Wanting a "people's car" was inevitable.

That's the business not investing in the people and the resources to move ahead. "Missing deadlines" also often stems from demands exceeding resources.

From the 1990's to the 2020's, Intel was more focused on profit and shareholders than investing in people and R&D.

It’s telling that Gelsinger described a culture where “not a single product was delivered on schedule” — and yet, that might be more of a symptom than the disease. In many industries, the obsession with arbitrary timelines and “on-schedule delivery” metrics becomes corrosive. When deadlines are treated as fixed points rather than guides, quality and innovation become secondary to appearances of progress.

Artificial timelines often create environments where teams are punished for realism and rewarded for overpromising. Engineering — whether of chips, cars, or code — demands time to iterate, test, and refine. When leadership values the schedule more than the product, people cut corners to meet goals that were never grounded in the reality of the work. Over time, that behavior institutionalizes mediocrity.

What Gelsinger called “decay” often begins when organizations forget that timelines are supposed to serve the work, not the other way around. Real engineering discipline means being honest about what’s possible — and having the courage to move a date if that’s what it takes to deliver something that lasts.

I don't care what this guy says. He should go play in traffic.

These guys have mismanaged several games, the only one I really cared about was KSP2. Not allowing developers to talk to the existing team, having zero meaningful targets or decision points, allowing good idea fairies to run the show, and not nailing down an actual working game engine....

Then closing it down to focus on more profitable items. I get space sim isn't ever going to make as much money as driving the car down the sidewalk and running people down...but I'm still upset this guy let it all happen the way it did.

So if you plan, and then try to do a big thing, and you find out you're a failure because you didn't actually plan... Please tell me these guys didn't just keep getting paychecks.

You know damn well a single full server rack can have enormous power density and simple math says you can't power it .... and you are just 'hoping' some other enormous project comes along you must be hella stupid.

If you don't control it...you can't count on it.

In other news, 99% of studios and developers in 2025 lack the ability to do proper server administration and bandwidth management.
Many think proper user engagement and marketing involve the words "Join our discord".

Trust me, they are a monopoly, but they literally take care of 98% of the problems you would face upon launch day and continued distribution.

Want to do a public beta test? Easy.
Want to load to 3 million users at once? Easy.
Want to be discovered for your sandcastle building game alongside other competing sandcastle building games? Easy.

Corporations don’t exist to hand out jobs — completely agree. They hire people because human creativity, judgment, and problem-solving generate more value than they cost. That’s the foundational engine of economic growth.

But saying “companies don’t create work to hire people” assumes the amount of work is fixed, like slices of a pie. History tells a different story. Every major leap in technology — electricity, assembly lines, computers, the internet — didn’t eliminate work overall. It created whole new industries, new products, new forms of demand, and millions of jobs that never existed before someone imagined them.

The real question today is: will companies use automation to expand opportunity, or will they let fear and short-term profit pressures shrink their vision to whatever fits after payroll cuts? Treating workers as a cost to minimize is the fastest way to shrink your own future. Redeploying them to innovate, build, support customers, and explore new markets is how productivity becomes prosperity.

Humans haven’t become too expensive. What’s become too expensive — at least in the corporate mindset — is patience. Investment. Shared success. The belief that people are not just an expense line, but the actual source of value creation.

If we want a thriving economy, the answer isn’t fewer workers. It’s smarter, more meaningful roles that turn technological progress into shared wealth rather than shared precarity.

It’s definitely true that a lot of companies are cutting workers right now — and that creates real anxiety about where things are headed. But I think the narrative that “humans have become too expensive” flips the real issue upside-down.

Labor isn’t what’s skyrocketed in cost. CEO pay, shareholder expectations, and relentless targets for profit growth are. Companies keep raising prices even while laying off thousands, not because they can’t afford workers, but because they prioritize margins over stability for the people who actually create value.

The biggest missed opportunity here is that automation doesn’t have to be a replacement strategy — it can be a redeployment strategy. When new technology lets humans spend less time on low-value labor, companies can empower them to drive innovation, serve customers better, develop new products, and ultimately create more wealth. That’s how productivity gains should work.

But too many businesses think like accountants, not builders. They treat labor as a line item to subtract, instead of a force multiplier. They cut payroll and congratulate themselves for “efficiency,” even as they shrink their own future potential.

AI and automation could give us shorter weeks, better jobs, and broader prosperity — but only if we stop treating human well-being as an inconvenient expense and start seeing workers as the engines that turn technological progress into shared abundance.

The future isn’t precarious because humans are too expensive — it’s precarious because profit has become priceless, and imagination too cheap.

Finally found an ISP worse than comcast I see.

Yes, I use the name comcast still. I know they have tried to rebrand to Xfinity because their name was so bad. That is why I use it. It is bad. They shouldn't be allowed to get away from it.

Bluetooth latency from your phone to the speaker .... of all the things to scaremonger about.

Pretty positive that the speaker will react properly in less than 1/3 of a second most of the time.

As much as I hate to see companies brick smart features people paid good money for, lets face it none of these functions were necessary. The only possible legitimate feature is linking multiple speakers together properly. This can be done with more professional methods than some shitty app.

The Internet Archive’s fundamental duty is to preserve human knowledge — to ensure that cultural, scholarly, and historical materials are not lost to time, obscurity, or commercial impermanence. Preservation does not mean competing with publishers, nor does it mean undermining legitimate markets. It means ensuring that when something ceases to be readily available, it can still be found, studied, and remembered.

If a book is commercially available, widely distributed, and maintained by its rightsholders, then it is not in danger of disappearing. There is nothing for the Archive to “preserve” in that case; the responsibility lies with publishers and distributors. For such works, the Archive’s role should be standby stewardship — maintaining a secure, non-public copy to ensure continuity of access if and when availability lapses.

In contrast, for works that have fallen out of print, lost their commercial distribution, or exist in fragile physical form, the Archive’s duty is active and urgent. These are the works at real risk of vanishing, and preserving them — including through controlled digital lending — serves the public good and the historical record.

This approach strikes a balance between copyright compliance and cultural preservation:

The Archive would withhold digital access to works that are actively in print or licensed.

It would, however, retain preservation copies in its secure collections.

And it would make these available again only if those works become unavailable through ordinary channels.

By adopting this preservation-first, access-conditional model, the Internet Archive fulfills its mission without infringing upon the rights or revenues of living markets — ensuring that the world’s knowledge remains safe, even when the commercial world moves on.

This is progress. The USB-C cable and charger is no longer new tech, and cheap versions that work well enough are readily available. Devices should start advertising the recommended wattage and let stores stock chargers sorted by that.

Yes this. Mod parent up.

Everything the 'modern developer' uses the last 10 years is pure trash.

Tovar said, "I wouldn't be able to speculate on it, as to why someone would do this."

Really? No speculation at all? A complete mystery you say? Why indeed.

I stopped dual booting for games 10 years ago...same time 10 came out.

Steam/Wine is mostly fine.