"Commissioned" is when they started service. But they were planned in the 1980!

Given the development model of such very complex projects, going back and redoing the computers would be an impossible task: That was the time of very rapid change. If they had had to redo part of the design, they would never have been finished, because we got a significantly upgraded much more capable IT device generation every two to three years! Today speed of change does not compare.

Also, why would they???

The purpose of the design was to achieve certain non-IT goals. If the systems they chose did so reliably, why change the design? And no, t
that would NOT be quick and easy. Anyone who thinks that has never worked on a truly complex project, and here it's across many vendors, with much stricter requirements than usual, and for long-term deployment and maintenance of decades.

Partially because I'm too busy at my current startup... The thought of a replacement to twitter occurred to me a while ago, and with Reddit's shenanigans there has to be a way to make something that's a blend of /. and Reddit without too much difficulty. Bake in public API access from the beginning with a rate limit on free access that accommodates moderation bots etc. and go from there.

Getting the BE architecture right from the beginning to handle the mind-bending loads would be the hard part, or accept that at some point you're going to have to make a BE core change that's high risk and just go with something fast and easy to start with. Assuming it's all microservices it should be a doable thing to make a cut over to a new database at some point once needed.

Nope. They're a private entity with no government function. They are not required to meet accessibility guidelines per 508 standards. Source: am doing QA for a product that is required to meet AA standards level.

Well I'm back on /. after a long hiatus partially because of this... shocked I remembered my credentials TBH.

In this case though it's arguably alright to use "different".

As in "Let's do something different!" - It does not have to be used as an adverb. You can argue about the sentence structure, sure, but you misunderstand the role of language. Years ago, the more stuff I read about and from linguists the more relaxed I became. Turns out those studying language are far more relaxed about such things.

As so often, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Those who know some rules now take them for religious gospel. In reality, language rules are descriptive rather than prescriptive.

Schools give the opposite impression, which is fine, if you let everyone do whatever without there being a common foundation we end up with a Babylonian language nightmare. However, in the end people are free to use language in whatever way the want. A lot of words used today changed meaning and usage, often quite radically.

So, relax. You know what he wants to say right away - his language works perfectly fine.

Now how will I order my pizza from pizza.net?

Yes if the government tells you "sir, you are not allowed to make a living" they should be making you whole by paying your wages until you may return to work. Unfortunately that's socialism, and was never seriously considered.

You point is well made. I would mention that at the moment Ohio hasn't re-opened day cares across the board and schools are closed. That means that many people can't go to work because there is no one they can get to watch their children. IIRC those people are allowed to remain on unemployment until the day cares are re-opened. I think that's reasonable.

My opinion on the matter is that I do believe we should get free happiness money and if this is the mechanism by which we'll temporarily get it, I'm fine with people using bad-faith arguments in order to get it. EVERYONE uses bad-faith arguments these days, and I don't see why people shouldn't be gettin' while the gettin's good.

Dislaimer: My wife and I work from home and have not drawn unemployment during the crisis. In fact, I don't think either of us have *ever* drawn unemployment. The only time I was ever laid off, I already had a job lined up the following Monday.

To be clear for everyone reading this, the amendment failed by one vote. It's complicated but the amendment needed 60/100 votes to pass due to Senate rules on restricting debate.

I'd look outside first.

Past behavior predicts future conduct.

Which proves that it's actually people that suck.

In fact the Atlanta Falcons we're found to have been doing this.

In fact some of them believe it's a moral issue on the order of slavery.