Oh, yeah. This one too: https://xkcd.com/1357/

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

But here lies the problem, if a QLC chip can be 512gb, how does one market a SLC 32gb drive to be the equivalent?

You market it as having multi-PB write endurance. Imagine spreading the wear-leveling for 32GB over a 512GB drive.

It's not called the People's Republic of California for nothing.

They all want to regulate something. I haven't been able to get to any porn sites from my state (a very red state) since the beginning of the year, and there's a guy in Oklahoma trying to completely outlaw porn, so stop with the "People's Republic" BS.

I wonder how many more missions that run 10 times the expected lifetime NASA has to do before certain people give up on the whole "only private companies can do anything right" thing.

Apparently many, given comments lower in this thread: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23205524&cid=64189952

Looks to want to replace the right control key

Great. First they (IBM) put the control key in the wrong place, and now they want to replace one, entirely.

Outside the office, I would estimate >50% of the laptops I see are Macs. So Macs dropping market share doesn't reconcile with what I'm seeing in the wild. At my office, it's close to >90% Macs. In my circle of friends and family, it's probably 75% Macs. I haven't personally seen any evidence of Windows is making a coming back.

Wow, you hang out in very different circles than I do; the last time I saw a Mac was at the last Cisco Live! conference I went to, which was six years ago, and the only Linux workstations I've seen are mine, my son's, and a coworker's. Everything else is Windows (and I get a pretty large amount of ridicule from their owners).

I suspect your complaint is more along the lines of being different from what you are used to.

I've done my fair share of programming in Pascal, so I'm not sure what you mean by "different from what you are used to".

I guess you've never programmed in Cobal or Fortran.

I've never programmed in Cobol, but Fortran (77) kicked Pascal's ass. (I'll agree that Pascal is better than Fortran IV, or lower, but just barely.)

You could call it a superset.

That was kinda my point; it had to be a superset to do anything useful, because actual Pascal was crap.

the obvious elegance of Pascal

Care to elaborate? I always thought Pascal was one of the worst languages, and it should NEVER have been used as a teaching language; it's too hard for beginners and nowhere near powerful enough for experts. I was so annoyed they were using it in our CS classes, I used C for my assignments, instead.

Turbo Pascal revolutionized programming the PC.

But Turbo Pascal wasn't really Pascal, was it?

When I see anyone using CLI from 40 years ago

Yeah, sure. For decades, Windows users would tell me how antiquated the command line is - then Microsoft released PowerShell. Now, the command line is THE BEST THING EVER!1!

The next big thing wasn't RISC, it was 68000 assembler designed for 32-bit from the ground up

Yeah, the first RISC machine I'd ever seen was a SPARC server, but that was probably in 1988. By that time, 68K machines had been around for nearly a decade. In fact, the SPARC server replaced a 68K-based 3/280. (The professor who owned it was doing Navier-Stokes computation for the Navy and always had to have the latest and greatest.)

a few of the operators had something like four or five operands

Wasn't there a VAX instruction to evaluate a polynomial?