At least US pro leagues (other than MLS and racing) haven’t yet gone all in on desecrating the team uniform with ads. I can’t bring myself to buy a team jersey that’s 75% an ad for an unrelated corporation that I don’t want to support.
“ A Hyundai executive told the media in 2024, "we also tried out putting touchscreen-based controls, and people didn’t prefer that", "people get stressed, annoyed and steamed when they want to control something in a pinch but are unable to do so".”
I always wonder if the folks who make these decisions themselves ever drive a car. Because this nonsense is wildly irritating. No one who regularly drives long distances could possibly think these are positive features, right?
Yeah, I’ve seen it working. It does work well to implement a multi-system transactional workflow broken down into retryable steps. So, eg, if you are operating a SaaS and need a workflow for new customer signup to wait for multiple steps that might last for hours or days like: validate credit card info, wait for email confirmation, add entries to customer database, set up workspaces in downstream systems, spin up cloud resources, initialize systems, notify customer, start billing cycle, etc. and if any step fails, you might want to retry or send alarms or internal notifications, or roll back other steps, or kick off other workflows. Then you can define all of that, in code. Each step can be different runtimes run on different worker systems, etc, all coordinated through a central database.
You can scale the workflows up and down to as complex or simple as you want for whatever your business is. The example above is one I’ve seen, but it works on a smaller scale as well. But you have to write the implementation code in very specific ways to get the benefits, and the overhead ends up being very difficult to plan and reason about, and a lot of business logic actually gets hidden amongst the weeds of the tool’s overhead.
There’s probably a fuse to turn off the cellular radio that transmits the data. Whether that’s all it covers may vary from car to car. Or in some models it’s probably possible to just disconnect the radio entirely.
You’d think, wouldn’t you? But there are so many promotions and discounts and bundles going on that it’s never a linear relationship. So no one would be able to easily tell the numbers were diverging for at least a few quarters. And as long as they are both headed up, no one actually cares anyway. But if you wanted to juice the growth rate or slow the churn rate just a bit to look better or hit some target that you were just shy of, it’d be easy enough to add a “bug” to forget to bill some certain percentage of trial accounts.
Or maybe they just suck at the coding that handles trial accounts. As rapidly as this stuff was rolled out, and as late as the decisions about actual promotions probably get made, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t buggy.
Yeah, there is no way to back out consumers vs. revenue at basically any big company. They all report "ARPU" or average revenue per user, because there is always a spectrum of pricing, almost never a single price. Between bundle pricing with partners, promo pricing offered for new customers, customers on old plans that haven't upgraded or updates, depending on the type of service and how they manage it there can be hundreds of price points in play for any given customer
That isn't to say there's no way to audit for this kind of situation, they could definitely report out what every single customer is paying and just find the ones that = zero
You realize government services that support that home cost money, right? You act like if you own your home that your living there doesn’t impose any costs on your neighbors.
They weren’t using RHEL. The title would be more accurate if it said “RHEL-based Linux”. They used their own build called Scientific Linux for a long time, then switch to CentOS. Then Oracle started aggressively poaching RedHat’s customers with Oracle Linux, which forced RedHat to start locking things down. One side-effect is that the life of CentOS 8 was dramatically shortened, and then RedHat killed the stable released versions of CentOS (9, 10, etc.). CentOS is now a rolling release “Stream” distribution, which nobody actually wants to use in production.
All this drama alienated many people who built their careers on RHEL-based systems, and created (either actual or perceived) instability in the RHEL ecosystem. And at the same time they started deprecating older hardware, some would say far too early. This is the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, as they said in the CERN presentation.
The point is that the enforcement agencies make the assumption that GPS data is always correct. But there are any number of issues that can cause problems with it. People making decisions about how to enforce house arrest or design autonomous farm equipment need to take GPS flakiness into account. Differences in scale are not the point.
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