He is the one who will create more Jobs. Apple workers were lucky to have Jobs, but I hear they are happier now. I am concerned that my company may use Al to create more Jobs.

I don't have a significant other, you insensitive clod! And speaking of lonely, it brings me joy knowing that at least Amazon is listening to me fart loudly in bed.

Toilet paper tables? They expand to fill your stomach with long lasting fibre, and then wipe you on the way out too.

Quiet in the cheap seats! How dare you stop a perfectly good /. bum fight with your flawless logic. I want to see the show.

Why stop there? Investigate their partners too. Heck, investigate their whole family.

For a bit of historical context, Zimbabwe had 79.6 billion percent inflation in November 2008. That was AFTER declaring inflation illegal and arresting a bunch of people for raising prices. They abandoned their currency completely and use US$ now, but I wouldn't blame Zimbabweans for being a bit skittish of government controlled currencies since then. Bitcoin would have been an attractive alternative if it was available at the time.

Not necessarily. There's a guy on youtube who finds old military rations, unpacks them, and then eats them. It's surprising what's still out there unopened. He tried US C rations from the Vietnam war, and US and UK rations from the second world war. Even an American civil war hardtack cracker. There is something morbidly fascinating about watching a guy sniff old rations, dry heave, take a bite, claim it tastes OK, then the after-taste makes his throat burn, and then take another bite anyway just to be sure.

Been there. Once I came back from training and passed a brick so heavy that it refused to flush. That was embarrassing. Especially for the guy who found it.

Several IT people have given me a blank stare when I mention BSD under the hood. If IT people don't get it, you can imagine how little the average user knows. Apple hasn't exactly been shouting the fact that half their OS is free. Apple wouldn't want fans to question the value for money they get from Mac OS GUI when they figure out the underlying FreeBSD really is free in every sense.

I'm sure the NHS will perform much better once the 26% of doctors who are non-British have left. More jobs for Brits. Genius. [/sarcasm]

Good luck. Europe won't shed a tear for the UK.

A 1984 meta-analysis found an IQ to job performance correlation coefficient ranging from 0.2 to 0.6, meaning that between 4% and 36% of the variance in job performance can be explained by IQ. Other factors account for the rest of the variance.

For income, the research consensus of correlation coefficients appear to ranging between 0.4 and 0.5, meaning that between 16% and 25% of income variance can be explained by IQ. An individual's location, inherited wealth, race, education, perseverance, and social connections are more important factors than IQ.

Yes. Try astrology, theology, or homoeopathy. All of them have been around a long time, are well studied, and are based entirely on magic thinking. Physicians believed that disease was spread by Miasma ("bad air" from rotting organic matter) since antiquity until about 130 years ago.

IQ tests persist because companies spend truck-loads of money every year to 'objectively' choose the best candidates from long lists of applicants. If it suited my vested interests to do so, then I would sell these tests too. Heck, if you pay me enough, I will pretend that creationism has merit.

Possible. Or the author could be aiming for specific targets. Who uses those Macs? Where I work, only high income employees are issued Macs. Directors, management accountants, senior staff, etc. Everyone else is issued PCs. Listening in on meetings, taking screenshots, and recording keystrokes of a few people would be sufficient to gain a competitive advantage.

To me, the rants ARE the good stuff. It's what he's good at.

I see he hasn't reviewed the iPhone yet. That can't be a good sign. Maybe he tried to replace a dead battery, or plug in headphones. Does he think the designers were high when they made those decisions? How does Linus resists the urge to rant about some gadgets?

Bah! Ed, the standard text editor, doesn't need any of that crap. The interface in Ed is so clean that there is no room for ambiguity. Tabs tab, and spaces space, the way they were designed to. As for separating content and presentation, I don't have time to switch between the two. In Ed, the content IS the presentation.

When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
---

Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their “edlin” on a Unix standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can remember what they are working on. If you are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!