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First, a disclaimer - I don't like the idea of 82-0 philosophically, as it supposes that perfection is the goal; sports like life are imperfect, and even the best teams go through …

It's a clickbait title (aren't they all?), but the premise is weird too -- because I don't see anything preventing the use of a RaspPi -- the offhand remark is that their has to be…

"The basics are simple" ... hrm. I think the concepts of how Twitter works is simple; but during their "fail whale" days, they had to reinvent things on the fly to achieve scale an…

Okay, I understand what you are trying to say, but some of what you are using as examples doesn't support your argument. Games, unless they are simple single player games, need the…

I run many programs at the same time AND run VMs; as long as you have enough memory, this shouldn't be an issue.

Another operating system that deserves mention for 286 class machines is Coherent. This was an Unix like OS you could buy for $99, and it had all of the various Unix utilities and …

At our school, the "computer" teachers were often teachers who were specialists in other areas that had some interest in computers, and weren't very ... security aware. They all ha…

At one time I was a big advocate for Unix/Linux on the desktop, but I think that ship has mostly sailed. But, it seems that FUD about what it is capable of is still actively here, …

This is a broken mindset, that you should be able to take an app and use it for 5+ years. When computers were in their infancy, and systems were only updated every 4-6 years, it mi…

I'd disagree that OS/2 was "worthless garbage", as MS would keep using it for several generations for their server/LAN OS. I'd argue that OS/2 2.x was pretty much a ground-up re-wr…

By the time OS/2 came out, IBM wasn't a serious competitor for most OEMs -- they were high end, so were mostly competing with the likes of Compaq. The big issue that no one is ment…

Slight correction - there were some Borland tools for OS/2, but after the split MS stopped putting out new tools; but IBM did have some interesting compiler stuff too.

More to the point, FDIC insurance covers a BANK failure; but in this instance it wasn't the bank that failed. It doesn't even seem it was Yotta that had the issue, but rather their…

If it was fully disclosed that this was "gambling", then I might agree. But it seems that it was more positioned as "a safe investment with okay returns and a lottery chance at win…

Such studies sometimes ask about the outlets; for some reason conservatives feel Fox news isn't the MSM, while CNN and MSNBC are . Asked about their "non-MSM" outlet, suddenly it i…

I think this isn't true; it might be that people might not read an eight-part expose on a topic, but they do resonate with many people, some of whom may even pay or choose to subsc…

I understand your frustration, but how does the software manage students that are behind versus students that are way ahead? Like I'd imagine this would be deeper learning for a ki…

As someone who has taught in formal and informal settings, the promise of EdTech was amazing, but the delivery has not really been that good. To me, a lot of the companies in the s…

It's disappointing. I'm sure the rationale at the time was that it was an under-powered and obsolete machine, but many schools in Ontario were far behind and having these machines …

C64s and not PETs? We had some PETs at one time during my school journey, but C64s would have meant playing games after getting our assignments done!

> sole supplier > free market I'm sensing some contradiction in that. Pricing and packaging parts in a way that ensures its cheaper to buy a different phone is the opposite of a fr…

For a service that needs to be available to the outside world, I'd say a VPS is often the better practical solution. Many home ISPs don't allow hosting of E-mail (SMTP) or traffic …

If supply chain was the issue, surely they could have worked to create a more local source for things; but it seems like a flavour of corruption to use slower and inferior machines…

Your comment doesn't seem consistent, so I'm not sure if it's just disorganized or actually false. You state that non-US healthcare "wouldn't have paid for this either", but later …