The army of middle managers at Intel, the ones that have been there forever
because they're mostly good at dodging getting laid off, are all praying for a day when
their pile of stock vests at 1990's prices. They all discuss it at lunch, every day.

Those guys ain't changing nuthin'.

"when there's no worries about electricity"

When it's too cheap to meter?
Didn't we do that already?

SETTLE DOWN!

We're awash in bullshit. Refined, distilled, market-tested, beloved and embraced bullshit.
Like Scotchguard, it's in everything, and it will never go away.

That some text scanner returned some of our most abundant resource should be no surprise.

and ask for Jeff.

Is that what we want?
Or is it the result of an onslaught of people desperately seeking
even a few seconds of validation and attention?

It's against their religion to leave a dollar on the table.
If there is a thing, that thing will soon have a price tag and a lawyer attached.

Traffic patterns, routing, even if it's quiet, it's all of value to some algorithm.

Always eject the warp core.

"SBUDNIC - a play on Sputnik as well as an acronym of the students' names"
Well, it could have been NUBDICS.

Back in Win95 days?
The Mac was in torpor and good luck convincing someone to move to Unix/Linux
when Windows 95 was promising to "start you up". The hype was inescapable.
It was too early to know how much Windows (and its dll's) would suck for at least five more years.
And meanwhile, MS started .NETting VB and made it no fun at all. At all.

I wrote an surgical image management system in VB around 94-96ish.
Way better effort-to-reward ratio at the time compared to the traditional VS/C++ path.
It was quick to start something with it, but scaling was a problem.
Once something got to a certain size, you could feel VB getting slower with every line you wrote.

The bulk of that money is going to go to Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips. Gilbarco, Wayne, and Tokheim.
A wonderful time for them to be alive.

weed

He doesn't really have ideas or inventions, he just made decisions to pursue some known markets.
His biggest problem is that he has no taste or concept of style. It's not in him.

He has all of those people, the hardware labs, unimaginably massive server farms.
But Meta produced content for Oculus has always been coated in low-bar cheese.
Zuckerberg is simply blind to what really good looks and works like.