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>the business casual crowd...

The what now?

> that virtually everyone used, loved and defended, were like that

Were you actually using Windows back in those days? Absolutely nobody loved or defended them. We used them because we had to, not because they were good.

>Windows 95, 98 and XP were like that, no?

I'm not sure that being on par with a 30-year old operating system is much of an accolade.

Windows sucked back then, it's just that it sucked less than DOS.

>been a happy Arch Linux user for many years

>how long have you managed to keep your system running smoothly without needing to reinstall?

I'm baffled as to how someone could be a happy user of a system that requires regular reinstalls to be usable/stable.

Is it that installing Arch is itself a hobby for some people?

I stole a dead guy's pickaxe and got ganked by like 4 goblins. And then someone stole my pickaxe.

I think you're dramatically overestimating the percentage of US voters who give a flying shit about Assange.

>Provide universal access to contraception and give people the choice to not have babies. Evidence shows that works.

Not realistically achievable within my kid's lifetimes.

Neither seems realistic or achievable, except the latter by nuclear armageddon.

How exactly would we eliminate the scarcity of land?

In my area, internet and energy are insanely expensive and that means I'm not at all willing to share my precious bandwidth or compute just to subsidize someone generating Rule 34 porn of their favorite anime character.

I don't seed torrents for the same reason. If I lived in South Korea or somewhere that bandwidth was dirt cheap, then maybe.

Yeah I was referring to Sputnik, as the V2 wasn't orbital.

The "Wright Brothers" moment for rocketry happened 60 years ago.

You're a Chinese propaganda sockpuppet account.

>Otherwise it's just bashing the Chinese for internet happy points. Just like reddit.

Not every criticism of China is xenophobia.

Looking at the MSDN docs I don't believe this is true. Can you point to something showing it doesn't work on modern windows?

My only windows box is in an actual physical box right now and I cannot verify.

>So you have no personal connection

What gives you this idea?

>no knowledge of any particular reports.

Correct

>every possible red flag

Hahaha, believe whatever you want to believe. What possible motivation could I have to make this up?

I doubt there are reports. Such is the nature of open secrets. Once they're reported in an official fashion they cease to be "secret" and regulators' hands are forced.

A lot of the maneuvers in Band of Brothers are realistic, especially the one where Speirs assaults the gun emplacements.

It's an open secret in the aviation community that large numbers of aging boomers are medically unfit to fly but are able to maintain their medicals, for a variety of reasons.

If you need a third party to deliver your mail on your behalf, are you really self hosting?

What's the point? At that stage you've already conceded the deliverability problem so now you're just wasting time administrating dovecot and keeping up with security patches.

It kinda does, though. It's why I stopped self-hosting. I bet if you emailed my gmail address it wouldn't come through, even through no fault of your own.

You can have DMARC, SPF and DKIM all correctly configured on a clean IP and some mail server at Microsoft will still drop your mails because it's having a hard day and it feels like it.

The act of hosting postfix/dovecot is not in itself difficult. Debugging deliverability issues is, though. And it's time-consuming.

That too, but GA pilots are notorious for overestimating their competence. The Dunning-Kruger effect is real. Doing touch-and-gos a few times a month in a C172 does not prepare one for handling high-performance fighter aircraft.

I used to work in Search and Rescue and the number of GA pilots who do bone-headed things getting themselves or others killed would shock you.

Well, the reason is that the vast majority of GA pilots could not handle the performance of a WWII fighter and would get themselves and others killed.

Modern maintenance would be fine; just expensive. The problem with old warbirds is they're usually maintained by volunteers who cut corners.

Pretty cool, I guess, but that puny Rotax under the engine cowling pales in comparison to the V-1650's that powered the real deal Mustangs which ran at almost 10x the horsepower and double the cruise speed, 50% better climb speed despite being 10x heavier, etc.

It's got comparable performance to a Cirrus SR22. Not much of a replica if you ask me.

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I run an algorithmic trading application that I wrote from scratch. I'm fluent in C#, python, lisp, and I speak but am not fluent in C/C++, js, Fortran, go, and a few others.

I chose common lisp. It's very expressive which means my development velocity was very high with minimal boilerplate. I love being able to build functions up from the inside out in the REPL, and the DX of doing this in emacs is awesome because of the mature support built into the editor.

The library ecosystem in lisp is not stellar, and I think this is lisp's biggest shortcoming. With that said, there's still robust libraries for threading, networking, JSON fuckery, and (importantly for my use case) statistical analysis.

Lisp is great and the SBCL compiler produces fast code.

Canadian here. Air Canada has had awful UX for as long as I can remember. They're just generally trash.

Right, but the biggest advocates for the destruction of privacy are the ones who just received legal protection for their private jets. They're getting protection for what they got rich destroying for the rest of us.

I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand.

Zuckerberg and his ilk got rich destroying my privacy, but somehow it's unseemly for me to not respect their privacy? Privacy for me but not for thee?

I don't fucking think so.