I bought one of these in the mid 90s (from a Bell Labs engineer). It had upgraded memory and some kind of digital PBX type card that could route calls and record voicemails. I did a few things with it and created accounts for everyone in the house. I even got a bigger hard drive for it, this big MFM/RLL full height 5 1/4 drive that sounded like a jet taking off when it started up. I sold the system to somebody else a few months later because there wasnâ(TM)t much to do with it besides play some games. This was in the era of the Sega Genesis, and it was a far more capable game system. It was still probably the sexiest system Iâ(TM)ve owned, even today it looks retro-futuristic like in a space opera or Aliens franchise movie.

790000 Is not a low UID.

Thatâ(TM)s it, no elaboration required. Well, maybe throw a bit of shade at offshoring, vibe coding, and other software engineering practices that have cost and âoeuser delightâ as the primary metrics of success.

All the stories I've heard from friends, family members and colleagues that worked with or interacted with him professionally boil down to, "he was a dick to me" or "he was a dick to me but less of a dick than he was to other people and this makes me blind to his dickishness"

Specific numbers are great, but itâ(TM)s happening everywhere

âoeThe problem with socialism is that you always run out of other peopleâ(TM)s moneyâ - Margaret Thatcher âoeTax the richâ is a great idea except that thereâ(TM)s not enough of The Rich to support all the people with their hands out. (Or more accurately, pols trying to hand out money to registered voters.)

Making fun of prison rape. Stay classy my friend!

HKD IPO in July. Options don't start for newly created companies for al teast 2-3 months after an IPO. If Options were involved much of WSB would be buying put options at this point.

Have you read WSB? They have been calling it a pump and dump by citadel for the past few days. No memes, no hype, no gain posts. The same people invested in this shill stock have been tied to other fishy investments.

Thanks champ, please proselytize somewhere else. Or maybe you think that somehow your particular rendition of these facts is going to be stirring enough to be more persuasive than the thousand other times they heard them?

You can do so much by just opening a console with F12 and start typing. You have an integrated debugger, a variable inspector, a REPL, graphics, and instant feedback. I would have killed for something like this back in the 80s.

I know that this being /. that people like to bash Trump at every opportunity (even when unwarranted), but isn't this problem one of crappy cert management? Waiting until the very last minute before renewing a cert isn't a Best Practice. It's not like your wasting money by renewing a cert early.

• * time to become a millionaire is three times higher than they want

• * meal is three times higer than they want

• * cost of a Porsche is three times higher than they want

• * Cable TV bill is three times higher than they want

  etc.

This right here.

Look at my username. LOOK AT IT.

I was a Mac-only guy back in the late 90's. I had a subscription to MacAddict magazine for several years. My first computer was a beige G3/300 running MacOS 8.1. I eventually upgraded that box to 224MB of RAM and added a Voodoo3 3000 card (with the firmware flashed for the Mac).

I hated Windows and everything it stood for. But I started using white-box hardware running Windows when I wanted to make Unreal Tournament maps in 2002.

When I got over that phase (in 2005 or so), I started running Linux. But it was annoying and limiting and didn't play any good games. So I went back to Windows.

Not too long after that, I switched from being a primarily PHP/Java developer to a .Net/C# developer. This was around the 2007 to 2008 time-frame, so a good, solid, paying job was nothing to scoff at just for requiring the use of Microsoft software. As I began to learn more about .Net, I found that it's the "it just works" of software development ecosystems. When Windows 7 came along, I jumped on it. Windows 8.1 was good on a tablet. Windows 10 has been just fine. And through it all, .Net has been great. I've made a comfortable living for most of the last decade doing .Net development.

Sure, I kept buying Macs up until about 2007 or so. I had an iPhone (original model) for a while. But Apple's shit just gets on my nerves. Over and over they promised things that never happened. They produced shiny hardware that never performed. They kept nerfing the software. And when OSX 10.5 came out and replaced the normal IP firewall with an application firewall, I knew it was over. I haven't bothered with a new Mac since. I have actively pushed people away from Apple products. When people ask for help with esoteric Apple issues, I tell them "I don't know anything about Apple products", which, funny enough, is what I used to say about Windows.

So I've been there, and I've done that. Your journey away from Apple is just beginning. Mine has finished, and I have no regrets about it. And Apple should take it to heart if they want to survive.

Windows is far superior to Mac OS X. So is Linux.

Having been a user of all three, and a developer on all three, systems for many years, I actually know what I'm talking about.

I would readily recommend Windows workstations and, for some tasks, servers. I would readily recommend Linux for servers. I have written software for both. I would not recommend Macs for anything, as the hardware is unimpressive and not different from anything any other PC manufacturer makes, and the software is stifling and foam-padded so as not to be "unfriendly". Personally, I find that exact quality to be rather unfriendly in and of itself.

So if you need a Fisher-Price computer, and you feel you need to pay double the market rate for it, by all means, buy an Apple. And don't be too sad when your "new" computer is poorly supported, gets cut off from necessary updates, and bogs down under the "burden" of minor software updates over the course of the next two years. Everyone who has ever bought a Mac certainly understands your pain.

I used to be a fanboi like you, and if you don't believe me, check my username.