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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 09:39:57 UTC Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
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- Charlie Stross
@cstross Almost every time the beancounters take over, things go wrong. Because they can count everything, they think they know everything. As the old adage says, they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

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- Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 09:39:57 UTC Charlie Stross
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  @KimSJ But the point is, they *can't* count everything. There are things that they *don't know* should be counted, and things that can't be counted at all because they're not amenable to enumeration, or require multidimensional quantification that's not cost-effective to collect, or because quantifying something is politically embarrassing (eg. dissatisfaction with the bureaucracy). And when things go uncounted, bureaucrats ignore them.
  
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- Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 09:39:58 UTC Charlie Stross
  
  "the rot set in when Paul Otellini replaced Craig Barrett as CEO way back in 2005. Barrett had a PhD in materials science from Stanford. Otellini was an economics grad with an MBA. Put simply, sales replaced engineering at the top of Intel."
  TLDR: Intel is suffering from Boeing disease.
  https://hachyderm.io/@stevel/112903283602509052
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    Steve Loughran (@stevel@hachyderm.io)
    
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    This is pretty significant. The RISC workstation and server markets were destroyed in the 90s by intel’s way less performant x86 parts was intel were a generation ahead in Fabs (so getting better performance and yield despite the bad architecture) -earning enough money to fund the R&D of CPUs and the $B for the next fab iteration, and spreading those NRE and CAPEX costs across consumer, business and server lines. All those advantages are now gone. https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/broken-cpus-workforce-cuts-cancelled-dividends-and-a-decade-of-borked-siliconhow-has-it-all-gone-so-wrong-for-intel/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0XEadXjOdgTdh1XafNYruezuLkj1484LvKCYyvw6PEa5qUCyBGkbc-HDg_aem_Jgo9B9BYhAxTBWBjTE8Rrg