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while factual (and quite alarming if I'm honest), it is factually a non sequitur for the commonly held definition of "non-stick pan"

And you’re going to hit the ever-present concern at companies, namely “it’s working perfectly fine, why would I spend any money on it?“

> imagine if

We can play this game all day, but the fact is somebody put a ton of work into a project and made about what they could have made in a month at a FAANG.

Pretty crappy trade off.

^^^^ yes! Your worker already has one foot out the door and has seen the greener grass outside the door. Is it really greener? Probably not but will be to them!

> set up a packaging proxy to [connect with a system outside the airgapped computer]

Do you even know what an airgapped computer is?

Huh, almost seems like 5G is marketing bullshit? The primary goal of 5G being to goad and shame consumers into upgrading a perfectly capable older phone to a new phone that is “5G ready”

> where everyone keeps reinventing the wheel and complexities just keep growing

Cue XKCD "Standards" comic. People look at an existing framework and declare "this is total shit, I can build a better, easier to use version!" They then start building the better-easier and realize why the old version is so hard to use--because it's a difficult fucking problem begetting awful complexity + shitty code.

This repeats itself every 18-24 months, giving us the current clusterfuck of JavaScript libraries. Lather, rinse, repeat for the past 30 years (n.b. XWindows Athena -> Xt -> Motif/Lesstif -> ...<aeons pass>... -> Qt -> Electron)

Same thing happens with Chinese restaurants in the states. New name, new sign out front, but oddly enough same fixtures, same items on the menu, and same folks behind the counter.

> rebrand to avoid government regulation

Aww, kids are so cute when they're having a temper tantrum

THIS! Touch bar is cool but when they went and removed _the ESC key_ they failed. Both would be ideal

In this country we have a right to do dumb things and make bad decisions. The Nanny State can't fix every problem.

I've seen the same behavior on a 10+y.o. system with Win11 on it. I started unplugging it every night and re-plugging it every day when I went to use it.

Funny thing has happened in the meantime, since getting a MB Air I haven't plugged it in for like 2 months now...

> There's no "there" there!

Sorry, wrong Clinton.

I get that there's a lot of anxiety involved in firing someone. But at the end of the day (lol) you still have an office to go to tomorrow, they don't.

Source: Been on the receiving end of 2 layoffs (dot-bomb and covid), it _reeeaaaallllyyyy_ sucks to be fired in a down market, like "how am I going to feed my family, how much is in the bank, and when is the mortgage/rent due" level of suckage.

When you have a one-on-one with your manager and the VP of Engineering or a HR person is there too, or when your team in another site is laid off and you hear it thru the grapevine instead of from your manager.

But for something more actionable, if your manager is constantly pressing you for "what happened with this one" when dates are slipping, or reminding you "you know, you're one of the highest paid people here..."

That's pretty much what OC is saying, any technology good enough to be commonly used is going to suck and/or have sharp edges

Tom Kite is/was great, but his answers are the equivalent of "I'm glad you asked, pull up a chair and let me tell you a story about a white whale..."

That old Burleson Computing guy lives in my nightmares...

Last time I checked even a relatively small 737 is ca. $100 million. You must be related to Bezos if you don't consider that expensive.

You mean like all the anecdotes in this discussion, which some might call "replies"?

I'm sure people are going to find some link between sciencedirect.com and the Trump administration so we can ignore it, since it doesn't fit with our worldview of Orange Man Bad

Right! It costs millions to certify something for flight even if it's been in commercial use for years. Even for something as simple as swapping a spinning disk for an SSD. And it has to be verified in-situ with the other components of the system. And separate testing and documentation is required for each airframe variant ("Type certificate"), so a swap for a 747 and 737 even though they're both Boeing products requires separate testing and documentation. There could be THOUSANDS of pages of documentation for a non-trivial product.

Exactly! Look at commercial game releases, it's getting to be where the game disc is merely a token to be able to download the "real" game code. Like laziness in movies today, "f-k it, we'll fix it in post"