I did a CTF once where one of the challenges was forensics on a video file. It had the header ripped off, the entension removed, and was split into chunks that had to be ripped out of a pcap and reassmebled

VLC just played the mangled chunks as-is. It was an unintended cheat code for the challenge

When I did those tests, checking your ears was a required step. Plenty of other subtle ways to communicate though

Easy enough to put notes or a phone on the backside of your monitor. Pearson doesn’t check there during their room scans

Source: Took dozens of exams through them

The problem, to me, is that not everyone on a boat is catching fish. There are plenty of different roles. It’s just that people outside the industry don’t have a concept of the nuanced differences between roles, so it gets simplified to “I catch fish” even if they aren’t involved in catching fish at all. Most people outside of tech have no idea between the different roles that exist in tech either. It wasn’t too long ago where no matter your role in tech, you’d tell laymen, “I work in IT” as a catchall for any technical role

If that were the case I’d have spent thousands on Linux by now T.T

Many electricians, carpenters, and steel plant workers are currently working to build AI data centers. Funding other projects has been postponed or cancelled as the AI data centers are able to pay more

Electricians especially. Trump cancelled many clean energy projects, which created large swaths of electricians without work if it weren’t for AI data centers

He’s not vying for customers. He’s sucking up to Trump in the hopes of getting preferential treatment for his company

We’ve seen over and over again, companies that praise him, or bribe him, are getting business advantages from the Trump administration

Technically correct, but media never uses it that way. People generally do not differentiate the two

The fact she is making this distinction, which she has never made before for anyone, tells me she’s priming her audience to be okay with rich and powerful men raping underage women

Alternative perspective: Imagine being lifted up, being able to see the stars for the first time. The absolute wonderment of it all. Only to be put back down, never to be able to see them again. Almost seems cruel

Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don’t seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure

Much of the cost of streaming for platforms like Netflix, and especially YouTube, are due to the need to centralize it to allow for more data collection. The cost of streaming also gets overblown, by a lot. Companies like Google and Netflix are spending huge amounts of money trying to build out new features and offerings, like games, that make it look like maintaining the streaming service is far more expensive than it is

But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix

Netflix has never needed to rely on venture capital for their streaming platform. Netflix has made a gross profit every quarter since 2011 when this data starts. They have also had a net income all but one of those quarters, which is absolutely insane for a new tech company investing that much in R&D + licensing

The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up

No. They’re the result of perpetually increasing profit margins. They were very profitable before the price hikes. Their expenses have gone up far slower than their revenue. It’s simply extracting more wealth without providing additional value

as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine

It’s a bit pedantic, but Netflix wasn’t a startup when they got into streaming. They were an existing business that was profitable to fund their pivot to a technology platform

So how do you offset these increases?

Netflix has had an operating income (revenue - operating expenses) of $12.6B over the past 12 months. With ~300M subscribers, that’s about $3.50 per subscriber per month. Subscription prices are much lower in most countries than in the US. For the ~80M US subscribers, that is probably $6 in profit. The $5 cheaper ad tier is probably about what we’d expect their prices to be if they had simply continued to make a couple billion a year in profit. Also keep in mind they would probably get and retain more subscribers with a lower price, and their increased operating expenses includes them building out tons of stupid mobile games most people don’t want, and one-off necessary expenses like building out their original content capabilities

Note: This last bit is doing some napkin math and is subject to error. I didn’t feel like digging deep enough into their financials to get more exact numbers (such as the average subscription price for the rest of the world)

TL;DR – Much of the price increases and addition of ads can be attributed to increasing profit margins, not increased operating costs

How long until we have no real choice? The vast majority of TVs are smart TVs now

The largest cost is going to be building out data centers and buying the chips to fill them. OpenAI has essentially been telling investors they’re only losing money for now as they build out infrastructure, but when that’s done they’ll be making money hand over fist

We have no idea what the compute costs actually are since OpenAI is a private company. It’s just a shift in the speculation that it’s higher than previously estimated

At this point most people just throw pennies away. At best they’re being saved in a change jar to be brought to the bank. Almost no one is using pennies for payment of goods and services. It’s a useless waste of money to produce and congress should have gotten rid of them decades ago

The only issue here is that it isn’t congress getting rid of it. It’s the president taking power from congress to get rid of it

You’re missing the point because they didn’t use precise language

Congress establishes what coins and bills are to be minted. The executive branch executes that directive. Congress has directed the executive branch to mint pennies. The executive branch determined 0 is a number of pennies to mint. The Mint is not minting pennies, despite congress directing them to do so

If the president is allowed to interpret laws congress passes so broadly, it gives an incredible amount of power to the executive branch. Historically, the president hasn’t been given nearly that level of authority

It’s illegal because congress said to mint pennies, but the executive branch is not minting pennies

Someone else mentioned children waiting for the bus get run over at a much higher rate if it’s dark early in the morning, which is a pretty valid argument

That being said, I’d much rather it get dark later in the day

50 cent piece would be the way to go. Should then also really push $1 coins, and add in a $2 and $5 coin, although I don’t know if Americans would realistically use them. Coins are much more durable than paper currency though, which would save a lot of money long term

Canada was a decade ahead of the US when it came to implementing tap. It’ll take the US a long while to get to the same level of universal acceptance, starting from so far behind

That seems off

Where are you getting this millions of years number? Seems really unrealistic considering millions of humans live at altitude and have barely enough oxygen in the air as it is

I agree getting rid of the penny is a good thing, but it’s really bad that this is setting a precedent to give the president a lot more power

It’s also a really poor implementation considering the government has given no guidance on how businesses must handle it

No, actually I never heard that. Where are you getting that from?