I gotta call shenanigans on this. I got out of college in 1984. My starting salary in as a programmer was higher than my father's (a chemist working for the same company for 40+ years) had been when he retired 4 years earlier. And was quite well employed during that stretch from 1984 until your "late 90s" cut-off. And since.

I agree that it was mostly math folks going into CS (in fact my college didn't have an undergrad CS degree yet - you majored in math but chose a specific CS track), but the job market wasn't bad at all, let alone "sucked".

I ordered some Klein bottles from him back in 2008, and commented in the email exchange how much I enjoyed The Cuckoo's Egg. His response:

So you honestly believe that Amazon will have a functioning constellation before the Russia/Ukraine war ends? They don't even have a functioning launch vehicle yet.

This vaccine development effort has already been far faster than any in history. It's understandable that to further accelerate it would meet some resistance. There's already some backlash from people who feel that these "rushed" are unsafe and are reluctant to take them.

You can't copyright a name. Did you mean trademarked?

Face it, companies (and people) will take advantage of whatever free opportunities are made available. To assume that a company will take the high road and say "I'll leave this for someone who needs it more" is unrealistic. Don't get me wrong, some companies will, but there will always be enough that won't to suck up all available monies.

The program should have been designed to prevent these types of businesses from getting the money. I understand that there was an urgency to get *something* out there quickly, but this is too much money to have such a loosely administered program.

In other words, I blame Congress more than I blame Domio (or Ruth's Chris).

I loved both his science fiction and his popular science articles. But the guy was just so prolific! By the time he published Opus 200, I was almost half-way there, but he was publishing as fast as my limited budget would let me purchase. And I shamefully admit shoplifting The Sensuous Dirty Old Man from a local bookstore as I was too young (and too embarrassed) to purchase it.

A personal favorite is Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. It was Wikipedia (in a very narrow genre) before the web existed. I would pick it up to check on a specific scientist only to disappear down a chain of linked articles and not emerge until hours later.

A brilliant man.

Just because *you* don't know a word, doesn't mean it's not a real word.

If transferring arbitrary bodily fluids from a young person to someone older will somehow ritard or reverse aging, I know plenty of kids who will gladly spit in your mouth for a lot cheaper.

The fact that they took half a year to deliver this cluster**** could be an indicator that no true "fix" is possible or that the performance losses of a true fix would have a far worse overall impact than just accepting random reboots.

You're assuming they spent half a year working on a fix. I think it's far more likely that:

2 months were wasted by engineers trying to convince management that the problem really was potentially very serious

2 months waiting for management to try to figure out who to blame and how to make sure it wouldn't reflect negatively on them or impact their departmental budget or personal performance bonuses

1.5 months for PR to come up with the best possible language to make sure they could paint the entire industry as being equally affected, while simultaneously the lawyers tried to find the largest possible scraps of TP to cover their corporate *sses

.5 months working on a fix

What's to "announce"? I've been running F-Droid for years.

Yeah, that's pretty sloppy. From the original article, the number dropped was "30".

Depending on which side of the religious divide you occupy, people buy Apple because:

1. It offers an unparalleled user experience.
2. They're sheeple/fanboys and have to have it.

You've always been able to get more performance for less money, and yet they still sell. So what's the news here?