How far had Apple expected it to fall?

To be fair, an athlete is more likely to experience a career-ruining injury than the average worker and then be unable to continue in that career. I'm not trying to justify the insane salaries many seem to get, but can understand why they'd want to earn while they can. Of course, being responsible with those earnings would go a long way toward future financial security. (Good advice for everyone.)

Except for the theory parts, which can come in handy if you want to get past being just a code monkey. There's also plenty of coding done during a 4-year degree program -- at least there was in mine. And I was a grader. My OS class had us simulate an interactive operating system and another class had us write a functional linking loader, both in C. (my concentration, back in the mid '80s, was operating systems design) I also took classes using LISP, Pascal and x86 assembly (on new PCs as the printer for the IBM 370 caught fire and destroyed everything in the room the previous summer) I was also a research assistant doing programming in LISP (on a Xerox 1108) and Prolog for a NASA grant on automated programming techniques -- they wanted a grad student, but couldn't find one with LISP experience. I also ported programs, like the Franz LISP interpreter/compiler, from 4.3BSD on a VAX 11/785 to SunOS on a Sun4 and debugged lpd -- we had BSD source code. I also had a jerk system administrator on those BSD/Sun systems who made us RTFM *and* the BSD source code before he would answer even the simplest question -- and I have to thank him for that very much.

Pretty sure you're not going to get all that at a six-month coding boot camp. People keep dismissing the value of a 4-year CS degree, but a lot of you get out of it is what you're willing to put into it.

Con or not, some of this is on the students. I mean, those companies aren't really known for hiring people with only a few months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree. That said, taking advantage of their gullibility and/or desperation isn't cool.

[insert Trump jokes here]

Predicting companies/contractors will buy data and *donate* it to the Government, or let them access it for free. Problem solved.

Noting that Trump didn't actually buy his stock so no matter how low it goes he won't lose any money. Other shareholders, on the other hand ...

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse.

Several people have a majority of their money invested in this stock and one guy has invested his whole "nest egg" -- $25,000 -- and wants to buy more. He believes the stock could "go to $1,000 a share, easy." I wish him luck.

President Biden remarked in his hometown of Scranton, Pa on April 16:

It's also the Inuit name for a Klondike Bar, and that would be confusing.

[ Admit it, you don't know if that's true. :-) ]

Got it, thanks! I've never been an Apple/Mac/iOS, etc... user -- though I did use, and develop on, a Xerox 1108 Dandelion from 1985-87 using InterLISP-D (still have that LISP manual), but I was first raised on BSD...

Job Control was a feature of the 4.1BSD Kernel, released in June 1981. Csh, first released in 1978, was (I believe) the first application to incorporate it to suspend a running job using Ctrl-Z. That job could then be either restart in the foreground using the command "fg" or restarted in the background using "bg". Running jobs could be monitored using the "jobs" command.

As I noted elsewhere, before I saw your post, I think there should be two entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a marriage for the religious part, if desired and/or there is one. The first is a contract with The State and the second is with your Religion. Maybe that would make things clearer/simpler.

That's why I think they should be separate entities. A Civil Union for the legal/tax part and a Marriage for the religious part, if there is one -- and they could both be applied at the same time if desired. Maybe this would cut down on the pedantic "marriage is between ..." arguments.

So Windows-centric... In Csh* -- which came before Windows/Office, etc... -- Ctrl-Z that means suspend not undo.

Don't try to be clever editors and just say "undo."

[*and later in other shells, like Bash]