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.

Microsoft basic could be saved in the original text format or a faster loading token format. The token format was not human readable but existed as a language of its own. Any computer language can be translated into another language including human readable language. I had a translator program that would convert token basic into human text readable. I also have a program that converts C programs to pascal.

Any computer language is just a language and can be translated to most any other language if you know what the tokens mean. Granted you loose the embedded comments that explain what the code is supposed to be doing but that isn't all that different than fixing some beginners code that doesn't do what it was supposed to do.

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In one Solaris environment there was a problem of searching through a list of ~ 100,000 names for each of ~ 1000 names. Perl let me do it in 3.5 minutes which beat the old method that took hours. Yes, the old method was bad for this operation but it' what they had.

One book I read on Perl showed three different ways to do the same thing. It then said they all compile the same so write however works for you. So most of my Perl looks like shell script or basic with lots of comments. It's easy to support that way. I'm dating myself when I say I also use Pascal mostly because it's easy to read my old code. With the Borland compilers it's really fast code. With it I could get deep into Microsoft's OS and do things that I read couldn't be done like change the ID on floppy disks or hard disks. I could even add multiple IDs to disks though only one would show. Fun times messing with the low level stuff.

I tried to like Perplexity and just couldn't make good use of it. Maybe I was doing something wrong but the responses I got were rarely any good.

We've been in a recession for 5 years

I would like to see my metal roof barn painted with this stuff. The south side of the roof is 16 by 44. That would probably power a lot of my house, at least the coffee maker.

Important systems should have redundant backup/restore options.

Where I worked (now retired) as sysadmin, every system had two boot disks. If a system was patched and failed on reboot for any reason, the system was booted off the unpatched second disk. Now if the second disk failed because lightning struck the system we would boot to the unpatched hot spare system which also had duel boot disks. We also had multiple levels of remote backup to restore every system.

I don't know at what level Delta made their decisions on backups but I am sure they didn't treat their critical systems as important as my former employer did.

Be a better parent and teach your kid to pay their own way.

When the money involved in that small minutia is greater than the net worth of some countries then why on Earth would you be surprised?