I always knew there would be a time when I wouldn't know the top famous singer... But a time when I wouldn't have any idea how to pronounce his name, no, I did not expect that. But back on topic, good; but now throw the entire Trump crime family in the slammer for insider traffic too. Why do *they* get a free pass ?!? Or rather a *very* lucrative pass.

Well, speaking for myself, I've always used Xilinx for my embedded OS related projects, but the choice was actually done by the hardware guys.

Do people actually double-boot ? I tried it in the early 2000 to try Linux out, but once you have your tools setup on one OS, you are reluctant to reboot and break all your workflow. Running the lesser OS in a VM is the way to go and has been for a long time.

It's all a small price to pay for Eat Your Veggies.

Another thing that pisses me off is the language confusion. I have a system in english, google is configured in english and when I do a search in english all the top replies are in the language of the country I'm in.

Duke 3D's soundtrack was not exclusively the work of Bobby Prince; Lee Jackson, Apogee's go-to music guy, also did some of the tracks, including the title theme, Grabbag.

Prince used not only his MIDI skills but also his experience as a lawyer to ensure his 'inspired' derivatives were as close as legally possible to the originals. The relationship between individual tracks is often very clear and sometimes even hinted in the metadata of the source files.

Yeah, right.

If you cannot prove either A or (non A), then A doesn't exist. Or doesn't matter.

Podcasts have always pissed me off: I can read the same text in 1/3rd the time it takes to listen to the podcast. They are good only when driving. Caveat emptor: my wife listens to hers at 16x the speed but I can't do that.

We will never truly know how many dimensions the Chess game has.

Say it with me, now. As we all know, the infamous saying goes:

A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

It's really incredible how marketing departments can radiate amnesia like this with such proficiency.

Yes. And 3 days ago he fired the entire National Science Board...

How can you move the cursor in less than 10 minutes with a trackpoint ?!? I just noticed for the 1st time there's one on the keyboard I'm currently using and I tried it. And that's really the time it takes me to move the cursor anywhere.

Yup, been running like that for well over 20 years. Windows is shit and I'll retire long before I am forced to use Win11.

I don't understand why there's not more choice in laptop options. Keyboard with/without numpad, with/without Windows or Option or AltGr key, with/without Home/End/Insert/Del/PgUp/PgDown/Arrow key. Touchpad with/without bottom buttons, top buttons or nipple. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Dell 19" with a fantastic keyboard that still runs Kubuntu perfectly. I recently bought a used laptop for a family member and I had a hard time finding one with a usable keyboard.