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They absolutely can, several carriers who use other carriers are cheaper than who they lease service from. They won't be paying consumer prices to use those towers.

It all depends on what margins they have, what extra services they provide, and whether they have other ways of monetizing you. They might even be reselling at a loss to boost their initial market share. In Google's case, it's safe to assume they want your data and sacrifice some margins to get it.

There's a bunch of trades which happen instantly when you IPO. I don't know exactly how it works, but I think that when my company went public the pool offered in the IPO included stock from priority shareholders. So I'm guessing he effectively sold them to reddit at slightly below initial offer value for them to release to the public as part of the IPO. This way he doesn't tank the stock by selling off 500k shares on the stock exchange.

I read somewhere that about 50% of vinyl owners don't have a player. Presumably that 50% only have very few records and bought them for the looks, but still.

Sounds like you need to give it something to connect to. Buy a cheap analog-to Bluetooth transmitter, charge it from the car and just never turn it off. You'd need to do some research to find one which doesn't go to sleep. If you need to use your phone in the car, just turn the transmitter off.

Windows NT came out of the failed collaboration with IBM and was originally meant to be OS/2 3.0. MS switched the APIs from OS/2 compatible to Windows compatible after Windows 3.0 took off, and it caused the collaboration to fall apart.

They're talking about the projected results, not their merits as candidates. Their whole point was that the main grievance against Biden also applies to all other candidates, yet only Biden is being dinged for it.

You just know it's going to be some stupid AI shit.

I bought a 65" TV in 2013. It's good enough for me. I don't need 4k at home. It got zapped after 9 years, but there were tons of power supply boards on eBay for $40 each. Turns out a lot of people break the display and sell the other parts.

All the head start in the world can't save you when you have Elon Musk as CEO. He decided years ago that sensors like LIDAR and such are expensive and unnecessary, "because people can drive with just their eyes". So now Teslas rely exclusively on cameras, and have a much harder time figuring out the shape of stuff around them. Can't add sensors with a software update, so they'll be behind for a good while more.

You forgot same email address.

Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

Days? When my company went public employees couldn't sell their stock for several months. And as soon as we could the price tanked, because everyone wanted to cash out.

The selling was understandable, having 80% of your net worth in a single stock is scary, but hundreds of first-time stock owners doing a fire sale didn't do the stock price any favors.

New Hondas with front cameras (used for adaptive cruise control and lane departure warnings) will read speed limit signs to display them in the dashboard.

It only parses the number, so if a US car is in Canada it will say the speed limit is 110 mph on the highway. If these GM cars do the same they'd probably think any Canadian car going for a weekend trip to the US did so at prison-worthy speeds.

Although to be fair most simulation code I've come across was written by Physics majors who really shouldn't be writing code. Most of those implementations are a crime against engineering and humanity alike.

They do the job, though, and I suppose crimes against engineering are better than crimes against physics, if one had to choose.

I think you'll find that the line between "computer scientist" and "software engineer" is rather blurred.

Depends on the engineer. Some make the software which does the math.

It can probably even run Half-Life no problem. It was based on a mish-mash of the Quake 1 and 2 engines with some extensions.

That's interesting. My trilingual kids definitely translate individual words, but I guess the real bar here is to translate sentences such that the structure is correct for the languages?

The quality of AAC depends a lot on the encoder. The iPhone does it pretty well, Android not so much.

That's what the audio nerds say, at least. Personally I can't really hear a difference except when using the headphones with the microphone, when it reverts to some ancient codec with more noise than signal.

Doesn't take much to get death threats on the Internet, unfortunately. He probably would have received less of them with a better attitude, though. He wasn't full-on Ulrich Drepper, but still pretty divisive.