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There was a Shareware tool called Executive that would manipulate task priorities to, amongst other things, prioritize the active application.

Yes, running software that is not authorized can get you fired.

Over the past 15 years, I worked for 4 different companies in 4 different industries and I never had any trouble getting Emacs approved. They were all rather smallish, always aroun…

Emacs is a LISP refugee in Unixland. It doesn't follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the LISP philosophy. But it integrates. Forgot where I found this.

Someone else here already pointed out the problem with that approach: After the second or third candidate, the interviewer is very familiar with the problem and may become unfairly…

Bullshit, and you know it.

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And an unlimited life span.

How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then ju…

AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK: You could even …

It has been completely playable for the past 10 years, what exactly are you missing?

Elegant, schmellegant. If you want your software to be usable in an enterprise environment, you have to support OIDC out of the box.

I love the ability to directly run docker containers. I think their approach to authentication / authorization is insane (not in a good way).

Besides VMs and LXC/Proxmox-style containers, it can also run docker containers out of the box.

It can do VMs, "system containers" like LXC and Docker/OCI-compatible application containers. There was a project to implement a dockcer-compose compatible "incus-compose" but unfo…

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When you don't know who runs archive.is, you can also never know if he sold it to someone else (except if either party publically announces it).

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Gaza Health Ministry === Hamas. Stop spreading terrorist's propaganda.

It is Hamas who does not allow free press in Gaza. Instead, their terrorists regularily dress up as "journalists".

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"Gaza officials" === Hamas

That's because terrorist supporter's propaganda lies are anything but "Hacker News".