First, the Tiobe index is rubbish, mainly counting how many times people ask about a language on social media. It doesn't measure usage popularity.

I've been a developer on both Ada and Fortran compilers, though my Ada experience ended around 1985, while I continue to be involved with Fortran today. I love Ada as a language - I used to say that if you could get an Ada program to compile, it would probably work. Ada also strongly influenced important features in modern Fortran, including modules and submodules. I also spent a week with Ada creator Jean Ichbiah's company Alsys in France, beta testing our compiler.

"Systems programming language" would not be my term for Ada, but as I was responsible for a real-time and embedded system Ada product, I suppose it qualifies. When the DoD dropped its requirement to use Ada, interest in the language fell off a cliff, despite its benefits. Fortran is NOT a systems programming language - it excels at scientific and engineering applications, though in my career I have seen it used for many things outside that scope, including the file system for PRIMOS in the late 70s. Fortran continues to evolve and, in many ways, leads other languages in standardizing parallelism. Fortran 2023 is the current standard, and work on the next revision is in progress.

I'm happy to see a resurgence of Ada but note that it doesn't seem to have much in the way of vendor support, unlike Fortran.

https://jollyrogertelephone.co... has been providing this service in the US for years - works with most any provider that offers call forwarding, with special support for Google Voice. It didn't start out using AI but it does now. Some of the recordings are quite amusing.

It isn't any more accurate to call Fortran a "language of the 50s" than it is to call C a "language of the 70s". As others have noted, Fortran has evolved significantly over the years, with the most recent revision, Fortran 2023, published just six months ago. It is still a very popular language in engineering and scientific applications.

"Less than" - it's the lowest my router's monitoring will display. This was after five or six loads. I agree that it shouldn't need much data, though I suppose the handshaking and TLS involves some overhead.

It's not and has been shown to not be the case. It's an Asus router misidentifying the traffic. I have an LG washer that is connected, and it sends less than 1MB/day on days it's in use.

I have a lot of electronic items that have USB-C ports for charging, but that won't charge when connected to a USB-C power supply. Instead, they require the use of a USB-A to USB-C cable. Europe already requires USB-C charging ports, but apparently doesn't require working with USB-C supplies. I am not sure this is an improvement.

It’s just in mice! This scientist is calling out hype in science reporting

In early 2020 I left a three-star review for some wireless headphones. The seller deluged me with escalating bribes to delete or revise it. When I declined all, they took to forging my email address in requests to Amazon to "help me delete the review". Amazon's replies (form responses with directions as to how to edit or delete a review) went to me, of course, which is how I knew about it. This persisted over six months! I reported each attempt to Amazon - they didn't care.

I can't read the paywalled article, but I know this happens a lot.

The CNBC article says "Intel currently operates four factories, called “wafer fabs,” in the United States. In addition to its site in Arizona, which is being expanded, it also has fabs in Massachusetts, New Mexico and Oregon. It also makes chips in Ireland, Israel and has a single fab in China."

The Hudson, Massachusetts fab was once DEC's, where Alpha (and VAX) processors were made. DEC sold the site to Intel as part of a patent infringement settlement. Intel ran the fab for many years later, even though it was not a "copy exactly" operation, it did very well. Eventually it became unworkable to keep updating the Hudson fab and it was demolished a few years ago. Intel still has engineering offices there.

I plan to do these all in Fortran, as I did last year. Day 1 was easy.

The Amazon blog post announcing the service now has at the end:

Credits: CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder is based on the Headless recorder.

I don't know when it was added.

My wife plays Solitaire on her Kindle. She loves it so much that I had to buy a "refurbished" 6th-gen Paperwhite when hers died (later generations didn't support Active Content.) At least then I was able to re-load the game from the Kindle store. I gather this means that I won't be able to do that again.

I was a PLATO IV user in college in the 70s, and it consumed my life - a bit much so for my education. But I learned a lot developing "lessons" (what PLATO called programs) and tools for other lesson developers, and also the sort of hijinx, problems and friendships that reappeared many years later in online communities. Later I would work alongside PLATO systems developers at DEC. I still fondly remember That Friendly Orange Glow.

If you are a DirecTV satellite customer, call or chat and ask about the unadvertised "PREFERRED Xtra" package, which is cheaper than CHOICE, has more channels, and NO RSNs. (It does have ESPN, however.)

In my case, it's the local telephone company, from which I buy gigabit fiber service. I don't use them for telephone.