don’t have time to click the links, FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was elected to 4 terms but died 82 days into his 4th term. He was succeeded by the vice president, Harry S. Truman.

Prior to FDR all presidents had voluntarily limited themselves to 2 terms following the precedent of the first president, George Washington. FDR’s running for a 3rd term was controversial at the time; in 1940 the U.S. had not yet joined the Second World War and intervening was still controversial, although opposition dwindled with the fall of France. Interestingly, FDR seeking a 4th term was much less controversial with the U.S. in the thick of the war in 1944. The constitution was amended a few years later to make sure it didn’t happen again, though.

Yup, I spent years begging my family to stop sending family photos from gatherings through text messages, to no avail. I eventually switched to iPhone and see that it’s fine if we’re all on iMessage, but many of my aunts/uncles/cousins are on Android so if they’re in the picture then it gets sent as MMS and we get terrible images again.

I meant more like cinema-quality, but this is magnificent

I can relate to a lot of this! I’m 41 and just got diagnosed this year. It explains a lot of my life! I started medication this spring with Concerta and it helped but then I built up a tolerance to it and it stopped working. After spending months trying different meds I’m getting help with Focalin XR, but I’m terrified I’ll build up a tolerance to it as well so I’m trying to get as much done on a certification as I can while it’s working. Have meds helped you?

It did help me learn to write my own code once I saw what was happening, though

We need some high quality audio gear recording that; it makes great sound effects!

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Ah, the European method of placing ads in American shows anywhere, instead of using the spaces designed in the American shows.

Allstate, I think. What’s weird to me is how close the character is to the same actor’s character on 30 Rock.

An inspector general investigation conducted after the arrest found that the Air Force had missed or failed to react to a number of signs that Teixeira was improperly using his security clearance. On several occasions members of his unit reported Teixeira for viewing information he didn’t need, but the complaints weren’t properly documented or acted upon even after supervisors had ordered him to stop doing intelligence “deep dives,” according to the investigation report.

“Three individuals in A1C Teixeira’s supervisory chain had information about as many as four separate instances of security incidents and potential insider threat indicators they were required to report,” the inspector general concluded. “Had any of these three members come forward and properly disclosed the information they held at the time of the incidents, the length and depth of the unauthorized disclosures may have been reduced by several months.”

This was an interesting tidbit:

Rivian has proved adept at simplifying vehicle electronics in ways that have eluded legacy automakers. For its second-generation R1 vehicles, the startup reduced the total number of electronic control units (ECUs) from 17 to seven, eliminating miles of wiring and reducing costs. Most cars have 100 or more ECUs.

It’s something we don’t necessarily think about as much, but these are small things that have a big impact on cost and weight. I remember one of the big savings on GM’s Ultium platform came from switching to wireless battery control units using chips from Analog Devices. It saved weight by eliminating control wires and greatly reduced labor on assembling the battery packs. The wireless chips were a little more expensive but more than paid for themselves in the other savings.

I wonder if this will get the factory in North Carolina back under construction any sooner?

I’d be curious how many phone companies don’t outsource fabrication, even just for final assembly. Maybe Samsung doesn’t? LG, Huawei? And even then I suspect they’d try to retain some capacity with contract assemblers for redundancy in case of a disaster or other issue at their own facility or in case they get an unexpectedly high runner and need extra capacity to meet demand.

I believe @[email protected] is referring to how Teslas have electronic door releases instead of mechanical handles and they don’t work in a fire. There is a mechanical emergency override (I think only on the front doors) but it’s not obvious and there have been multiple deaths from people who could not figure out how to escape from burning vehicles.

To me it’s the most egregious example of Tesla not knowing the basics of how to build a car or eschewing user experience conventions that have been developed over more than a century of car building for good reasons in favor of trying to be modern or futuristic.

The U.S. lagged adoption of SMS compared to Europe (relatively high prices for texting in the early days while relatively low prices for calling in the same era) but now SMS/RCS/iMessage are the dominant mobile messaging method in the U.S. There’s much lower adoption of third-party services like WhatsApp compared to the rest of the world because basically everyone has those services (SMS/RCS) already on their phone, they don’t have to sign up for a service that not everyone might use, and it’s basically free on every phone in the U.S. now.

Meta is blocking Canadian news because the law now requires them to pay the news outlets to display those news articles. It’s not a boycott so much as Meta being cheap. That’s one case where I think it would be easier for Meta if the news orgs left; them staying on the platforms keeps a little more pressure on saying Meta should pay because the demand is there.

So is it a $1500 price tag or $450?