"... in order to guide the company's safety strategy."

The more interesting thing is what "safety strategy" means. The job is most definitely NOT to improve or ensure safety, it's to provide the appearance that they care about safety. They are to produce metrics that show safety, not to actually improve safety.

Making public the salary is interesting, especially with the recent talk about how AI engineers are paid much more than this position. Odd that would be true.

Kinda like overthrowing the government, gotta try it a few times to really get your pardon's worth.

Why use toolchains at all? Just have AI produce the application ready to run!

And why use frameworks? Just ask AI to generate all the code needed.

"...and argues that today's memory crunch could force similar discipline."

It definitely WON'T, not for the people causing it.

"I have not run out of memory on my computer in years."

Neither have "I", but my computer runs out of memory on a weekly basis and has done so for years.

"RAM is not the limiting factor."

No, it's software quality.

Right, it is appalling. This comment alone should be disqualifying to potential buyers.

Correct

"And what are these "competent leaders" going to do? "

Enforce law, prosecute criminals. It really isn't that hard to understand.

"I could see maybe deregulation helping here..."

I'm sure you could see that, because doing anything effective you would oppose.

"...namely cutting (but not eliminating) the red tape involved in building nuclear reactors."

That should really help with memory prices! But sure, we get it. The country should do exactly what AI billionaires demand and remove all impediments to their wealth and power building.

"As every good progressive knows, deregulation bad, greenpeace good, so on and so forth."

Just love these deep thinking MAGA types.

not something I want, it's something designed to halt immigration

why? immigration is good for the country, an auction merely rigs who benefits

Oddly, my mom is also in her 90s and does not use a cell phone at all, or social media. I think my mom is pretty normal and the narrative being pushed here is bogus.

"...in their hands."

Where did it say that?

You had a beard back in high school?

Minidisc was quite successful in Japan, people who say Minidisc was a failure are Americans. And Americans didn't buy Minidisc because they found CDs "portable" enough.

"I think by 1996 neither my hifi or walkman (what's the generic name?) needed that. Two way players were pretty common."
And they (auto reverse) sounded like shit because the heads were never aligned.

"...such as AZIMUTH problems..."

No shit! And with a misaligned head, not only does frequency response go to hell, dolby calibration does too. The problem was so severe one company made its reputation on an automatic solution to it.

People who talk about how good cassettes became do not appear to actually have used them. Cassettes held on for a while with children, their original audience.

No, they are considerably different. The author of the article most likely does not even know what an 8 track is.

Originally, the sound quality of cassette and 8 track were not really different, but 8 track was endless loop. But companies invested in making cassettes sound much better; given that they were also much smaller 8 track was doomed.

Cassette was vastly superior to 8 track, and it had nothing to do with "bad design".