Uh... no. I run a 6800K (with 64GB mem) and I have been justifying an upgrade to the Ryzen 5950X basically best you can get. The 5950X is about 22% faster, see for yourself: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/... Treating the 6800K as 100%, the 5950X performs at 122%. By your analogy, the 6800K is about 0.22 times slower compared to the 5950X. Now, to be fair, the 6800K is 6-core, the 5950X is 8-core. Thus the 6800K can literally not do computation on 2 additional cores. Still, if we were to take the 4-core performance (6 is not listed, 8 is but that is apples with oranges), the 5950X is STILL only 44% faster on average. That still means that the 6800K is only about 0.5x slower than the 5950X Where do you get 4.5 times from?? I mean honestly, tell me. I want to believe dropping 2-3k dollar for a beautiful new rig is worth it. but I just don't see it.

That used to be the case, until SSDs came out and I became irrelevant. Damn SSDs took my market!

Agreed. Status plays a major role too. Oh, and hiding incompetence of course. Happened to me once where I had to tell my boss that his data analysis was not sound and he was drawing wrong inferences from data. The stare I got back was enough to realise it was time to pack my stuff.

As a I-O psychologist and researcher, this is fairly common. A lot of stereotypes are misattributed to the "older worker" and it happens a lot. In this world, organisations almost exclusively focus on attracting "young talent". Yet they fail to understand that older workers are far more experienced. Amongst misunderstandings is the notion that older workers would be (a) untrainable (b) too expensive (c) not creative, and (d) not flexible enough to adapt. This is all ruled out by research, but you know how it works with research. That's just "theory" and management wants "practice". So in short, you are not alone. As a matter of fact, there is a whole psychological discipline devoted towards this, called the "aging workforce".

How many lines of code would it take them to implement Nyan Cat??

The nature of the design employed does not allow for causal inferences. At best, there is a correlation not between longevity, but between the risk of death and consuming coffee. The generalizability is limited to the extent that only one method was applied, making it impossible to establish the true relationship between the two variables, as it most certainly is confounded because the lack any form of control over the variables (e.g., not an experiment). Put in other words, the correlation at best is a rough estimate.

Being a software developer is like serving the army: when you do your job, you are praised. But when you are retiring, you are replaced by younger people with greater stamina and you are not looked after and easily forgotten because you are no longer "part of the project". In addition, when there is a paradigm shift (e.g., from procedural based programming towards OOP), "the company" prefers the new generation as opposed to training the current generation.

For which you gotta retrieve a subscription mail in Outlook-format to change client!

We do still got Ctrl-Alt-Delete!

What the HECK man...why did they do that. Why doesn't Power-Eject show the shutdown dialog!? Why doesn't Option-Command-Power put the computer to sleep?

It really doesn't make sense to me..

Buy a Mac. Oh, wait. On a Mac iTunes ALWAYS INTERFERES with the media keys. I ain't got no Scroll Lock, Print Screen, or F-Lock either. And my Windows Key, the Apple key, says 'cmd'. WTF If you're on crack, buy a Mac. Then it makes so much sense all of a sudden.. Cmd + Shift + 3 == Print Screen. W - T - F. Home Key? Sometimes it's fn + left, sometimes it's cmd + left. In Leopard, I actually had to remap the keys for some apps. Anyway, as I were saying. Buy a Mac. It's much more intuitive.

Actually, from my POV, I got the same with consoles: how to play FPS without mouse and keyboard?

BECAUSE it makes me feel special. What else should I do with my overpriced, overdesigned, only 2-USB-ports, MacBook Pro except for showing off? Gonna actually use it? Don't get me started!

Nothing new here. My Mac has been doing this for the past 4 years or so. Ok, it's hibernation actually, but still: I can get to work almost immediately for over years now.

Why we need more Jobs? I think one instance is enough.