I'd go in a second. It won't happen, unfortunately.

rate -> rare

What a load of bullshit.

Fluoridation happened because statistics (you know, those actual records, not lies) showed that adding fluoride to water helped much more than it hurd.

Fluoride is not a common industrial waste product. Fluorine is relatively rate (compared to the other halogens). Water fluoridation is not cheap, compared to just flushing the dross down the drain or piling it up as slag. Pretending that it's a scam is a scam.

And Utah could become the first US state to subject kids to massive dental issues, while enriching dentists.

I predate fluoride in the water, and I'm sure my parents' bank account reflects it. Multiple teeth pulled thanks
to cavities regardless of how much I brushed or flossed.

If I were a dental student today, I'd move to Utah, because if this passes, it's going to be a fscking Gold Mine.

None of them, and it's going to stay that way.

To trust a half-assed, bogus, pattern matching bot? for anything that I didn't care about, maybe a few tens of seconds to see how shitty the answer is.

For anything that I take seriously, an AI bot answer can go fsck itself; I will NEVER pay attention.

No, my high school didn't have a computer room or any computer access for students at all. This was in the early 70's. Fortunately, in 1975, CMU still had the free access PDP-8 running TSS-8 available, and it took me about 2 days to become entranced. I still have some assembly code I wrote for that machine in my freshman year.

PT Barnum would be proud. (and would promptly come up with an even more hyperbolic and ridiculous claim, no doubt.)

It's ironic that this is from the WSJ - the newspaper with an entire (mis-labeled) section entitled "Money". (It's mis-labeled because if you read the articles, they are almost all about gambling with other people's money, not really about money per se.)

Where were the WSJ articles bemoaning bean-counting over engineering, back when it was starting at Intel and Boeing?

I don't accept pennies as change (when I accept coinage change at all, which isn't often). Pennies are stupid and infuriating, and it would be great for the Mint to simply stop making them. Canada did it with basically zero effect.

Losing a couple cents per cash transaction might possibly add up to a dollar or three over the course of a year. Definitely worth it to stop the materials and cost waste.

I dunno about the US lagging the world (probably true, but I have no figures either way). But as a data point, I can say that both of the taxi's that I took last week from SYX (Sanya Phoenix airport) to our conference hotel 45 minutes away, were electric; and I don't imagine that I happened onto the only two.

I live in a condo in the US middle North East area, and when I suggest that my next car will be electric and the condo really ought to have some sort of charging station, they look at me like I'm from Antares III.

Oil products are IMO too valuable to just burn.

Still $100 per computer, for a 7 year old design that's interesting only by comparison with, say a GT710. Is the GT 1030 all that much better with Wayland under nouveau? Keep in mind that I switch kernels a lot and don't want to deal with perpetually reinstalling nvidia blobs.

I have 8 computers in my home office (and no other place to put them), and 7 of them have no integrated video and GT710's. (the other has no integrated video and an RX550.) I'll happily take money donations for the $700 or so that it would cost to replace the GT710's with say RX6400's, which is about the cheapest new card I can find. And that's assuming that a 6400 works with Wayland, which from reading the above is no sure thing at all. (Intel A380 prices out roughly the same, and the cheapest nvidia, a 3050, 50% more.)

One wonders wtf Wayland is doing that it works fine on some hardware and doesn't work AT ALL, in any useful sense, with others. X.org at least gets that part right, it works.

Oh, and trying the nvidia blob driver might be an interesting experiment and blame-finder, but it's not a workable answer in the long run.

The hardware? the driver? If I happen to like nouveau, because I change kernels often, don't have heavy graphics requirements, and don't want to deal with the nvidia blob driver, am I still going to get Wayland?

I've tried wayland on a gt710 (yes, I know, ancient but does the job and find me a newer GPU that's passively cooled / no fan noise) with nouveau, and it's completely unusable. Crashes, lock-ups, weird crap with my kde layout, typing echo is so slow that it's usually 3-4 characters behind, etc. I suppose I should try it with the nvidia blob driver, just to see what happens.

Ah, yes. McKinsey, where management advice goes to die (after being billed).

I've been involved in I think 4 McKinsey "interventions" in my career. 2 were outright harmful, and the other 2 were merely a massive waste of money and time.

Can you measure software productivity? Well, maybe, depending on how you *define* productivity. For sure, you can't apply any naive metric; the real wizards in any given organization are the ones who might spend a day making the proverbial chalk mark where the part isn't working, where nobody else even knows where to look.

There's a wonderful book, which is alas in a storage unit at the moment and I can't find the name, about measurement and organizational dysfunction. The thrust is that if what one measures isn't aligned with the organization's goals, and the latter is very often misunderstood, one will lose track of the organization's goals and favor the (organizationally irrelevant) measurable metrics. In simple words, the drunk under the lamp-post syndrome. "I dropped them over there, but the light is better here."

I suspect that too many productivity measurers imagine (or hope!) that software is linear, akin to piecework like making skirts or hats. Alas for them, it's not. Software is everywhere discontinuous and so is software development - especially when it's bug fixing.