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I haven’t had to pay extra yet, but I am anticipating that being a thing soon. But I do have to drive further to get to a bank that still has a notary.

My bank recently switched all of its tellers with a row of ATMs inside the bank. I think this is kind of what they’re talking about.

Admittedly, the morality of this particular point probably relies on further context. On its face, I suppose you’re correct. However, it’s worth pointing out that for instance the only reason DOS was chosen is because Bill Gates’ Mom was on the IBM board (also because the owners of Digital Research blew it, but that’s a story for another time). Further, IBM had funded Microsoft pretty heavily to help development of the NT kernel with super cushy terms because of the aforementioned relationship with the board. So while, yes, on the one hand you could classify this as competition and it’s a little hard to feel bad for giant corporations, on the other hand this was Bill Gates being a twat and taking advantage of what was essentially a favor. There’s a reason the movie about him and Steve Jobs back in the day was called “Pirates of Silicon Valley“.

Story time: There was another operating system very much like Windows called OS/2. This operating system was made by IBM and Microsoft. It even had DOS and NT kernel compatibility and is where the NT kernel came from. While MS and IBM were working on OS/2 MS secretly developed Windows and made deals with third-party PC manufacturers like HP and Compaq for them to run Windows and not OS/2. Despite the fact that Microsoft was where it was then because IBM had chosen DOS for its PC operating system until that time. OS/2 still got an interesting life though. It was widely used as an embedded operating system well into the 2000s. If you ever used an ATM or cash register in the early 2000s you almost certainly used OS/2. Windows did not get where it is today through organic growth. It did so by standing on the shoulders of giants and dealing under the table.

I was trying to make a joke. But, you aren’t wrong, the sentence is clunky. I read it as “I was helping my husband trim his beard when my dog came up behind me…“

Well, beard is slang for somebody you married to conceal the fact that you are gay. So my guess is this is a closeted lesbian. Or it could just be a typo, but that seems unlikely.

Unfortunately, that’s just not possible everywhere. For instance, where I live the water table is like 6 inches below the ground. Pretty much every house here has a crawlspace foundation. The few that do have basements pretty much all have mold issues and need sump pumps, etc.

People being bad thinkers doesn’t mean that we should hand all thinking over to computers.

AI doesn’t have cognition and it doesn’t do research, it’s a piece of software that cannot think or learn.

Sure, but my point was more they still currently sell devices with less than 4GB of RAM so it seems reasonable to foresee people still using them in 2 1/2 years.

Last time i checked they still sell a RPi with less than 4GB of ram.

Or Martha Stewart.

This is because DevOps is the updated version of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. You have always been able to self host it because that used to be the only option.

They do that because there are some things that you can’t put in the cloud, like HIPAA protected data. It’s absolutely a rip off, but that was their solution.

You can do that as part of an OAuth workflow. You don’t need to have them on separate pages for that to happen.

Why is the text all blurry? … no undo… Have you thought about adding the erasable pen libraries?

This is correct, this is why pretty much every tab you go back to in Safari will need to reload first. It only keeps the thumbnail.

Slack and Teams were copies of Google Wave. They are very specifically hybrids of email and IM.

You didn’t even need the trailer. The teaser poster was cooler than the whole movie. 9 year old me was fucking stoked just seeing this:

The World Wide Web, the Internet is the physical network and servers upon which many software stacks run including the Web.

Woah, I just posted about Art Bell and was thinking about when I heard about this guy on Coast-to-Coast AM and was trying to remember his name.

I thought those were mostly at the state level.