Way back in the 1960s, the penny was going to be discontinued until the John Birchers made a stink that it was somehow part of a communist conspiracy, and that was the end of it. My, how times have changed.

I attribute it to malloc().

Just checked; IBM's "DISK OPERATING SYSTEM" 1502143 First Edition (January 1984) DOS Version 2.10, page 2-89 specifically says: "If you are not certain which drive is the default drive, do NOT enter FORMAT without a drive letter." Note that it does seem to be fixed in version 2.11, which insists you supply an explicit drive letter (which still isn't awfully fail-safe).

You must be running one of those fancy 80286 machines. Try MS-DOS 2.1 on a real 8088.

The FORMAT command in MS-DOS will wipe out your whole disk in a jiffy. Fun times.

Given their record on suppressing real science around disease, vaccines, physics, etc., while promoting flat-earth, moon landing fakery, etc., etc., how are they claiming that they're going to get STEM right? Why won't it just be full of the same junk, TikTok?

He specifically chose 42 because it's what "you get when you multiply six by nine."

They’re reaching the limits of 64-bit floats.

I bet he screws things up enough that a substantial portion of the population will sour on buying Teslas.

Meh. Good riddance, I say.

Regards,
-DF

Slight nit: No, he didn't have temporary plates. At the time, a new car was allowed to have no plates on it at all in California. So, you couldn't track which new (black) car on the road was his, even if you did happen to see him in it. (And I think the limit was 6 months, not 2, but whatever.) The regulations have since changed, and now all new cars don't come off the lot without a temporary plate with a large, lovely temporary number on them, but that only came into effect after he had stopped driving. Source: I live a few blocks away and regularly passed by his sequence of cars in his driveway.

And in related news, Broadcom has now put its purchase of VMware "on hold". "Oopsie, we forgot to do our due diligence before we made the $61b offer. Our bad! Give us a few days and we'll offer, oh, maybe $44b?"

If Apple had its own cryptocurrency, then clearly if they banned competing ones, that would constitute antitrust behavior. But they don't, and I (NAL) don't get what Brian's legal theory on this is. One company being unhappy with how they're being treated by another doesn't do it; they don't generally have to do business with you just because you want them to.

Don't forget the grief that old-school hackers feel over how the meaning of "hacker" has been perverted!