Whenever my doctor asks me these kinds of questions I just answer with the "correct" answers. No way I'm flagging myself with issues.

It's all about profit margin.

Auto makers basically need to hit X dollars per car to keep the lights on, pay the wages, and hit the desired profit margin.

$25K cars are loss-leaders. They are designed to get young, first-time car buyers in the door and hope that brand loyalty will keep them buying their more expensive models later.

But my guess is most car manufacturers have decided they can't stomach a car that makes no profit. Why sell $25K cars when you can sell $40K cars?

The money isn't sitting under a matress somewhere. It is all invested in some way or another.

If we do away with the electoral college, then 40+ states will have exactly zero say in who gets elected as president.

Good luck getting their representatives to agree to such a change.

I have one vertical and one horizontal screen on my desktop. The vertical screen is good for inspecting log files and db results. It's also good for coding since I limit my line length, but when I'm looking at other folk's code that aren't so disciplined, I end of using the horizontal screen.

How did you determine that 50% male, 50% female is the correct answer?

Seems arbitrary.

It's my understanding that large companies may have in-house lawyers providing support, but bring in outside firms to represent them in court.

So this likely did cost Apple something.

I still use FireFox at home. Mostly because I've never found a mouse gestures extension that I like as much as the one I have in FireFox, but also because Chromium doesn't do the sidebar like FireFox does.

Speed is not an issue. Both are plenty fast.

All the claims about FireFox being a memory hog seem strange to me. My experience is that Chomium (on Linux) and Chrome (on Windows 10) blow through memory faster than FireFox on either.

you can replace the battery on the Samsung. Replacement parts are available on-line and there are videos on how to do it. The original battery is glued in, but it's pretty easy to break the glue bonds. Then connecting the new battery is trivial.

So don't use an e-mail filter, Linus. Change how you think about other people. Yes, they are utter and complete morons. But that doesn't mean they can't be useful tools, and that dumping them in the trash is giving you the most you can get from them.

A bad manager blames his resources for poor results. A good manager finds ways to use flawed resources. A great manager finds ways to improve them. I've worked for all three types. It looks like Linus has decided to go from Type II to Type II. Good for him -- he's been a very good model already on how to handle the mechanics of producing quality software, but active cultivation is the next step up. Personal note: Linus' youngest is now 18 and I presume headed away from home. Funny how being the parent of adult children can change you (/me looks over shoulders ...)

You have weird fantasies.

For some people, persecution fantasies are as close as they can get to being important. Be nice to them.

It was a good run...

And about to get better. Linus has been in denial for the last 20 years as to what his job is. However good he is as a cowboy coder, his essential role is management, and that requires people skills. Which he admits to needing improvement. Apparently some disapprove of his judgment on that front.

"Hold on while I boot my computer. I'm glad you called because it's been slow lately."

Then I mute my phone, set it down, and continue on with my day. Eventually they hang up.