This. I can't tell you how many times I've been contacted by a recruiter looking to fill a job that I myself am the hiring manager for or is within my reporting line. When recruiters can't even be bothered to look at the job, company and potentially hiring manager before contacting someone, the system is broken.
You'll often find a lot of engineers, and in my experience, a lot of former navy nuke personnel, overseeing the power and facilities at large data centers. There also tend to be a number of others with engineering backgrounds working in data center operations even if a lot of their work may not be what would commonly fall under "engineering". Technicians who perform some of the break/fix and routine maintenance do tend to be lower skilled but, again, it's not uncommon to find advanced degrees. I knew someone with a Phd in Chemistry working as an entry level data center technician because they were simply looking for something different outside of academia and it was a career that had rapid advancement potential.
Yes, I worked for a bit on site at a datacenter in Fort Worth and was surprised by how many ex-nuclear-submarine engineers there were. I guess it's similar, you have a lot of high tech equipment in an environment where the climate is closely controlled.
Agreed. While Andrew's done an okay job stepping into some big shoes, I too miss the reviews John Siracusa used to do for Ars. Same could be said for a lot of the old internet when you had people like Siracusa, Anand Lal Shimpi at AnandTech among others, providing very detailed deep dives on the latest technology.
Sorry, but a lot of cars, even if they run Android Automotive, maintain a separate TCU/DCM with its own cellular connection that can collect vehicle information independently of Android Automotive.
The corners in the duo seem comparable to those on the standard iPhone. Presumably, the squatter dimensions may just call more attention to them. I don’t see the duo as appearing cartoonish though.
Seems a better question is who do you believe is actually innovating today?
Apple has rarely been about providing bleeding edge technology to early adopters. They've always been more concerned with evaluating technology, often building things behind closed doors to explore and iterate, and then only releasing something once they felt it was ready and able to address a defined purpose or need. It's not first to market, but often first to get it right.
Their AI strategy is actually pretty smart when you consider how they're focusing on small, local models with a clear security model. Others are spending billions to make incremental progress on models while Apple can sit back, build integrations that allow users to leverage the best models, and then once a certain level of maturity is reached, Apple can either license models or train their own using the lessons learned by everyone else.
The iphone was bleeding edge... Of you disregard Neonode. But that is the only that comes to mind. The other bleeding edge has been the overall ecosystem around its product.
The iPhone is the perfect example of sitting back, evaluating the technology, and delivering a great product. The first to get it right strategy.
Numerous smart phones existed with email, text, call, and internet. iPhone just made it infinitely better. They also had the advantage of convincing carriers to start making money off data rather than text/minutes. This was a paradigm shift that allowed for full web browser to exist. It guzzled data, so carriers were fine subsidizing the phones and reap profits of data plans.
BlackBerry, Windows CE, and Symbian devices were all already around as smart phones at the time. When the iPhone initially launched, it's revolution was a streamlined form factor. Their was no app ecosystem at launch. I would say their biggest innovation was system integration and refinement. Other than blackberry, few companies were really owning the product vision from top to bottom.
Yeah, I’ve always thought that looking at the field of glorified prototypes and turning them into things real people actually love to use is, in fact, innovation.
I don’t think the Duo is a great example of that. Maybe it’s a fine product anyway, though?
I do also think their approach to AI is scary brilliant if they can pull it off.
It has the potential to make them the most important AI company in the world, quickly, with none of the exposure to the multi-trillion dollar horserace.
Flock records more that just license plates. It’s my understanding they’re also scanning wireless spectrum and tracking Bluetooth and WiFi MAC addresses, among other things.
More to the point, there’s a difference between someone writing down license plate numbers on a sheet of paper and and putting that information into a database that can then be mines to identify patterns of behavior, associations between people, etc. Context, use, and scale all matter significantly
Would love to see this applied to VR so that users consuming content in a Meta Quest, Vision Pro, etc. can navigate the video store to browse, and then once they find what they want to watch, walking out the door takes them into a virtual theatre or living rom environment.
I think most people are quickly coming to the conclusion that maybe the wealthy aren't as critical to a community as they would like everyone to believe.
The big argument around NYC's pied-à-terre tax among other policy changes was that it would force the wealthy to relocate outside of NYC to more favorable locations. That hasn't happened, and for a place like NYC, very unlikely to happen because people are attracted to the city for what it provides. Worst case, they leave, the property values decline and the city becomes more affordable with any gaps in businesses likely filled by those living and invested in the community.
It depends it may have an analogue in the evaporative cooling effect in the tax and investment base.
If the state goes too far, those with wealth may take their wealth and invest in in friendlier investment climates where their home country suffers from wealth drain and potentially could end up as country versions of Detroit (or maybe like VZ where as the state confiscated property investment dried up).
The problem is that these taxes, like every other tax, will soon apply to the middle class (who have the real wealth), and they very much will leave. Either physically leave, or they will leave like they do in a lot of European countries: find some excuse to first become long-term ill, then go onto unemployment. And obviously the state cannot stop this. You want to do this? There's nothing the state can do about it (other than seriously lower pensions, unemployment and medical insurance)
There are articles about UK families that have been doing this for 5 generations. The entire family.
The problem is not money. There are far less working-age people, and it'll keep dropping for 25 years minimum. Which means the only solution is people working more, for someone else. A little bit more every year, for now without any visible end. Either that will happen, or the state (including elderly care) will have to shrink instead.
Pick your poison. And, of course, every electorate is saying "NONE OF THE ABOVE". Okay ...
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