I remember Sun Microsystems after the dotcom bubble burst. There was a lot of server capacity waiting in datacentres and warehouses: falling demand meant these were destocked before any more were ordered from Sun. This meant a massive revenue hiatus that nearly killed Sun.

Sound familiar?

Best Post Ever.

The birth rate hasn't changed in the last decade.

It's still one each.

Indeed, a founding father of TV light entertainment. Along with Bruce Forsyth.

My mum and dad thought ITV too lowbrow, except for some reason we watched The Golden Shot, so remember ATV well.

Bernie, the bolt.

Bigger, faster and deadlier than what came before but smaller, slower and less deadly than what is to come.

I don't like it but I'll have to go along with it.

Reminds me of working on Data Lake projects where the success criterion was getting data into the data lake.

Data Lake, mainframe Linux, LLMs: all "dog walking on its hind legs" technologies. They don't do anything useful, but everyone is wowwed that they exist at all.

The reformation may have taken our churches and monasteries but they'll never take our melismata.

If it bleeds it leads.

So long as they don't go down the AI rabbit hole and burn all their savings in GPUs.

I find the idea of your opening a condom company inconceivable.