The study is really more about setting unrealistic goals. You don't want to do that. But from a mental health perspective it is still good to manually steer the ship towards positivity as our minds are so clever picking all sorts of negative trash anyway.

Heh!

But hey, 1999 was a great year. CPUs and 3D accelerators were powerful enough to run games like Quake 3 or Half-Life. All games released after that has just been about adding more fidelity.

Sound quality of music albums reached also a pinnacle point: we got great digital audio workstations with lots of tracks and good signal-to-noise ratio, and the dynamic range compression madness had not yet begun.

Windows 2000 was released, which is the other of the two non-sucky graphical operating systems Microsoft has released (the other one is Windows 7). Linux also got popular on the desktop.

Gooood times.

I get this when I search for "doom":

Still no Johnny Cee there. They must add a "Programmers" section!

I'm not sure if he deserves all the mockery. Maybe some people think that he has posted a couple of silly opinion pieces, but that does not make him a malicious monster.

Is there a way to detect a counterfeit chip without bricking it? If that's the case, they could have just added a System Log message "FTDI device attached to system is not genuine! Driver will not start." Then the driver would return an error and Control Panel would show a yellow exclamation mark for the device.

But those are trusted pools, right? So we have no reason to worry about such attack.

Stability is still more important...although I fully agree with your package management point.

They have sold the entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for 1 week. Before that, it was $599.

Tent protocol documentation comes quite close.

I don't think Bennett is in any special position. His texts are published because he writes them. You can do that too.

Also Reddit.

How about Roland Piquepaille?

Well, OS X gives you a UNIX of which desktop has much better QA than the Linux alternatives.

Torvalds uses it occasionally.