I worked on HP-UX in the mid to late '90s and I concur. HP-UX was always a weird love child of BSD and System V. It was virtually impossible to get open source packages to build, even things we supported like X-based programs.

Regarding the availability of patches, well, I'm not surprised. It would take time and money to make patches openly available and by the time this became an issue, HP-UX revenue must have been rapidly dropping to zero. It is a shame HP didn't just beam all the patches to achive.org and let someone else sort out how to curate and serve them but again, that would take effort and I doubt there was anyone with spare time to do it.

Been there, done that. HP-UX 10 was much better than 9 in many, many ways. I left the HP-UX world before v11 really hit the streets so I have no experience with it.

From what I understand, PCI Express is a direct descendant of the "Ropes" I/O subsystem invented by HP right at the time we were working with Intel on Itanium systems. I was working with some of the developers who came up with the concept.

Right. But follow the money: to subsidize low profit industries, they have to be getting money from somewhere, ultimately by taxing their citizens. That's...a model a suppose.

I'm not sure how B follows A but let's set that aside for now.

China already was the world's recycling destination. We kept sending them bales of unusable trash which found its way into rivers where it eventually wound up in the Pacific garbage patch. I seem to recall they stopped accepting recyclables a few years ago because it really wasn't working out.

Maybe high value recyclables, like rare earths and copper might be different.

We've been over this in /. a zillion times.

My priors: I firmly believe wages more or less track productivity. I know not everyone believes that.

If I and the economists I read are right:
1. If four day work weeks are so great, why do so few companies use them?
2. If my productivity is boosted by 25%, I'd rather keep working five days and get a pay raise, thank you.
3. Riddle me this: why would AI lead to four day work weeks when previous productivity boosts have not?

if that works for you, great. It doesn't match my experience. I am more stressed knowing I have to close the same number of Jiras in four days instead of five.

No doubt. The devil is in the details. I'm sure some bright sparks thought the same thing, ran the numbers, and concluded it's far cheaper to mine new neodymium than to try to recover it from e-waste. I'm pretty sure people are looking at recycling batteries. I'm guessing mining new lithium is actually quite cheap if it's easier to dig up new ore rather than melt down ad purify an existing battery.

That's been the dirty little secret of recycling for 40 years: many things you'd think would be economical to recycle just aren't. The cost to purify ore or oil is, surprisingly, less than the cost to separate and purify used material.

Wait, I thought we wanted Greenland for the Strategic Ice Cube Reserve.

The issue is "compared to what?"

The resources (that is, the people, money, and equipment, not the rare earth elements themselves) being spent creating barely profitable rare earth metals could otherwise be used to mine lithium, fabricate magnets from the raw elements, build solar panels, make chips, build data centers, or a million other things. Generally we use the market and price signals to discover what activities are the most valuable.

That these companies are barely making money is a good indication this is not the most valuable thing to do with those people and capital.

Naturally, and as has been pointed out by everyone from Adam Smith onwards, national security is an important non-monetary benefit and needs to be included in the calculation. But that's very different than observing tariffs caused a change in the pattern of production and concluding that's necessarily good.

Related, what's a "channel"?

it's amazing how long it takes for technologies and business models to die out. I was reminded yesterday that Netflix stopped shipping DVDs only three years ago.

But maybe I just live in a "everything is streaming" bubble. I know OTA TV and cable are still substantial businesses.

From the fine summary:

California's 2018 law remains the nation's gold standard,

Only if you think net neutrality is a good idea. My gold standard would be to have no law at all.

As many have mentioned, given the on-again, off-again nature of NN regulation, I think we can pretty confidently say the Interwebs will collapse into a post-apocalyptic cesspool of hate and venality regardless of whether we have NN regulations.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you!, that people are cheating on remote exams when thousands of pounds are on the line.

In further breaking news, water is wet and fire is hot.

Sora: Create a live video of me taking the exam and feed it to the camera. And Gemini, what's the answer for #2?

Phones with SIM slots still exist which means you do have a meaningful choice. Buy a phone with a slot and vote with your dollars. I'm sure the marketing people at Apple and Google looked at the numbers and fed that into their decision.

So is what you're really saying is you want to choose something vendors don't offer? Ah. That's different. You still have a choice, you just don't particularly like what's being offered. I want a pony that doesn't require any care. Doesn't mean that's an actual option.

For the vast majority of people who don't regularly travel internationally, SIM vs. eSIM is not a big deal. I change phones every 3-5 years so if I get stuck on hold, I can live with that. When I travel, I can just pay AT&T a modest amount or only use WiFi. Personally, I'd much rather have 8% more battery life, as running out of juice is a problem at least once a week. Naturally, YMMV.

Hiring manager: ChatGPT, write a job description from these bullet points.

Me: Gemini, write a resume and cover letter for this job description.

Recruiter: Claude, compare this cover letter and resume to this job description and summarize the match as bullet points.

AI has turned natural language into an over-the-wire representation of check boxes.