33 arty, wow. Still hitting logistics hard too, by the look.

damn

Among other issues that’s going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

goes down with distance by an exponential factor
(1/x^3)

Umm… those two things are not equivalent. b^(-x) would be exponential, x^(-k) is inverse-power for whatever k

The headline’s confusing. If a losing bet is backfiring, does that mean it’s now a winning bet?

I’ve been saying for about 15 years now – you’d have to be a masochist to buy HP printers. Why do people keep enabling these shits? You just encourage them to be even worse. Don’t stand for even a little of their bullshit and they will change or die. You make a noose for your own neck.

Yeah. Not a certainty, even with everything, but sure – an increasingly solid chance of it.

And if it’s the first time you’ve seen that xkcd link, congratulations, you are one of today’s meta-10000