same with SAP/EU: down by 10%+ because of "missed investors expectations" LOL

(imagine: A company bringing in billions, laying off people in parallel, and then claiming "the business does not make enough money" - crazy!)

in a lot EU countries, still today telco contracts are marketed with "...and unlimited number of SMS into all networks..."

Its still widely used :-D

There are even Hackathons from ESA:

"Act in Space"

https://actinspace.org/

I worked at one of the hosts of one these events years ago - very intersting people there!

Very cool!

Small odd thing, but that's the first tracking warning modal I've seen that says they don't actually use tracking. And I can decline the no tracking? Kinda funny.

"Advanced EU-regulatory conform implementation of latest requirements" ;-) ;-)

I understood that this was what they (interviewers) complained about and he got an impression about this by hearing their stories?

Yeah I knew plenty people at ASML at the time. I wrote my comment a bit too condensed there, the interview wasn't my only exposure to the place. At the time it was very chaotic (for good and bad), the codebase was awful, there was plenty armwrestling but to my understanding it was mostly armwrestling about the tech, not about island building and the likes.

Like just as an example, they made sure that by every coffee machine there was a whiteboard for general use. The idea was that if you ran into someone at the coffee machine and got talking and suddenly got an idea together, you could immediately jot it down and geek out about it together and work it out in more detail, right there and then. No meeting to plan, no project manager to involve, just work out your idea together. That's not what you'd expect in a company with lots of managers protecting their little islands.

Well, in fact, in most cases you should value it at 0 USD so you wont get any surprise :-D

Fully agree. Although, I think reform of the system is beneficial both to investors and employees. I've seen investors lose significant amounts of money due to structuring things the way they have been insisting upon.

We have this already - its called capitalism.

Well, technically they do not - meaning: They do not get decreased from a nominal perspective.

From an economic perspective, they do - as they money on a saving account with noe interest can buy less stuff in the future due to inflation

Disposable Vape CPU!

Im waiting for the post "Doom ported to disposable Vape chip" :-D

The Puya PY32 series MCUs found in most vapes have 3kb of RAM and 24kb of ROM, whereas Doom requires at least 4MB of RAM. Assuming Moore's law also applies to the computing power inside a disposable vape, we should be seeing that post in around a decade :)

Good catch! Though it misses my primary condition: "disposable" - ha! :-D (this one is a refillable one, and it looks like he is streaming the content from his PC?)

But a very cool link, thanks for sharing! :)

> aren't just keeping people's money in vaults. They literally take your checking, savings, retirement accounts, etc. and make money off of them while they "sit". <

depending on jurisdiction and TOS, this maybe legal, but it needs to be announced somehow to the customer; a capital management firm of an ETF needs to buy the included shares, e.g; those have no money "sitting around"?

Sure, it's announced and by contract. But where else do you have to put your accounts?