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CRTs have properties quite different from LCDs, so many gamers (or media consumers) have reasons to prefer them. Standard-definition TVs and PVMs having better compatibility with pre-HD consoles, and look better (subjectively and closer to developer intent). VGA CRTs can display multiple resolutions without scaling artifacts, and have a softer appearance than LCD monitors which enhances many games and artwork. And CRT flicker produces less motion blur than all non-strobed flat-panel displays at the same refresh rate (compare https://www.testufo.com/ on a LCD and CRT), and less latency than OLED or high-frame-rate/VRR displays (because liquid crystals take time to rotate into position).

Whether it's better to buy a new monitor or run a rescued CRT isn't merely a financial calculation based on manufacturing and operating costs and emissions. For retro gamers and CRT fans, LCDs are usually not a replacement for CRTs in gaming and media consumption, unless you use emulators and CRT shaders, or expensive scaler boxes which apply simulated CRT effects to real consoles' video outputs. And for all but the most obsessed CRT fans, CRTs are not a replacement for modern high-resolution LCD monitors for web browsing and office tasks (the sharpness, lack of flicker, and not having to juggle VGA DACs is a major advantage).

In practice the ideal display is a complex calculation based on scan rate (SDTVs can't show high-resolution signals and VGA monitors usually can't show television signals), display size (>40" LCDs are easier to get and move around than >30" CRTs), cost and reliability. Some people have multiple CRTs they maintain and use for different purposes (alongside LCDs), but I only have the space and energy for one VGA monitor (though I envy those with entire game rooms filled with vintage particle accelerator displays).
Everyone has to die at some point. Might as well do it hilariously.
I guess the counterargument would be that the $225MM is imaginary money - he doesn’t actually make that much until he cashes out and cashing out at the wrong times is what we should actually condemn.

That said, the rules for stock, stock ownership, and splits are all made up on the fly anyway so I don’t want to defend any of this. Stock dilution in particular seems like legal theft.
Doesn't everybody not require only a password?

Offline you need the database which isn't public.

Online you usually need something else on new machines to get at the true master password.
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I think this is somewhat naive. The growth mindset pervades the entire economy, and virtually everyone's interests are bound into it one way or another.

Yes, of course there are people who prioritize lifestyle over chasing money. No one will debate that. But if those people's retirement plans are dependent on a 401k or drawing payments from a pension fund and not just cash savings, then they are amongst the growth-obsessed shareholders, whether they realize it or not.
> You don't need 200M to develop firefox.

Based on what logic? It's 20+ million lines of code touching half if the "hard" problems of computer programming - graphics, fonts, encodings, localization, JIT engines, hardware acceleration, support for multiple architectures (including aforementioned JIT), support for multiple operating systems, massive parallelism, sandboxing, WASM support, hardware support abstractions like WebUSB and WebMIDI, etc, and a massive swamp of compatiblity hacks, and literally books worth of new standards they have to implement every year.

Much of which has to be as high performance as possible while simultaneously not being ludicrously insecure, because the threat environment is basically as hostile as it gets.

The fastest way to "become a lean organization" would be to just give up and become yet another Chromium clone. Barring that, they have a lot of software to maintain if they want a truly independent browser. A modern browser is comparable in effort to supporting an entire operating system, because that's what browsers kind of are nowadays.

About the only other option is to lay off all their staff in SF and Paris and other HCoL areas and relocate to Central and Eastern Europe.
This does happen at other places when I worked at Sony we needed a social media account that was in the name of one of the characters for an alternate reality game on PlayStation Network however I'm pretty sure I remember that Sony either gave the person who had the account three grand worth of free games on PlayStation or a like 2-year unlimited games entitlement. If I recall that person was quite happy with the trade
Dataless files are interesting! They are a special type of file with a bit set (and an xattr) in the file system and no actual file contents. They all live inside a “sync root” in APFS, where each sync root belongs to a specific file provider like Box, Dropbox, iCloud Drive etc. Whenever the kernel detects access to one of these files it will synchronously “upcall” into the current user context and XPC directly to fileproviderd which will in turn communicate with an installed file provider to download and provide the file (changing it from a dataless file into a normal file). This is called “materializing” the file. It will also emit an event using the FSEvents API.

fileproviderd (a launch agent on macOS and a daemon on iOS) watches the FSEvents stream and saves the events in its database. fileproviderd maintains its own sync engine for each provider on the system and will forward events to/from each provider.

Dataless files are an interesting example of Apple using its vertical integration to create an end to end solution that others can’t quite make. Since they own the filesystem, kernel, and user space daemons they can make something that works like this.

This is part of Apple’s years-long effort to kick 3rd parties out of the kernel. As apart of the M1 transition, kernel extensions were no longer aloud and file provider apps were using kernel extensions to intercept file system events at a low level before. Now that they are no longer able to do that, Apple has provided this replacement.
That’s $5m/y.

Nick Clegg makes not much more for being Facebook’s global punching bag.

Not doubting your sources but why are they so generous?
That might be true if the goal were to maximize the profits and long-term health of companies to deliver value to society. It's more as though the goal is to maximize shareholder wealth and minimize the dependence on expensive employees by encouraging a bitter atmosphere that in turn results in high turnover, which is in turn good for profits because it uses up the best 5-10 years of a young person's life in generating new ideas before they wake up and realize that they are not in any way contributing to the good of society.
Yup, this was the point I was trying to make, and you made it much better.

I think 99.9% of people have good intentions. But so much of everything we do depends on growth without us even realizing it.
Just to be fair, for 90% of the world, the kinds of compensation many hacker news readers have (a Silicon Valley engineer who gets a high base plus bonus plus equity) would also be considered “holy guacamole, whatever is the angle I look at it … does not make any f_ing sense”
> What often happens is that corporation in high tax country has subsidiary in low tax country that they find a way to funnel profits too.

That has nothing to do with individual taxes.
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." ~ Edward Abbey

What irks me is lots of products are "done" but continue to receive pointless changes - whether that be UX changes, half-backed features, or regressions in functionality. And for what? So the marketing department has something to market, so engineers can justify their continued employment?

This problem isn't limited to the business world either. Even in the open source community there is a tendency to assume that if a project isn't receiving regular code changes, then it must be "dead" or "unsupported" when in actuality it _might_ be a sign the project is mature and stable.
This example is not practically that different from chaotic systems e.g. the double pendulum, which end up in states that can't be time-reversed back to the initial state without infinite precision. In the case of a double-pendulum pointing straight up at t=0, the same argument holds: it will eventually move in an indeterminate direction. In both cases, reversing time to recover the initial state is impossible without infinite precision.

I don't think anybody is losing sleep over the non-determinacy of a double-pendulum. It's just understood as evidence that your model is only as deterministic as your ability to say that something happens at t=0 or x=0 instead of |t| < epsilon or |x| < epsilon.
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To be clear, it's an accounting artifact, NOT what he actually makes per year -- as the rest of the sentence might clue the reader into:

> which marked a staggering 3,474% increase from the previous year

For whatever reason, Google pays their CEO using a "triennial" stock award. It vests over 3 years.

So just to be accurate, his yearly compensation is more like $75 MM. Still obviously a lot of money for anyone, but now a number that actually makes sense to compare with other CEO's.
> Wonder if you can mmap the binary model in without unsafe??

Some operating systems do provide the proper guarantees to make mmap safe, but Rust decided it would be best to assume it's unsafe and maintain a uniform API. Which is probably a good call, it is notoriously difficult to get a readonly mmap to be entirely safe on Linux.

https://docs.rs/mmap-rs/latest/mmap_rs/struct.MmapOptions.ht...
So, does that mean that all the sketchy USB cable applies to DP ports too?
Sorry, but this did happen very recently (though context is important). A huge account, Dom Lucre, posted CSAM, ostensibly as a "check out how bad this shit is", but pretty fucked up nonetheless. He got the tweets deleted but Elon himself allowed him his account back. Probably because Dom Lucre drives a lot of traffic. Pretty shameful situation all around.
If you are running something worth over $1 trillion that makes hundreds of billions of dollars per year it makes sense though, right? You can argue even a mediocre CEO could do ok, and I’d agree, but at the same time you could easily justify paying huge amounts of money to get a CEO who will only perform better by 1%/year.

To me it’s really the size of the big tech companies that’s mind boggling. The fact companies that didn’t, or barely, even existed 25 years ago can make hundreds of billions of dollars is just insane.
https://archive.is/Mubv2
That announcement is… from 2021! :X
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People in 1000 BC is maybe not the best example here considering practically the entire population of Egypt was tasked with building or supporting the building of the pyramids among many other projects.
It’s not a good excuse to not build anything, but quite a good excuse to not build on what others own in such a way that you’re entirely reliant on them. Yes, unless you’re self-hosting your product on a solar-powered server via community-owned networks, you’re going to be beholden to someone, and often that’s multiple parties. But that’s not the same as being completely beholden.
If I kicked a puppy every day for 20 years, it would be “business as usual" if I were to kick a puppy today. That doesn't make it okay to kick puppies.
> a good excuse to never build anything

... on closed platforms. Open and censorship-resistant protocols do not have have this risk, Free Software does not have this risk.

So, yes, if in 2023 you are still building things on closed platforms despite all the cautionary tales, you deserve all the snark you'll get.
2a - crazy CxO bonuses
Troubleshooting Bluetooth.
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When Ford went public around 1956, the man who ran that got $250,000, about $2.8 million today, with much higher taxes than today. But he also got a thank you letter from Henry Ford II, so he had that going for him.

That was the largest IPO at the time, very complicated. I believe all the shares offered publicly were held by the Ford Foundation, for complicated tax and dynastic reasons.

But the main point here is how little the manager of the offering received. Imagine that today. $2.8 million would be nothing.
Maybe, if you only focus on the endgame. It can be fun just for the journey. Nothing is forever, even if it is built on open platforms.
When this was initially announced I saw multiple people posting on Twitter how the the non-Musk version of the company would also occasionally take over short name accounts and give them to government officials and large corporations.

Some of the replies when @x and @music got transferred were also complaining about not being compensated monetarily, which honestly seems like a bizarre expectation. Elon paid $44 billion for the company already. Paying people for their accounts sets up a poor precedent if they decide to take over other accounts in the future, and determining the amount to pay seems arbitrary. However, maybe giving these people a free Blue subscription for some number of years, or even for life, would've been a good move since it encourages them to continue participating on the platform.
I think you're talking about the double Irish corporate inversion loophole, which applied to multinational companies, and was closed 10 years ago.

As a US individual you get taxed no matter where in the world you live, and you must pay capital gains on all of your assets before giving up citizenship
How is a twitter handle different?
Why is it ridiculous when NFL and NBA players have $500MM contracts? Why shouldn't Google be allowed to pay these large contracts too?
And then some guy took the AWS S3 domain: https://chaos.social/@jonty/110307532009155432
https://archive.is/PKG9p
> version 1

You mean preview 1? It was never meant to be a finished spec that would remain supported long-term; it was a preview for early adopters and people working in the space to experiment with.

> allowed to continue for political reasons

Uh... what?
I really want to feel that way too (particularly compared to HDMI) but I seem to have so many weird issues that just never existed with DVI. On my work issued M1 Studio for example my displays (bog standard Dell 4K) commonly come up at 30hz or don’t get detected at all until an unplug and replug. I’ve tried all manner of cables and adapters and it’s just not reliable.
I wish I understood why so many options are granted in the first place. If they offered 10,000 fewer options, would performance be any worse? Wouldn't a lot of people be vying for that same position and couldn't the company use that to drive down compensation? Couldn't a company in fact, trade on the idea that the extra power and prestige offsets the need for additional stock compensation? And how much of the stock price change can be reduced to a CEO's impact anyways? If it can't be reduced, then why care so much as to overcompensate for their impact in the first place?
if thats true, whatever created that intelligent being must be VERY intelligent indeed!
$1mm/year is such a drop in the bucket for a company making $100,00mm/year it almost doesn’t matter.

It’s not about the marginal benefits of paying the same guy just a tiny bit more anyhow, it’s about paying that guy enough that he doesn’t just decide to retire, or run a competing company, or start his own. Imagine if you think some guy is the most qualified person in the world to run your company, even if they only do a 1% better job growing revenue than the second best or “average”, when your revenue is measured in the hundreds of billions it’s easy to justify paying them such huge quantities of money.
A distinction without a difference. Nobody is getting cash in that amount
That's true, we don't know what it will cost, we're not even sure it can be done at all... But HVDC as it is already in use uses very expensive cable as well so the gap could end up being smaller than you might think at first glance.

https://global-sei.com/technology/tr/bn84/pdf/84-10.pdf

This is state of the art, note the different deployment options, including pressurized ones.
Writer named Graef Crystal, who for many years had been a compensation advisor to executives who were negotiating their employment contracts, estimated that each extra dollar the CEO received ended up costing the corporation $32. Extra pay to other C-Suite occupants so they can keep pace with the CEO, more elaborate staffs, more lavish travel.

So it absolutely is not a rounding error.
I think it's similar to some users believing they have a right to privacy or a right to "their" data on platforms like Facebook. Use at your own risk because they're not free services; they have a profit motive by nature of what they are.
I worked for a guy a decade ago who spent 8-10 years building a company to sell it for $300-400 million and he hasn't worked a day since. Owns a 30k acre ranch that a bunch of friends/family live on. Learjets. Villas in the islands, things like that. I can't think of one thing he hasn't done or is limited financially in doing. Last time I saw him he had a $120k watch on, some type of Hublot big bang.

And Pichai gets that yearly...

Here, check out the type of trash he spends his money on now. https://www.drivetanks.com/ Absolute waste to society.
I think one of the challenges is that if a society gets richer around you, and you don’t, then normal services get more expensive as people demand higher salaries to do the same things, and houses get more expensive.
Sure. How else are they supposed to sell it?
Is Austin selling itself out to the highest bidder?
The only thing left on YouTube of this documentary about the proposed development of Austin's Zilker Park is its trailer--someone told YouTube that the content violated copyright law, but the content is just a city meeting filled with citizen protests.
Yes, typically that results in a specific minimum bending radius to ensure material properties are not adversely affected.
Also need a way do deal with receding gums that doesn't involve hellraiser inspired grafting, sticking, or pinholes.
I think the title is actually incorrect. It’s not that it’s been blocked globally, just that a relatively small German dns resolver was ordered to block it wherever they acted.
So only bigger than about 19,000 US cities?
Not sure why I’m getting downvotes, maybe a lot of people think they might someday become alphabet CEO and need to protect their future wealth. Some /s there but I honestly don’t understand the support base for the hyper rich.

Regardless, insane wealth inequality is exactly how you get revolutions.
Imagine the UX of 1 in 20 characters typed being incorrectly inferred though. The P_failure*Cost impact would strike me as insufferable even if error rate were to improve by an order of magnitude.
There isn't a good reason why private methods should be exposed in the header. This makes refactoring the class implementations much more of a pain in the butt than plain structs + global functions. You can always add internal functions to the implementation without causing a reimplementation of all dependencies, while you can't do the same with private methods.

And private methods aren't exactly "rare cases". The situation is bad to the point that most good codebases make less use of classes, and many average code bases avoid adding private methods and resort to code duplication to a degree.
curious what they’re track record looks like
For 200M you can get around 1.5k full time developers, not including community contributions. That is quite a lot and they easily could add hundreds of more developers if they wanted to.

The specific number they pay is also not that relevant, what I am concerned about is their position. They have one "customer" that enables their entire operation. That is bad for any organization, if that is also your main competition you are in an even worse spot. The longterm sustainability of Mozilla depends on being able to operate independently from Google funding.
>whatever is the angle I look at it 225MM pear year does not make any f_ing sense to me

Whenever a company starts, its not like the salary is auto set at 225M. The salary of the CEO is tied to the stock price to incentivize growth. Initially CEOs make way, way lower amounts (ignoring bullshit VC capital and inflated salaries).

If it so happens that the stock goes up with growth, then the increase in salary represents the responsibility amount that the CEO has, as bad decisions can cost lots of peoples jobs and so on.

Whenever you have market upswings that cause these ridiculously high 225M, its in a weird way the people saying the CEO wants to get paid that much. People spend more money that they have due to wfh and stimulus (granted by the people and who they vote for), causing revenues to go up, causing investment capital to go up (with a tieback to people putting money in things like 401k that depend on this as well), causing the market to go up, and so on.

TLDR, its not optimal, but it makes sense.
I disagree. Yes we should think about option grants differently, but not that differently. At the end of the day I don't think anyone would say Sundar has been that much better than his replacement level CEO. Certainly not better enough to deserve 225 million in equity. The stock is up 10% this year, still below 2021 levels.
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Not to mention health conditions that prohibit people from sharing the mental capacity of people on here.

Or let's get specific. My 96yo great aunt with Alzheimer's who has been repeatedly preyed upon.

I'm kind of shocked and disappointed to see these attitudes amongst my colleagues. I thought we cared about each other.
> (and, actually, he's worth much more).

Bullshit. Fucking nonsense, bullshit.

I fail to understand how thinking people could ever believe that this is true - it's got to be innumeracy and a healthy dose of propaganda. Would Google lose the now-equivalent of 200m annual if any one of the top 100 leaders within the corp ascended to the goddamned throne? Fuck no. It's nonsense to believe any one person is worth compensating at that level.
fun fact: @elonmusk originally did not belong to elon musk
There is a huge difference, If Google stock underperforms, he is not getting that compensation unlike salaried folks.
In the spirit of times - does anybody know what room-temp supercoductors would do to the transmission lines, like DP/HDMI?

Would 0 resistance have positive influence on signal degradation/coherence (ie. increasing maximum cable lengths or their reliability), or maybe it's already limited by various forms of capacitance/inductance or other problems in cables?
I've been working on a solution for this, have pitched a handful of investors and every time I'm met with blank stares, probably because what I'm proposing would cut into their own dividends.

I know this comment will get lost in the sauce, but if you know an investor who is brave, cares about staving off the forthcoming proletarian revolution, I'd love to hear your ideas.
He only hits me when I deserve it.
You're conflating two kinds of people: one type is very talented and perhaps overpaid, the other has connections and has never done a shred of actual productive work in their life.
You just get sucked in state/props and integrating ui libs and the common ergonomics start to slip from your mind.
You don't get to tell the workers what they do with their corporation.
big tech CEO pay is almost always going up, so it's only coincidental that it came before layoffs