I see you registered here 3 minutes before me. I remember when this place was hosted in Robs dorm room.

Everyone born today is in debt for hundreds of thousands of dollars because the people before them would t balance a budget and the government decided to print print print. They either work and pay that money off or they die in complete poverty. Thatâ(TM)s slavery. Itâ(TM)s debtors prison minus the walls holding them in. We are all cattle in this economy and they will either milk us or slaughter us at their whim. If you believe otherwise I feel sorry for you. Itâ(TM)s the economic version of the Matrix. Wake up

To be fair the government believes this too. Why else would they just print money whenever the fuck they feel like it? That of course begs the question, why do I pay taxes if they just print money whenever the fuck they want to? It's all completely fake and made to enslave people. This hasn't been a capitalist country in decades, not since leaving the gold standard.

Why are you arguing? Your post just proved my whole point. Also it's not based on FreeBSD, it utilized the FreeBSD user space while doing their own kernel, Darwin. You keep stating "can't be fixed" as if it's some fact, while simultaneously acknowledging others have, in fact, fixed these issues in the past. Let it go.

I disagree. Apple went from OS9 to OSX, a completely new codebase by creating new frameworks for devs and a translation layer for old apps (Remember Cocoa, Rosetta, Carbon?). They then phased the old out while providing documentation and tools for devs to move. It's perfectly doable with very clear cases of it being done. Microsoft simply refuses to do it.

Apple's even done this while switching from PPC to Intel and then to ARM. There is no technological barrier here, it's all organizational and cultural at MS.

It can be fixed, they just won't do it. Microsoft has fought internally over various technologies for decades, between win32 and .Net and all the shit in-between. They never standardized like Apple did which left them entrenched in technical debt. They could, today, start a standardization process, build out a new and modern tech stack, advise their devs to migrate to that, then set a date with the cut off. Apple's success at this is a model for anyone to follow. They just won't due to internal fighting.

Everyone else sheds the old stuff, even Linux drops code from time to time. Microsoft does this to themselves.

Except lying with practically every single word, like putting blame on Zelenskyy for starting the war in Ukraine?

And defrauding students with his failed and shady "Trump University"?

And protecting US adversaries like Putin's regime, while putting tarrifs on US allies and threatening some of them with annexation?

And repeatedly mocking veterans as "losers" while never serving himself, while abusing every veterans rememberance day as a political stunt to bash political opponents?

And profiteering from his Trump memecoin and several tweet-triggered pump & dumps with activities of the Trump organization in the crypto space, opening the gates for corruption, insider trading, and bribery by foreign actors?

And refusing to take responsibility for anything, instead repeatedly putting blame on "Biden" and "Left wing radicals"?

And deporting innocent people to a Salvadorian prison hellhole filled with gangsters without due process?

Want me to proceed?
This is not about being left of right. Trump is an self-serving narcissist and opportunist that is using the presidency for self aggrandizement and to enrich his family. This should be clearly visible to anyone paying even the slightest attention.

Of course, it matters which sources you listen to. If all you do all day is tune in to Tucker Carlson, you might think that Donald is the second coming of Jesus and Putin is one of his new apostles.

Avoid Gacha Games like the plague.

Play something cool, deep, interesting that does not try to hack your brain with addictive mechanics, abusing your money, time, and mental health. This shit should be outlawed, especially for minors.
Ideally only play on PC or Console. Don't run any games on your phone.

People are just addicted out of their minds to fucking smartphones and social media. We are running this insane social experiment that is depleting everyone's dopamine and thereby their drive and attention span. Then everyone starts thinking they have ADHD when in fact their minds are being eaten away by the instant gratification of notifications, likes, news, engagement as big tech has monopolized their eyeballs and attention to their platforms, using real psychological tricks of addiction. Yes, these motherfuckers have psychologists on their payroll whose job it is to make use of their apps as addictive as possible.

Good software engineering, architecting and coding are real skills, and early dividends of good or bad engineering will pay off or consume everything in the long term.

During my work in a F500 company I realized just how many poor and average coders there are, working on all sorts of projects. It seems like companies are not doing even rudimentary ability tests during the hiring process, since most of the people I need to work with I would never have hired myself. You only want to have at the very least "good" coders in your team. You really don't want the bad or even average ones. The long term productivity difference between coders can vary as much as 100x. Bad coders have negative productivity and will send any IT project into a downward spiral of messy, unmantainable, buggy code.

I spend half of my time correcting and refactoring code and API's of my colleagues. In the latest stint I refactored all of the UI code engineers on my team created and reduced lines of code by 75% cleaning a mess of duplicate code that was all over the place, while at the same time fixing bugs and adding consistent behaviour by keeping generic things generic, which will help long term maintanability, bug-fixing, just everything, immensely.
The people I work with will never realize just how lucky they are to have me in the team. Projects like the one mentioned in this article and the parent post are very likely the outcome of such IT projects where only mediocre people where in the loop, and there was no ace programmer to clean up after everyone and bring things into proper order. As work continues, the unstructured mess created by mediocre devs becomes exponentially more complex and unmaintanable until it can no longer be managed.

I feel this circumstance not valued enough, since most of this sort of effort is "transparent" to management. The screens "kinda" worked before, they work now, so what's the big deal? The fact that down the line all modifications, bugfixes and enhancements will be 400% easier thanks to refactoring and good engineering work, is not so apparent.

Yet its hard to understate how important it is for the long-term success of IT projects to have at least one or a few ace coders in the loop. The skill of your lead engineer and other codes is the primary thing that will determine either successful outcome or utter failure due to cost overruns and software quality issues. This is already determined in the hiring process, but I feel that this is not talked about enough.

So interesting you should say that, since I have lately been thinking along similar lines myself.
In many ways, it seems like Russia is the spiritual successor of the Mongol Empire. The territorial extent and tendency towards expansionism is clear. While I didn't think about the points you made, in terms of warfare there are also several parallels: the Mongols would offer cities a chance to surrender and join their empire, and those who opposed where brutally and mercilessly razed to the ground and its population massacred.
This is really no different than the current day Russian military doctrine of using heavy artillery file and bombing to subdue the enemy by flattening entire cities to the ground. They don't even care about their own civilian population or ethnic Russians in the area. So many cities in Chechnya and now in eastern Ukraine have suffered this fate, despite considerable Russian populations, which they typically claim to be "liberating" as pretext for going to war (or "special military operation" - sure).

He's also threatening Canada, which is the friendliest, most peaceful neighbour a country could hope for.

At the same time he's friendly towards Russia, who is the worst, most aggressive neighbour you could possibly get.

As Darth Putin would say, Russia became the biggest country in the world by peacefully defending itself in other people's countries.

Many things wrong and problematic about China.
Food, isn't one of them.

Dopamine depletion through smartphone engagement (social media, notifications) which kills motivation and drive, while numbing the brain, is probably one of the big ones.
The brain that is addicted to scrolling doesn't want to do hard things anymore.
This, with all the nonsense people consume on social media (they will cry about "lying mainstream media" but not hesitate to believe a random social media account causing a ruckus for engagement) are legitimately making humanity dumber.

Too much easy entertainment, too much fear-mongering and disinformation is making brains squishy and soft. Honestly, get out of all antisocial media and switch off all notifications on your phone. We are running this dangerous social experiment getting people hooked on smartphones, and it's ripping societies apart.

This is what I really don't get about Trump voters and MAGA.

Look, plenty of politicians and the media skew the truth, add a certain spin, cherry pick facts and lie by omission. A certain degree of manipulation will probably always exist, since the incentives for this sort of behavior are just too strong.

But Trump is just... off the charts. He doesn't even try to "skew" or to "spin", he just flat out lies almost every single time, and all of it is so well documented and in many cases easily refuted. And Trump voters simply don't care that their admiration and respect for Trump is not reciprocated in the least, since he will constantly lie to their face about almost anything, as long as it advances his interests. It is an astonishing display of ignorance in the face of a patholigical liar who has learned that he can get away with it, because nobody will hold him accountable, and on the contrary, his fans will love him even more for his wild and agitating but also completely false claims.
This is why many people say that MAGA - Trumpism is a cult. It is not rational.