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It really is until you settle on a larger terminal size by default (I use 100x25 or 100x50 usually, sometimes 132x25/50 for lots of output.) I still miss it though. Don't know why they never added it, for example it's got a whole Tektronix emulator built-in so bloat and extra work are no excuses.

That's because they're more prepared for heat, and have clothes and structures designed to handle the heat at the expense of cold.

Like how Texas has lots of heat waves that cause issues, but there was far more havoc and death during that cold snap.

It has the smoothest cut/copy/paste routine once you get it down. Moving text around is just buttery.

I personally find the lack of highlighting and auto-delimiters is a PITA for HTML/LaTeX though.

Don't forget about the Berkeley Timesharing System[1], Compatible Time-Sharing System[2], or Livermore Timesharing System[3], and a shocking number more[4]. The wealth of diversity even in the late 60's was amazing.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Timesharing_System

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livermore_Time_Sharing_System

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing#Notable_time-shar...

Water in western states is often a "use it or lose it" system, driving overuse even if the farmer knows better.

[1]https://www.propublica.org/article/killing-colorado-wasting-...

Don't forget stylometry; though AI actually looks like a promising tool to help with it.

Dang, looks really modern for 2006! What made you move away?

I'm currently using Fvwm on a modded default config; tho I'm stuck on v2 because of Debian Stable.

Not all, but a lot of docs from the era were, for lack of a better term, "written by programmers" instead of "written for users".

Not that I'm going to try a similar quest, but how does one go about starting one? Just send as much mail, email and forum posts as possible, inquiring to every person you can get the name of?

It's sad to think about how many old systems like this just... disappear. Something that cost millions of dollars (before inflation!), perhaps something incredibly important to history was computed on it, then just left to the fading memories of history when deemed more trouble than it was worth.

How many of these systems still rot in barns and garages, perhaps abandoned or about to be torn down because their owner moved or died? How many relics of arguably the most important human invention are gone, or their destruction is imminent, about to be stolen from the hands of future humanity by someone who doesn't know their value? When will the artifacts of history run out?

It's also double-dipping; excessive subsidies via taxes, then add ANOTHER tax to offset the cheap prices caused by subsidies? Just have less insane subsidies!

(Yes, subsidies are necessary, national food security etc.; but a LOT is just from lobbying and corruption. Never gonna reduce them because of that, but we can dream.)

The PATCO strike[1] was '81, and Reagan's admin was RIFE with greed. The trends we see today didn't just spring up with the fall of the Berlin wall in '89; it has deep roots as a reaction[2] to the 70's and 80's.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Contr...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tppeGYoWDxg

Those services support Linux, but like you noted, not all the games that use the services do. (adding to your Destiny example, Fortnite has explicitly been denied[3] Linux support.)

[1]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/thebattleye/status/144147781631129...

[2]https://areweanticheatyet.com/

[3]https://nitter.unixfox.eu/TimSweeneyEpic/status/149051919491...

Linux gamer since 2020 here. While obviously not perfect, things are getting better at amazing speed. Between Linux getting better and Windows getting worse at compatibility, your 3-year timeline looks very doable.

Though multiplayer games will remain a pain point for the foreseeable future, due to anti-cheat shenanigans.

(Also, sometimes the compat is there, but figuring out how to enable it is a pain. d3dx* being a good example; for me, it was selectable in winecfg menu, but wasn't installed until I figured out winetricks. Steam and Proton issues are much less obtuse.)

Nested Hyper-V on AMD hardware.

(Though ironically, the biggest users of this feature I'm aware of are Linux VFIO enthusiasts trying to run multiplayer games in a VM.)

Smokeless tobacco does cause cancer:

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

[2]https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...

[3]https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/smok...

Specifically for VM's, something like Looking Glass (shared framebuffer so you don't need a dedicated monitor) needs the extra bandwidth to get the video signal through without tanking performance, especially at higher resolutions and refresh rates.

Aside from that, I agree it's not too big an issue for 95% of computer users, but it's something to keep in mind.

[1]https://looking-glass.io/

It's still a problem if you want to run previous gen hardware. For instance, if I have a Gen4 motherboard and pass through a second GPU to a VM - so the second GPU at Gen3 x8 plus the host GPU at Gen4 x8 - I'm only using a quarter instead of half the throughput the hardware actually supports, because Gen3 is half the speed of Gen4 per lane.

Or even think about Gen5, doubling Gen4 speeds: With a PCIe switch, I could get essentially 3/4 performance out of a Gen5 host GPU, and full performance out of a Gen3 second, instead of 1/2 and 1/4 respectively.

I used to get mysterious lockups on my personal PC. Turns out I had a habit of touching the case with my leg, and when enough static built up on my chair, the zap from my leg would crash it.

The thing is still going, knock on wood!

Tangent: Did the switch to ARM put up more legal barriers than technical barriers for future ARM-based Hackintoshing?

Sure, lots of special features in Apple silicon, and probably not enough time or manpower to replicate them; but wouldn't it be easier to suppress such projects, via "trade secrets" or copyright or somesuch, that they are quickly taken down on the open web? With Intel there was still some limit on how much they could keep completely secret.

It also could have even driven more slavery, like the cotton gin did to the antebellum south.

Given how often animal manure was used as fuel for fires in the past, I'm surprised that most people didn't pre-burn their dried feces before using it as fertilizer.

I get why - it's too much extra work - but I would've figured it would be seen as worth it; provides fuel for fires, removes the stench, and makes it easier to spread on the crops.

(I know they weren't aware of germ theory, but even then I figured they would see advantages.)

It bears repeating[1]: the mob doesn't replace the king; the court does, using the mob to do it. Nothing will get better under a revolution unless we're EXTREMELY, infinitessimally small chance lucky.

[1]https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs?t=878

Anecdotally, new units are about the same quality for a higher price than 10-15 years ago. Nothing objective, could be wrong; in my late-2000's case, it was from Costco, so maybe it was higher priced elsewhere.

It would have worked better if it was something more blatant, like "Ngreedia".

No company can change like that without being entirely gutted and remade.

...though they can have splitoff "cells", like the 5150 team or Xerox PARC. I can't tell from here, but given Intel's waffling in the past, maybe this team is a cell.

I'm not a fan of Intel, but honestly this was pretty well expected of them, the delays and driver issues.

And yes I know it's marketing, but if what they say in their LTT[1] video is true, then GPU driver optimizations are apparently a titanically tedious clustertruck, which... honestly, considering all the weird API's and graphical schenanigans of games past, I concur.

I think if they didn't release now, even with all the bugs, they were never going to. If it actually makes a profit, they'll finally have in incentive to invest enough that it even COULD catch up.

[1]https://youtu.be/45n5pnEyw9o

Huh, TIL.

At least in the US, they are to be treated as any other vehicle on the road, and are supposed to follow the same rules. Aside from restrictions on highways and freeways because of slowness, there is no "subset".

Bicycles really need dedicated infrastructure. Too fast for pedestrians on the sidewalk, too slow for most roads.

(I know they are legally allowed on the road; in practice though, it doesn't work out very well.)