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No, not at all - it means that the power of the people to vote their choice is alive and well - that doesn't mean we're putting good candidates up, or that people underestimate the difficulty of wholesale systemic change - it just means we can vote for who we choose.

Trump being elected again arguably is a sign the system is working, that people when unhappy with the status quo were able to change their government to someone they feel will represent their interests more. Now, I have no love to lose for Trump, I think he's a asshole, braggart and charlatan - but his election is a sign we can enact change - I dont think Trump will bring much real change, but its a sign the system works.

The only reason that this doesn't happen more often is the electorate is mostly disengaged from the races that do matter, and tied down by partisanship.

Chesterton's Fence

Because its a novelty gift item.

I mean thats how're they're printed as large sheets - these are just uncut.

Epson still makes a two color impact printer as well in this form factor.

https://epson.com/For-Work/POS-System-Devices/POS-Printers/T...

I'd be very interested in a "supply your own printer" version of this as well - either using these two color printers or thermal.

I suspect there isnt a ton of money to be made in selling printers, but rather the aggregation services needed to drive it. Let people buy a commodity printers, or a variety of them - if you use CUPS as an abstraction layer, you can basically run anything, and the CUPS turns the actual output device into an abstraction.

Looks interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

How I miss when 13 Coins was 24/7 - the pandemic killed that.

It was a lifesaver for me when I worked grave, I could go for a sumptuous dinner at 3 or 4 am.

What else does it need?

I get old code smell, and why folks might want something architecturally different, whatever - but screen is functionally feature complete.

Same - I'm at about 20 years give or take.

It also has every feature known to exist in this space.

I agree though that the world is moving in the way of tmux - I'll get around to switching occasionally.

Trim and face is the part thats really hard to learn, and do consistently well - also if you do trim and face well, you're likely untwisting too much wire to get it aligned correctly so it doesn't roll over in the connector while putting it on.

EZ RJ 45 does solve all of these issue, and makes for a reliable cable 100% of the time.

Or worse, lets reinvent the database, but not call it or think of it as a database.

Or even worse yet, lets reinvent the filesystem then host it on top of a filesystem.

I very much agree - it has the advantage of not being an electrically shared medium however, which is one of the things that made it superior to 10Base2 or 10Base5

Here is some interesting documentation from the original StarLAN Hub -

https://vtda.org/docs/computing/AT&T/AT&T_Starlan_10_Hub.pdf

There is also some neat and ancient documentation still lovingly preserved on the NCR website -

https://onlinehelp.ncr.com/Retail/Workstations/Wiring/Ethern...

It did work really well for a ton of computers in the same room in a line however.

I found the reddit thread referenced in the video and left comments -

On the original ethernet being a mistake -

"I have another perspective on this - the bus concept at its roots dates to 1974/75 - a machine that could function as a hub in 1975 or even in 1979 would have potentially been as large and costly as the mini-computers Ethernet was intended to interconnect. A switch at that time would have been extraordinary costly.

Bus was the right technology for the time (as in the right one to go to market), it was right because it was an easy low cost means to get the LAN concept into more peoples hands so they could see the utility of it.

What I did find surprising was Metcalfe's resistance to UTP based standards with a hub in the middle once the technology did catch up - my gut from here 40 years on - makes me think that he was concerned about protecting his investments in 10base5 and 10base2, and making sure his installed base didnt feel like they had an obsolete product - as well as protecting 3Com's position as a 'Market Leader' in the space.

As an aside, I remember working on 10Base2 networks well into the late 90's and early 2000's - it was widely used in certain situations - like computer labs - where the bus topology made installation significantly easier than home runs would have been."

On 8P8C being picked as the connector -

"Also as someone who has spent a portion of my career doing cabling, thank you for picking the 8P8C modular system, its significantly better - both in cost and ease of assembly than anything I'm aware of existing at that time.

While there are some electrical issues with the 8P8C, the connector has been flexible enough that with minor design changes to keep up as line speeds have increased.

As a note, there are several vendors that make push-thru modular connectors (as in the wire extends beyond the front of the connector shell and the crimper trims it, much like how the cut blade on a punch tool works), which completely eliminate the need to accurately trim and face the wire ends - a huge time/frustration savings."

I was actually rather fond of the editor in ISPF by the time I was done with the Mastering the Mainframe course.

learning how to edit in ISPF was the hardest part for me.

Agreed - I use GPS to do the initial pathfinding - in much the same way I'd use a paper map in the old days.

It's part of why I have a good sense of direction.

Merry Christmas indeed!

All of the bits that do make up secular christmas, do have pagan origins, which is more or less my point.

My general take is that every major religion has some sort of solstice related celebration.

I will argue that in the US Christmas is in part a secular holiday - given its sorta pagan origins that makes total sense to me. It's a solstice feast basically.

Thats really too bad, it makes shopping so pleasant.

I know Penny's has opened new stores, it looks like they learned the right lessons from this store though, better merchandising, more lighting, etc.

We have one of the new concept Penny's here in Hurst Texas, and its amazing, the store is very well merchandised, clean and well lit.

They're supposedly rolling them out nationwide - JCP does gamify shopping in a way that almost makes it fun.

https://fortworth.culturemap.com/news/fashion/11-01-19-j-c-p...

https://www.jcpenney.com/m/hurst-store-page

Except in the US, and a handful of other countries who do have fixed length numbering plans.

twit-text is how I would pronounce it.

I've always done autopay to a credit card, to the point that if its not offered I wont do autopay.

Oh sure - but I like something with the ease of use from my car too.

Though thats not all, I also have a receiver feeding into an 1/2w FM modulator and providing whole house music at home.

I agree with you in part - we do have 100 years of development patterns baked into concrete and steel, but they were not originally built just for cars.

LA was built around interurbans, the idea that I should drive my car all the way from San Bernardino (or frankly even from Pasadena) to Los Angeles would be foreign to the original planners and builders in Southern California. Consider that every major freeway in LA is basically in whole or in part paralleling a former PE line, and suddenly my assertion doesnt seem so odd.

https://www.pacificelectric.org/collections/pacific-electric...

LA is not the only place where the sprawled layout was created by interurbans, Arguably to a greater or lesser extent - Detroit, Dallas, Cleveland, Cincinatti, and there are others whose early development was deeply influenced by the interurban exist.

This is part of why I basically gave up on this and just went with SiriusXM - I like linear programming - less effort for me to engage with.

I just wish they had a decent controller based wifi system - if they do, its been really hard to identify from their website.