what do you call a beach with 100 lawyers buried up to their neck in sand?
A sand shortage

What do you mean sloppy - the comma does exactly what is intended.
Lawyers (almost exclusively) write laws
Very vaguely
Then companies pay lawyers a LOT of money to interpret those laws
When two companies interpret the law differently than each party hires VERY expensive lawyers to fight it out in front of a judge - that is another lawyer getting paid a lot of money.
In the end it is the lawyers creating a problem and benefiting from the problem that they create.

Ever hear the joke about a small town having 1 lawyer and the lawyer goes broke - the second the second lawyer moves into town they both get rich

My daughter applied to college in '16 to get in the fall of '17. Well, she ended up applying to 3 schools she was interested in. UC, Oregon State, and Texas A&M. As a pre-vet, those are some of the top schools for her. Each took an essay - the app deadline was Monday for Oregon State, she was early accepted on Wednesday. My comment to her was do you think they even read your essays... Same thing for Texas A&M. She was finally accepted to UC during the spring, as that was her #2 school she wasn't even waiting.

If you aren't going to read the essays as a part of the acceptance process - don't require them.

Wait Linux didn't come out until the 90s, What are you talking about

My high school history teacher was a runner-up to teachers in space (Yes, this one) he trained with the crew. He was very proud of his time with NASA - he gave many many lectures to students across the state about his NASA experience. One of his most asked questions was do you still want to go? The answer until his dying day was always YES - he would have gone on Challenger knowing what he knew after even

Don't forget to send in your bullet pointed list of the 5 things you accomplished last week to sergeybrin@gmail.com

It already has. Look up the Idaho stop that has been trending for over a decade

What is really interesting is I got to work with some very high end cpu architects back in the day. Was interesting that they had absolutely no comprehension of constructs like threads, stacks, and stack frames. Boggled my mind that they just saw the job of the CPU was to run through a continuous stream of instructions - no thoughts to what those instructions did.

This is a company that used to makes some $20 billion in annual profit. Something tells me that wasn't happening in 1971.

My edit - Intel has been losing a ton of money in recent quarters - this is no longer the case. Hense the dying stock price.

so let me take out 100 dollars a month from everyone's paycheck and let the money be spent on capital improvements to make all employees more efficient and productive instead of spending it on things like iPhones and streaming services...

I don't know of a single server configuration guide that doesn't say something about turning off power management in the bios. This one setting seems to reduce latency on the first hit, but cause a huge increase in the power needed on the system over time

So soldering memory onto the motherboard is not what Intel did. What Intel did was attach the memory into the CPU package. The difference is that Intel now has to source the memory and get memory margin on the whole processor package rather than have the OEM source memory and assemble it into the system. This leads to a massive increase in inventory requirements and a lowering of margins that is unsustainable for Intel's business model.

Intel OEMs have been soldering down memory on motherboards for a few years making laptop upgrades untenable which is a huge change. The first thing you should do when you get a new laptop is get the largest Memory upgrade you can get off of Amazon and put that memory stick into the laptop.

Obviously you have never done a yocto embedded build. These things suck RAM. Basically you want to do as many jobs as you have memory - and the speed of the storage subsystem and the amount of available RAM is your limiting function. A full uncached Yocto build can be measured in hours on a fairly hefty system (think dual server chips and enough RAM to be mindboggling. Is this a normal use case probably not.

Another interesting one is using a developer system in a VM environment. You create a developer VM for the compile edit debus process and separate VMs to test deployments, I know I have done some interesting development work in a networking application where I was virtualizing 4-5 endpoints and adding the network infrastructure between them. This easily used a 64GB laptop that was as large memory subsystem as you could get back then.

This is easy - just require all AI tools to set the equivalent of the IP Header Evil Bit into the media meta data.