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One is that Sun/Oracle made an honest mistake with the license (self-inflicted). The other is that they regretted that Java was ever open source and so made the license and other p…

If the CTO was right about the premise it'd be fine, but much more likely he pulled the "everyone is happy with 1s" out of his arse and then used his position/authority to bully th…

Intentional rather than self-inflicted.

Retirement age is usually tied to various benefits. In the UK it's the age at which you can collect the state pension (currently around £12K per year, if you worked for 30-35 years…

What have luxury jets and superyachts got to do with the chattering classes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattering_classes

HN truncated the link which is actually supposed to be: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwy0d0wgy4xt?post=asset%3Ac7...

Their model at the time was a heavyweight desktop-only website where you could look at the menus, then call their call centre (visible through a large glass window right next to th…

I consulted for Deliverance a bit later than Y2K (probably in 2004/5). They were a very strange company internally at the time. First I want to say they weren't really like Deliver…

The internet was a bit different more homely in those days. Back in 1996 we hired a guy as network administrator. On his first day at work, we got an email from a network admin who…

Hard disks used to come with a paper label listing their bad sectors. (They still come with a list, it's just now it is hidden in the firmware like you describe.)

"I wouldn't even try it because I don't want to be deported from Japan."

I remember back in the day Kermit was pretty heavyweight. We used sz/rz for file transfer [z-modem: good to see the man pages are still up! https://linux.die.net/man/1/sz ]. Is the…

> German car industry is trailing with EVs, because they can not manufacture the heart of EV - the battery. "We tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!" ... The German car indust…

They're also making cars that people want to buy for a price they can afford. Toyota aren't making any cars I want to buy (at any price).

Not a scientific study, but here in the UK where we don't have tariffs against Chinese car manufacturers, there are loads of electric BYDs and Jaecoos (the "Temu Range Rover") driv…

The article was kind of terrible. If it had more emojis I would have said it was an AI generated summary. To really understand how strange AS/400 if you need to read Frank Soltis's…

I'd recommend people read "Inside the AS400" by Frank G. Soltis, as the concepts behind the OS are quite strange and unlike anything else I've ever seen. Unfortunately paper copies…

At an early start up I worked for, we had a bunch of PowerPC Mac pizza boxes running System 7. The experience was terrible, they crashed or locked up constantly. I eventually took …

Interesting article but left me wondering why they don't use ¹H₂¹⁶O as the "standard water"? Surely you can make that (relatively) easily in a centrifuge by spinning out the lighte…

Because both the implementation and DSL of udev are terrible, probably.

> "At the time of publication, no robust mitigation for the broader vulnerability class is available" Isn't it obvious by now that it's never going to be possible to fix this kind …