Notices by SaraMG (saramg@fosstodon.org), page 3

Y'all, America desperately needs to embrace the metric system.

Fer reals.

Apple CPUs be like:

1976: Introducing our 6502 based computer.
1986: Nevermind, we're all about 68000 now.
1996: Motorola who? This is a PPC house.
2006: PPC is dead, we're going x86.
2020: Fine, we're making our own chips: Apple Silicon!

Frankly, the move to M1 came four year late by their cadence.

Meanwhile, PCs be like:

1978: 8086
1982: 80286
1985: 80386
1989: 80486
1993: Pentium
...
2023: Corei9-13905

And the i9 can STILL run 8086 software.

The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.