That started in the late ’80s and ’90s, when Microsoft discovered you could ship software the way a raccoon ships garbage: everywhere, immediately, full of bugs, and with zero intention of coming back for it. Shame was deprecated. Embarrassment got a service pack and was never seen again.
Then the frameworks showed up. Visual Basic. PowerBuilder. Tools designed so that if your IQ matched room temperature, you could still drag a button onto a form and ruin someone’s afternoon. Coding was no longer a profession. It was a hobby you could pick up between meetings and a mild head injury.
The real extinction event was Java, especially its GUI framework. Swing didn’t just lower the bar. It buried the bar, held a funeral, and invited the criminally unwell and the sadistic business analyst to give the eulogy. Suddenly anyone with a corporate login and a grudge could produce “software” (term used the way “artisan” is used on a gas-station sandwich) that your overlord would then force the entire building to click until their souls filed a ticket.

Remember that?

Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.

Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.

There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?

Looks like the "radi" part of the name came from "radiation", as in "blast waves and other high-energy events radiate", and "oss" came from "ossature", the French word for framework, skeleton, or structure.

Not really much to do with ham radio.

Ironically, restoring the old methylation pattern may increase, not decrease, the risk of cancer. Here's why. When you get older, the risk of a cell's DNA accumulating damage increases. Sometimes, this damage can provide the mutations to make the cell cancerous. In order to prevent that, the cell silences gene expression by methylating sections of the DNA. Reference: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

Now when you go and do a fool thing like "restore the reduced DNA methylation patterns typically found in young cells" (without repairing the damaged DNA) .. you're actually undoing the bodies protective mechanism and actually increasing the risk of cancer.

Upon reading the paper I quickly realized, predictably, that it's all baloney. By new heart they mean methylation patterns imprinted in the DNA. Is methylation anything to give a shit about when it comes to the heart? Most likely no. At best you could fool someone like Peter Thiel I suppose. What makes your heart give out is muscle wasting and narrowed or cholesterol'd up blood vessels .. calcification at the valves, fibrous scar tissue. The methylation pattern in the cells don't do anything much, fucked up methylation can cause cancer I suppose. When was the last time you heard of anyone dying from (primary) "heart cancer"???

You don't know him and don't know he's a sociopath.

However, the people who do know him say he's a sociopath, so they probably know.

https://futurism.com/artificia...

I didn't know I was so interesting there'd be 12 GB of shit on me.

We need to be able to track how many such reports are made on a quarterly basis. Not necessarily the content, but at least the number of reports and to what agencies. This should be tracked from both the government and the company's side.

Yes, so eventually it will be just like Chrome?

I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?

You don't think it's shady you tell someone your idea, and they're like "hmm I could just do that myself" and they do it? That comes off as moral/ethical behavior to you?

Or we eradicate HIV, it's as simple as that. These viruses need to know we're not fucking around.

WorldVu went to SpaceX for launch services with their internet constellation idea, Starlink gets announced a short while later. Reference: https://spacenews.com/41755wor...