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I worked for a financial company that had 29 day password rotation. One day I accidentally logged in as my colleague. Our user names differed by just one letter so I simply mistyped. It turned out we used the same password scheme to keep up with the rotation and stupid special character requirements.

It is RAM as long as you access it randomly.

Some systems are still using EBCDIC.

I got a notification to check in with a contractor that did some flooring repair in my house a few years ago. I did not maintain any contact with him after the job was done so it felt really strange.

No worries. Thanks to Amazon Sidewalk you will not need to enter your WiFi password. The ads will be downloaded via your neighbor’s Alexa.

That shitty search bar behavior is extremely annoying to me as well. Luckily it can still be disabled in about:config (the setting is called browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar or similar). “Awesome” bar is not that awesome.

Where I live health insurance is often provided by employer. Sometimes the employer opts to manage a separate pool of insured people - employees and their families. Such pool is fairly small so if one person comes down with an expensive disease the cost of everyone’s premiums must increase to cover that. Or the employer can just fire the expensive employee and thus keep the premiums low.

Keeping VPN connections alive could be beneficial. Most current laptops do not have cellular modem though so they will have no internet connection while being transported. VPN will therefore stop working anyway. In fact the entire laptop will stop working when it overheats in the bag.

Microsoft recalls Recall uninstall option.

It could also run Windows 3.1, but could not run the most famous Windows of all time (3.11 for workgroups).

And if you need more than 1 reviewer just do (n+1)-tuple programming (where n is the number of reviewers needed). The more the merrier!

Very old paper tends to stay white: https://bookcollecting.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/paper-cotton...

If they did mandatory binding arbitration it would most likely work. Arbitration trumps everything else it seems.

There are also quite a few companies that offer “unlimited” vacation, but in practice they pressure/shame their employees not to take “too much” time off.

When I got my first broadband Internet connection my contract explicitly prohibited me from using NAT. Apparently my Internet provider was concerned I would use NAT to connect multiple computers thus “stealing” bandwidth. This concern was not completely unfounded since people sometimes would set up one connection and share it with neighboring apartments. Also having one computer per household was normal back then.

Can you use a small claims court if the rental contract has mandatory binding arbitration clause?

CP/M was released in 1974 while VMS was around 1977.

Unfortunately for me it does not crash. I have to kill this monster myself.

Now configure the network card on that thing

I would totally watch a movie about Tcl language, even if it was machine made.

The 2-dimensionality of information does not apply just to black holes but to any bounded space. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

When I was a kid my grandparents had an old style TV with vacuum tubes. It also required several minutes to “heat up” before the picture appeared. I guess we’ve come a full circle.

It’s 600 million years not 600 thousand. Big difference. Species usually do not last that long so there is no reason to believe any humans will exist at that time.

Usually from computer’s point of view these devices look like regular USB mice or keyboards so disabling Bluetooth will not disable them.

I used wpoison back then: https://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/web/cgi/lib/wpoison/

In 1980s I used (pirated) Hisoft Pascal on a Zx Spectrum clone (48 KB of memory). It wasn’t as nice as Turbo Pascal but it was great for computations - by 8 bit standards it was very fast. I learned about Pascal from a computer magazine article that disparaged Basic and encouraged “structured” programming.

For me switching to Python 3.11 was really tough because of various legacy stuff removals (like coroutine decorators etc). While my code did not use these, the dependencies did. For some dependencies I had to switch to different libraries altogether - and that required rewriting my code to work with them.

There was also some time in the past when async became a keyword. It turned out many packages had variables named async and that caused quite a bit of pain too.

I actually learned Pascal on a ZX Spectrum clone. It was Hisoft Pascal, so it was a bit limited (no strings - you had to use ARRAY OF CHAR instead). But it was awesome to draw 3D graphs due to its “fast” floating point routines.

I love Expose too. Even my background image is the famous “bliss”. My colleagues laugh whenever I share my screen which brightens the mood as well.

C++ is hard to beat: https://www.tumblr.com/tgceec/74534916370/results-of-the-gra...