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I remember it differently, as I rarely encountered office networks then, and when I did, they were still 3rd party (Netware mostly).

The reason I always remember 3.1 is that 3.0 was a "big" upgrade, but it was a dog, so they released a vastly-improved 3.1 pretty quickly, so many people got that as the default, and the upgrade was pretty widespread.

This was over maybe a 4-year period in the mid-90s. My memory may be hazy, and I was a university student, so my exposure may have been limited, but myself and my friends never really reference 3.11 because it wasn't used/needed, and indeed most of us used Trumpet Winsock as a TCP/IP stack (3rd party) until the release of Windows 95.

I would argue the concept of hitting a homerun is straightforward, but the preparation, training and execution are not.

You’re arguing semantics.

The two words are synonymous in most casual conversation where you would be in danger of offending by saying something is easy or simple.

That’s why I prefer to use “straightforward” rather than “easy.”

People seem to take that much better.

Seems to me that an immutable transaction record going back to day 0 would be a very dangerous way to practice civil disobedience under many regimes.

All it takes is to turn one participant, and the threads can be followed to trace the money.

I think he means more training now.

Not really disingenuous at all.

Unfortunately, the same is true of a lot of charities as well.

It is sort of a jughandle, but the diagrams on wiki don't really do it justice.

These exist on major thoroughfares where the destination road is divided. So you make a right and go to the far left lane, then go into a u-turn in the median where you can make a left turn in the desired direction without worrying about crossing oncoming traffic.

Here's a link, and if you look at Telegraph Rd. just north of Maple (a few hundred yards from where Jimmy Hoffa was last seen alive), you can clearly see the traffic flow: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Telegraph+Rd+%26+W+Maple+R...

Then Intel released DX2 486s, which ran the core at twice the bus speed.

No one is good at naming things in our industry.

Why would you just not so this in code? Why require the whole os at the scripting level require this?

I like it!

It’s always humorous to me when people use the term theology in situations such as this; it makes me wonder, as human mental bandwidth becomes more strained and we increase our specializations to the n-th degree, what will constitute theology in the future?

Food for thought.

Apple is a corporation not bound to normal individual timescales. Right now they are conditioning everyone to accept the app store model universally. If you are under a certain age, you don’t even know another concept exists unless your are tech savvy or in a tech field.

These are dividends to be reaped at a later date. And the inability to secure software and hardware systems will be the ultimate justification.

The great irony in all of our endeavors is that if you make all of your decisions in an effort to avoid becoming something, you just wind up taking the long way around and backing into being the thing you didn’t want to become in the first place.

See Google:Evil, Apple:1984, Microsoft:The Borg, Larry Ellison:A Lawnmower

And the list of individuals who became what they most despised is quite long as well.

Yes, and you only need this at the root hypervisor level, once peripherals can be abstracted in a new way (maybe DMA at a different privilege level, certain hardware features would be required).

I am not super mad if I have to run my custom kernel in a VM. It substantially reduces the surface area exposed.

To play devil’s advocate, I can buy a Corvette today that is nothing like the one from ten years ago too.

In fact, lots of things are like this.

Yes, but the antagonism used to be about work.

Not everything else.

I would think any sane person on this Earth would have the decency not to show such a film in the presence of a person with the background you describe.

More likely, this person was offended and had no vested interest, as is all to often the case.

No, he's referring to a time when people weren't antagonistic and tribal at work, just like he said.

From the tone of your comment, you seem incredulous that such a time actually existed. It did.

>If it had emerged in any other century, Covid would barely even be on anyone’s radar.

Surely you can't be serious. I mean, I think we would have noticed. In fact, it would have been on a lot of people's radar. They definitely would have noticed in India, Italy & Brazil.

I mean, are comments like this hyperbolic, and I'm just not in on the joke?

I know what it means. I'd assume most people here do too.

> They can do it to anyone.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I fully expect that any American, involved in half the shit that drunk found his way into, would also be under double top secret surveillance.

That's reality Jack.

I prefer the science fiction alternative: black holes are made by intelligent beings. The reason none of the numbers make sense with respect to dark matter and inflation is because life is actually actively altering the Universe.

Supermassive black holes accomplished two things: (i) they captured vast quantities of resources for future use; and (ii) they acted as gargantuan propulsion systems, thus allowing any captured matter (what we would refer to as a "galaxy") to be directed far, far, far away from any/all other captured matter.

And thus ended the great intergalactic war, which brought about the end of the homogeneous Universe, ensuring that no single civilization could ever start such a widespread conflict again. The distances would make it so.

Life was the big bang.

(I'll throw the /s and #notserious tags here; Poe's law and all that...)

For those that care, Framework is the old original .NET for Windows; Core is the new multiplatform .NET; Standard was an, ahem, standard, for writing code that would work under both Framework and Core.

Since the release of .NET 5 "unifies" Framework & Core (for some value of n), there is no longer a need for Framework, Core, nor a unifying Standard.

This is actually the new frontier in the relationship between corporations and the government. The government now allows, within certain parameters, private enforcement of public policy, if one can show damage, and the government lacks the will (or resources) for enforcement.

The theory goes, that guy is breaking the law, and it's hurting my business, but since it's low priority for the government, I'm going to start a private enforcement action. Both very ingenuous and scary at the same time.

I will admit that on the surface it seems so, and ultimately, you are probably correct. But I view it as the lesser of two evils at this point in time.

Google is tied, quite literally, to nearly every website out there (essentially) through their analytics and ads. Using Chrome causes a perceptible difference in the way ads and even some content is presented to me. I have not noticed the same issue when using Edge. I'm sure it is there, and I'm sure Microsoft can probably go even lower into the OS. But I just don't pervasively feel MS tracking like I do Google's. And frankly, it isn't even close.

To be honest, the value proposition with Edge is quite compelling for my use cases. #1, I get a Chromium-based browser; #2) I get a browser that is supported by a big player who can stand on their own two feet; and #3) I get rid of all of the Google tracking that Chrome has built-in.

It does work, I have noticed my experience on Google properties (Android devices included) becoming slowly de-personalized over time. This was the desired effect, and it has worked (at least on the surface) as intended. Now, please understand that my web experience is still largely shaped by Google, just not in the same way.

More likely it means you pay (or more appropriately, your insurance company pays) the negotiated rate, which is often far, far less than the published retail cost of a medication.

Those big monthly $$s get investors excited tho.

This is to say nothing of the public / private debate.

What happens when it's your opinions that are unpopular?

I'll just leave this here.

https://youtu.be/eFTLKWw542g

Unfortunately, this is probably what lies ahead for civilization very long term (500+ years or more).

As people "pop" like popcorn all over the world (becoming worth vast sums of money), they are going to become rapidly disincentivized from living in high tax jurisdictions.

They will ask why they pay so much in taxes when they could join a commune with other ultra high net worth individuals and buy better services than they would ever receive in a big city.

Once you can get to anywhere on the globe in under 3 hours for a reasonable sum of money, this will likely become the norm.

The wealthy will just take their stuff and go somewhere else.

Thank you for the info. I was completely in the dark about that. I thought 2008.3 was the last.

As for Linux' standards compliance, I am aware.