It is important to check consumable cost when buying a printer. They aren't all the same in this regard.

There seems to be significant opportunity to zig as others zag. Imagine the Intel letter saying "we are going to take advantage of the current hiring environment to scoop up talent, and push forward on initiatives."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14588429

The top of the market will go GPU and the bottom will go ARM, and the middle will be an ever shrinking x86 market share. The few places that will need heavy CPU resources will be the same people who can apply pressure to Intel's margins.

The process of chip making will look very similar in the future, but the brand of the CPU will matter less every year. Intel's not "dead in five years", but Intel will definitely cross the point of no return in that timeframe. Shifting a big company's focus is more difficult than growing another company who already has the right focus.

The age of discovery was a similar scenario. Imagine a different world where 2/3rds of the continents are uninhabitable desert/tundra/arctic, and there was no economic benefit to better ships, clocks, astronomy, cartography. Delays social development of joint stock corporations etc...

This is garden variety, SMB fraud.

"We trust Tim, and never had a problem so we don't need to invest in all these controls. Tim is really vehement that the controls are useless and he's refusing to participate. No we won't make him comply. No we don't see any conflict here. Please continue to fix the problem anyway."

The most egregious stuff in 2008 was mispricing MBSs. Incorrectly pricing risk is pretty far from stealing money from investors/depositors.

The problem with the SSO tax is that it wedges itself into the pre-existing cracks in most organizations. Security practitioners are already in conflict with other departments. What happens when a department head has pitched a new SaaS as being 1x price, but then it becomes 2x price after the security team's requirements are added? It is not seen as the [application is expensive], it seen as [security team's requirements have doubled the price]. Conversely a price discrimination strategy which locks specific user facing features behind a specific tiers means that the same person championing the software, would also advocate for the appropriate payment tier.

Price discrimination is a valid strategy. Responding to organizations who are actively making the security practitioners job more difficult is also valid.

Electricity usage yes. Energy usage no. Household energy usage is lower in the warmer states, and higher in colder states. I would expect that CO household energy consumption would be higher than FL or TX.

You can make a drill without the clutch/torque adjustment, and it will be simpler to use but less capable. Or using the car example, knowing how to manually select gears gives a greater level of control over the vehicle, but most modern drivers don't know/care enough to learn.

The trend is moving decisions/control away from the user. Precisely because it's easier to allow Apple or Google to make all the decisions, rather than learn, manage and maintain things. Users don't understand a CLI any more than they understand a manual transmission. If we want these things to exist, education must be in the mix.

Even more true in Corp IT. People will learn to use passkeys with SSO at the office and take those habits home.

Next week: Chrysler cars now more reliable than Toyota.

There is nothing wrong with homeschooling and it works best when you have a network of people who are doing the same to add-in social opportunities. The only thing that I would be a little concerned about in your specific situation is the timelines. Transitions are the hard part. Setting up the homeschooling methods/practices/habits, and then switching back to traditional school methods/practices/habits. Homeschooling for just 1-2 years eats up a lot of time in transition.

If you have a decent public school option. Consider participating in it. Get involved, volunteer, give feedback in the school board meetings. Take however much time you planned to spend on homeschooling and invest it there. Both your child and others will benefit significantly. However, don't sacrifice yourself or your kids to try and save a bad situation. It also means that socially there will be some pre-existing friends for that first year of high school.

Specialization is the key to managing complex projects effectively. Effective teams will increase specialization where possible, and improve the feedback mechanisms between specialists.

Take a look at other complex industries like aircraft. We do not have simple "Airplane Professionals" who design/build/maintain/fly planes. But rather each of those categories are divided into subcategories with specialists.

In most cases the engineering time is better spent pursuing phishing resistant MFA like FIDO2. Admin/Operations time is better spent ensuring that RBAC is as tight as possible along with separate admin vs user accounts.

Notes related behavior is a good place to find ideas, but not a good goal itself. 'Notes' is where information lands which isn't being specifically captured. Looking at your organization's notes will draw the outline of the system which isn't present, what feature the present system is missing, or what training doesn't cover.

1. Shorthand: A memory mechanism to simplify/summarize a complex text.

2. Logbook: Record a series of events which occurred and what order.

3. Planner: Todo lists, upcoming meetings, due dates.

4. Whiteboard: A worksheet for working through a complex problem.

5. Time-capsule: Long term memory about why we decided to do [thing].

If you take someone who treats notes like a Whiteboard and try to sell them a system which looks like a Logbook, they will think it makes no sense.

-Not an aerospace or sound engineer