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I heard PL/I was the original language for “everything”. It’s not a new concept :)

I use fractional scaling with Xorg so it is not missing. Not sure about consistency. It is acceptable for me though.

There is butt-to-butt plugin that replaces the word “butt” with “butt”.

It’s even worse - many home routers will simply disable ipv6 if the ISP gives /64.

In my case it was gitprime. This is a software to stack rank based on git commits. Since good developers supposedly make lots of small commits, if someone makes too few, they are bad. Also bug fixes are penalized as “code churn”.

I did not blame anyone, just shared why it is not great for me.

I tried to set up IPv6 a while ago, and it looked simple at first. After configuring the router - just flipping "enable ipv6" in gui - my machine got 10 IPv6 addresses (why this many? I don't know). Cool.

I then set up the firewall to expose one of these addresses and I could ssh to my machine from the outside world. A win!

Unfortunately the win was short lived. Eventually I lost the ability to ssh in. It turned out that the 10 IPv6 addresses were replaced by a different bunch of 10 addresses. So I would have to reconfigure the firewall again. I decided it was too much work for me and disabled IPv6. Maybe some other time.

Audio is usually invisible

> Is washing your hands too much to ask too?

For (too) many people washing hands is indeed too much to ask...

It's probably easier to arrange remote work than to wait for our cities to be rebuilt.

Back then everybody smoked and cigarette tar covered everything. Maybe beige looked better in that environment.

One of the very few good things I can say about my Comcast connection is that they gave me a 60-bit IPv6 prefix.

Python for Workgroups 3.11 is coming.

Exactly the same thing was being said about Java (the first of the C++ killers) back in 1990s. And yet C++ is still around. It is not that easy to kill it seems.

Worse than that! Those kids can use audacity to facilitate COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!

There were a few.

- minix 1.0 could run on XT with a floppy disk

- coherent version < 4 could run on AT 286

- Xenix had a 286 version as well

If we consider the number of traffic accidents, driving with drivers doesn’t work that great as well.

Hehe I’m poor and I’m no stranger to Taco Hell runs.

Insist? While it is easy to find programmers to contribute to a community project for free, designers expect to be paid. Not everyone has enough spare cash to pay a professional designer. So they do the design themselves to the best of their ability.

In addition the lower 16KB was much slower than the upper 32KB since it was shared with ULA. So one had to make sure to place the code that needs speed in the proper part of the memory.

Next step: contextual ads. “Looks like you are trying to calculate your taxes. Click here for $10 off of Turbo Tax!”

My introduction to PA was a bit funny. After the fateful Ubuntu upgrade the sound was there but it was also interspersed with regular periods of silence. In other words, it was pulsing. Since the cause of this behavior was called Pulse Audio I really thought this is intentional and not a bug...

Many back-to-office advocates are “social butterflies”, so they will not enjoy coming back to half-empty offices. They really need everyone to be there in order to thrive.

No worries, it’s possible to write a book without letter ‘e’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

If you are willing to pay then you are also a lot more valuable as a target for ads. There is no chance of ad reduction. Unfortunately, “post purchase monetization” is a new buzzword.

3.1 couldn’t run in real mode. It could run either in standard mode or in enhanced mode. The enhanced mode was 386-only. 3.0 on the other hand could run in real mode so it technically could be used with 8086.

I can probably live with systemd-emacsd, but once we reach the stage of systemd-electrond, I’ll definitely retire for good.

Comic sans can be used in LaTeX: https://ctan.org/pkg/comicsans?lang=en

Technically it’s supposed to be a USB toaster. Not sure how practical such a device could be.

Well it can still be true that FreeBSD runs Linux binaries better than its own native binaries, though I don’t think this is the case.