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You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Not all writing needs to be as dry as a technical bulletin.

… lesswrong apocalypse cult?

Like the guy who wrote that insufferable Harry Potter fanfiction?

The strategy is Broadcom doesn’t give a flying F about any customer smaller than Fortune 50. They really don’t. Hock has said as much.

Oh please. Take a look at the pictures of “redevelopment” back then and tell me it mirrors modern practices. We’re talking wholesale bulldozing of entire neighborhoods. Not a block or two, the entire damned thing.

Where we’re going we don’t need no stinking drip tray!

Believe me. You need a drip tray.

Best of luck. Hope it turns out better than ZPM.

This is a pot, kettle, black situation.

Did… you really just use the term Chinamen in 2024?

Pivotal Labs was acquired by EMC back in the day. They bundled it with some cloud foundry work and created Pivotal. When Dell acquired EMC they also acquired a big share of Pivotal. Dell then decided to squeeze more blood from the VMWare stone and forced them to acquire Pivotal before selling the whole thing off to Broadcom.

Nails are reversible in under an hour. Foot binding causes crippling disfigurement.

They aren’t remotely comparable.

That’s because film actors are hired to voice act for their fame, not for their skills as voice actors.

That’s a blatant misunderstanding of how voice acting works. A good voice actor is a vocal chameleon, and can really change their voice for each role.

Full Self Driving is vaporware. The “cross country with no interventions” drive is vaporware.

The tomatoes and strawberries you grow at home don’t need to hold up to long distance shipping. Not to mention, the mass market fruits and veg don’t have somebody personally motivated by getting something at the peak of ripeness.

Like most things, it’s a different set of priorities and incentives that drive different results.

Having dealt with this person at a former employer: No.

When people say the Rio Grande Valley they typically mean the counties at the southern tip of Texas. The Permian Basin is at the westernmost parts of the state. The areas don’t overlap. At all.