1941 to 1990

You mean 1939?

Oh yeah wait a mo America only "came to its allies aid" after being attacked. That my man is not being a reliable ally, that's being purely self interested.

US hasn't been a reliable ally to anyone sans maybe Israel in decades.

When has the US been a reliable ally?

Parents no longer parent and expect the schools to teach their unruly and coddled child.

cool.

Why?

The computers sat in a lab, and the kids would interact with them a couple times a week in a structured (instructed) setting.

Good grief no!

All the value I got was in the non structured settings where you could fart around on the computers without interference from teachers who by and large didn't know much about computers at all. Of course there was no internet at that point so that was mostly programing. I always did best in the least heavily structured subjects.

I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Puritanism.

Murder a bunch of toddlers? Murder is a sin and you're going to hell.

Steal a loaf of bread to feed you starving kid? Stealing is a sin and you're going to hell.

The end result's the same and equally bad either way, regardless of the sin. This strips away all nuance. If you're good you go to heaven, if you sin you go to hell.

Are you human? Please complete the following captcha:

What's 0.1 + 0.2.

If the answer is 0.30000000001 then you failed.

Seriously, it's a pretty common metaphor. People don't literally mean the physical objects known as screens are bad per-se. It's what's on the majority of them in the hands of kids the majority of the time. It's much easier to say "screens" as opposed to specifying particular kinds of social media, and particular genres of short form videos and etc. Because we both know that if people didn't be 100% fully precise then you'd be complaining that forums are technically social media and some of those are fine etc etc.

A nerd might say "well akshually it's what's on the screen" whereas most people know what's meant by the phrase.

People don't use pedantically precise language all the time, fully caveated and cited as if they are having a particularly obnoxious internet debate. People use slang, jargon, shorthand, metaphor and simile in order to communicate.

Iâ(TM)m betting during the boom of the gold rush there wasnâ(TM)t any pickaxe vendor lagging behind in sales. Not even the biggest ones.

It isn't. They are doing very, very well with stock nearly doubling in a year. That's mad crazy levels of growth. But they're doing incredibly well from a solid base. Intel spent a decade fucking up so they're a long way down which means they have higher to climb.

My delayed...

You don't think I actually ordered one of those things do you?!?

Yes, that's the joke.

I simply can't imagine why it wouldn't be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster to just use short segments that don't need to be aligned so precisely.

So having 100 times the number of segments but now all with poorly aligned joints would be better?

I used to think that maybe I, a simple country ignoramus, just wasn't equipped to understand the Wonders of the Modern Age. ...

Agile teams are a great way to waste small amounts of money quickly. But if you want to waste money in vast amounts on an enterprise scale, they aren't the way to go. Throwing huge teams at a problem is fantastic by comparison. It drives up burn rate, drives down efficiency, and extends timelines while claiming the opposite. Small teams cannot compete.

Tongue only partially in cheek... I watched a team of hundreds of local and remote workers burn $400M in a catastrophic waterfall grand attempt and fail completely. The worst agile failure I witnessed burned $4.5M before the plug was pulled.

Probably nothing. Are there many consumer level motherboards that can support a U.2 or an E.3 drive?

This relentless focus on whomever's on the Other Team as the problem this election cycle, is the problem.

The "other team" as you put is is currently running your country with the Presidency, house, senate and Supreme Court. The absolutely should be getting relentless focus.

Would you rather the focus was on people not currently in power and who can't really do all that much?

So, barring a hardware failure, my current PC may enjoy the longest life of any in my last thirty years. It's an i9-13900K (yes... I know. But it's fine), 128GB DDR5, 9070 Super 12Gb. Now, while this stagnation may be problematic for some hardware companies, I contend it's a huge win for consumers. At the very least we should be off the top end GPU treadmill. It would be nice to picture a 2030 in which hardware made in 2024 could run current games near full detail.