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Seasoning is just oil baked onto cast iron through a process called polymerization. It gives your cookware that classic black patina. Seasoning forms a natural, easy-release cooking surface and helps prevent your pan from rusting.

- Lodge (as I understand it, they're the gold standard for cast iron cookware)

In the case of non-stick stuff, it's less that they're seasoned with PFAS and more that they don't need seasoning because they have PFAS (at least in theory).

us-east-1 then?

Aww schist, here we go again!

Oh, my employer already can and does track compliance via badge-ins, so they definitely know when they're getting a return on investment from the corporate real estate.

I hadn't thought about the connecting IP address though, that would absolutely be logged.

I'd view it as more of the opposite: a tool built into the Teams suite to tattle on who isn't complying with Return to Office policies.

VPNs would depend a bit on configuration. I know my ubiqiti router will let me dump VPN traffic into its own vlan (with dedicated IP range), so it would absolutely be possible to tell it apart from local traffic. At the same time, I'm pretty sure my workplace has all site network traffic VPN'd to the home office, so I'm not if the same logic would apply...

Reminds me of the short film Slaughterbots from a while back. 7 years later and it doesn't seem all that much like fiction anymore...

I don't know!

Nah, just means that the mirror can't render the Unicode character that the ghost has sent.

Shit post aside, I had a friend with a background in the restaurant industry (did a bunch of time in various restaurants, went through cooking school, that kind of thing), who put on a work sponsored barbeque. When someone asked why the folks helping him got promoted to Chef, my friend explained it as "everyone in the kitchen is addressed as Chef, it doesn't matter if they're calling the shots, cooking food, or doing dishes. It's a show of respect." Grain of salt and all since cultures vary between restaurants, but it's stuck with me because it was such a genuine moment of "this dude loves to cook and got a chance to share something he's super passionate about".

I imagine it more along the lines of breaking a promise. Law is more or less a social contract, so it's less that the law no longer functions and more that the person in question is breaking the agreement.

But also yes, one who repeatedly breaks the contract with no consequences, definitely calls into question the value and validity of the contact, and that's when things really start to, erm... Break.

A solid majority of Bastille's discography comes to mind, though not as outright depressing as Pumped Up Kicks or Youth of a Nation, most of their tracks tend to be very instrumentally upbeat and lively, with gorgeous vocals, but thematically darker lyrics / topics. Happier comes to mind as immediately fitting the prompt (and having enough radio play to be recognizable), but The Draw, Haunt, and Skulls also fit well (I'd also included their cover of City High's What Would You Do, also long as being a cover isn't a immediate disqualifier).

I feel like they're kind of slept on since they don't get a whole lot of radio play outside of a handful of songs, but all their other work is just so good. Personal top favorite artist, hands down.

I was content to let the other comments address the history since I'm not particularly well versed there (and there's already enough confidently incorrect bullshit in the world). I mostly just wanted to interject on why there aren't more chip companies beyond just hand waving it away as "market consolidation", which is true, but doesn't take into account that barrier for entry in the space is less on the scale of opening up a sandwich restaurant or boutique clothing store and more on the order of waking up tomorrow and deciding to compete with your local power/ water utility provider.

The answer also gets kind of fuzzy outside the conventional computer space and where single board/ System On a Chip designs are common, stuff like Raspberry Pi's or smart phones, since they technically have graphics modules designed be companies like Snapdragon or MediaTek. It's also worth noting that computers have gotten orders of magnitude more complicated compared to the era of starting a tech company in your garage.

If it helps answer your question, according to Wikipedia, most of the other GPU companies have either been acquired, gone bankrupt, or aren't competing in the Desktop PC market segment.