This explains every Michael Bay movie ever.

You're either drinking too much or not enough.

And tax breaks in TN. From the TFA (Oracle America closes on Nashville riverfront site) referenced in TFA...

The Tennessean article doesn't say how much or how temporary the property tax break is.

As if Larry actually cares about employees.

Now my car can run Emacs. :-)

And I know this is a Linux milestone, but I wouldn't be surprised if NetBSD ran on cars like 20 years ago, right after being ported to a toaster (Google it) -- the bread kind, not Cylon, though that wouldn't surprise me either.

TFA notes that, in some (many?) cases, the sales agent at the dealership was signing customers up for services during the vehicle sale, despite GM policy that the customer must do this themselves, w/o telling the customer exactly what was done.

How far had Apple expected it to fall?

To be fair, an athlete is more likely to experience a career-ruining injury than the average worker and then be unable to continue in that career. I'm not trying to justify the insane salaries many seem to get, but can understand why they'd want to earn while they can. Of course, being responsible with those earnings would go a long way toward future financial security. (Good advice for everyone.)

Except for the theory parts, which can come in handy if you want to get past being just a code monkey. There's also plenty of coding done during a 4-year degree program -- at least there was in mine. And I was a grader. My OS class had us simulate an interactive operating system and another class had us write a functional linking loader, both in C. (my concentration, back in the mid '80s, was operating systems design) I also took classes using LISP, Pascal and x86 assembly (on new PCs as the printer for the IBM 370 caught fire and destroyed everything in the room the previous summer) I was also a research assistant doing programming in LISP (on a Xerox 1108) and Prolog for a NASA grant on automated programming techniques -- they wanted a grad student, but couldn't find one with LISP experience. I also ported programs, like the Franz LISP interpreter/compiler, from 4.3BSD on a VAX 11/785 to SunOS on a Sun4 and debugged lpd -- we had BSD source code. I also had a jerk system administrator on those BSD/Sun systems who made us RTFM *and* the BSD source code before he would answer even the simplest question -- and I have to thank him for that very much.

Pretty sure you're not going to get all that at a six-month coding boot camp. People keep dismissing the value of a 4-year CS degree, but a lot of you get out of it is what you're willing to put into it.

Con or not, some of this is on the students. I mean, those companies aren't really known for hiring people with only a few months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree. That said, taking advantage of their gullibility and/or desperation isn't cool.

[insert Trump jokes here]

Predicting companies/contractors will buy data and *donate* it to the Government, or let them access it for free. Problem solved.

Noting that Trump didn't actually buy his stock so no matter how low it goes he won't lose any money. Other shareholders, on the other hand ...

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse.

Several people have a majority of their money invested in this stock and one guy has invested his whole "nest egg" -- $25,000 -- and wants to buy more. He believes the stock could "go to $1,000 a share, easy." I wish him luck.

President Biden remarked in his hometown of Scranton, Pa on April 16:

It's also the Inuit name for a Klondike Bar, and that would be confusing.

[ Admit it, you don't know if that's true. :-) ]