My guess is that housing is a big part of it, but this crappy article doesn't touch on mortgage rates. People aren't saving for home ownership because interest rates are so high that there's just no point.

First-time homebuyers are priced out, and existing homeowners are locked into their old rates and can't upgrade. So instead of saving for a down payment, people are just going out to eat, going on trips, and buying a lot of stupid little things that make the consumer spending metrics look skewed.

...unless they explicitly state that they've improved the fingerprint sensor. I have a Pixel 7 and it's garbage--it unlocks successfully maybe 40% of time. I've gone through every troubleshooting step to no avail, and the Google support topic for this problem has stated for months that "engineers are aware of the problem and working on a fix".

I have it and get my money's worth. But I'm saying that after a 2-year pandemic when I have to look hard for something new.

Halo was weak to begin with, but it's watchable and getting better. I'm not into the source material, so for me it's just a quick fix of military scifi drama.

I originally got it because I love Star Trek and wanted to see if Discovery and Picard were any good. Mixed bag there: Discovery is terrible, Picard is so-so, but I was surprised to find that that I really like Lower Decks (once I got past the frantic rhythm of the dialog). And I watch Prodigy with my 9 year-old. Fingers crossed for Strange New Worlds.

Beyond that, my kids watch Spongebob, and Detroiters is a rare show that both my wife and I can tolerate.

> It'll also have a much smaller footprint ...

My traditional (Win32) copy of Outlook consumes 100MB of RAM right now. Opening the same inbox via the web UI (outlook.office.com) spawns a browser process that eats 289 MB.

I don't see how a this same JS running in an Electron app will be more CPU/memory-efficient than a native Win32 desktop app.

Or maybe they're just too young to have experienced the nightmare of the Atari 400: https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

The should have just changed it to "Do no evil (unless there's a massive market opportunity)"

It may simply be the case that Wilsonville's capacity can't meet the demand. You can't even buy a Hub on the Microsoft store right now, and Ars wrote that MS was caught off guard by the popularity.

Great commentary. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, you probably should have just left it at that instead of trying to explain the optimal answer... Interviews are often performed by junior level guys who are out to prove are smart they are (open-minded senior devs are too busy and valuable to do the the initial screening pass). To get past the first tier, sometimes you just have to swallow your pride, pat them on the head, and congratulate them on how clever their "fastest possible" solutions are.

By the way, Intel supports a POPCNT instruction now (starting with Nehalem). Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and https://software.intel.com/en-...

This is a hyperbolic title, driven home by the fact that the author concedes in the last paragraph that: "What Microsoft appears to be aiming for with GE isn't head-on competition with those projects."

I get the sense the author doesn't understand this space or is trying to create drama where none exists... Graph Engine is a very different animal than Neo4J. You don't want to use GE as a system of record like you would with Neo4J--it's a pure *in-memory* computation platform. For example, TFA states: "Data can be inserted into GE and retrieved at high speed since it's kept in-memory and only written back to disk as needed," but fails to mention that it's up to the client app to handle that disk IO--Graph Engine doesn't do read-through or write-through to disk for you. (Yes, it can dump all of its memory contents to disk if you need to bounce your machine, but that's a far cry from making it a full-blown persistent data store like Neo4J).

Sure, HTC makes nice, shiny devices, but their support for anything more than 1 year old absolutely sucks. Hopefully this behavior won't be repeated for their Nexus devices since it's Google who's driving software updates, not HTC.

Sinofsky happened, that's why. I'm sure there were people who raised red flags internally prior to Windows8's release, but Sinofsky was so hellbent on making MS a "devices & services" company that he ignored any feedback that didn't mesh with his vision.

Now he's gone, and MS has to undo his mess and spin it as innovation... So now we see MS shills writing things like this FTFA:

Note how "desktop" is in quotes as if this group is a fringe subset of its users instead of the 95% of its users who were completely alienated.