Layoffs might not be the best way to keep talent. Imo, Nintendo did it best back in 2014 [1].

[1] https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01/iwata_and_miyamoto...

After all these years, I still think that this was a wasted opportunity on Google's side. As is well-known, Google (Googol) is a constant: 10^100. Instead of Alphabet, they should have named the umbrella company AlephBet [1] with a tag line: "we stopped thinking in constants".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number

Alphabet was Warren Buffet's last "hold" pick afterall.

Rp2040 has a usb 1.1 port. It doesn't have the bw for 192khz.

Understood. Thank you.

Someone should add a grid of mics and speakers inside a keyboard to record impulse responses for different kinds of keys. In this way, one can first do noise cancellation for the currently used keys, and then apply an IR to make the keyboard sound like another one.

what profit?

"Completely unusable" is an over-exaggeration. By default, assume good will.

I wonder: Is a resurface of "The Last Question" ever complete without mentioning "Universal Paperclips" [1]?

[1] https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

oh no...not again...;)

This is not an alternative source for the comic, it's a whole different comic. Cool!

> In 1955, he was promoted to tenured associate professor. In December 1957, Asimov was dismissed from his teaching post, with effect from June 30, 1958, due to his lack of research.

I thought the whole point of getting tenure is that you can't get fired.

I was puzzled too. Maybe there is (or was) a probationary period?