" blame anyone but the idiot that pushed the services into The Cloud"

Remember THAT idiot works for your company.

Would REALLY want them running your internal infrastructure? Do you think that's going to end any better?

Not while your're still in airplane mode. :p

They're just looking at the trendlines.

Follow me here -- 81% of these people were a net drain on your company.

And peak productivity here would be if you never even hired them.

So working backwards, and assuming there is a correlation here, if you are most productive when you reduce their hours 100% ... you should see at least some productivity gain if you reduce their hours 20%.

So they're right -- but you've got to look at the big picture, don't accept the small boost a 4 day week would give you, go for the big boost by getting rid of them entirely. ;)

All that said, for a lot of jobs a 4 day week works out fine in practice. A company I work with went to a 4 day week, and saw no loss in productivity. They manufacture stuff - and rotating the staff around the week worked fine, the machines still run all week. For other jobs it won't work out.

Arguably instead of a 4 day week, they could have just cut people instead, and maybe even gotten the same productivity from fewer people, (and boosted profit), but maybe not -- fewer people working that much harder would lead to more burnout, more mistakes, higher staff turnover (leading to lower production and more mistakes again), plus higher training costs. Management didn't think that was a winning move.

Yes. There was unecnrypted data.
But the unencrypted data was not the passwords.

It's still not a good look for them, or good news, or anything but a fail on their part.

But its also not what you imply it was.

There isn't necessarily a random key in the path. I just checked and you can download some files we make publically available in one of our buckets and the form is:

https://regionname.amazonaws.c...

That's a "GET" request.
Our AWS account ID / random key is not needed.

You also had the Nissan LEAF in 2009.

"Well, you had the Tesla Roadster that cost $109,000 and had a battery capacity of 53 kWh. Today, I see a Tesla Model 3 with a 57.5 kWh battery for $40,630. So that seems like a pretty good drop."

Apples to Bananas. I mean... to compare a Tesla Roadster to a Model 3 ? You might as well compare it to the upcoming 2026 Tesla Roadster - Its at least as fair (unfair?) a comparison -- except that's going to be 200,000 to 250,000. So it doesn't really support your point.

Now in 2010 at least, we did have a Nissan LEAF... and in 2025. So over that 15 year span... well... it was ~30k to start then, and its ~30k to start now. So... yeah. Its a better car with a better battery, and after inflation the price effectively dropped some. But that's a far cry from what this article is saying about battery prices.

In your example you described the phone that needed replacing as "Ancient".

When you get to "Ancient", it doesn't really matter whether its apple or android. It's out of support on either, and yes, app support starts to fall apart at that age too.

My brother in law just updated from a Galaxy S5 this year (10 years old).

Disagree. Perhaps it _should_ be a big factor, but it's really not.

People text, and snapchat, and tiktok, and watch youtube and play spotify, a mobile game, and take pictures, and maybe once in a while even make a phone call.

As long as that all just works, they don't really care, and will use the phone until they break it or it stops holding a charge.

Or if they're on some sort of subsidy-treadmill, they replace it every 2 years regardless.

Very very few people are 'oh noes, Samsung/Apple/HTC is no longer sending me annoying updates that make me reboot my phone... I need a new phone now!'

"and notes discussing ongoing projects."

It Depends what those notes say. And if they're in the North Korean dialect.

To an extent yes. There has been some utter crap. Another Life pops immediately to mind as something so unwatchably terrible that i watched just to see if it could get worse (spoiler: yes! wow... so much yes!)

But that isn't a netflix issue, that's just an issue. From Firefly to The Expanse to Babylon 5 sci-fi especially is hamstrung by its production.

But there's been plenty of good shows to watch too:

I quite liked Fall of the House of Usher recently for example.
Black Mirror, Maniac, Umbrella Academy were good.
I watched the The OA Season 1 and that was good (I skipped part 2 since i knew it was cancelled mid-arc.) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was brilliant - especially season 1.

"So, books have always been more my thing. I'm sticking with them."

Sure, I like books too.. but Game of Throne's is a mess that may never be finished and perhaps shouldn't be; and Wheel of Time never was. And even Asimov's foundation is actually better without books 4 and 5, nevermind the Benford books, and Dune ... likewise did not improve with more novels, and also fell off a cliff when other authors kept it going like a zombie corpse. Things that are 'good' always invite 'more' and the 'more' is almost never as good.

These days my favorite books to read are those that are not part of a series, or at most are a trilogy, and have a beginning middle and an end and above all: a point. They don't try to milk the setting or characters endlessly. With each successive book in the series getting longer and longer as less and less editorial control is exercised over an author seemingly paid by the word.

And Dark City came out the year before. And the 13th floor came out the same year but earlier. Both were 'fake worlds' movies, both were also more intelligent movies, imho. Both were box office failures.

But I'd say all 3 are pretty original movies. (Although 13th floor was loosely based on a book (Simulacrum-3; and had previously been made for TV in the 70s in Germany) -- but even so I'd say its an original movie.

Your argument that nothing is original because you can identify tropes is too dismissive. If you couldn't identify any tropes the movie would be just be random images and noise... and that's probably a trope too.

I don't overclock it.

I do like buying the K versions though; as they generally have all the features; are readily available when I'm doing builds, and the fact that intel is binning it as a K means that its not going to fall over if it gets a little warm on a workload.

Nothing wrong with a gen3 i7, but if you want to have a system running a modern nvme SSD, and video card etc you do actually need a newer motherboard with a current chipset (pci express version, m2 slots, current bluetooth revision, etc etc) and that isn't going to be compatible with your gen3 i7.

Now... does it need to be an i9? No. Certainly not. I could have spec'd an i5 and it would have been fine. But just like you are still running a gen3 i7 today, I fully expect this i9 based system to be perfectly serviceable for a lot of tasks 10 years from now too, and over buying the cpu a bit will likely give me a bit more headway. I've still got both an 6th and 8th gen i7 in active use in my home, and JUST recently finally retired my own i7-3700K based system.

It's a conversational construct that anticipates an unvoiced follow up to my initial question.

Me: Is this news?
Anticipated unvoiced question: What do you mean?
Me: I mean, is it news worthy, because of XYZ"

I mean... I built my i9 13900K series PC for xmas 2022. The 14900K has been out for 6 months now... who would be surprised that the earlier chips are being discoed?