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Never go full retard.

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Both of these oddities were addressed over 25 years ago when Mac OS X 10.0.0 "Cheetah" was released. Many of the innovations of Mac OS X have been lost in later macOS, but this one…

Are you sure IBM didn't care about 8080 compatibility? The PC was released in August 1981, a full 4 years before any of the other machines you speak of. That XT 5160-078 you speak …

Bribes are a feature of politically-controlled economies, not a bug. Thirty years ago when this was all going down, I believed the narratives of the time. Greedy Bill Gates and Ste…

It was drop DTR. Most current documentation tells you that dropping DTR means the modem should hang up. That was an option, maybe even the default. But you could AT&D1 to make drop…

I was disappointed when Microsoft dropped original WSL. I'll admit I wasn't a Windows user at the time, nor since for that matter. But I had been before. I knew the history of the …

> Tbh, though, the only computer I've ever seen Hibernate work well on are Macs. Every x86 computer usually has some sort of issue with it, except for maybe business laptop models …

I've only had batteries leak in remotes left unused for over a year. I just pick up Duracell or whatever is at Costco. I've also bought two replacement remotes off of Amazon in the…

How long does the breakdown take? Coke used to be mixed, bottled, and shipped out in an extremely quick timeframe. Inventory turned over fast. I suspect the separated components wi…

Correct. Whoever downvoted your comment has either never driven this stretch of the 5 or they are the reason it is so bad. It’s the idiots in cars who insist on doing exactly 65 in…

Did people just forget the era of CD burning? Cassettes sucked. Normal non-tech people were ripping CDs with iTunes. "Rip. Mix. Burn." was a nationwide if not worldwide advertiseme…

This is a time-tested winning strategy that too few corporate owners embrace. When you look at some of the most well-known industrial companies, their founders basically did this. …

It's been a long while since I did anything with UEFI, but my recollection is that the standard data structures are reasonably well documented, especially when they are meant to be…

True PXE doesn't require coordination with the DHCP server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment The network client boot stack sends a DHCPDISCOVER as a broa…

Bill Kristol is the same asshole he always was.

Except it isn't a fact-check at all. As usual, Paul Krugman is light on real details and heavy on cherry-picked facts to suit his own personal narrative, not unlike Trump. Canada's…

It's common for wake-on-LAN clients to send UDP packets to port 9 to make sure they get discarded. This is particularly useful if using a multicast or broadcast destination, which …

It's not just the nullability behavior. My experience with several databases is that IN is always (or almost always) executing the subquery then using its results to match the oute…

This was an especially interesting read, having lived through using these versions of OS/2 on varying hardware. I think the unfortunate answer is that two if not three drivers are …

Your own article points out that exists handles the first case. Exists is not actually implemented as a subquery, it is merely syntactically a subquery.

It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure the Mach-O linker on macOS has exactly the feature you are looking for. Basically there is a linker flag to produce a .o while maintaining rel…

OS/2 did offer a lot of value beyond just running Windows software. The WPS (Workplace Shell) is to this day one of the better desktop UIs. It brought a lot of the classic Macintos…

I think if IBM had simply put in the engineering to allow Windows 95 to run as the Win-OS/2 layer, OS/2 may have survived a lot longer. I've done a fair amount of research into thi…

I was an avid OS/2 user from 2.1 (1993) through Warp 4 (1996). This is sort of accurate and sort of not. It depends on what point in time you are referring to. I did happen to have…