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  1. Re:Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    KERNAL - the ROM resident "operating system", there was also BASIC in ROM

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

  2. Re:Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    TOS was fine

  3. Dumb enough to insult analysts instead of presenting a plan to profitability

  4. "Trol" isl quoting the largest analyst firms, m'kay

    Just like Musk insulting analysts instead of laying out coherent plan.

    yup, it's all just trolls, Tesla financials are fine and solid, and profitability just around the corner....

    nope, needs *large* cash infusion outside of what any sane market would provide.

  5. Hahaha, serious wall street analysts see no hope in hell of Tesla being able to make a profit. Musk is fed up? Haha, no he need injection of money because he can't make a profit and there is no way to make a profit.

    Meanwhile, electric cars will be made at a profit by the big auto makers. Overpriced toys for the well-to-do isn't a big enough market.

  6. Re:Can we have nuclear power now? on Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    false, the sun does that.

    I used to be nuke fan, used to be engineer in plant. But nuclear power is not necessary any more.

    solar panels are now efficient enough, and energy storage tech sufficiently advanced we can make that primary power. We can use fossil fuel plants to take up deficit for areas that have sunshine lapse (just as we use fossil fuel plants to take up deficit when nuclear plants are refueling). That would be less than 5% the fossil fuel use for energy production that we have now.

  7. Re:"Somnambulant??" on The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    That's a perfectly cromulent reason.

  8. Re:Now something must be done on Heat and Humidity Slow Down High-Frequency Trading Due To Microwave Links (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    just don't ruin their ocean view on their beach properties with those windmills. only the proles are fit to see that

  9. Re:The *nix is slowly eroding away on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    cron still works though

    on the other hand, some scripts that worked for years in GNU/Linux are fucked up by systemd and needed a lot of work. The Debian SJW systemd-tards shit on GNU/Linux and the other major distros picked it up

  10. Re:remember old Western Bell dial phones? on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    but with Apple's you can do the anime or movie katana meme where you run by the opponent moving the thin thing so fast the eye can't see it, then the opponent takes a step before either torso slides off waist or head or face falls off.

  11. Re:Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows is still the worst OS I've ever worked with, and I've worked with over a dozen

  12. Re: Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    OS X is still mostly BSD from command line and POSIX/BSD point of view.

    kernel is mix of mach and some BSD

  13. Re:Outstanding on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    my employer gives a choice between Dell Windows or Macbook pro laptop... hey at least it's BSD. So the thing does very well plugged into a couple of monitors, keyboard and mouse. But take it outside the building? nah, that keyboard and giant touchpad sucks. It's tolerable to take to meetings...

  14. and I'm not buying the argument that watching a teacher drone in front of a chalkboard (white board) is any more useful than a screen. Why do they bring up horse riding, most people's education does not include 19th century transportation.

  15. Re:Two of four plug-ins stopped working. on Thunderbird v60.0 Email Client Released (thunderbird.net) · · Score: 1

    maybe someone has to look up a lot of terms in emails for business or research reasons? It's convenient compared to cutting and pasting in browser.

    not everyone uses email to chat with Aunt Milly.

  16. unfortunately my phone isn't smart enough to know it's in a restricted area and immediately stop functioning.

    these military dudes and dudesess must have really smart phones.

  17. Re:Rather Publish, Dolan-Gavitt should have Perish on Cramming Software With Thousands of Fake Bugs Could Make It More Secure, Researchers Say (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a problem for coder or documentation, the compiler would insert these non-bugs

  18. Re:Finally, courage to use the number 9 on Google Begins Rolling Out Android Pie To Select Handsets (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    don't worry, someday some marketing wank wanting to make a name for himself will pick a number

  19. Re:let's try that with something else on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    You are the one that is ignorant.

    You only know the common bad tools.

    There are frameworks that lesson the complexity, one of them is used in the e-commerce system I manage that handles over a billion dollars a year in volume.

    It has more than the pieces you list, too. You sound like a web code monkey only listed those.

  20. I'm dumb. Wouldn't using a cell phone at all expose your location the way cell towers work?

    Sorry for the stupid question.

  21. Re:Scanning everything to Digital Sounds Great. BU on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So what are you whining about? You can run dos 2.11 and windows 1.01 in a VM too. Or old OS/2.

    There is no problem. You don't have a problem.

  22. Re:Objections: Speculation and Citation Needed on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You should educate yourself then on how media lifetime expectancy is made for various types.

  23. Re:There's an unspoken reason for corporate distas on Corporate America Cools On Blockchain. Gartner Sees 'Disconnect Between Hype and Reality' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    Corporations don't contest money put into or taken out of accounts or put into transactions, they don't contest your home address, phone number, credit card....

    You're someone implying they want to falsify something. Bullshit, that's not how most corporations make money.

    The issue is the bottle necked architecture.

    Quit pushing blockchain as a solution for normal business databases, it isn't. It's a very shitty low-performance distributed database that is ill suited for most business use.

  24. Re:It's all play-money anyway. on Traders Are Talking Up Cryptocurrencies, Then Dumping Them, Costing Others Millions (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Hold on there, not more stupid than lottery, odds and the amount of money recoverable are still better than gambling.

  25. Re:WTF? on Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    indeed the readers I've worked with weighed 50 kgs, normal man who isn't a lazy out of shape cripple can carry them.