I don't understand why their products have been going downhill for years now. Reminds me of HP.

It seems that once you get locked into corporate and government procurement contracts, you just give up on quality.

I've had two Dell laptops forced on me over the last five or six years, and they both suck. Poor battery life, they get hot, only sometimes wake up from sleep, and general clunkiness. My experience with Macbooks and Thinkpads has been much better, but my workplace has a Dell contract...

Anne Wojcicki is the CEO, not Susan. Anne is 50.

Hardly a one-hit wonder. Devo's cover of Satisfaction was a minor hit (and they played it live on Saturday Night Live).

Working in the Coal Mine was also all over the radio back in 1980.

Beautiful World was also all over MTV in 82 or 83 (don't exactly remember).

Whip It for sure was their biggest hit, but not their only hit.

voice commands, dipping the radio volume during prompts, managing the audio source if you want to play media from the app, limiting UI behavior while driving.

I have all of this in my 2003 Honda Accord. I installed an aftermarket head unit with Apple CarPlay and it works perfectly. I've not once experienced the technical glitches that GM is claiming. It just works.

It's more reliable than the Honda-supplied infotainment unit that came with my 2015 Honda Fit. It works well enough, but isn't as bug free as my CarPlay unit.

What percentage of the 25% that aren't currently "inactive" are zombie games with very little or decreasing activity and no growth? All of them?

I'm not sure it was a good idea at the time. When it was being developed, there were a lot of discussions about Itanium here and elsewhere and the general consensus was that going to a VLIW processor was premature because the compilers were not yet up to the task and there wasn't a real path forward that would bring a significant performance improvement.

It was sad watching HP retired PA-RISC to go all in on Itanium. The PA-RISC chips had huge (for the time) caches and were the best architecture (in my opinion) for large semiconductor simulations (or anything that required matrix inversion).

These kinds of seed-corn-eating, self-defeating statements by greedy billionaires always reminds me of this classic cartoon.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

In my experience this is only true in short bursts. I'm an integrated circuit design engineer (a highly creative job) and it is pretty normal to have these kinds of 70 hour weeks right before a chip submission.

However, then you need to decompress and take it easy for a while. You can be extremely productive working 140 hours over two weeks in a panic, but it can't be the norm.

I was at a startup that started pushing more and more hours and everyone burned out and quit.

I happen to be a senior manager in a well-known tech organization these days and I've had four or five very similar connection requests on LinkedIn in the last six months or so. In each case, the profile has a photo of an attractive Asian woman, and they say in their introduction that they are new to my city and want to make friends.

I always thought they were scammers (such as pig butchers) since good-looking young ladies aren't typically looking to make friends with balding men at least 25 years their senior.

But, who knows, maybe they were spies? That's much cooler than thinking they were run of the mill scammers, hoping I would be a lonely soul who would get dragged into their scheme.

The giving up on buying a house is a big one, I think. I happen to live in San Francisco and make quite a nice salary but buying a house here makes no sense (even though I could afford it if I were willing to be house poor).

Right now it costs more than 2X to buy a house than to rent a similar property (largely because interest rates are up sharply, but prices are only down slightly).

So, I've come to accept I will never own a house and that's OK. So, that means I can spend more money (or invest it) in other areas.

I'm sure I'm not alone.

This is actually much more likely if we don't support Ukraine in standing up to Russian aggression.

Supporting Ukraine now is the best way to avoid putting American lives at risk in the future.

This is an excellent book excerpt that goes into some detail on the scam and how it is enabled by cryptocurrency (and how the industrialized scam rose as a response to pandemic restrictions).

https://archive.is/mZR8o

I'm not qualified to comment on the rest of the post, however

is true for virtually any invention or innovation ever.

The cores of HPC codes are still largely written in Fortran and C. Python and other scripting languages are only used for configuration and program control. Not the heavy lifting.

In the 1990s we used to use overhead projectors to display transparencies onto a screen. It was just as effective at transmitting information but took a lot less time to prepare, as no one cared about production values.

When you needed something special, you could make transparencies in a copy machine or printer, but it was great making slides with a pen.