That actually makes way more sense why a supercomputer was involved. (Keeping in mind, our phones are likely more powerful than what they are talking about)
Edit: Oh, it's worse than I thought. The CRAY-1 supercomputer is 4.5x slower than a Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, leg day gets a lot harder when you're floating. Not to mention they're missing all the normal walking around and lifting gravity forces us to do...
How did this company leak 2.9 billion people's info, including SSNs, when the population of the US is only ~350M?
Is "National Public Data" collecting info on everyone internationally? So many questions...
There's even more use cases that come up, like being able to use emoji and other fancy symbols anywhere unicode is supported. So you can even program with them. People have taken that idea to the extreme just for fun: https://www.emojicode.org/
Would you rather send an entire JPEG over text message for an emoji? Or just 4 bytes of unicode right inline where you want it? Unicode having a standard set of emoji is actually incredibly useful and reduces complexity. I guess it would disincentivize 👏 emoji 👏 spam 👏 to use JPEGs tho.
I don't really see the problem with restricting e-bike power. You can still go faster than 20mph if you pedal. I think what you really want is a motorcycle. They make those in electric form too.
A lot of what's driving these decisions is the mass switch to subscription models. Everything's designed so you have to keep coming back to the manufacturer.
It used to be making a high quality, standalone product meant you could spend less on customer service and RMA's. Now they've figured out they can sell you service contracts and make money off you being locked in.
How would carburetor DRM make any sense? Those are super common to take apart and rebuild or replace (like step 1 of every old restoration).
Technically water is just Hydrogen-oxide.
I hope this customer is being charged for these orphaned systems. They'll care more if it's costing them money.
It can start out a little like Office Space, doing all the standard tricks like walking in the front door with your arms full and in a hurry. And it always works. Until they hit the final boss: an IT security worker who has built an impenetrable fortress inside the company. Then it turns into Mission Impossible.
In this case they're talking about "Algorithm Implementation"