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It was a great product and was the first widely available c compiler for the Macintosh. I purchased it (LightspeedC) for my Macintosh II for $100 in something like 1987. I was coming from Xerox office systems division to grad school and felt it was as good as our Xerox IDEs.

Languages like Apple Pascal had too much of a banana Republic dictatorship underpinning (due to Nicklaus Wirth/European fascism) and didn't allow much freedom of expression. It's why Apple had to add so many extensions just to make Pascal usable and so many people moved to Think C. With a 3-second turnaround compiler and a decent IDE it was a great system.

Your death rate is doubled in the year after covid recovery from hospitalization!

Vaccines change the reproduction rate. Do you know how much? No? I thought so!

What really hurts the USA more than student debt is the explosion in University inefficiency, 1950-2020. My dad started a top-10 university professorship job in 1956 and there were 10 faculty for every admin person. Today it's f*cking 1:1. There is an explosion of centers of excellence and staff researchers and overhead people that contribute to the 5% annual inflation in college costs for the last 30 years.

If we would destroy all these leeches and bureaucratic red tape then we wouldn't need these student loans and the poor students wouldn't be so enslaved by our new form of 20Y indentured servitude - the useless college degree!

Wow that is SICK! I think if I had to read viral particles in wastewater for many different diseases at a sewage treatment plant I would go crazy and move to the countryside!

Nexus 5x has a pretty serious design flaw, I think it was boot looping but I can't remember precisely ...

Ever since the G2, every generation of phone sold less and less. Pretty soon there weren't enough economies of scale to pay the engineers to build the next generation of phone.

I completely agree there is so much mumbling that we watch movies with subtitles turned on, most of the time!

There were ~60B pages on Facebook in 2015 I think your numbers are outdated. - Google search SRE

The rest of you guys are too young to remember but I remember something called yellow pages and white pages. Google has certainly forgotten. White pages Were a search index that could never be monetized in the phone book! Google offers only yellow pages!

I also use "forum" to skip the link farms and content farms that Google so often serves up.

No. It's Google squeezing money out of search to subsidize the CEO's flavor of the month money-losing AI project, that's what it is ... Ex-Search-Engineer

YouTube has started showing me the same videos over and over again! I keep telling it I don't want to see this content because I've seen it before and it keeps forgetting!

I absolutely hate the Google has changed the semantics of search so that it doesn't really pay attention to your keywords unless you quote them. In Google's mind you're not serious about a keyword until you quote it! Garbage!

I think many people (myself included) think of V7 plus virtual memory plus fast file system plus job control as the ultimate pure version of Unix. Add Berkeley sockets from 4.2 BSD and stop there. Most of the subsequent work including almost all Linux command line implementations have been perverting the Unix philosophy: simplicity and minimalism and greatest reusability first.

Shared object libraries are a bloatware feature from hell. "Hey everybody let's introduce shared libraries into system V so we can bloat them and introduce new bugs due to missing or incompatible libraries - how does that sound? Because we must squeeze the last drop out of every byte of RAM, that's Sooooooo important!

It's all a total myth. On paper I am doing 2x better than my parents. We both have the same degrees in the same field.

In reality my wife also works as an engineer. (my mom was a stay at home mom), our house is smaller, I work longer hours, and the house will be paid off later in life (after 60). The reason? Fake government inflation numbers. www.shadowstats.org .

This was a fun article I was astonished that you could fit all eight of those function types in to only 320 instructions!

Netflix will download TV shows and movies but only onto your phone! You should check it out it's pretty awesome for going to the gym using wireless headphones and the treadmill... Android 1plus6t & Bose qc35.

My three-year-old Android OnePlus 6t lasts 36 hours on a charge even after 3 years of daily use. I have to laugh at these Apple fanboys who don't understand how far behind apple is in many ways...

My OnePlus 6t drains only 10% during an 8 hour night! And it is 3 years old!

YAWN. UNIMPRESSIVE! Quite frankly I don't approve of how Apple invests 100% of r&d into tweaking hardware specs and never improves or innovates (other than power savings) in their software! If Steve Jobs were alive he would be disgusted! Facial recognition was just a technique to reduce hardware costs!

This article reminds me of the fake cities that Rand McNally puts on maps to see if someone else is copying their work. I feel like this is probably a fake article put into Wikipedia to see if somebody else is copying their work....

Taiwan engineers work for $30k/yr and a handful of stocks that's all the they want!!

Everybody saw Intel slacking off a decade ago including Apple and Google but Google didn't have the guts to start their own CPU design Department despite being the #5 largest computer maker on Earth!

$20B is enough for 1 foundry if you can find the people but the people at Intel do not make good hires because they don't know how to make state of the art chips at Intel anymore! Our only other domestic fab are the former IBM fabs owned by global foundries in East Fishkill New York but global foundries has given up on state of the art chips too!

Intel was stupid. They could have become a foundry 20Y ago like every other chip making company on Earth but they chose instead to greedily try and make cell phone chips three times and they failed all three times at the cost of many many billion dollars! And now nobody really wants their chips and AMD chips are selling like hot cakes using up all The foundry resources while intel chip manufacturing lines stand idle, and useless because Intel thought they would be on top forever!

This is so right. It used to be theoretically justified to charge a cost for editing, reviewing management, and printing costs of a paper journal but most paper journals have disappeared and the paper format is useless today. High tech has made these journal companies giant vampire squids poking their blood funnels into academia to suck the life out of mankind's progress!

But down the road I can see that academic research publication will become like Facebook - loaded with bullshit promoted by hypesters - wasting time and killing thousands - and no one to enforce sanity in that lunatic wilderness!

If the 19th century journals would get with a program they would become science repos with a much smaller stuff and light fees (enough to support one staff managing editor per journal) for the review process! Publishing a paper in this model should probably cost about $1000 - $2,000, about the same as it cost the last time I was in academia...

Sun used to ship bricks when they couldn't get enough Spark processors working. Every customer return was repackaged as a new computer and sent to the next customer as a stalling tactic .

It happened to my wife, who was paid for 18mo and given lots of "options". People were steadily laid off around her until she was asked of she would work without pay? Because if you say no you're laid off and nobody wants that. I helped to convince her to quit. Company folded when she left ...

Any IRA owner with more than 50 years of average family income ($3.5m) should be required to liquidate it. These are not tax shelters for the rich!

But seriously this is no different than if he owned the stock shares outright and he just chose never to sell those shares for 50 years he would pay no tax! It's how the rich have break to the system to favor Capital over labor!

I'm an old-timer, having used emacs for 41 (!) years. I started in a LISP class at MIT, but I was always a UNIX-lover so ended up using Gosling's UNIX emacs throughout the 1980's, and when that ended I borrowed gosmacs.el and wrote a short .emacs to kept Gosling's emacs alive as Richard Stallman descended further and further into madness, breaking CTRL-h and trying to create thousands of functions keys ...

I have never done "chording". What is that?

I don't need an editor with more than about 100 function keys (CRTL-[a-z], CTRL-[A-Z], ESC-[a-z], ESC-[A-Z]).

I absolutely hate 'info' and in the age of manpages and webpages it is an embarrassment to emacs.

I absolutely love ESC-j (fill-region) for squeezing text into 77 columns, and ESC-x indent-region for unifying my coding style. Modern shells understand at least 20 emacs key-bindings (CTRL-e, CTRL-a, CTRL-k, CTRL-b, CTRL-f, CTRL-d, etc.) and so does the Chrome browser, apparently.

Mostly these days I am turning off modes written by pedants who want to 'force' me to do things I don't want to do. ESC-x text-mode works just fine for that.