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The evil megacorps tend to pay more and have good benefits. But they will downsize in a hurry when they lose profits. I had a friend who worked at Microsoft for 10 years and they laid him off. I have …

Doesn't IBM already own Red Hat? Will AOL make Red Hat and Fedora Linux easier to use?

This is why you need more than one copy of the source code. Stored on a backup, or servers, in case the original code goes away. The man was talented, and nobody can replace him. Even a disassembled c…

Fear is the mindkiller. Remember that. Worry is fear. They are out of your control. Just keep your vax for COVID-19, and don't visit any Russian sites.

I think World War 3.0 has already started, in order to stop Russia NATO nations have to go to war with him to avoid him invading Poland after Ukraine.

Because conditions are so harsh in third world nations that they have several babies because they have a chance to die more often than the first world. The USA had the Baby Boomers, then abortion beca…

This is going to be World War 3.0 isn't it? Russia was close to hit Poland by 15 miles.

https://youtu.be/YO2XkGfVHlU That is why you raise them not to be wild animals and unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Not everyone is cut out to be a good parent, but having bab…

It reminds me of the talking Coca Cola machine. It annoyed people a lot and they had to get rid of it.

Economic sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine. McDonald's, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc all shut down their Russian operations.

It happens in the USA as well. Epstein and friends kidnapped children for the elites to have sex with them and buy them as sex slaves.

It was free software. After the DOJ ruling they wanted to make an alternative to Windows, but when the DOJ dropped the charges, development was stalled and money dried up.

Instead of Linux one can use https://www.haiku-os.org Haku Beta3 for now. Soon it will run WINE and be out of beta by the time Windows 10 is out of date.…

The Pleasuredome Torrents: https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/mame/ Some of the ROMs are on the Internet Archive.…

Don't trust HN on this. Read the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56720589 HN is for tech, not geopolitics.…

The reason why the EU can afford social programs is because the USA and NATO provide them with military defense so it doesn't come out of their military budgets. After Ukraine gets invaded they m…

This is fast advances in .Net, I'm still trying to learn .Net 5 and 7 preview 1 is out.

I think LibreOffice on the desktop loads faster. I use LibreOffice under Ubuntu and Windows 10 for writing books and documentation.

I seen on loss prevention on Reddit they had five people shoplift detergent in shopping carts and cleaned out the whole aisle and put them in a SUV. Then they sell it on Facebook or eBay at a discount…

My father played Battlezone and Red Barron. They had realistic controls and vector drawn images. It was fun.

It uses Blackbox technology and was based on Pascal. It was built on DoD standards. I did Ada programming in the late 1990s as a federal contractor. We used Janus ADA for DOS which cost $10,000 per li…

Xenix ran on 8088 PC/XT systems. I remember now. Unix was stable, DOS/Windows was not. Which is why Steve Jobs used BSD Unix for NextOS.

During the age of dinosaurs it was hotter than it is now.

Windows 2000 Pro is NT based, it came out before XP. It was more stable than XP. The hardware had to pass up the OS in stability features. 486 and under CPUs had a heat sink but no fan. Some CPUs didn…

No sadly it was not. It was supposed to be on his MacBook Pro but nobody knows what happened to it.

Macs cost more, but have better quality than PCs. MacOS is easier to use than Windows 10/11 even if it is limited to 64 bit MacOS apps.

It is a Libertarian thing. A way to make transactions while staying semi-anonymous. Investing in a new way to make money via mining Bitcoins and holding onto them. A friend of mine had $6000 in Bitcoi…

No entry for Donald Trump, sad.