Largely the same market (Enterprise) but not the different segment (web as opposed to Windows/WinForms).

I ported about 15 years of projects from various versions of .Net to .Net Core whilst they were developing (and sent feedback to the team - they were asking us to do that) and the process was pretty reasonable. You were only really stuck if you were using something very very Windows specific (certain image processing libraries iirc) and even then it was largely manageable.

The old full-fat framework is, AFAIK, still supported, as there's a whole lot of legacy code which is Windows specific which is still expensive / hard to port over.

EU Commission = US Senate, EU Parliament = US Congress. Kinda.

The expectation in the EV fan world was that modern (> 2019) battery packs were very likely to retain 80% of their charge for well over the time anyone expected with the drop to 80% itself taking most of the car's expected lifetime. This was because the standard extrapolations ignored improvements in charging algorithms and that real-world usages were expected to be better for the battery than the models.

Another prediction we made is that range under cold (or very hot) weather would be significantly reduced and that seems to be the case too.

These are all hyper exploitative industries based on capital exploiting the poor. Which is something we both agree on.

Some groups are a big net benefit to our (looking at the income the group benefits / social support costs) and others slight net negative. But once you take the economy into account it's positive.

Facebook et al also quite literally stole email contact lists and installed spyware at kernel level on mobile phones which they used to spy on all Android users. Via the phone manufacturers.

It's at most a $200 smart phone (doubling the prices for the DAC + IEMs) being sold at > $500 with a funky design, interesting OS and their own app store.

I hope that they sell millions of these things, enough so that they can afford to buy the Amiga IP... just don't see it happening.

The C64U is an amazing achievement but it seems too early to go for the smart phone.

Hopefully there is a niche and their business plan is viable for a small number of sales.

Very happy customer here.

Insurance companies always have an incentive to make healthcare services expensive. They have even more incentive to make healthcare expensive and do deals on the backside where their suppliers give them a kickback. Even better if said kickback comes via a side door.

So we went for the commercial insurance companies. It took them 4 years before they change the drug choice from decentralised (Pharmacies deal with drugs companies, received small discounts which funded a good quality of care) to centralised (Insurance deal with drug companies, receives kickbacks) and the Pharmacies funding was drastically cut leading to worse quality of care and more drugs being used. Double-whammy because in the previous system the Pharmacy did medication reviews which almost always result in a reduction in drugs (the thing with drugs is that quite a lot of them are given to reduce side effects of other drugs, the original drug gets cancelled but the side effect reducer gets forgotten and just continues ad infinitum).

Health insurance has been super inflationary since then when controlled for quality of care.

That and Jenson screwing those of us who made him over the last decade.

It'll be better once the fraudsters are in jail and once we're able have boxes with ~1TB ram running off of our solar in the garage.

We were big AV users initially, I think for 2 years? This was 94-97 so my memory of the time periods is fuzzy. When Google came along I have very vivid memory of it providing not only better search results but also faster loads times.

I wonder if Google was already geo-distributed at the time? Latency was real then, it wasn't uncommon to hit 350ms (compared to 20-50ms to Europe) and the difference would have been felt back then. It was a killer for Counter Strike.