SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

*Revenue neutral means adding trillions to the debt anyway even after fucking over everyone else.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/04...

Just Adelita Grijalva's.

Steam was introduced by making it mandatory to be able to buy and play Half-Life 2. Big red flag right there and then, which is why I decided _not_ to use Steam right then and there at the beginning of it all.

Yes, HL2 was an excellent game and dominates the hall of fame of videogames for good reaons. Which is why Steam took off like a rocket. And yes, Steam offers great value and Gabe and his crew manage the service well. But if he changes his mind or valve gets sold to some greed leech investment gang things can go belly up pretty fast. I buy my pure-bits versions of videogames with GOG and archive the packages myself. If GOG would shut down tomorrow, I couldn't care less. Which is the way things should be. I'm too much of a (seasoned) computer and internet expert to be fooled otherwise.

This is childish pedantry.

It never used to be like this and it doesn't have to be. There was a core set of default apps part of stock Android until Google stripped everything out and replaced it with malware. You can get a replacement suite of these apps on f-droid search 'fossify'.

Much of this crap actually can be disabled or uninstalled via the adb shell.

pm disable-user --user 0 ...
pm uninstall -k --user 0 ...

Even limiting your comments to layering they are still comically wrong.

DRAM modules produced by the chip producers don't have heat spreaders. This is reserved for integrators who scrape the bottom of the bin and package garbage they don't even have the equipment to properly test in snazzy packaging to sell for a premium.

Spreaders are there to manage all of the excess heat produced by overvolting the chips because that is the only way they work at all.

Count me among the stunned and amazed by this breathtaking achievement. Hard to believe technology has progressed to this point.

Nobody is stopping. Flash memory is stacked into dozens of layers, modern TSMC and Intel process sport over a dozen layers.

... up with a method to convert radiation to electricity directly, we'd be ready to back to nuclear power.
Until then it remains a dead end.

Nuclear fuel or power isn't the problem. Nuclear Fission steam power and nuclear waste is.

It isn't about density of components or any metric other than cost. This is just a feedback loop where people can afford to have more components in a given gadget so they add them driving further cost reductions.

"For simple circuits, the cost per component is nearly inversely proportional to the number of components, the result of the equivalent piece of semiconductor in the equivalent package
containing more components." ...

"Thus there is a minimum cost at any given time in the evolution of the technology. At present, it is reached when 50 components are used per circuit. But the minimum is rising rapidly while the entire cost curve is falling (see graph below). If we look ahead five years, a plot of costs suggests that the minimum cost per component might be expected in circuits with about 1,000 components per circuit (providing such circuit functions can be produced in moderate quantities.) In 1970, the manufacturing cost per component can be expected to be only a tenth of the present cost."

http://cva.stanford.edu/classe...

Just drive the panel at 120hz which is an integer multiple of 24. What's the point of this crap?

"After all this is the guy who tried to kill my dad."
https://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPO...

My understanding has always been Bush wanted revenge for Saddam's attempt to kill his daddy.