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Idiocracy comes true

In other words, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNl7GQFTULU]Idiocracy comes true[/url]

You do know that there is a ton of tech history in Texas right?
- Dallas Semiconductor (I work here, was Maxim, now ADI)
- Texas Instruments
- Cyrix
- iD Software
- Tandy
- Compaq
- Dell Computer
- Origin Systems
- Tradewest / Williams / Midway
- AST

Company was acquired by a larger entity last year.
Cashed out 300 hours of unused PTO (part of conditions of acquisitions), which was made for a VERY nice first paycheck for 2023!
Would have been bupkis if the previous PTO policy had been unlimited.

Unlimited PTO sucks for various reasons. Would rather have a contractually defined amount for which you can hold the employer legally accountable, and can cash out when leaving.

Not sure why that is marked as Insightful
Finally switched from Win7x64 Ultimate to Win10 LTSC 21H2, now that Win11 is the new hotness
Absolutely zero issues installing the latest drivers on brand spanking new AMD R9 7950X systems, one with a 7900XTX, the other with a 4090

I worked with Trek back in the day. Reviewed (on BlueSmoke.net, now defunct) and still have many of their thumb drives in working order (including one with a thumbprint scanner to unlock its contents) Was the only person in my EE undergrad program walking around with a thumb drive on a lanyard in 2001

For Bitcoin itself, yes. Not so for Ethereum (and other whackadoodle coins)
Also, the BTC progression was CPU -> GPU -> FPGA -> ASIC
Was active up until the FPGA days before selling my Butterfly Labs miners (and coins) for a tidy profit. Wish I had held them until now though (sold when they were $70-100).

As someone old enough to have played with Intel's first discrete GPU effort back in the day (i740), this seems to be more of the same though I expected a little better since this current effort is being helmed by Raja Koduri (the guy previously heading the Radeon group at AMD)

Did a BS in EE, then straight to a PhD in EE (photonics and VLSI)

The amount of ignorance on display here on /. regarding the circumstances of PhD students is a little staggering. I would expect that anywhere else (Twitter, Reddit, etc.), but not to this extent on a "News for Nerds" niche site!

This has played out in adventure games - moving from Sierra's text entry system to LucasArts' SCUMM

DFW drivers are some of the worst. Be especially careful of Nissan Altimas with paper tags!

Probably the same apologists for Ghostbusters 2016...

Sure, why not?

Comparing M1 (with its ton of fixed-function hardware) and x86 is misleading Bit of a throwback, but it's like comparing a system with software 3D rendering + CPU-driven sound to a system with a Voodoo and sound card No sh*t that the 2nd system will be faster and more power-efficient!