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Holy moley, that does explain those 4 skinny dudes on horses I saw the other night. This'll enable crazy large single-VI spaghetti monsters. There'll need to be a Guinness record for geometrically largest VI.

Next step is 3D VIs built using VR headsets. I'll buy an oculus and renew my labview cert when that day comes. Setting up communication with a lab instrument over a shoddy USB connection will feel like hacking the Gibson.

Yeah, public benefit corps are an example of a better way to organize an institution that has extreme power over humanity. Those aren't even legal in all 50 states. Are any giant multi-nationals organized as a PBC?

Illegal and enforceable are different things. Whether or not Microsoft violated tax law doesn't matter if they can bully the IRS with a big legal team. The concept of 'we can make your legal bills so high it's not worth it even if you win' gives big corps like Microsoft with internal legal teams a different relationship with the law than the rest of us. If our system equally enforced laws, I'd agree with just making bad things illegal, but first we need to fix the fact that it's possible to be above the law.

Yes, executives can and do excercise personal judgement. But if their actions are unprofitable for long enough, shareholders will vote them out.

You're right that legally there's little way to enforce the intent of CEO actions, that doesn't mean shareholders would let a CEO that puts public good above profits keep his job. Gambles like buying NeXT are more acceptable because they might pay out.

You're completely right. But that doesn't change the fact that current publicly traded companies are legally required to maximize profits to shareholders above other goals.

That's 'the game' that's the problem. I want the most powerful companies in the world to be driven by more universally beneficial goals. We need different ways to organize and govern giant corporations. Fuck shareholders (please ignore my 401k), passive rent seeking is a cancer on the economy. Investment is a lubricant to grease the wheels of the economy. Too much lubricant, or of the wrong viscosity, gums up the works and moves energy from productive work to waste heat.

The East India Company might not be the best basis for a better corporation though. Using a private army to force unwanted drug imports into a sovereign state isn't something I want to see in this century. Though once the US cannabis industry reaches the power of big tobacco I expect it'll lobby the US to force imports into other countries. Which is hilarious because the US is responsible for lots of countries outlawing cannabis.

That's fair. But the root issue is that the US government (who at least should create at enforce the system) is beholden to $ and not constituents. Lobbiest only lobby because they can. If we legislated lobbying to be equivalent to bribery, it'd stop (or at least change form).

My statement 'don't hate the player, hate the game' is just as much about an individual's agency as it is their feelings. We as citizens have more power to change our government than to change Microsoft.

Hating something you can't change is a waste of energy. There's already too much hate in the world. I'd rather understand Microsoft than hate them.

I don't think 'good for Microsoft' is quite right, but your sentiment is true. If a business can spend $x to save $2x, they will. Regardless if that savings is due to tax dodging, wage theft, or switching from AWS to self-hosted. It's an amoral decision.

Expecting business to 'not be greedy' is crazy. They maximize profit, period.

Microsoft isn't at fault here, our government and the systems it creates/enforces are. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

I've seen lots of shops running labview, but never on a Mac. I doubt NI's losing many customers with this move.

Maybe with a focus on Windows they can finally implement zooming in and out of VIs. It's like a text editor that doesn't let you change the font size. Probably in the pocket of Big Monitor.

Is anyone else having trouble with the singing?

I was able to get through the mic portion of Rhythm, but I've failed every attempt at the mic questions in Ear Training.

All I need to do is sing 2 descending notes - am I really that tone deaf? Thank God (or maybe Him thank me) that it's been decades since I was singing from the pews.

Maybe it's a known bug or an issue with my phone? Moto G 2022.