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So this makes you a candidate for the ultimate retro-computing challenge :

"¹ If you’re one of those retro-computing archivists, I guess this poses an extraordinary challenge even greater than possessing a Tandy Video Information System: Can you track down one of the three remaining copies of OS/2 for Mach 20?"

Artificial Inanity ?

https://englishwotd.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/artificial-inan...

Don't count your chickens yet :

https://www.thespl.it/p/apples-sleeping-advertising-business

" For the past five years, Apple has been setting up for what will soon be its most profitable product line. It's not a new phone or computer: it's advertising. "

As some C-suite suit bonus will depend on that, you can be sure that the various protections will evaporate over the years.

Games were among the worst offender in terms of writing on the disk outside of user space (including Program Files and the registry).

Old games were also quite often doing direct access to graphic cards outside of official APIs

And games are not business software. An old game that stops working is "too bad, move long", accounting software that stops working has real life consequences.

for those who can read french :

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_sulpicien

Appropriately soppy and generic.

"Regulators are underfunded and outgunned by those whose massive profits rely on outsmarting them."

That's a feature, not a bug, and generally true in any country.

If regulators were correctly funded and staffed, they would have time to look into the shady dealings of the rich and powerfull. That will not do.

The original link poster may have wanted to link to this :

https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not...

In a perfect world, yes.

Statistics is a HARD subject, specially when you get a juicy believable story in front of you. And a lack of credit to do confirmation research because for administrators "it is not new".

Richard Feynman :

    We've learned from experience that the truth will come out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in cargo cult science. 

He is overly optimistic, it only works if the "other experimenters" get the money and time to check.

A big part of modern science is very expensive, and controls aren't made.

With, however the caveat that scientific papers can be embarrassingly wrong, and the error can not be spotted for 17 years, and the paper can go on being widely believed and quoted many years after the full debunk (and the case I link is apparently an honest mistake, not fraud which may be obfuscated).

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

recently, I have used it to find the hotel, then booked direct.

... something something like "civilized country not tainted by the historical legacy of large scale chattel slavery"

American labor laws are inhuman.

C. Stross - Saturn's Children.

https://www.amazon.com/Saturns-Children-Freyaverse-Charles-S...

My bet is someone did a DMCA claim on a file containing 1, either by mistake or as a joke.

Then Automated Stupidity took over.

Exactly.

The Wiki feature in Teams is brain dead, but I'm still using it because it is right next to the rest, which mostly works.

You will notice that ballistic missiles are regulated. Rocket launch are very publicly announced (and tracked).

The known reaction time window of a ballistic missile is ~15 minutes (for russia) to 30m (for the USA) and is already too short, leading to near russian launch at least once that we know of.

The reaction time for any space based weapon is down to minutes to seconds. Putting them into orbit is already a war declaration.

This is not something that will be allowed without heavy international control and multi national regulation.

And the difference between a space solar farm and a military grade space ray is ?

If you are beaming serous amount of energy toward earth, you better have a good answer to that. Or you will get the visit of very serious people with no sense of humor.

Well, sadly this rule about password aging made its way into some regulations. We know it is idiotic, but it is the law.

Not really, at scale.

SSO is a must in any big organisation, there are tens or hundred of applications.

People are incredibly and consistently bad with security. You really need a way to be able to cancel all accesses in one swoop for any individual.

Except there was no shortage of apps that made the change silently, without asking (or asking for one, and changing many), hijacking defaults.

I too find the new system annoying, but its better than go hunting thru file formats looking for what had been changed silently.

The 4 things I love most in Powershell, from the point of view of a maintainer of scripts, is the relative verbosity of commands (at least I don't have to go hunting for obscure acronyms, or recursive puns such as yacc, when I read code), auto-completion an auto-documentation of scripts (when I have to change something), and object pipe (as a maintainer I hate awk and regular expressions in general).

Only defect is they did not go with Yoda speak (Get-<TAB> is a much worse filter that NetA<TAB> to search for Get-NetAdapter for instance).

It's still a bit green on Linux environments, but it already beats many of the alternatives.

No the logical name is C@, the great successor of C# ( https://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT/ )

I think one of the big problem of Word is that it is routinely used for things it was not designed for and which are still out of Microsoft target.

It's a tool for not too long technical documents, for secretarial work, for basic marketing text, for quick an dirty but decently presented invoices, for writing a resume.

It has never been meant for writing novels, for page setting, for writing hundreds of pages of technical documentation, and yet... it is used for that. Everyday.

Simply because it's available everywhere.

"That’s why building a product recommendation algorithm was a hot topic 20 years ago, but nowadays everyone and their mom can just get a WordPress plugin for it and get close to Amazon’s level."

Well, I haven't had a remotely relevant Amazon recommendation in 5 to 10 years. Unless you count read a book by the exact same author as a useful recommendation.

not sure that we cannot allocate capital, the previous generation harvested most of the low hanging fruits, it can be argued that most modern progress needs more and more energy, and we are on a path of diminishing returns.

See the various options under :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_stagnation

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inve...

the world is not infinite, and economic growth can not be infinite.

I have no proof if we are effectivelly at "the limits to growth" or not. It sure starts to feel like it.

The reason why I prefer Mercurial to Git, whenever I can.

- They are NOT speaking of the 1% (such as medical professional or high income technical professionals)

- They are NOT speaking of the 0.1 %.

- They are speaking of the 0.01%. One person out of 10000. Not multimillionaires. 100 millionaires and billionaires.

There is a very good reason why the tax foundating speaks of the 1% and not of the 0.1% or 0.01% : it is usefull to protect billionaires.

As a private company, as long as they are not a monopoly or a quasi monopoly(), they can do what they want, no restriction.

() My personnal definition is a minimum of 4-6 participant in any market with at least 5%-10% share each (Exemple : France has some of the lowest mobile telephony fares in the world, because there are 4 "biggish" providers (one is over 50%), and they are often trying to merge "to regain pricing power", luckilly they have so far failed. 3 can somewhat manage a cartel, 4 seems to be much harder.).

no girl in 216 birth is a probability of 1/(2^216) : it's either cherry picking or criminal. The article is ambiguous on the way the villages were identified ("a red zone" ???).

Maybe you should have a look at roman successions, even if they were generally adopting relativelly close relatives.

Paternity is a social construct.

There are cultures where paternity simply is not important. In a matriachal society, a person's mother's brother is apt to be more important than a biological father, sometime to the point of not knowing who the father is (because it is unimportant).

https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/the-mosuo-mat...