And the Continental Congress thought they had a shot at peaceful revolution by offering the king power back, by having him side with them as the legislature for America and cutting Parliament out. He was smart enough not to humor them.

There are also plenty of employers who will openly say they require all employees to have clearances. There's no way around it without just leaving a gap or making something up.

After Gen Z comes Gen Alpha, apparently.

History of the World Part 2 is a show on Hulu with some peripheral involvement by Brooks. It's very uneven, like the apparently forgotten Spaceballs cartoon series.

The article says they only started disappearing in Japan over the last decade, but didn't really explain why. And since the reporting depends on machine translated press releases, they probably don't know either.

No. Crowdstrike took down all Windows machines. It took hours to a day to get most of them back up for everyone.

Southwest's application stack was most resilient and they had booking systems up and running within the day. Other airlines had their application layer synced overnight.

Delta's application layer could not recover. If all their computers had rebooted at nearly the same time, they'd have the same situation where they were offline for days. Those cascading failures had nothing to do with the initial Windows crash and lockup. Then Delta tried to cover themselves by claiming they were still dealing with the initial Crowdstrike problems for days but Microsoft refuted that and eventually Delta had to disclose the real problem to regulators and investors.

The BSODs happened to everyone globally. It was only Delta who had their application layer, including the terminal emulators talking to the non Windows databases, suffer cascading failures after they'd restored Windows.

Delta had a completely unrelated latent system design problem that meant they could not recover from the systems all going down at once.

Delta was down for most of a week, while their competitors were up in a day, because they had no way to bring up all their computers in a way where they didn't immediately crash each other. The terminals would overwhelm the databases, and then the terminals would hang. Most airlines didn't have this problem, so as they got their computers booting again, the network slowly came back online and back in sync.

Southwest specifically updated their systems in the last decade because of a previous outage. The "they run Windows 3.1" memes were just memes.

This is the naming format they used since at least XP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... provided UNIX services on Windows.

Delta specifically were down for days because they couldn't do a cold start of their databases. Southwest was back up fastest because they had modernized and their systems came up gracefully instead of a thundering herd. The others took one day for daily batch jobs to run.

It's a Windows Subsystem that provides Linux, in addition to the Windows Subsystem that provides Win32, and the old Windows Subsystem that provided Unix, and the Windows Subsystem that provided OS/2.

If NT had ended up with as many supported APIs as VMS had, we'd probably find the term mundane.

The original version of Palpatine was a lot closer (since he was inspired by Nixon), but he didn't survive the initial wave of changes after Star Wars turned into a mega-hit worthy of high-budget sequels.

Where are you seeing that? The BLS data from two years ago that the parent commenter linked has a mean of 258k and a median of 209k: https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/m...

Before the prequels, it was originally a reference to Samuel Butler's late 19th century think piece about not letting machines dictate our decisions, and how that would inevitably lead to machine evolution, where the successful machines are the ones that get humans to make more machines and defer to their needs and logic. I don't think it was even explicitly about sentience, just that we'd create our own parasites.

So Dune had humans doing all the data analyses and making all decisions, with machines at least several steps away. There were also some hints of a Talmudic solution where operations that we'd use computation for were instead done by intricate mechanical devices. Apparently, the Orange Catholic god can't tell when you encode the logic to a physical process.

Last time I looked (which was already years ago), it seemed like everyone involved in KDE 4, Plasma, and the semantic desktop had left. Plasma has certainly improved, but Akonadi is still there doing unspeakable things to its poor database.

Remember the KDE tablet that got delayed again and again as they found out the suppliers would swap out components whenever it was cost effective?

I do chuckle whenever someone asks why KDE doesn't write its own display manager.