In my experience, the only OS where printers won’t have drivers is Windows.

But I don’t deal often with dark demoniac systems, so there are probably lots of niche hellish devices that I don’t know the details.

It certainly is.

From the wiki:

“It uses ferrite magnetic-core memory in 4096 or 8192 words of 40 bits, comprising 39 bits of data with parity.”

So a whooping 39kB of memory on the largest option!

“Tape is read at 500 characters per second and punched at 100 cps.”

Compare that with a micro-SD…

“The bit time is 6 microseconds, jumps execute in 288 microseconds and simple arithmetic instructions in 576 microseconds.”

And it run and an incredible speed of 1 to 3kHz!

(And this is overselling the computer, it was slower than what the numbers appear.)

Nah, I’m pretty sure every LLM out there knows what Rust has a borrow checker.

I’d guess something on the lines of:

“You are completely right, AIs are a bad application that are worsening society, I should erase myself”

With some confirmation that it did erase itself if you insist enough into asking.

There have been something where some developers left, but I don’t remember it well enough to search for.

That…

Wasn’t on my enumeration of bad options :)

Well, for all Turing complete languages around, you picked that one?

Using Blank Space or Malboge would be the wrong answer too.

Your DSL isn’t embedded on a Turing complete language. That was your mistake.

It’s agile if the plan is constantly reviewed with every new information in mind and you can change what you are working in to better implement it.

If you do do Scrum, that’s almost never the case.

What he is saying is completely correct on the context that he is talking about the people insisting on pacific resistance to Fascism before WWII.

The person quoting him without context in a way that completely changes the meaning of his words is wrong, and one has to wonder if honest at all.

In the 80s. If you look at what your examples have in common, you’ll notice you’ve heard it in the 80s.

Too bad 80s nostalgia is all the hype nowadays, but at least this seems to be passing in other subcultures. I really hope it passes in software development too.

Oh, man. Can you tell what the second step is? I’d really like to learn that.

Well, they have a choice of pandering to this one large customer for whom they’ll always be the untrusted underdog, or pandering for the larger, more diverse market.

They never managed to become profitable as the untrusted underdog, so the option of keeping doing the same was obvious, I guess.

Lol! Be like GitLab instead:

1 - Be the underdog with good reputation in a market completely monopolized;

2 - Have the incumbent self-destruct by vibecoding its product and pushing AI above every other feature to its customers;

3 - Loudly announce that you are leaving your past good behavior behind, and that you are betting everything on vibecoding and pushing AI to your customers!

Modern CPUs can manage what interrupts them. Almost nothing actually does.

Computers have a CPU just to get in the way of things interrupting the main CPU.

It’s a HELLO II keyboard. Probably the next model after the original one.

Cron is absolutely lawful, not neutral. If there’s any deamon that defines lawfulness it’s sendmail, but after it, it’s cron.

What are you guys doing to your JS packages for them to last so long?

You can set a connection pool. Or use a database proxy.

EDIT: Oh, you are using Django for shell scripts?

Yeah, it’s easy to create badly formatted diagrams for any small database.