marmarama
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- Comment on French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it 1 year ago:
I doubt they’d have to retire the phone - digital radio power levels are normally pretty easy to change using firmware. Which also means it’s pretty easy to change, intentionally or unintentionally, in a later OS version.
Perhaps Apple chose to cheat to improve reception after mandatory testing was complete and the phone was available to buy. Perhaps Apple didn’t retest with later OS versions and it was unintentional. We will probably never know.
- Comment on The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. 1 year ago:
What? Tech companies the world over have people on 24/7 on-call rotas, and it’s usually voluntary.
Depending on the company, you might typically do 1 week in 4 on-call, get a nice little retainer bonus for having to have not much of a social life for 1 week in 4, and then get an additional payment for each call you take, plus time worked at x1.5 or x2 the usual rate, plus time off in lieu during the normal workday if the call out takes a long time. If you do on-call for tech and the conditions are worse than this, then your company’s on-call policies suck.
I used to do it regularly. Over the years, it paid for the deposit on my first house, plus some nice trips abroad. I enjoyed it - I get a buzz out of being in the middle of a crisis and fixing it. But eventually my family got bored of it, and I got more senior jobs where it wasn’t considered a good use of my energies.
Your internet connection, the websites and apps you use, your utilities - they don’t fix themselves when they break at 0300.
- Comment on Fire engulfs historic pub famed for being wonkiest in Britain 1 year ago:
Way too obvious. They could have left it standing for at least a few weeks before an uhhh… “electrical fire”.
Of course, no-one is going to get prosecuted for this.