I hope they have a good backup and recovery solution

And unsurprisingly my framework laptop works perfectly under Linux

Still it’s a really good idea to keep a rescue USB drive handy, for when windows decides to update it’s boot loader and blitzes your setup

Good luck enforcing no LLM spell check

That photo has to be more than 450 million seconds into the current epoch. Hardly before time

Thank you, that really helps us on the other side of the fence understand

Here is hire scooters left laying across paths

Yeah, like taxis, but without any protections or obligations that taxis provide

e-scooters?

Even the chatbots now can write code that compiles and does what you tell it to. I’m a system analyst and can code but I am slow. Now I can give a design to any of them and get code that works in a couple of hours, with most of the time spent iterating toward the right result

In the past it often took a week of afternoons and late nights to turn an idea into working code. I can see why programmers fear for their jobs

So you really should implement it in your compiler so you don’t contravene it

My 386 had turbo on practically all the time except when playing earlier era games where half speed made them playable

It really was an unturbo button

It’s not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn’t. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn’t work in Netscape, and couldn’t due to patents

By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back

I’m sure that back in the day there were adults in charge of the big companies. I know that where I work management used to listen to tech areas for tech stuff. Now they just trust whatever the Microsoft agent tells them

DOS 5 docko was fine. I wonder* when they went wrong

*I don’t really

What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help

The web was pretty small in the '90s

I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars

The system I work on uses “Y” and “N”.

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No java sounds like the best first choice in selecting a language

Raise Derry!