@davidgerard Sigh. Friends don't let friends use HP kit this decade. (I remember back in the 1980s-late 1990s when they made *really* solid hardware. Then Carly Fiorina envenomated them, and now the dying whale is twitching tetanically but basically not in a good way—it's too big to die all at once, but the process in underway.)
@cstross @davidgerard
The sheer amount of damage that creature did to HP and beyond is staggering. All in the name of "shareholder value", a phrase that is more cursed than just about everything else I can think of.
@ncweaver @cstross @davidgerard
Ironically, actions that companies justify as being done for "shareholder value" are, in the long run, usually the ones that actually destroy shareholder value.
@EFreethought @ncweaver @cstross @davidgerard but by then the VCs have cashed out so they don't care
