The abject irony of calling people "liberal lemmings," while dancing to Trump's tune - whatever it is, no matter how often it changes, or how opposed to reality - is astounding. It should be the focus of a psychological study on credulousness and supporting policies to the point of self-harm on a massive scale.

Ironically, we just watched this last night. And so it begins...

Hey, Boomer, guess which generation couldn't handle the fact that their kids weren't #1 in everything - as if that "other than #1" outcome was a direct reflection on the parents, rather than the kids actually playing - leading to "participation trophies." That's right - Boomers.

Susan B. Anthony

They did a documentary on this in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ok, it wasn't exactly a documentary.

VSCode makes Pico work trivial, though I still use gdb outside of it; I haven't found it a huge hassle to switch to a shell, and I have other fish to fry than futz with getting gdb to work inside of VSCode. I use Eclipse / MCUXpresso for NXP work, and it works nicely with their products. I'm curious what you consider a "proper" IDE? Maybe I'm missing out on something.

This is fkn bullshit of the utmost concentration. Like immigrants of any culture didn't congregate into their own groups throughout all of American history? There are cultural enclaves all around the country. Upper midwest has Scandinavian; northwest Pacific has Asian; Pennsylvania Dutch; Little Italy in NYC, and much of Jersey; etc. You're ignorant - though I suspect just bigoted - if you think, historically, people didn't maintain their culture and languages once they came here.

Further, it would be an absolute travesty if we were all the same. Food would be monotonous and boring without some global variety. I'm better off for knowing people of different cultures, and learning more about those cultures. Crawl out of your basement and meet a few people who aren't from your monoculture. You might learn something.

Right, but there's a limit to things, here, even in extremes. Or should an ammunition manufacturer, for example, just give away guns to sell the ammo, and then start a Purge? Would that be justified? It's maximizing shareholder value. The bottom line is, when every last person is dead from companies destroying the environment, they've lost: there's no more value to maximize. So to maximize shareholder value, they need to consider the long term viability of humanity, even if it means they don't sell as much today.

In the bigger picture, the activists could argue that company's continued pollution of the planet to the point where humanity can no longer exist also "does not serve shareholder interests." The company will go out of business if we're all dead. Making money is not a company's only priority: it has to co-exist in society.

Can't blame him. Have you met people? Ugh.

We get it: you're anti-woke. Let me guess: you blame the Challenger disaster on woke people, too? Surely, it couldn't possibly be the fault of some MBA type white person, right?

If executives are so benign, almost to the point of meaninglessness, why do we have them? On the contrary, it's the executives that make the "hard" decisions to fuck over safety concerns from engineers so the company can get a product out the door, regardless of safety, to meet quarterly profit goals. Track this door snafu back in an honest, objective manner, and I'll guarantee you'll find an MBA behind the decision.

Wasn't that pretty much what drove Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos? I'm pretty sure we've seen this before.

I'm pretty sure I won't have anything to do with this AR / VR tech since I can't afford the hardware with which to play around with this, anyway. It'll be easily ignored.

I can't help but think you're jealous. You're practically screaming it. Or, maybe this is what you *actually* do, but you don't want anyone to know. If so, you should come out of the closet. It might help alleviate that repressed anger.