In my experience, a grad student hour is treated as free :(

You never applied for a grant, have you?

It was ahead of its time!

When I was in grad school I tried getting my hands on a phi, it seemed impossible.

Xeon Phi was so cool. I wanted to use the ones we had so much... but couldn't find any applications that would benefit enough to make it worth the effort. I guess that's why it died lol.

Stock price by itself is meaningless. Instead what you want is market cap (number of shares x share price).

"He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work"

The Jeff Goldblum virus one?

I believe fans have provided a retroactive explanation that all our computer tech was based on reverse engineering the crashed alien ship, and thus the arch, and abis etc were compatible.

It's a movie, so whatever, but considering how easily a single project / vendor / chip / anything breaks compatibility, it's a laughable explanation.

Edit: phrasing

That isn't actually a fan theory, it was actual plot that was cut from the film for time.

Still dumb but not as dumb as what we got.

Reminds me of how in the original the matrix plot the humans were being used for compute power, but the studio execs decided audiences wouldn't understand it.

They must have thought it's _so_ clever that the screw/bit is their logo.

Nintendo has done this exact thing with the GameBoy: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11736

If you mess with the logo, the console locks up during boot. If you don't, you're violating the trademark.

"every engineer"? Should a chemical or nuclear energy engineer have to know about PoE?

Sure. It's really useful if you're setting up a home security network.

Love the rotring pencils.

If you haven't already, give the Alvin Draft/Matic a try, imho it's up there along with them.

Literally the plot of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.