There is only one reaction: All future submissions should use a Headshot Square from Bert Reynolds infamous certerfold shot.

The Apache web server was originally called such because, originally, it was a series of patches (man: patch) to the original http server open source project, hence, it was "a patchy" server. Go get woke somewhere else; there was no malice, or even linkage to Native Americans originally, revisionist historians notwithstanding.

It's all the Democrats fault: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbirdsarentreal.com%2F

Theoretically, CBP only has authority to operate within 100 miles of the US border.

The problem is that "the border", according to these asshats, also includes any international airport.

SO, if you live within 100 miles of an international airport, you are within their grasp, even if you are in the middle of the country, hundreds of miles from our border with Canada or Mexico.

There's an open version of chromeOS, which is pretty damn lightweight... How about giving that a try and reporting back?

Just wait until Elon puts servers in orbit.

Exactly like the terrestrial Internet depends on CDNs to deliver services and results in a timely manner, so will the Orbital Internet(TM)

It's a logical evolution

Look, It ain't about age.
It's about experience.
What make's old fucks like me valuable is the 30+ years in the business, the experience, both dealing with complex issues, and with complex (valuable) people.
That also makes us expensive.
Working from home is not going to change that dynamic.

Just wait.... I'm betting the fucks at FarceBark will copyright their winning argument. If they decide to do so, I hereby claim all rights to the idea and demand compensation.

If not, the short answer is emphatically NO for the foreseeable future.

The long answer is that without a chip fab at your disposal, you -might- be able to design the chips, but you will never be able to afford to have them produced, and if you outsource the production, you have defeated the (security by obscurity) purpose of brewing your own stuff.

Recommend you explore FPGAs, which get more affordable all the time, and the tool chain required to support the design process.

Alternatively, the man is always recruiting, if not hiring.....

-Red

Two points:

First: Somebody has their priorities backwards. IT SUPPORTS the business units who bring in the cash. If you're developing linux-based software, of course you need a native linux environment, not necessarily to develop, but to test and debug as it will be deployed.

Solution: Take this up with management, if you couch the argument correctly, it will come DOWN to IT from on high as a directive, as it should be.

Second: I ran into this problem about 20 years ago, and we lost the argument. SO, per IT, go get VMWare...... and then we cloned the IT weenies Windows install, and ran it in a VM hosted in the linux we installed on our desktops.

Caveats:

• If it breaks, you own both pieces and all the problems. You ARE your own support. If you call IT to support the unsupported architecture, the game is up.....
• When on the road, we had to "Switch the Flip", and run the linux in a VM hosted by the IT departments windows image, in order to tunnel home through the corporate, windows only, VPN.

Not sure how much of this is relevant twenty years later, but you get the drift.....

-Red

I fail to see any reason to pay some new-age tuck-fard for the privilege of sitting in a dark place, deprived of stimulus, when (if I saw a benefit), I could accomplished the same end by parking my ass in a small u-stor-it with with lights off.

One hell of a lot cheaper, plus, after the 10 day deprivation period, I have 21 more days of storage I have paid for.

I hope someone gets the obscure Snow Crash reference.

Red

A huge set of issues is that "English", particularly the American dialect of "English", is actually an agglutination of lots of feeder languages, THOSE languages have inconsistent rules, which conflict, and that, over time, the pronunciation of many of those "borrowed words" has changed so that it doesn't even follow the rules of the source language.

As much as I believe in teaching phonics, it's not a 100% solution for learning 'Merican English. You just gotta memorize the spellings...... BUT, there is still value in learning the phonics and being able to sound words out. If you have heard the word before, and the phonics get you close, you recognize it and note the exception.

You have just Learned Something......

Red

Funny, you proved my point.

I have never seen that (German) word before.

But not only can I pronounce it the first time (German pronunciation is 100% regular), I know what it means.

For inquiring minds, it's automobile liability insurance.

Red

Disclaimer: English is my first language, Spanish my second, German my third. I am native-language fluent in English and German.

Learning how to sound out and pronounce a word you have never SEEN before is the essence of reading. English is HARD in this respect, and the "rules" have so many exceptions, but it's still an essential skill.

We raised two children through adulthood. The oldest ran into the whole language BS, and struggled. WE had been teaching him phonics from home, and ran into a school district that told us we were being "counterproductive".

Number one son struggled with reading his whole life as a result.

When number two son hit the same point, we were better prepared, told the school system to eat-shit-and-die; he got phonics at home and read ahead of his class for the duration.

DO NOT accept this progressive, touchy-feely approach to learning. Sometimes, old proven methods are, gee.... OLD AND PROVEN.

FWIW, when you learn a foreign language, once you get beyond the first few days, they teach you how to read and pronounce, because the rules are different and you need to know how to match a printed word with a word you have heard., but never seen.

This IS what READING is all about.

Red

You in the UK, and in the rest of Europe, are in a much better position than we in the US.

We essentially dismantled out passenger train infrastructure in the latter half of the last century, so between the lack of infrastructure, and the vast scale of the US, travel by rail is just not a viable option except in the NE corridor.

Further, despite my jokes about diesel emissions, modern, clean, diesel engines, burning clean fuel are as clean if not cleaner than gasoline (petrol) engines, and more efficient. Diesel passenger vehicles have never been popular in the US for various reasons, most recently because of the taxes on diesel fuel targeting over-the-road trucks which make diesel fuel significantly more expensive than gasoline.

Finally, Europe has not fallen to the Cry of the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) with regards to clean nuclear energy like the US has. After the accident at Three Mile Island, we lost the appetite to continue building, expanding, or maintaining our nuclear industry.

Lobbyists perpetuated coal fueled power generation in the US, and later natural gas power production (and still do) long beyond when we should have moved away from it.

This comment will most likely get modded down into the weeds.....

-Red