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Comment Re:That's a worthless statistic... (Score 1) 189

the analogy would be we do choose ISP that can get fiber, cable or ADSL capable gauge line of short enough length from exchange to our home.

We already found out last winter in Chicago area what a measley few charging stations causes, very long lines of "dead robots" when temp went below -30 C.... lots of EV fanbois were furious and vowed to dump the overpriced fad for the wear-the-nails crowd, the EV.

Plus a\ few chargers even broke in the cold for some reason, that should not have happened but it did.

Comment Re:Rust is a good language (Score 1) 84

Some of your stuff is funny, your money and insurance are moved by COBOL and/or Java, as are the resources ERP/MRP of the biggest companies on Earth. Billions of lines of COBOL and the enterprise Java will be around for decades. It never waned.

Occam? Yes good design but ha, never saw it after decades in engineering, hard science and now multi-tier mixed services architectures, it's dead if it ever was alive and was used for anything major? Survive where?

The numerical libraries built in ForTran are all over in engineering, math and science even if the person using it doesn't know their Python and C/++ or C might calling compiled (decades old ) Fortran libraries. All those fluid flow, EE, linear algebra, numerical methods are solid and trusted... but I'll agree Fortran mostly stagnant though.

PHP always was a trash language like BASIC, it's like the kid who wants to join the school band but can't unless they have need of a triangle player. If you want to ruin the security of a Unix, Linux or BSD machine run a PHP crap stack.

Comment Fun Fact (Score 1) 60

Before Microsoft was sued by the federal government for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft had approximately two lobbyists in Washington and spent a few tens of thousands per year.

Guess how many lobbyists they have, and how much they spend now?

Comment Re:It might run on even older hardware with new CP (Score 1) 58

On second thoughts, it would be hard to get enough memory. The IBM 8580 I mentioned could take 64 megabytes and perhaps more (I had 56 megabytes in mine, scattered across several weird upgrade cards). But the PC-AT... I don't know that even with a 486 upgrade installed you'd be able to install and directly address more than a megabyte.

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