It already starts imbalanced (like 53/47), but more males don't survive to adulthood.

Refunding is also for when what you bought is not what you thought it was. I bought Tabletop Simulator, only to find out it has NO ability to automate. It's solely for play with a live game master. Automating the DM component so I could paly alongside my players was the whole point, and it doesn't do that. So, refund. It's not a bad product, but it's also not useful for me.

How are they going to do that if they were broke enough to work for slave wages in the first place?

Not always. As long as there are athletics, there will remain a need for coaches, scouts, and managers. A lot of retired professional athletes even planned for this when they were still in school and took leadership courses and sport psychology -- courses which will help them later whether they actually graduate their university or not. Others end up in broadcasting, or otherwise "go Hollywood" like Carl Weathers, Howie Long, Terry Crews, Bob Uecker, Alex Karras, Merlin Olsen, and even the recently departed OJ before he made himself unpopular. Some become politicians, but that's not that far removed from going Hollywood.

A lot of athletes also parlay their earnings into starting a business or buying into one that already exists, some (John Elway for example) with more success than others. There's not even a need to wait until retirement to enact this plan.

But yes, some do end up in normal day jobs when they retire. I worked an office job with a retired NHL player who, although he barely knew ANYTHING about the line of business we were in, was a very quick study. Within two years, he'd gone from "the new guy" to our best new business producer. It undoubtedly helped that he was a genuinely nice guy that wanted to do his new job well.

I know this doesn't help now, but a little back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that even if you start with a ratio of 80% one gender, it only takes a few generations to achieve a much healthier 60/40 split without particularly trying. Of course this supposes that there are no forces continuing to skew the demographics through deliberate choices, because those actions that made the imbalance can also preserve that imbalance. It's just that if people just give up and take their hands off the controls entirely, things will still sort themselves out in a time scale not too different from how long it took to get in the mess in the first place.

This sounds like something they should be able to manage, by substituting solid state for the mechanical drive but otherwise leaving well enough alone. Floppy drive emulators (and MFM/RLL drive emulators) are a solved problem because the retro computing crowd has needed them for years. If it has an SD card slot, then updates can even be distributed the same way as before, except the medium is postage stamp sized. Use SD card slots where the whole card clicks into place and clicks out again when pressed, and it's pretty much just a miniaturized floppy drive as far as the user is concerned.

The shame of it is... someone knew what they were doing, because they got a usable product out the door. It kinda sucked at certain things, but that's generally true of every first release. So with a reasonable business plan, they might have actually benefitted from their success. Now they're broke, just somewhat later than if they'd not bothered at all.

I've now confirmed the ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboard has no TPM, and did not even include a socket for adding it after the fact. Would you care to be condescending again?

Nope, Athlon II x6. Don't have SSE 4.1 or 4.2 either, can't run Cyberpunk 2077. I don't even have UEFI! I'm pretty sure I don't have any TPM at all.

If you're wondering why so many recent telescopes seem to be wide-angle survey telescopes, this is why. We've gotten to the point where the precision of incoming data is sufficient for first-order analysis. Now the priority is on collecting such data from huge swaths of the sky -- basically anywhere our own galaxy isn't screening us. The problem used to be that there wasn't time to analyze that much data, but then we started to realize how much more information is still in unprocessed raw data, even decades after the event, and we knew Moore's Law would eventually catch up, and here we are. The new hotness is staring at everything at the same time and letting computers sort it out.

This looks like a good time to roll out the new sig.

Twelve songs and counting that are about the current war and the overall state of affairs in and around Russia.

Agreed, I just thought the money spent on your distortion pedal might have gone toward recording equipment which you could then abuse to produce your distortion effect (and still have a recording device).

Roll it off stage. Harpsichords aren't as prone to drift from just being rolled across a flat surface as pianos are.

Except they then locked it down to hardware with TPM 2, which is exactly none of mine. Upgrading is off the table. That is why I don't consider an upgrade path the same thing as support!

This model is over, at least.

This is like the "energy crisis". The Internet is the fossil fuel reserve, and AI has already burned through it and wants more. But there is no more. The reservoir will slowly replenish, several orders of magnitude too slow to be of any help, but the models have to change to better use what has already been scraped or there is nothing left to feed them.