whew!

oops… damn. satire. ;-)

… or produce roadside banter in sell aisles?

Life is a gamble… for now you feel like you don’t need it but eventually the HR algorithms are going to put a ceiling there just because you don’t have a diploma. Working under someone who stopped thinking when they graduated or used AI to cheat can be miserable.

FWIW some people recommend getting a minimum-effort degree… but I would advocate taking advantage of the detour and studying something interesting (which may mean getting an MS). YMMV.

this question used to be the response to deranged QAnon psychos… but now rational people are saying it and the unstated examples that come to mind are Republicans.

I cannot fathom what the 2028 US election cycle is going to look like… but the fall of Rome comes to mind. Just a reminder… they probably didn’t use the word “fall” at the time, but history seems clear despite the “winners get to write” caution.

See a psychiatrist. You already have root on these systems… if you are truly a split personality then fences aren’t going to prevent your other self from doing whatever they want.

This is just a practice run shot across the bow for requiring that only individuals who have sworn allegiance to Der Fuhrer are given access.

Manufactured consent strategy to build support for the Google Play Store power grab? Or real risk?

My mother can barely tell the difference between an email and a web browser page… every pop-up warning is indistinguishable from every other in her mind… I am constantly having to remove Google Play apps that capture her I/O… no GitHub needed. But Google is pushing the idea that if only they controlled the whole experience that life would be so much better.

https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/

The processor designed for timesharing 8080 programs efficiently by adding 16 bit addresses to 16 bit page numbers shifted by 4 bits because who could afford more than 1MB of RAM anyway?

Cashiers remove them so they can be reused.

Tradition, not requirement. And you know what they think of that.

yes.

I don’t like that they want to supplant the existing paradigm… Wikipedia is a human-generated information layer that teachers have always warned should not be cited directly (for one thing, it is continually being edited so what the reader sees is often different than what the person citing it saw). Google seems intent on making it more and more difficult to get past their interpretation of what the Web said down to the actual discourse occurring between different sources on the Web.

The existence of such tools is not something I object to so much as the removal of the self-directed search option.

So stupid. My employer’s laptops given to every employee are pre-configured to vpn back to the company network. What part of “private communication” says this use case should be in any way distinguishable from some teen cruising porn sites?

… they were just about to experience a floating point error when the sign was put up.

IMO that depends fat more on you than on the movie. They had to change some things to keep it from ballooning to a far longer film than it ended up, so if you don’t like the choices they made them no. But if you are open to the fact that there are details that are just different and deductive chains of thought that are shortened drastically so they can emphasize other things, then yes it was worth it.

From the beginning of computing there has been a problem with bootstrapping knowledge… the person creating a tool gives it a name, and describes it, but knowing that someone solved the problem you have and what the name of that tool was always a challenge.

But that is nothing new… you posted in English but if you were to learn a different language you would have a very similar problem, and one of the most universal strategies for making that transition is to drill on vocabulary. Once you have built a small vocabulary then you can expand it using a dictionary.

The real message behind someone saying RTFM is that there are so many educational and search resources now that asking some rando on the Internet to rewrite a Howto on the fly is lazy. Simply typing the exact same question into Google will bring up a kickstarter set of vocabulary and resources. If you actually do this your question will often answer itself, and if it doesn’t and you start by pointing out why your efforts failed to help you with your specific problem and use the vocabulary (at least briefly) that your research turned up to guide the reader toward where your problem is, you should get less RTFM responses.

You must be off by a decade. Your reference mentions no OS and Unic was developed around 1970.

Oh, right, right, right… that makes sense… right? right? or maybe it is just another truckload of fetid bullshit. now that makes more sense.

Only if a) you have enough money to pay lawyers to defend your rights, and b) the judge happens to not be a Trump follower.

If you are invested in Windows software… don’t run Linux. Being able to run Windows software is like a “patch” to get you by until you find a Linux equivalent. Pretending you can have your cake and eat it too will just leave you disappointed.

Linux has amazing software… but in most cases it feels very different from Windows. If you learn why it is different then you may start to appreciate Linux for what it gives you rather than what it takes from you.