Is this an ad for Leonardo? 'Greg would only speak to BBC under a pseudonym'...really?
There are many professional, military-or-adjacent red team folks who'd gladly speak to BBC with real names and credentials...
Was the Bell Labs Systems Journal shared outside of Bell Labs contemporaneously? I have original copies of the Unix issue, for example, but have no idea if that was 'generally available' back when it came out...
Microsoft has never had a cohesive story, they've had a cohesive brand. From 'Windows' to '.NET' to 'Azure' to 'CoPilot', it's always been about slamming the new buzzword trademark onto everything, regardless of it's relation to the prior thing with similar name.
Off topic to the thread and your point, but are you confusing GNU with the Compaq BIOS reverse engineer and reimplementation? I hadn't heard this story about GNU (and what kernel)?
GP just posted a table showing there is more iron in non-meat sources than in meat sources.
Iron is not an issue for any vegan I know. Spinach, beans, kale, etc are all super loaded with it.
Show me an ostensibly high performing software organization that uses SAFe?
Any FANGs?
I only ever see it in pathologic orgs. And 3 months, lol. Let me introduce you to the federal govt!
Agile, as practiced in many large organizations with whom it is fading in popularity is practiced in the form of 'Scaled Agile Framework' - https://scaledagile.com/what-is-safe/
It takes all of the flexibility and tenants of agile development, and destroys them to make things 'ok' for people used to traditional waterfall planning methods, but keeps some of the 'ceremony' around agile so people feel like they're 'doing the thing'.
SAFe is an atrocity. I bet most of these 'large enterprises' are doing something similar.
Plan your sprints a full 2 years in advance! No changes, gotta stick to the plan, because it's in the sprint! But we do standups!
(I know, I know, no true scotsman, but also, come on....)
At least in a bunch of the defense agencies, books close for new stuff mid-August. The Aug-Oct timeframe is used to finish executing already in-flight stuff. And if you miss the 10/1 deadline, you're waiting at least until Feb (for many reasons...), assuming Congress has passed a budget.
In some cases (e.g. a building or expensive equipment purchase, probably yes, property taxes in most jurisdictions, at least in the US).
The depreciation is deducted from income for income taxes over time, rather than all at time of purchase as an opex expense is. This implies a higher income tax bill 'now', with a smaller deduction smeared over time.
The CapEx -> OpEx push is also heavily tax based. I can write off (generally) 100% of an OpEx expense today (or, as I spend the money). CapEx expenses become Assets, which are tracked and taxed, and the business doesn't get to write off that spend immediately - it turns into a 'depreciation' write off, spread over the useful life of the item (sometimes 5, 10, or more years).
Real estate, vehicles, large equipment, etc. is generally all done this way - a CapEx gets you an asset or property, which is then taxed and depreciated.
Software licenses, insurance and other things can also be done this way (CapEx), depending on the terms and your accounting standards.
We have small, usable quantum computers and have grown them for years.
We have never had fusion power on a small scale (we have had fusion ignition/reaction, but never [afaik] generated usable power), let alone showed continuous growth in scale of that power over the years.
They're not the same. Fusion is a 'science' problem, quantum is (mostly) an 'engineering' problem.
I, uh, tilt at other windmills in that morass (although my windmills caused me to learn about the financial stuff - turns out certain kinds of money can't be used on certain kinds of contracts, etc.). It's space in my brain I wish I could fill with useful info like song lyrics or something.