As someone who also worked in several companies that were heavily Microsoft-ified and thus used Team Foundation Server for source control, it wasn't the worst. The norm at the time was CVS or SVN, to be honest TFS felt like a step up from those, with pretty smooth Visual Studio integration.

It was a tool of its time and I'm sure it's still used today, but I don't recall anything too offensive about it, it just isn't really needed anymore now that almost the entire industry has standardized on Git.

I can already tell from the comments posted so far that nobody reads TFA, so let me explain what this actually is.

It is not a speed limiter. It does not limit your maximum speed. Cars in the EU can still go as fast as they did before. The now-mandated tech is a system that ingests speed limit data and notifies you that you are about to exceed it. If you want to, that's still your choice.

Doesn't sound as bad now, does it? In fact, I'd bet a lot of cars sold in the US have this same feature, it's just that it's either off by default or you've been happily ignoring it. Every car I've owned for the last several years have had it, even though it wasn't a requirement then.

The company I works for runs HP workstations on Ubuntu. Works great. The only issues I've had are with the discrete nVidia graphics, which uses proprietary drivers that work great - when they work. Even the smallest kernel update seems to make them crap out in a big way. It's kind of unfortunate that you can't run a high-end workstation on Linux without these issues, but fortunately, I can live with an older kernel.

Exactly. Background performers who barely got credit for being in the movie in the first place will be first to go. Then, then smaller roles who don't have many scenes or are far enough away from the "camera" that you can't really tell - imagine the low-level mooks being shot by the hero protagonist across a battlefield or busy chaotic scene, for instance.

This is what will end up killing acting as a viable career. If only the big names with existing huge fanbases can still get paid, there's no ladder to climb to get to be a big name actor, unless you already made your fanbase outside of cinema.

While I can certainly understand the resistance, now is probably about the last time in history that a considerable number of people will be able to earn money just by showing up and looking pretty in front of a camera. They should take the chance before it's too late.

For any actor who isn't a capital-B Big Name, who will pull in audiences by virtue of their existing fanbase alone, they will shortly be replaced by generated actors who never complain, never go on strike, always do their jobs perfectly on the first try, and come in packs of hundreds at the cost of a few VFX guys to twiddle the buttons.

The tech already exists, the toy version that can run on a smartphone is used by vtubers and the sort for their streams. In the professional big studio version it will replace actors and acting as an occupation.

Interesting claim, one I didn't hear before. Do you have a link to a study or a page with downloadable audio samples that backs it up? Thanks.

Even Vorbis (what Spotify uses internally) and MP3 are perceptually lossless if you crank the bitrate high enough. VBR with a 320 kbps target is more than enough, and I don't believe anybody has been able to tell that apart from lossless in a controlled blind test - using professional grade equipment. With a tiny speaker built down to a price like what's in airpods or any other midrange headphones many people would struggle to detect even very lossy compression (say, 128 kbps MP3 like what was common in the early 00s for sharing tracks).

Sweden has not had our hospital capacity overloaded. Even at the peak back in spring, there was significant excess capacity, to the point where some field hospitals which were set up in order to handle a further surge of cases were torn down again, never having to have been used.

I run away from do-it-at-home tests because they take up too much of my free time. It's way too easy to find work as a developer, I'll pick an employer that trusts my interview and references and doesn't expect me to jump through hoops. I'll happily provide samples of prior work (it's on GitHub).

I so wish I had mod points right now. This should be at +9.

Userbase? Sure. Money? Um, go spec up a 3D graphics workstation and see what those things cost. You don't need a billion customers to turn a profit selling that kind of gear.

1) All patents expire after 2 years. If you can't make money from having a 2-year monopoly on an invention, it obviously wasn't very good anyway. 2) Getting a patent costs a €LARGE_AMOUNT of money, which goes into a fund that the government uses to invest into research. 3) No sales bans. The only penatly for "violating" a patent is compensation for actual damages, the burden of proof for which lie on the patent holder. 4) If out of a random sample of five university students in the appropriate field, at least three find your idea obvious and/or trivial to come up with, your patent is rejected. 5) (Very) generous exemptions from the all of the above for non-profits, educational users and independent (non-corporate) inventors.