I'd imagine they didn't want CP/M more splintered than it already was. The same thing ended up happening to MS-DOS. There was a version for Zenith computers incompatible with the version for the IBM-PC. Same with the Tandy portables and initial desktop PCs, and ITT, Olivetti, TI, HP palmtops, etc...

Yep, it will teach you to code using one or two languages and a couple of frameworks. You'll be great at those. Not so much anything else.

This was a plot point in Person of Interest. An AI was under attack by another AI, and downloaded itself into a large Pelican case filled with SSDs. At that point the show had kind of gone off the rails, but it was still a cool scene. Also, when they brought it back up (running on a janky supercomputer built out of consumer graphics cards) it was screwed up and didn't run well, which I appreciated, too. I miss that show.

Republican Andy Biggs, from Arizona, filed an amendment to the bill to prevent any use of wiretapping that involves American citizens without a proper warrant. Most Republicans voted for it, most Democrats voted against it, and it failed.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/...

WhistlinDiesel, on Youtube, bought a Chieftan tank and installed a remote-control unit into it. It does everything but fire it's gun, as the firing mechanism was disabled before sale. He likes to use it to knock over trees, as doing that while in the tank is painfully jarring.

If some honyocker can do this in his spare time, I'd imagine a government could do the same in a much more sophisticated fashion.

Uh, what "class" was that?

*They, meaning crashes and traffic fatalities, as referenced by my link. Brain ain't working today.

People have been driving worse after the pandemic. They were trending down until 2019, and have spiked over the last few years.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fa...

You can't buy one, so why would you care? They are going to use them in their own datacenters.

I forgot who pointed this out, but every time you hear a journalist get something incredibly wrong, keep in mind they are also covering politics, legal cases, business, education, health issues, etc...

I noticed it in the 1990s when computers became a thing, and found that most reporters barely had a rudimentary grasp on what they were or how they worked. You could make an argument that they needed some time to get up to speed on new technology, but nowadays, when you do some basic research on Google or Wikipedia in a few minutes, getting basic facts wrong is inexcusable.

The later full seasons of Seinfeld had around 22 episodes.
A full season of 24 was, obviously, 24 episodes. The first season of Person of Interest had 23 episodes.

A full "season" of Stranger Things is 9 episodes. So was Severance. The Rings of Power, which is probably the most expensive TV show ever made, had a paltry 8 episodes.

So yeah, there is a *lot* more old TV to watch.

Are they flying planes produced by the New Zealand government? Aeroflot only flew Soviet produced planes.

Most of the track-powered rides are indoors, so the live rails don't get wet. They solved it on Test Track by mounting buss bars underneath the track surface. I'd imagine this is what they'll probably do with Autopia, so it's going to involve digging down and building a platform for the whole ride.

And neither does socialism. Whilst under Soviet control, Aeroflot had five times more fatal crashes per mile flown than any other airline in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I consider modern BSD to be closer to the traditional commercial UNIX releases than Linux, as they consider the base OS as a single release instead of a bunch of independent packages (kernel, glibc, coreutils, svsvinit, e2fsprogs, sed/gawk/grep/patch/make/etc....)