IMHO, the current way to go is big old spinning disks configured as RAID on a NAS for bulk storage, and SSD for PC/Laptop/etc drives. Your valuable files are safe enough and you get great OS performance without breaking the bank on big SSDs...

Paging Admiral Ackbar...

Depends... What's your definition of a negative frequency? A frequency out of phase with a positive one might qualify. I'm pretty sure you can make one of those... and Ars Technica had an article on negative frequency photons a while back too.

Perhaps you misunderstand your job? Sounds like you're a team lead, and if so, a good part of your job is to help other people get their work done. If you don't have time to do the other tasks then you need to delegate them and help where necessary.

Wow. You're awesome. Shame the developers aren't one of the parts of the company that matter.

I mostly agree with the list you've written, except for this part. It a) implies that a management role is more important rather than just a different role in the greater team, and b) you'll lose your best seniors if you don't give them a career path beyond just cutting more code.

Until organisations get over their manager > "resource" mentality they're doomed to mediocrity (at best). Yes culture matters, but that's not so much a factor of giving devs a free coke or the tools they ask for, it's about respect, it's about the team (including the testeres, analysts, PMs, etc) and about the collective way things roll. It's more about them than it is about you.

They probably shouldn't be driving anyway.

Please don't call them that. It's dehumanizing. They're people, perhaps employees, staff, or workers, but not "resources". Show some respect - they're the people that keep companies producing and keep the managers (who call them resources) employed.

Asking nicely has never worked. If it's freedom you want, you have to take it and then you have to defend it.

"Lest we forget"

What rhymes with Zuck that he doesn't give?

Federal Aviation Regulations require passenger compliance with lighted passenger information signs and crewmember instructions concerning the use of safety belts.

So sit down, buckle your seat belt, and STFU.

The fact that you and others here feel the need to add disclaimers like "(I'm not, by the way!)" says a lot about the oppressiveness of the current regime. People are constantly aware that their comments may be monitored and there may be implications to speaking the truth.

I think I've heard this story before somewhere...

Interesting theory and similar to things I've wondered about too. It might one of those theories that's very difficult to prove either way.

Who said internet access has to be commercial? At the low bitrates you're talking about there would be plenty of people donating their bandwidth.

Not all of them. Like you say, AMD needs to improve their marketing, right across the performance spectrum.

Is that not already available through OBD2?