I opened both links, even went to the actual CDC report (link: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volum...) and there are exactly zero references for the bacteria coming from pigs. Try searching for the words "pig" and "farm". So much for lecturing others on reading TFA...

If that was true, then all of those that went through the school system 40 years ago would be, as you suggest, well educated and very well spoken. In my personal experience, that's most certainly not the case.

Replying to undo the accidentally troll mod. Sorry!

The best part? paint.net was made by a Microsoft intern as a summer project. I have no idea why Microsoft did not choose to take over the project and ship it, even if it was alongside of paint.

Your comment made it a health issue by making me want to spoon my eyeballs out after reading it

I've never seen those. Can you post an example? Not questioning your claim, just legitimately curious. I wonder if it's related to being able to read datasheets.

That actually does not sound too unreasonable of a process.

In retrospect, if what you are interested in is mostly the applications, then you should definitely look at ChromeOS: https://chrome.googleblog.com/...

I highly encourage you to try Remix OS on a VM and to judge for yourself. I feel 50/50 about it. I'm still a little baffled about why Android can run OK in very low end phones yet making it work fast on x86 is apparently an impossible thing to do (Intel releases their own images of Android built for x86 that make use of all kinds of tricks to be emulated faster on their CPUs).

This is 99% likely a drivers issue, which are not userland. That's why they need to be signed by Microsoft itself; otherwise, if I remember correctly, even with admin rights you can't install drivers unless you are in secure boot mode (which is a little bit ironic).

I mostly agree with you, but you also need to consider that the rest of the EU states might want to make an example out of the UK as far as trading and regulations go to make it less tempting for other nations to follow suit.

40 years ago? Then it certainly was not WEB SCALE

I think this is a very interesting prediction. I'm sure that there's more to it than what you wrote here, and that you oversimplified some things for the sake of brevity; I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on the long-term trends in the tech field labor supply/demand.

Nothing further from the truth. Windows 8 might have been a fiasco, but it was not unreliable. After the Windows 8 mess, Microsoft fired half of the testers in the Windows organization and made the other half work solely on telemetry. Windows is now trying very hard to be an "agile" project. So far, they have nailed the fail fast part!

I went into the linked blog post to see what this text-to-speech code (in a vbs script no less!) was all about, and it turns out it's just a couple of lines calling Windows' SpVoice interface. Quite disappointing.