The tech firms should be paying for any and all of this work and a for a huge future cleanup and maintenance fund -- UP FRONT. Regulators should ensure that there is ZERO chance of anyone else getting stuck with the bill when this goes bust. And this still applies to "AI now" believers, since even if they are right, improvements in efficiency could still massively change the situation at some point.

And the best part is that management finally gets the blame, since there aren't any workers to pin it on!

Definitely neither in my corner of the U.S. My company believes the future of anything involving a computer is off shore.

I've had both, and would say that if you can level 2 charge at home, and you don't have honestly unusual needs for range or long distance travel speed, skip the plug-in hybrid and go full electric. Plug-in hybrids are not really any cheaper, and they still have thousands of moving parts (and their maintenance) AND the electric bits.
I grew up on a farm, have lived, breathed (literally), loved, and maintained internal combustion contraptions most of my life. The electrics are better for most uses already, will soon be better for even more, and will definitely replace virtually all of our complicated mechanical anachronisms.

Bingo. The problem is that there are way too many people employed creating B.S. presentations and doing other things that glorify their managers' existence. Among them are plenty who can't just switch to a trade or healthcare job due to physical limitations. Though I may not like it, I'd much rather see companies continue paying people to do B.S. jobs than to see them on welfare.

I don't necessarily agree with this post, but for Taco's sake let's PLEASE PLEASE do away with the "Troll" mod!

I think the design/standard makes high quality more of a necessity than in larger connectors like USB-A. Micro USB had a similar problem, as our friend mentioned below. My preference would be to use a USB-A sized connector anywhere it will fit, and USB-C sized ones only where necessary due to size constraints. But it seems the little ones are what we're stuck with now.

Don't mod this troll until you've lived with enough of the lower quality USB-C connectors that seem to be cropping up all over. It's basic physics though -- small, complicated connector with too much leverage from the the cord. I had to switch to wireless charging to preserve that delicate port after losing my last phone to it.

Musk is not the CEO of SpaceX.

I'd be more shocked if evidence didn't get destroyed. I'm still shaking my head from when my company was deleting all email beyond 2 months old. It's hard to believe that was either legal or we had lawyers that bad.

Not sure what kind of jobs but they must be in Britain since the summary repeatedly refers to people being "sacked".

They are probably uncomfortable with Trump's statements about "ending" conflicts. Russia may be happy with him letting them cement their gains in Ukraine for now, but Iran isn't likely to be interested in settling anything in their sphere at this time.

And he'll be your number one friend.

Jeez Avi, why are you posting Princeton links?

And doesn't realize that "modern" replaced "functional" as the key measure of software over a decade ago.