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> they're going to have to start selling future chips that cannot possibly be physically produced. …but that would be unethical. cue the laugh track

> Quake Live has held it down since 2012-ish, and was always a free-to-play game. They had subscriptions for a while.

> a C64 with "the commodore name" printed on it It's really not mysterious why something like that would find an audience, even if it's not everyone's cup of tea. Their beige C64 U…

> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable. Wow, yeah, you'd need to have moron…

And when an F-15E was shot down they got spooked. They're relying heavily on missiles because it doesn't cause a multiday story in the news when one is shot down on its way to the …

> I see it more like a couple of misbehaving misfits. Those zany kids!

I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_…

This is a good link and the Practical Engineering guy doesn’t appear to reference a “myth.” Which is a good thing, because there’s nothing mythological about the high performance o…

Sometimes the jokes just don't land.

Oh no. First the Europeans took away Lightning connectors and now this.

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There’s a whole body of work in the form of public statements and documents from Vint Cerf on that topic. You could explore Google for hours… https://spectrum.ieee.org/vint-cerf-mi…

I suspect the only thing at risk of being smeared by a more complete retelling of that story is Google’s interview process.

It’s hard to imagine that guy sitting still.

Developing with sqlite isn't quite like developing software that generically works against an ODBC or JDBC interface with minimal tweaking. You probably will want to peruse the doc…

Paying the worker bees more because they've unionized might potentially take money away from the nonprofit's important mission. Not to mention the salaries of senior staff, who are…

A classic.

> It seems more academic if that makes sense I remember a naive cultural bias in the US towards regarding the English as possessing an elevated degree of education and refinement. …

I hope you don't think that is the odd one out.

Oddly enough, the SGI Fuel (also the Tezro, I think) had PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports but also offered USB ports and support for HID devices in IRIX. I have no idea whether the ke…

A decade’s worth of SGI machines combined MIPS processors with PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports.