Amazon isn't the only culprit in this, and thanks to a certain leadership, congress can't do anything. I hope you understand this, because Amazon does. That is why you are asking these questions, FYI.

Under no circumstances should JD or affiliates be able to lock out anyone. No. It isn't okay. Instead of killing a nation, you are killing the planet.

Apparently, they did not control for other factors, like smoking. As a meat eater I say "HA HA", as a person of science I say "REALLY"??! Come on. You guys had ONE job.

For those that aren't in the know, Amazon Linux originally was based on CentOS, with some relatively minor, but not insignificant optimizations for AWS. CentOS was a distro meant to be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS has been effectively discontinued, though several forks were announced. CentOS was discontinued (surprise) though it was popular. Alternatives have spun up, but they are immature at this point. Due to this, Amazon has basically been shoehorned into switching to Fedora at this point. My immediate advice is to examine whether you really need RHEL for anything at this point. RHEL isn't the huge driving force it once was. Find something that works for you and stick with it.

Honestly, my only (yes, I donâ(TM)t care about cars depreciating in value) concern about new cars is that they try to lock you into expensive subscriptions. No thanks. Remotely starting my car should not cost $300/year.

Disks would have to be aware of the filesystem to do that. I imagine these CPUs are pretty slow. They have a small power envelope. I would love to see a disk with a proper CPU to do compression/decompression, encryption, file searches, malware detection, etc.

Not any more sad than Python.

Ruby runs just fine on Windows. Head over to https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frubyinstaller.org%2F and install it.

Not really, we use a Macs primarily. Our test suite runs on a server matching the production environment. We have no use for Vagrant, our production environment is built from scratch (via a docker image) with each deploy. The build server actually allows us to easily test major OS updates. Then again we live and die by testing.

You can add an exclusion for Windows defender FYI. It is still a dog, however.

Ruby itself works fine on Windows, but most 3rd party libraries do not. The last time I checked, Rails worked on Windows, but it was slow. The issue is third party libraries that use C/C++.

No, lets call the stock market for what it is: a casino. Stock prices rarely reflect the actual state of the company. The markets exist for only one reason: to make money.

Ruby works just fine on Linux.

Ruby is the language, Rails is the framework. I am on a team of 15 in a company that employs hundreds of Ruby developers. Both Ruby and Rails are very much still in use today.

To add to this, the win32 API was originally designed with C developers in mind, and in my eyes it was (and still is) a good API. Since it is an API that qualifies as code reuse does it not? I am a fan of OOP (all my work these days is in C++, C#, and Ruby), but IMO it isnâ(TM)t a necessity.