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Andrea Askowitz Invents New Level of Whiteness, Writes the Worst Essay You’ll Ever Read
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Both drone manufacturers are Chinese.
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eta: Ack! It’s a replay of an episode that I already posted in January. Still good though…
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AT&T tracked its own sales bods using GPS, secretly charged them $135 a month to do so, lawsuit claims
AT&T tracks its sales reps to make sure they keep to its schedule and then charges them for doing so, claims one of its “in-home experts” Daniel Gunther.
Worse, however, Gunther claims AT&T charged him for the pleasure of being tracked: taking between $85 and $135 a month out of his payroll for use of the car; something Gunther said he never agreed to and was never informed about. He also claims that he regularly worked over the 40-hour work week as an essential part of the job, yet AT&T refused to pay overtime due to classifying the “in-home experts” as outside sales reps that are exempt from mandatory overtime in California.
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FCC boss pleads with Congress: Please stop me from auctioning off this spectrum for billions of dollars
The head of America’s communications regulator has asked Congress to intervene to stop him from auctioning off radio spectrum for billions of dollars, warning that if they don’t change the law, he’ll be obliged to do his job.
Surprisingly, this makes sense. This time.
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Car crash: Uber axes another 3,000 jobs, closes 45 offices as punters snub app during coronavirus lockdown
Khosrowshahi is reorganizing Uber’s efforts to focus on two main areas: Rides, its taxi service, and Uber Eats, its food-delivery biz. That means that other areas – such as its Uber AI Labs, a team within its engineering core that works on self-driving vehicles, and Incubator, a programme that supports entrepreneurs to develop new Uber products – are winding down.
Awesome! Does it come in Eurorack format?
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Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe
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This is absolutely fascinating. About 1/3 in, must pause for work now, gonna go trough it more thoroughly over the weekend.
ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you’ve never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree
2020 marks 60 years since ALGOL 60 laid the groundwork for a multitude of computer languages.
ALGOL 60 was the successor to ALGOL 58, which debuted in 1958. ALGOL 58 had introduced the concept of code blocks (replete with begin and end delimiting pairs), but ALGOL 60 took these starting points of structured programming and ran with them, giving rise to familiar faces such as Pascal and C, as well as the likes of B and Simula.
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The amount of energy required must be immense. How do they power it?
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The video is disappointingly vague on this…
My best guess is a hydraulic system powered by a stationary diesel in the 3,000 kW range.
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Even their website is vague. Something about a “patented wave mechanism”.
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