.... and assume the high rating viewer score indicates how "fun" the movie is (or occasionally how stupid the viewers are ... wtf, "The Greatest Showman" ). Usually if critic and viewer scores are in the 5 to 6 range (imdb), I'm out. I tend to trust higher scoring critic ratings, and if they're both above 8 (or 80 for metacritic), I'll probably give a try if it's a genre I'm interested in.

It's even shittier than that. The RS-25s used in the SLS were designed to be reusable from the day of conception (and we had reusable space hardware with the space shuttle) - but now we're putting it in a throw-away vehicle. The space shuttle sure wasn't perfect: expensive to maintain, expensive to fly - but it was achieving reusability while Elon Musk was jacking it as a teenager.

We'll see how much of a market there really is for 100-150 ton lift capability - maybe at the right price point, it can change what we actually do and accomplish in space.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison does not yield $75 million of anything a year. Top management, get bent.

Retirement doesn't necessarily mean the loss of all those qualities. It's time to devote to those other areas of self that need expression. Could be volunteering in the community, could be finding the time for personal and meaningful connection with hobbies and their related communities.

Currently wrestling with this issue in my current job, as I have incurable (but usually slow progressing) cancer. Do I try and take retirement, knowing that I have likely 6 to 10 years remaining? That answer is presently no: I enjoy the people I work with, and the work we're doing. It might be yes in the future if those factors change.

Stop trying to pretend as if it is. If you're using web3 when talking about tech, we know who you are: either some clueless journalist or marketing droid, or some crypto knob wanting to baffle with bullshit and take advantage of folks who can't see how few clothes this emperor is wearing.

https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/accelerators/large-hadron-collider-restarts

Got some highly qualified candidates ready for transport here ....

Two things you know doesn't make 2 factor authentication, and shouldn't be presented as such. Factors:
- something you know
- something you have
- something you are

These processes should be happening in this order for all termination-for-cause events:
- decision to terminate
- disabling of account
- termination of all active logins from all sources
- announcement to employee of termination

"no single company has ever failed at something this badly, for this long, with this many different products"

Oracle still seems to be a thing, somehow.

??? Are you unable to delete your Twitter account? That to me sounds like an even better response than "banned for 12 weeks" - "deleted my Twitter account, and so should you."

So far as I can tell, the author's main objection on homeownership is being underwater on the loan.

... the purpose was political posturing. This was a pure play to the congressfolks' bases, nothing else.

A well-qualified candidate is interviewing your company as much as you are interviewing them.

If I'm asked to talk to a computer as a first-round qualifier, "see ya." Your company is broken. Your company is bad, and you should feel bad.

... equally likely is that Commercial Unix killed Commercial Unix.

As a couple of datapoints, in the mid 90s when I started my sysadmin career in general at a university computer science department, the "traditional" Unix boxes were well-represented: Ultrix, SunOS/Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Irix. Faculty members were just starting to buy their own linux laptops - and what a difference.

Instead of recompiling a kernel and informing Solaris, for instance, that I was going to be adding a disk, or a network device, faculty members would simply slam in a PCMCIA card - and their network interface was wired up. RedHat brought in RPMs and a strong dependency mechanism. Compare that to Ultrix, which used ... tar and cpio as their "package managers". Compilers no longer needed to be licensed - you want a C compiler, or a Fortran compiler, or your Linux box? Go crazy. GNU helped kill that ridiculous license stream.

Linux came with devoted coders who constantly strove for improvement. When Alpha, you had cross-platform Linux, rather than Unix devoted to just one hardware platform. And Linux adapted the things that had worked well for commercial Unix. All the features were there on Linux.

Commercial Unix could've moved onto similar paths: freed up their code base, dropped licenses for basic functionality like compilers. Innovation still happened in Commercial Unix: dtrace, ZFS, hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Meanwhile, the providers of Commercial Unix used them simply as a means to sell their hardware - which struggled to remain competitive with the glut of cheap and ever-improving PC hardware.