I'll take your trolling and troll back as follows:

When someone says early 2000s they mean the 00s. I have never seen your version, though you may be technically correct (the best kind of correct), I don't believe you are contextually correct. If we take your interpretation, put into context of the original sentence it was used in, it makes no sense. In context, it's clear the author was referring to decade that was from 2000 to 2009.

But that's okay, you sold 350 BTC for $35, the universe has punished you enough. :P

Umm... bitcoin didn't exist in the early 2000's. I believe it came into existence around 2008/2009.

I actually mined Bitcoin, I think I had something like 1.2 BTC back in 2011, then I lost the wallet. It was worth next to nothing at the time. Now it's enough to buy a nice car.

But the better analogy would have been to talk about BlockBuster not buying Netflix back in the day...

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct!

That being said, just like Tesla's 'AutoPilot', just because the 'legal' definition says it's an assistant not true autonomous driving, does not mean that everyone doesn't look at the word and take it to mean autonomous driving. Same thing with AI. Artificial Intelligence is going to be taken at face value, intelligence that is artificial. Very few people know the dictionary definition, or that 'imitate' is a key word of said definition. That makes a big difference, but the vast majority of people assume AI means true intelligence.

Why else is Joe Q. Public freaking out that AI is going to take their jobs? We're treating AI like we treated BlockChain, and countless other 'going to change the world overnight' tech. It's a useful area, but it's mislabeled, overhyped and pulling resources away from other, dare I say, more important areas in the field of CS.

When companies announce RTO mandates, they know that some people will quit out of protest, it's calculated into the cost of the mandate. Some companies are even using it as a form of layoff that saves them money since a person who quits doesn't get severance.

I hate that they call it 'AI'. It is not intelligent. It is a predictive algorithm. Whether LLM, or some other base algorithm, it is not intelligent. Even the generative AI images are terrible as they cannot learn from their mistakes. In order for something to be called intelligent, it needs to be able to learn, and demonstrate that new knowledged. I have yet to see any AI do that.

Also, any 'AI' developer worth their salt will carefully avoid implying intelligence, they'll always lean back on the underlying algorithm to describe what they're working on. Good way to filter out the candidates that took a 6 hour course online and label themselves AI devs, versus actual talented devs that know what they're doing with an LLM for example.

My 2 cents, get into firmware development, if you are good at low level bit twiddling and debugging, you'll make a great career out of it.

Look at things from his perspective, especially over the last few years. He is constantly under attack by very powerful entities (at least in his life), I'd likely get paranoid and grouchy too if the government, media, my professional college, etc, all turned on me.

Mod parent up! Working at a large company, even a tech giant like Google does not mean you'll be good at a startup. It takes totally different skills to succeed at a startup than it does to succeed in a 1000+ person company.

I never said it was smart, but it does seem to be what they're doing. And in today's world car companies will keep doing it until they get burned, then they'll revert for a few years, maybe a decade, and then new management will once again decide that outsourcing is better and we rinse and repeat.

I totally get it, having an embedded background myself, and seeing what one of GM's competitors was doing first hand, they seem to not want to have anyone in-house that knows what's going on that's on salary, but they are more than happy to contract out all the critical work (like handling things at the ECU level). I honestly think it may have something to do with legal liability, or maybe it's all just a finance/numbers game for shareholders. Whatever the logic, tier 1 suppliers are making a bloody killing in that space.

No, they are likely getting rid of the genuine embedded devs. Most infotainment systems are now based on Android Automotive (not to be confused with Android Auto which is like Apple CarPlay), and the language du-jour is Java and Kotlin. No embedded development required.

I am 44, the amount of grey in my hair and beard is exponentially increasing. Little has changed about my lifestyle/diet. From the other comments here, it seems I'm not alone in noticing this drastic change. 4 years ago I was still being told I barely look over 28, now everyone knows I'm in my mid 40s at first glance.

Except that it is signed. The driver is signed, but then it loads arbritrary unsigned code which is seperate from the driver itself and executes it. That is how Crowdstrike bypasses the need to sign every update. What could possibly go wrong?

With so many RGB lights, your computer was just asking for it.

Problem is, while you are correct that it cycles from bad to good, every bad is way worse than the bad versions before it, thus every good is worse than the good versions before it, they are 'good' simply because they aren't as bad as the most recent bad.

So Windows Vista is better than Windows 8. Thus Windows 10 isn't as good as Windows 7, it's just better than Windows 8.

and at this point, I really feel Vista is better than 11.

Great question... and the best answer I can give is that it does, but possibly because they've been using it for so long that they accept its shortcomings as compared to the shortcomings they experience on linux.