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My guess, the people most worried were never really good at their job and easy to replace. The better S.E. know that silly business people may replace them with AI at first, then q…

And don't forget the washing machines too. Imagine, an entire nation forced to wear dirty clothes.

Then you have to include the C64 where the ROM could be copied into RAM and then modified to allow extra functions.

My mom's fridge broke exactly one day after the warranty expired. She was crying on the phone, then they said they would honour the repair anyway. That made her happy again.

Agree, why not show the plane? In this world of fake news I do not trust reports that do not show even the most basic of things.

Most impressive to me was the model rocket that lands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3lR2GLgT0

It is my understanding the the GEOS system was developed on a more powerful machine than the C64/Atari computers it was used on. This let then have the entire code in memory and th…

This does far more than I did back in my PET and then Amiga days, but one thing I did was write a multi-pass compiler. Each pass at first found ways to make the come better (usuall…

All I know. When I ask the business people what they want the program to do, the answer is so vague that any working program you write has a 99% chance of not being what they want.…

If you remove the PEEK() and POKE() functions, older BASIC is also memory safe.

I worked at a job with a 5 hour work per day timetable. The problem was the handover to the next staff members after noontime. If any were late, then your own plans were messed up.…

And how long can they keep this up?

It may be limited, but I think there is still work done on CP/M.

Yes, if you look at the programs I submitted to BeBits you would see I included the source files, but I was the exception. Too many times I would see an interesting program but no …

Except Haiku is open source. See: https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/

That is them, not me.

I had an HP laptop that did that in Windows or Haiku. I rewired the fan to run 100% all of the time and aside from losing some battery time the laptop ran fine. And when plugged in…

Answer: Keep a copy of the open source code. The original developer may not even be the weak point. The server may go down, the comm link may be flakey, a local copy means you have…

And Starlink satellites are designed to de-orbit when they run out of fuel.

Heck, my brother was hit by a drunk driver, put into a coma and then died later. There were a number of local newspapers about it, but NO national news. Bet no-one outside Oshawa O…

And in contrast, here in Ontario in the late 1980s I worked in a computer store, and repeatly was told by parents that they got computers for their kids so they could print out hom…

I never understood why I need MY hardware to use their servers. If I buy something it should be mine alone.

My dad had great ideas for businesses. Yet each one he started failed for him. Why, because he has such unrealistic view on how long the payback period will be. He even founded wit…

You! If you have a medical issue from just holding your breath, it means you had medical problems for a long time that had gotten worse and you never went to a doctor for. You woul…

Since you can't put a Starlink receiver on a drone (check it's size) will not fit, I think someone is telling porkers. Also Starlink is not made to work well if it is moving at the…