...they got busy on FORTRAN.

It was evident a couple of years ago; I left and went to pixelfed. So now it is even worse. Twilight of the former giants! (FB, Insta... looking at you)

:wq

Reportedly, an airline having overbooked a flight made the passengers...race around the plane to decide who would fly. Obviously unfair to the overweight...this was a way to discriminate against them! Now ozempic restores fairness.

Over the years I have accumulated: an iPhone, a couple of other smartphones, and a dumbphone. All of them functional. There are reasons I use each one of them for...what I use them for! :)

BTW, special apps for FB, for Insta, etc etc?! I say NO. If it is not accessible via browser, I move on.

You could load a booting program byte by byte via front panel switches...right?!

>> to talk to an AI-powered hologram of Stan Lee for $20.

You pay me $20 and I'll talk to it. Hmmm...$100 is more like it.

Re data or instruction?: Running a (last century!) program with info on countries of the world would mysteriously crap out when it reached Ecuador. Every time. How so? What is the capital of Ecuador? Quito. QUITo!

It is from onerous to impossible, this kind of exhaustive search...not to mention forays into probably unconstitutional invasions of privacy. For every tourist who wants to enter the US?!?

Seems to me it is going to be SELECTIVE. This orange-hued administration will have it as one more weapon in its arsenal, trotting it out and applying it to those it chooses.

...I stick to my before-2013 Porsche

"...you insensitive Claude"

Oh, I'm so ready to hire an attorney who does not read what he files!

> an estimated $80 billion in capital expenditures over the past year created pressure to reduce operating costs.

I make $3000 a day but a $4 increase in my daily costs created pressure.

At Caltech we had developed an amazingly fast (femtoseconds!) Write-Only Memory.

The few times I leave my Linux machines and have to use Windows, it is always Windows 7. No 8, no 10, no 11. Sorry M$, count me among the losses. It was the least bad version of Windows, and a paradise compared to current versions with all kinds of telemetry, spying, ads and bloatware.