It can be argued that the real HP became Agilent and Keysight.

What's the corporate culture like at those companies?

We should christen it as a new class of ships: the dreadyep. With any luck, the gold encrustations will sink it when it is set afloat. Barring that, maybe some midshipman will "forget" to seal off a bilge port.

A modern continuation of the Swedish Wasa class?

> oscilloscope charts

Those are price charts for pork belly futures.

Oh no, you're right How do I unsee this

I watch news (and everything else) on YouTube at 2x speed to keep the information density high enough to be worthwhile. Once you get used to it, regular media becomes less tolerable because everyone is talking too slow.

what the techno-industrial mindprison does to an mf

My best personal joke is to generate a summary of the looooong video, have AI make a short video about the video then play at 2x

It's much more fun to have AI generate an image depicting the summary and try to guess what it was all about.

I often watch YouTube at 1.5x speed and then during work meetings my brain starts looking for the speed button.

Those are the wrong sort of work meetings.

Where possible you want everyone to be well informed on the way in, at least about the current situation and the obvious proposals. This gives people time to digest the information and maybe even suggest their own proposals.

Then there's two types of meetings.

* Leadership communication meetings (quick review to make sure everyone understands how important the data they already knew about is / cement context).

* Brainstorming meetings (figure out a plan / pathfinding)

I feel like the goal of most meetings is to ensure everyone feels heard and included, and if by the way we push the work forward, that's a bonus.

The 2x speed will only keep your brain preoccupied enough not to notice the relevant information is missing or made very shallow... getting the same slop in half the time won't solve the problem.

You just cut out the low information ramblers.

Petroleum is a stable sunlight storage medium.

The US interstates move military equipment across the country without needing to deal with railroad bottlenecks. It is a public good. Just like GPS, it has ancillary civic functions but it still serves its original purpose.

I mean, that's the de jure purpose, but that's really a nonsensical point to make here. We're not talking about one controlled access route with two lanes in both directions to move tanks around.

We're talking about 10 lane monstrosities, with 8 or more flyovers, standing 20 stories high in places like in Houston and Dallas.

BD-R and M-Disc CD and DVDs have archival storage life.

I have a Ford Sync 2.5 system which is a cost reduced hardware downgrade from QNX based Sync 3. I'm sure the OS is doing its best while hobbled by a poor management decision but it has lots of bugs that crop up from what appears to be severe RAM shortage coupled with some gradual memory leaks. I have to reboot it regularly when traveling with Android auto. It's always a crap shoot if my phone will connect.

The MBAs hate capital expenditures and love operating expenditures. They'll make strategic blunders like over-dependence on external services just to satisfy their warped mindset.

That's even more damning that they can't dogfood their own GUI toolkits for the primary UI of their own OS.