I'm with you on this, VB was great. So was Delphi when you wanted a more systems option.
Tools today, frameworks today are massive bloat fests and you can't count on long term stability from them.

That was one of the original draws of cable television in the very early days, get programs with out commercials. It didn't last. Same will happen with streaming, they're never satisfied with the revenue from the subscriptions, just as cable wasn't, so they'll start selling ads.

Back in my day many of my college friends participated in co-op programs. They regularly worked for 1 or 2 quarters then attend class for the remainder of the year. Took them longer to graduate but all graduated with actual job experience and not just classroom work. Seems like a good time to back to that model.

I always wondered how the mirror universe was able to produce all of the same people as the main universe. Every single set of parents had to meet and procreate in both universes for that to happen, so how could they really be that different?

Since you complain that it is ridiculous for some small States to have Senators, isn't it just a ridiculous in States like New York where the major city makes the decision of who will be Senator or which Presidential candidate wins the electoral votes? Isn't that disenfranchising all of the people in the upper State who aren't liberals?

If DC is allowed to become a State in its own right, then perhaps we should allow the secession movement in California to break it up into multiple States. Then Orange County could be a State.

So going back to their origins when they were a reseller of XENIX, what they called a "universal operating system".

It is interesting you make this comment, if you read up on history from that time period, the reason Hitler was able to come to power was because of how the rest of Europe had put Germany into a disastrous strangle hold after the end of WWI.

The Germany economy was a total mess, the people weren't allowed to have an army to protect them, Europe wouldn't allow fair trade deals.

So here comes Hitler who tells the people he will help them throw off the yoke of European oppression. So was it any wonder that he was elected?

We see Hitler through the eyes of hindsight but at that time in Germany, he wasn't presented as who he became.

I've had similar setups, developers were responsible for their own development environments. If they screwed them up they were supposed to fix them. If they couldn't, then they'd put in a request of the support admins and would get attended to when there was time.

If a dev team impacted their timelines because they screwed up their environment that was on them.

Sometimes that model works, sometimes it doesn't

Unfortunately (as a boomer) I'd have to say that may not be true for reasons you might not have considered. In my household, we have no young children, ours are grown. During the past 30 years of our marriage the situation has been I worked, my wife managed the household. I was at work during the day, and off work at night (mostly, I have been on support rotations). So I came home "after work" and weekends were "off the clock". These are the times I did the necessary work around the house. During this lock down my wife does not fully understand the fact I'm working. At any point during the day she'll walk in and ask me to run out on an errand or do something around the house. When I tell her I'm working she says "you're just playing on your computer, they won't miss you for a few minutes".

At least at the moment you can ignore Oracle all together and go with OpenJDK and use one of the builds made available by other players, like Azul or AdoptOpenJDK. I say "for the moment" because even though the platform is open sourced, Oracle still owns the Java license and the test kit so they could theoretically revoke the right to call OpenJDK "Java" if they wanted to.

A quick glance at that tool it appears to be based on the LWJGL library. That is a native shared library for accessing OpenGL capabilities, both that library and the OpenGL underlying libraries have undergone major changes in the last 3-4 years. So this is likely not a Java issue, but an issue with a compiled native library that was added into a Java application.

The article and none of the links mention the name of the original manufacturing company so claiming this is the "American Way" might not be accurate.

Funny thing is that the two largest cloud providers are often times competitors to the businesses wanting to run on cloud. Oracle isn't.

What I mean is Google is a competitor to any data processing firm because Google is a data company. So any company with a primary business of selling data should avoid Google.

Amazon is a retailer and competitor to all retailers. Between retailers and data companies that is a huge portion of the potential cloud customers.

Only Microsoft's Azure and Oracle Cloud would not be competitors to either of these spaces, as they are both tech companies and don't compete in retail or data selling.

Oracle's offerings are sub-par but Azure is actually quite decent. Microsoft has spent a good deal of effort building out management tooling, making sure users can choose to use Linux or Windows (SQL Server was ported to Linux for use in Azure) and they have a pretty impressive world-wide physical data center foot print.

Where I work we are deciding between the big two Amazon and GCP, but I spent a day with Microsoft and I recommended we consider them.

Bogus story, kinda hard to offer a pardon to someone that hasn't been tried or convicted of a crime yet. The President's pardon powers aren't available until that happens.