03 Nov 2024
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Startups Will Win the War for Top Talent Ironically, in another
strike against the
spontaneous collaboration
argument, a study of
two Fortune 500 headquarters found that transitioning from cubicles to
an open office layout actually reduced face-to-face interactions by 70
percent.
Why
Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too) Not
everybody uses their real names or photos on Strava, but many do. And if
a Strava account is always in the same place as the President, you can
start to connect a few dots.
Why
Getting Your Neighborhood Declared a Historic District Is a Bad Idea
Historic designations are commonly used to control what people can do
with their own private property, and can be a way of creating a kind of
“backdoor” homeowners association. Some historic neighborhoods (many of
which have dubious claims to the designation) around the country have
HOA-like restrictions on renovations, repairs, and even
landscaping.
Donald
Trump Talked About Fixing McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines. Lina Khan
Actually Did. Back in March, the FTC submitted a comment to the
US Copyright Office asking to extend the right to repair certain
equipment, including commercial soft-serve equipment.
An
awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy Linux and open source
in general seem to be huge components of the movie special effects
industry – to an extent that we had not previously realized.
(unless
you have a stack of old Linux Journal back issues from the
early 2000s—we did a lot of movie covers at the time that much of this
software was being developed.)
Using an 8K TV
as a Monitor For programming, word processing, and other
productive work, consider getting an 8K TV instead of a multi-monitor
setup. An 8K TV will have superior image quality, resolution, and
versatility compared to multiple 4K displays, at roughly the same
size.
(huge TVs are an under-rated, subsidized technology, like POTS
lines. Most or all of the huge TVs available today are smart
and
sold with the expectation that they’ll drive subscription and
advertising revenue, which means a discount for those who use them as
monitors.)
Suchir
Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI’s use of copyrighted
data broke the law and failed to meet fair use criteria; he left in
August 2024 Mr. Balaji believes the threats are more immediate.
ChatGPT and other chatbots, he said, are destroying the commercial
viability of the individuals, businesses and internet services that
created the digital data used to train these A.I. systems.
The Unlikely
Inventor of the Automatic Rice Cooker Fumiko, the mother of six
children, spent five years researching and testing to document the ideal
recipe. She continued to make rice three times a day, carefully
measuring water-to-rice ratios, noting temperatures and timings, and
prototyping rice-cooker designs. Conventional wisdom was that the heat
source needed to be adjusted continuously to guarantee fluffy rice, but
Fumiko found that heating the water and rice to a boil and then cooking
for exactly 20 minutes produced consistently good results.
Comments
on TSA proposal for decentralized nonstandard ID requirements
Compliance with the REAL-ID Act requires a state to electronically
share information concerning all driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs
with all other states, but not all states do so. Because no state
complies with this provision of the REAL-ID Act, or could do so unless
and until all states do so, no state-issued driver’s licenses or ID
cards comply with the REAL-ID Act.