Some versions of HP-UX 9 had a nasty bug whereby a fork() loop could hard crash the system because IIRC there was no bounds checking on the process table. I know, I found it by accident when learning to code multiprocess in C at uni. I was definately not Mr Popularity in the sys admin office that day.

Back when Solaris and HP-UX was in the ascendent Linux frankly wasn't really up to much either at the application, graphics or even system level (proper pthreads didn't arrive until kernel version 3, before then it was faked with seperate processes) no I'm not sure what the appeal of early linux was other than being able to run it on a PC. And yes, I've used all 3 and still using Linux today.

In London horse shit could be literally inches deep on the main roads in victorian times and no doubt the stink particularly in summer was something few people today would ever experience.

Yes, old cars also stank - you can usually smell a classic car thats driven past as well as hear it - and tetraethyl lead was a crime that a lot of CEOs dodged being put on trial for, but apart from CO2 and a tiny bit of NOx , modern car emissions are no longer much of an issue.

The edge cases ARE the problem. Something the tech bros refuse or are just too stupid to understand. Also here in europe with narrow streets there often needs to be negotiation between drivers using headlights or gestures as to who goes first, good luck getting a computer to work in that situation.

A) I'm not american
B) Ports are very organised in nice neat rows of containers that can loaded and unloaded by lifts. A small messy private business yard? Not so much.

But thanks for proving you have no clue.

Yeah, good luck getting every small company that has deliveries by truck coughing up for some automated system. Isnt going to happen, and if a driver needs to be paid to be on hand manouver the vehicle around the yard then he might as well drive it all the way.

Youll have a link for that then.

"truck driving jobs will be like vacation"

Not for a long time. Driving in a straight line down a highway and turning corners is the easy (for certain definitions of easy) part. The hard part comes when it gets to the yard and the driver needs to chat to the foreman about which docking ramp to park it at or whether to wait for N minutes or go to park over there for now or sorry we can't accept your load yet or there is a complete jumble of trucks with no obvious route though unless you ask someone.

Good luck getting a computer to manage that and its these situations the tech bros ignore.

Sounds like Llama is going to be about as successful as the "metaverse". I guess this is what happens to a company whose foundations are built on the sands of IP theft and in the right place at the right time luck.

My god, I knew americans were insular but you people really are living on another planet.

Sure, all those poor people with barely a pot to piss in or food to feed their kids living hand to mouth in countries run by corrupt psychopathic dictators are just thining, "If only we had access to the IP6 address space everything would be ok".

FFS , get out your basement and go visit the real world.

Yeah, developing countries big issue preventing them advancing is lack of IP6 connectivity LOL!

Oh man, come back down to earth space marine.

This falls under the "so what" category. Either you get yourself or your kids vaccinated or you don't. If you got vaccinated... Why do you care? You're not going to catch it.

Cash in some places but not in the stations, you have to top up oyster using a bank card somewhat ironically.

Windows 7 was the best, and yes 10 was the start of everything we hate in 11.

The last straw: forced reboots. Every control panel setting, registry hack or service disable to stop it is overwritten by the overlords at Microsoft. They will reboot your computer whenever they good and well please. I have lost incredible amounts of work. Even when I did save everything, I have to remember where I left off and re-open everything.

I've had it. Microsoft has forgotten who owns the computer.