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"Every day, we stray further from Unix"

Uh, which Unix? Xenix? Ultrix? SunOS? Solaris? IRIX? HP-UX? AIX? UnixWare? BSD? SVR4?

But I understand your pain. My favorite Fortran-66 standards-compliant source code subroutine can no longer be compiled on any system that I have tried. Maybe *BSD will do the trick.

Godfrey is notorious for making all kinds of assertions that are provably wrong. In his root cause analysis of AI 171, he directly quotes an FAA Advisory Circular that is publicly available, except when you read it, the cited text doesn't exist. Total fabrication. Thomas, who by his own admission is technically illiterate, nevertheless slaps Godfrey on the back and says, "Good work Richard!" Total balderdash.

Supercar was invented in 1960. Move along, nothing to see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I would occasionally submit timecards recording over 100 hours per week, and I had a guy working for me who recorded 16 hours per day for an entire week. HR would come back screaming that there was an error, please fix. Nope - It was accurate. My boss would chide us and say we shouldn't be doing that. Of course we ignored him. Those were good times.

Apple Intelligence? Aritificial intelligence? Artificial ingredients?

This was decades later, and while his spoke only sparingly of his times working on the Manhatten project, here are his recollections of what he saw:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

You mean as in "Stopover in a Quiet Town"? Are we in the Twilight Zone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Back in 2003, SCO sent letters to all its System V Unix source code licensees demanding certification in writing that they were in compliance. When Daimler Chrysler failed to respond (due to SCO having an out-of-date mailing address in the intervening 16 years) SCO filed a lawsuit. How did that turn out?

Broadcom might find it informative to check out case 07-11337 in Delaware bankruptcy court. Still pending after 18 years.

YT is great. It hosts my videos, operates a forum for comments, and provides all sorts of analytics, in return for which I don't have to pay a single sheckel. I have no interest in monetization (and would be resentful if it tried to do so), in return for which YT does not insert ads into my content. If YT makes billions in return, that OK by me. Just don't let it show up on my tax return.

Colossus and Guardian!

You can alway trust AI powered defense systems. They are also the perfect systems to rely on when filing a legal biref:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/... "New York lawyers sanctioned for using fake ChatGPT cases in legal brief"

Which is why I alway trust ChatGPT whenever submitting legal briefs.

"New York lawyers sanctioned for using fake ChatGPT cases in legal brief" https://www.reuters.com/legal/...

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The coolest piece of tech at my HS was this room where they had stations set up for each student, who would don headphones and listen to a language tape (I was taking French, and the other choices were Spanish and German) and recite back into a microphone, and the teacher would randomly connect, listen, and tell you how bad you were speaking. Overall, pretty useless.

Computers were "in the air" but not a thing yet.

Back when it was launched, my neighbor asked what kind of mileage it would get. Using rough estimates for the rocket fuel used at launch, I figured that, by the time it reached the moon, it was getting about 24 mpg. Anyone willing to hazard a guess at what the figure is today?