I like a different spin on that. "You get what you reward, not what is best."

That was the phrase they used when they were training us that there is no magic bullet to measure performance. That judging performance is a hard job, stop reaching for this year's new snake oil. Do your job, know what's going on, who needs help with something. NEVER punish someone for admitting they need help with something, just do all you can for them.

Bill Maher's "report" on his visit to the White House and Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As for hate, Dem politicians definitely exceed him at times. In their hatred, some of them become, and exceed, what they claim to hate. Or so they act in front of cameras. There are reports that when cameras are not present, they too are more reasonable.

Doesn''t it come with an alias CC number? One that can be reset? That's pretty damn useful for online purchases.

Where computers are required at K-12 the schools typically provide something. The recently introduced MacBook Neo is specifically made for this market. K-12 mostly gave up on iPads, now they seem to be questioning Chromebook. Apple wants to recapture K-12.

The Neo is nerf'd in various ways to make it less attractive to traditional Apple buyers. But for K-12 it will work great despite these.

The campus book stores typically had (have) an informal computer store integrated into it. At many universities this led to a separate and independent campus computer store.Typically doing some support as well. Configuration, software installation, sometimes even service/repairs. I had one of these in grad school. We had to have a laptop on an approved list (pick one of these 3 Dells). It would ship to the campus computer store, they would configure it with the disk image my department developed. More than just MS Office, the department had some addition licensed software we would use in some of our core classes.

Yes.

I'm not referring to that. I'm referring to lifelong Democrats like Bill Maher, who was sued by Trump by the way, went to the white house and expressed the sort of sentiments as above. That seems to be a pattern with open minded Dems.

Plus, Trump was a Dem most of his life while holding many of the same opinions as he does today. But back then the Dem Party was a big tent, conservative Dems were welcome and common. He had many friends in high level Dem politics, the Clintons for example. What changed, not so much his opinions, he became a Republican. Being a Repub is at the heart of much of today's far left Dem party hate, and the inability to be open minded like Maher.

Probably not with respect to having a toe shift and a clutch. We still need a selector, At a given moment you want the throttle mapped to a certain range of the full potential power output. It's safer and allows better human control. We still need a safety to make sure a selector change is not accidental.

The user interface and the power source/drive train are two separate things. The ergonomics of the motorcycle UI map quite well to this need for a selector with a safety. This UI evolved over a century of real world use. It's a pretty good one.

I have not ridden in decades, off-road. But as an engineer there is a clear advantage here. The throttle only has a certain amount of range, so having some sort of selector to change the interpretation of the throttle range makes a lot of sense. So some sort of "shifter" is necessary for that selection. Now a safety mechanism to avoid accidental selector changes would be a good idea. The "clutch" becomes such a safety in this digital EV world.

"Can" as in street legal riding today? Or "can" as in have ridden one at some point in their life, either street legal or off-road.

Also ATV have been know to have clutches and shift pedals too.

The engineering and market progress is amazing. But stock prices are still inflated due to a Wall Street "fear of missing out" (FOMO) mentality. The hyperbolic graph of their stock price exceeds engineering and market improvements, there is quite a bit a speculation and FOMO in that stock price. There will be a correction.

Personally I think in the short term an announcement of ARM based CPU/GPU/NPU chips for the Win 11 ARM market could offset or delay a correction.

Of course, but Wall Street over inflates the scientific and engineering progress. Buys with a little too much "fear of missing out" behind them.

Doh :-)

I'm expecting an ARM based PC CPU announcement from them, integrating their GPU designs, toss in some AI/ML acceleration. Sort of their spin on Apple Silicon. As MS' exclusive contract with Qualcomm ends, they might be well positioned as a major Win11 ARM CPU vendor. That could provide some offset to AI based corrections. Rumors of chips named N1, N2, ... Rumors of deals with Dell, Lenovo, ... If all this starts looking more real and less vapor, it could be big.

Yes and no, sometimes it is taught. Yeah, you can choose to unlearn it. Also, more generally "hate".

That said ... in person, face to face, people often say he is much nicer and much more reasonable. That includes people that have had big spats with him. It's almost like he's playing a character on TV, on twitter, etc. I'm not suggesting he's a Jimmy Carter behind the scenes, just that people notice a marked difference between "on stage" and in person.

Also a New York City personality has a bit of a-hole in it. :-)

Oh please, they are up 10x since 2022. That can't last forever, they're stock is taking a breather, its probably at bubble levels and needs a correction. They are still a significant industry leader.