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Also in some corners it means "for f*ck's sake", cut down for effing effect. Which echoes my thoughts after the first para of the post.

Obvious troll post, innit?

SDF.org doesn't need a phone number.

Picked: Because UTC is hardly 'U', and imposes a rampant heliocentricitism. If anything, it can purport to be at most GTC, which would be good enough for a while longer I suppose.

To be precise: the European Union doesn't welcome you, it welcomes your petition to be welcomed by it. Lest we fail to avoid making things needlessly forth-right.

When I read the source and started on the comments, I thought: won't be long until someone drops in TCC. But yes, TCC does limit you in this regard a bit.

Presumably because people were buying once every four years?

The requirements were practically negligible for its era, and the leap it represented. I have installed and used it at length on 386 with 8MB on a 210MB disk. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't pretty bad either. Perhaps (on appropriate hardware) it wasn't as solid as NT 4, but before XP (which is 2000 which is NT, even if simplifying it) there weren't many "polished enough" _and_ "affordable enough" windowing systems for the masses. Classic Mac OS was very polished but not very affordable, and it didn't even have pre-emptive multiprocessing. UNIX had either a high cost of entry if you're talking workstations (Suns and SGIs were polished but expensive) or man-hours to acclimatize (try running X11 in 1995, then compare to Windows 95).

Eh.

In any case, to bring it back. It was good enough. Nowadays, I often hope for a minimal Windows 10 that will be out of the way enough to approach Windows 95.

Link still won't work...

I think the point is that your life doesn't reach the point where you steal $1m worth of gold without a few ripples of insanity appearing here or there. It appears it takes a confluence of chaos for such a heist to manifest.

Link won't work...

NB, this is regarding OneDrive for Business only.

There is a point behind prohibiting "just about everyone" from having access to easy gunpowder. Consider how "just about everyone" includes anything from anti-social prankers to vengeful people with no concern for collateral, to plain `terrorists`.

After this catches on, you should also make an askadev.out.

Have we actually reached the point where we idolize something that was equally mainstream to bash when it came out? Remember "Winblows" &c?

Suddenly, faced with hyper-spy mega-corps, the dumb simplicity of the evil-yet-cute Windows 95 is desirable. Like the lesser of two evils, or the evil you know.

Any day now, a post will come up extolling the illumined joys of mainframe COBOL programming.

This didn't quite turn out as expected, did it?

This is awesome, I think I will give it the thumbs up and share it with all my nonconformist friends.

Stepping up to crowd-sourcing movement data and constructing robotic/AI replacements? The AI scare is becoming wider and wider, and this time because of what corporations actually do (rather than mere pandering to the sci-fi crowd).

Actually the key to keep increasing velocity is maintaining a positive dv/dt, that is to say, acceleration. Momentum is more of a tendency to refuse to leave a state (think of `inertia-in-motion`), rather than actively seek it.

If that makes any sense at all, that is.

Knees are jerking like leaves in a gust, it seems?

It demonstrates poor exercise of judgment, which would render them partially unreliable. Then there's the question of whether they're your "peers".

In C, everything rhymes in ';'.

"Therefore, we now have these absurd hordes of delivery slaves everywhere."

One way to diss the Post, certainly.

reminds me of the Bastard Excuse From Hell, BTC version

The "article" is pointless, the guy just vents a bit, missing any opportunity to give any technical insight on what that legacy project is about, or offer anything substantial other than positive affirmations directed to himself.

Apparently so does the ZX80, being almost equally obsolete.

Why is there a crossbar in the ƛ? Shouldn't it rather be λ?

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Very nice historical overview, but the abrupt closing with "Last month, in fact, Logitech released its first new trackball in seven years, ..." makes me wonder if this is just grey advertising of the new product.