I know you're joking.. but I do know of quite a few telnet boards still up and running...

Thank you... Though I didn't experience this, my brother had a teacher that would score boys by rule 10% lower than equivalent work by girls in the class. It's one thing to encourage girls to work in areas that are typically male dominated, it's quite another to offer incentive to discriminate.

Generally, it's still worth it for an SSD if you have at least a SATA2 controller... it won't run full out, but is usually 2-4x the speed of any HDD.

Windows as of 7 (maybe vista) supports actual symbolic links via mklink .. you'd need to login as another user, replace ownership/permissions of the profile directory, and then move and mklink /D to the original location... It's a pita, and honestly, I prefer my OS and profile data on the SSD ...

It's probably a much slower SATA2 disk controller which is your bottleneck.

Not necessarily, the cache and buffers on the chip may be the same depending on model. A couple years ago a 256/240GB was the sweet spot, as usually had twice the throughput, but the controller was the same for the 512gb so throughput was roughtly the same or slightly slower... that said, go for the space you really need. If it's the only drive in a laptop, go for at least a 240/256, but today I'd go for 480/512gb. (Note the 240/256 and 480/512 are pretty much the same, it's just the slack space is taken off the top/bottom for advertising, a certain amount of space on SSDs are reserved for handling bad sectors).

Don't get me wrong, I loved B5, and today, imho it's just behind the newer BSG as best sci-fi of all time. That said, the first series wreaked of day-time soap opera in terms of the acting. It got better, but lets be serious here... Again, loved the show, but wish they could re-shoot the entire first season with better acting, and a slight bump in the dialog.

Duh, that's why you get 3-4 phone lines... one for voice, one for you to dial out on, and one or two for you to run your bbs... Then your users upload DOOM to you overnight, or your FTN setup will get it to you for the GAMES sub... You bluebox your way into a long distance board to download the best new stuff for your users, and have l33t/pir8 access. New User Voting modules, and secret sub-bbs access boards abound. Though I was in it for the ansi/ascii art scenes and for the message boards more than anything.

The fail is when you're stuck waiting 3 years for US Worst to actually get you more than a second phone line, despite living in a major metro area, when it's 1994 and BBSing is starting to die off in favor of the wider internet.

Also, new projects have required 100% code coverage for CI/CD.

I've seen a few internal git based projects go a step farther.. feature branch from master, with a per-task branch that's short lived.. branch from feature branch, work on your changes, usually committing local, and/or pushing to internal repo. When ready to apply to feature branch, (optionally rebase) and do a pull request... at the pull request comes peer review (a couple +1's) and you merge up... regular merges in from master, and push to master == CD release.

For smaller modules, the branch is typically PR'd straight to master for that project (with review). It's worked very well, and I have to say that working with multiple local and remote branches in git has been quite a bit nicer than with any other source control I've used, including SVN (of course getting used to git took some time, and git extensions helped with that learning curve).

Heaven help you if you supported both.

I just want to note, that a free market isn't the same as corporate protectionism or IP maximalism.. or even the legal concept of corporate person-hood. A free market only works when the operators within said market aren't given preferential treatment over others, and information is allowed to flow freely.

I've had a couple occasions where I had a really tight deadline, and I pretty much worked/ate/slept as I saw fit.. when I was tired, I slept, when I was hungry I ate (specifically walking away from my workspace, and taking the time to eat)... the rest of the time I worked. It turned out that each day started about 4 hours after the previous.

I don't think it's natural at all for us to sleep only at night... if you look at cats/dogs they don't sleep like that, I can't think of many animals that do. From what I've observed and understand it's likely far more natural to take shorter restful sleeps of 3-5 hrs multiple times a day joined with relatively short naps of 20-45 minutes. We force ourselves into the cycles we have, and most people I feel are much worse off for it. All for the sake of an 9-5 workday.

Which is funny, because the sound is more like shhhgrrssheeeoooow.. but that doesn't spell out as well...

Though I mostly agree.. people once thought the same about computers, now a significant percent of the country has a pretty powerful computer on their person.