"... 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.

This is it, precisely. If I could buy a new EV for $12K I would absolutely do that. If buying a new EV means that I have to spend $60K then I am not remotely interested. EV vehicles have some problems that make them impractical as the only vehicle for most families. Those problems disappear completely if the vehicle is inexpensive enough so that it doesn't have to be your only vehicle.

China is currently giving EVs away, we are stupid for not taking them up on the offer. Eventually the U.S. auto market would adapt. I am quite sure that they could also make low margin EVs if they had the right incentive. Let's be honest, the American public would probably be willing to subsidize them as they made the change. However, instead we have rigged the entire system so that U.S. manufacturers are incentivized to only compete in the largest, most expensive, and least environmentally friendly auto markets available. It's no wonder that the rest of the world isn't interested in our cars.

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.