I laugh at it because it reminds me of me....

FTFY.

While I agree that the PC revolution was indeed a revolution that led to todays' environment, it certainly was not a "vast majority" in 1983. You didn't run a company's accounting or payroll, or design integrated chips, or CAD-CAM, or you-name-it on 8-bit computers in '83. Took a little longer than that.

There's a reason that today's Windows kernel is designed after VMS, and that Linux, Mac OSX, iOS, and Android are all based on Unix designs. It's because that is the world the big kids programmed in, in 1983.

Or, as Bertrand Russel pointed out, at least you think you are....

Even repair is greatly affected by automation, whether cars, appliances, or whatever.

Stories abound about how today's repairmen don't understand the things they work on nearly as well as the prior generation. Today's products are fundamentally more complicated than those of our parents' generation, and include many more (automated) mass-produced opaque components. So a great amount of today's repairs are much less diagnosis of fundamental causes, and much more simple parts (or large subassembly) swapping.

OBD-II in cars is a dual-edged sword. The technician doesn't need to know nearly as much about the details of any given circuit or mechanism; the car tells you it's bad so you replace it. The technician *can't* know nearly as much about the details of any given circuit or mechanism-- not enough details from the manufacturer, and not enough hours in the week to keep up with every new electronic component or subsystem.

There are probably multiple variations of it, but a common one is Sturgeon's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is just another form of the "Continuous Improvement" method of quality management, also known as the "Deming Cycle" or "Plan-Do-Check-Act".

Monitor your process, find optimizations, improve your process, and monitor some more.

It may result in new robots, or it may simply result in better deployment of existing ones.

Yeah, one contacted me about an old /16 block assigned to a company where I was network manager 20 years ago, wanting to make a deal. (Company went bankrupt, got bought up, buyer went bankrupt, got bought up, and so on). The would-be brokers are digging up every possibly-unused block they can.

I contacted ARIN and released it back to the pool.

Interesting, all the details that come back to mind, even though I hadn't thought about them in two decades :-)

This didn't happen 40 years ago? You imagine a time that did not exist.

"The Peter Principle" was published in 1969.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yes, seriously.

By and large, it is quite generally true that most women experience the world differently than most men. This includes specifically the emotional factors. Of course we all have emotions, but there are significant differences in how men and women generally experience and are shaped by them.

Well, yes, of course it would.

Normal male response, whether Slashdot or elsewhere: "she didn't react to situations like I would, so obviously she needlessly did it the hard/stupid way. If she did it the way I would have, she wouldn't have had any problems."

Perhaps our "obvious" normal male response isn't actually helpful for people who aren't the same, don't experience the world the same way, and perceive situations differently.

Time to learn from that flash of insight.

I remember driving by the Miniscribe warehouse back then. Damn, I am that old. Crap!

I though it was only us old farts left on Slashdot these days. I thought all the kids left Digg for Reddit....

That actually varies from one state to the next. In some states, the left lane is only allowed for passing. In others, the left lane may be driven in. In some states, cars may drive in the left lane, but large trucks may only use it to pass.

In any case, I agree that people who hog the left lane and don't move over for faster traffic are indeed a safety hazard.

In the MVNO case, Sprint knows that phone X was used at tower Y, but doesn't know who the phone belongs to. Credo knows that part.

The problem comes with the close proximity to other vehicles.

On the rail systems, you don't have to worry that another stupid driver will swerve in and cut you off.

And airplane taxiing is not done on autopilot.

I am the great and powerful Gates!!! Pay no attention to that DOS behind the curtain!!!

I always suspected the Wisconsin Organization Of Spacemodeling Hobbyists was behind this whole Java thing....