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Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux …

Perhaps the title would be more accurate if it were "The way my friends and I prefer to think of it, the age of the universe is nearly twice as old as we used to like to think of i…

Perhaps one could say, "It was clear who was right and who was wrong--whichever side you were on, that side was right and the other side was wrong" whichever struggle is being cons…

Illinois manages to be as much as 55% blue because Cook County/Chicago overwhelmingly votes Democrat, and always has.

Chicago (Cook County) went 83% for Clinton in 2016, 74% for Obama in 2012, 76% for Obama in 2008, 79% for Kerry in 2004 and 68% for Gore in 2000. Biden's 2020 numbers were on the l…

History rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.

Agree wholeheartedly with your (a) and (b), and would add: (c) Emacs won't disappear after a few years (where "few" can mean decades if your career lasts that long - mine ran from …

While I've been a "geek" since I joined IBM in 1967, I've been primarily a writer for at least 35 years. In that time, I've used Wordstar, WordPerfect, literally every flavour of M…

Wrong type of Bugatti - I was hoping that it would be a Type 35 or something of that ilk. Too bad.

There seem to be a lot of Apple users who wouldn't agree. My MacBook Pro is early 2011 so I haven't been able to use the newest, but I can't say that each upgrade from Lion to High…

Can't help thinking of the Yogi Berra quote (whether he said it or not), "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." Seems like there are a lot of folks interested in blogging s…

ACM has Stoyan's "Early LISP history (1956 - 1959)" at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800055.802047

I love my 2011 MacBook Pro's hardware - the case, the keyboard, the hinges. I liked OS-X Lion just fine, and every update since then has seemed to be a downgrade...I still need to …

I've remained informed about these issues without frequenting any "news" sources. Government, hospital, pharmacy sites all provide that without the "clickbait" factor (or at least …

"engine fires..." not gas tanks.

Not if, when.

"hide shortcomings" like what? Doesn't language like "by default" infer/suggest/imply that there would be circumstances in which they would save logs? And wouldn't an obvious circu…

Not sure that history would prove that out. Highly structured, militaristic colonial powers (Inca and Aztec, Mandarin Chinese, Vedic Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Western Europ…

Debian's been my workstation OS for many years. I mainly use Emacs, the shell and a browser so familiar and stable is all I ask of the OS. I'm on 10 now, will probably update to 11…

It's a poor person's problem, doesn't apply here...right?

It almost sounds ironic...and not everyone likes irony.

"In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms..." sounds exactly like they will "go into your drive and remove doubleplusungood content."

Yet another reason to avoid using cloud (i.e., someone else's computer that you don't control) products.

Somehow negotiating a delivery date feels different from feeling free to use company resources to discuss outside politics...but I'm old fashioned, I know.

translation: I don't like what Project Veritas presents, so it must be wildly deceitful, and I need not consider the issue any further.