I've never met any of the mklinux or linux/ppc folks in person, sadly. I was on the east coast in VA. I think most were in the bay area, at least by the early 2000s. I moved there shortly before the lockdowns, but moved back to VA a few years ago.

I'm pretty sure my 7100/80 is somewhere in my parents' basement, along with a few //e's I rescued. I still have the mklinux book with the DR2.1 CD on my bookshelf.

As someone who worked a bit on mklinux (after Apple abandoned it), I wonder if they googled before choosing a name. The mklinux.org website is actually still up, amazingly.

Probably overweighted r/antiwork.

I just had 2 WD red plus drives DOA, from different vendors. (No it's not the 3v spin-up signal thing; even blocking that pin they were both dead.) I switched to Toshiba, which unfortunately is louder.

In the 90s and 2000s Seagates were the best.

This isn't a rich thing tho. It's actually more of a middle/upper-middle class thing.

It's called tax loss harvesting and is well known. You're definitely right about the lottery effect, but steady returns are (ignoring taxes) better because the jackpot might not happen, but in real life the highest returns ARE indeed lottery like (a very small # of companies account for most of and index's return).

The ultra wealth real advantage is they can borrow against their shares (which they sometimes are not allowed or practically able to sell), but that also increases risk for the borrower (tho some risk goes to the lender, along with return (interest)).

Mere mortals do have some advantages: you (and trusts) can buy $10k in ibonds per year (safer than TIPS because ibonds guarantee at least a 0% return, while TIPS can lose (if real rates rise and/or deflation happens). Also the US has progressive income tax brackets, often at the state level as well.

EVs are way too heavy, take way too long to recharge, and have much less range. The road trip I took into last year would not have been possible in an EV. They're good for some uses tho, like city commuting.

Yes, the integral of HP curve matters. So does gearing. And a higher redline allows for holding a lower gear (higher ratio) longer, which has more mechanical advantage (more acceleration from the same power). Vehicle weights are out of control.

0-60mph time takes all that into account, but they're a bit game-able (manual ratios are setup to minimize the # of shifts, because they really hurt 0-60 times).

You mean TLB flush (or L1 cache, typically virtually indexed), and that's no longer true, even for x86. They finally added process/address space IDs recently (2010 for intel, 2017 for AMD -- while most RISC chips have had this feature for 30+ years...).

Same thing happened a couple years ago.

What about governments?

and win11 has it too.

Why on earth did they decide to call thread creation "forking", when process creation has been called "forking" for 50 years? Is it to cause deliberate confusion, or was it designed by someone who's never heard of unix?

What if I told you shareholders also live in communities? And that those profiles are providing retirees with income. Also, governments start wars, not companies. Governments are not altruistic as a whole, and it's generally the exception when they are. Charities can be, as a whole.

Are parties illegal in NYC? What are they monitoring for? Even the article doesn't say. Bizarre.