So, it won't be the Peach Bowl anymore? It'll be the Mango Bowl soon? Or maybe Malaria Bowl brought to you by Canada Dry Tonic.

A few remarks...

> Meanwhile Huawei announced that it is increasing R&D spending

This might be a false comparison. Huawei and Amazon are very different companies. It would be difficult to directly compare them, and to suggest that the strategy that works for one would work for the other is at best naive. For example, it's worth noting Huawei is effectively a state owned enterprise of the PRC, and their business is subsidised by the state. It's also worth noting that the PRC tightly controls the public statements, censors everything, and many times statements are aimed at the domestic audience. Meaning that the CCP wants the Chines people to not be exposed to bad news, everything is just great with the PRC! Reuters acknowledged that in that link you shared, that they could not independently verify any of the statements made. So it's a bit weird you chose to cite a source with super questionable content. Also it's worth noting that in the USA several other big corporations are cutting jobs, and those might be a more credible direct comparison.

> This is so stupid. In a few years Amazon will be trying to hire these people back, having lost ground to companies that looked beyond the next quarter.

You might think it's stupid, that's your opinion, but I would suggest you might be fallaciously appealing to ignorance. That said, it was really amusing in an extremely ironic way, because you say "companies that looked beyond the next quarter", and I would argue that Amazon is probably doing exactly that. Consider that Amazon already cut 19K jobs, and is preparing to cut another 9K. Do you really think that is a company with a short term vision? They clearly believe the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, and if anything they now believe the economy is going to get much worse than they originally forecast.

Big corporations have teams of economists on the parole, they are not living in the same kind of denial that you might be. (no offence)

I’ve used it to save me time looking up stuff I don’t do often anymore. I converted some shell or perl to python. (It was pretty good actually.) I also save time asking how to delete blank lines or something weird in awk/sed that I don’t recall without googling.

Mostly iMessage right now. Work is pushing Teams on us in an annoying way. I’ve avoided putting it on my phone but...

That's not really a lot of money in federal terms. Heck, that's less than a couple modern jet fighters. Plus, it's only in Utah. No other senator or representative will care since it's not in the district.

I could have sworn in between the case mod stories there were stories of overclocking to reach 1Ghz using assorted cooling techniques.

Get off my lawn!!

Yes and originally you could just post with your chosen nickname with the registration hassle. That led to a few obvious problem when people started impersonating people or trolling with MEEPT! and such. I think I waited on the order of weeks to sign up.

As good a reason as any. I forgot how much people hated his posts.

Yes, quite likely. It's nice to come back to someplace where we all spent so much time contributing in big and little ways. Many of us are a bit older and rounder than when /. started but the ride has been fun. I still remember grabbing a tshirt from Rob at some Linux conference in the San Jose Convention center. It was in the 1990s I'm sure because I still have Alpha Linux swag as well. Thanks CmdrTaco for the fun times.

I don't really miss the juvenile flames and obligatory nitpicks but I do recall fondly some of the lamer aspects: hot grits, Natalie Portman, MEEPT, first post, endless discussion of whether Jackson would ruin the LOTR movies, "I hate JarJar", whining about poll choices, vi vs emacs, etc. Maybe I'll look to see if there's a BSD fan around here and start a flame war for old time's sake.

Of course this is the case. This study is as exciting as news that George Michael is gay. There have been plenty of studies to this effect. My company makes tons of money consulting on better storage utilization. [Some Fortune 500 companies I've visited run below 40% utilization.] EMC, IBM, HDS, NetApp and the rest have no real interest in selling you less drives. They all make vague, glossy statements about saving storage money but in reality you need to be wasteful if you want to protect your ass. Think of the things we spend $ on just to get another 9 on the uptime digits: UPS, generators, clustering, DR systems/networks that sit idle, dark fibre between datacenters, RAID 1(+0), RAID 6, tapes, VTLs, Storage Arrays, redundant Fibre Channel SANs, . . .

From a human perspective, fuzzyfungus is right. Over-engineering is less likely to cost your job than failure. Plus, over-engineering is easy to justify.

Some things are just known to cost money if you MUST ensure that business is not subject to fallibility in hw and sw. The fact that there are 50 TBs unused out of your 200 TB of usable storage really might not mean too much. [Some of the numbers quoted could point to the mirrored side of RAID 1 stripes as wasted. It's a cheap gimmick to make the numbers look worse but still true to a certain extent if the performance difference between R5 and R1 is not needed.] Of course, there are usually low hanging fruit that can be attacked to save real money and prevent cascading costs on the other cost centers mentioned above but there will always be waste. It's the cost of five 9's.

"Mail Order Monsters" would be nice please. Much better than UFC or WWE.

I would guess most most people on this site have an ATSC compatible TV already. Heck, a lot of us ordered tuner cards prior to that "do not record" bit crap the FCC mandated.

I haven't seen snow on a tube in years.