May I remind you of Douglas Adams' description of the presidency?
I am sure most of us know it by heart.

I second the question. I have been firmly FreeBSD since 2.1, but I have worked with Linux during the years, and I would like to move to a hypervisor instead of a fixed OS. I did play with Xen some years ago, but I would appreciate some advice from those who have tried everything.

FWIW, I strongly like ZFS, so that would be a factor. But I am okay with just playing around with a spare PC with any FS and OS to get the feel for things.

As a C programmer (and often assembly), I looked into Rust. I battled Javascript in 1999, and declared it my enemy. I tried to learn Perl, but it makes my brain hurt. I learned and used PHP OO to develop a useful web database project, and for certain jobs, I like it. I found some Python code behind a dumpster and tried to understand it, but I hated the way the types could just change without my consent. Getting the actual facts of an object was not easy. Maybe good Python code is wonderful, but the language seems to allow absolute crap.

Rust opened up a new OO that really made sense to me. I liked that the compiler refuses to allow certain bad or lazy practices. The ownership idea was new to me, but it makes sense. I went through all of the code in "The Book" and at the end I was impressed with all of the features of Rust.

I feel that Rust can be an effective barrier to keep the crappy coders away from critical systems. Those who cannot pass the compiler are just not qualified to write that code. Maybe they can find employment writing style sheets.

My current projects are embedded C, so I don't use Rust, but I appreciate the advancement that Rust gives to medium and large projects.

That said, I hope that Rust gets a final specification that firmly NAILS DOWN for good a standard that will not and can not change, so developers can be confident that they won't chase a moving target.

I suggest the movie "Ass" from idiocracy. Or Taylor Swift videos.

When I was getting into the ISP business in the 90's, there was some entity pushing an addition to the root DNS. At the time, I think General Atomics was bowing out and Network Solutions was poised to be the insanely $$$ winner. (Hi Kim, hope you made millions from NS. And I probably dealt with you later getting my /19.)

Anyway, this "alternic?" asked us to use their root servers to go to the accepted .com, .mil, .org, and country codes to go to the usual servers, but they wanted to add all kinds of TLDs, even to the point of going to one particular person.

We know that the "alternic" fizzled (almost 30 years ago), but the number of (in my opinion) useless TLDs is again a problem.

What if a registrar announces that ANY TLD can be added to the root servers for one dollar? What can we expect from this?!

No mod points, so I will have to post my agreement. So much of the office kills productivity.

Imagine a backhoe guy trying to do his job, but his manager and some unknown other person keeps interrupting his work. The reason does not matter. When others interfere, the work stops.

I have endured this over the years, but in the last year I have seen it up close and personal. I have plumbing problems to fix in my house, but I can not get into them when I keep getting called into a {expletive} job I blindly accepted. This {expletive} job ruined my ability to do necessary home repairs. Thankfully, I am done with that and can go back to normal operations.

Yes, as others have noted, it must be cut and pasted to some separate app to remove the formatting.

I had the worst time with Libreoffice when it would convert my USPS tracking numbers into... something else. At some point, they finally allowed me to enter a number as a text field. Now I can enter my tracking numbers without them being mutilated.

Going back to the subject, when I want to copy and paste some text, I expect and want ASCII text! I DO NOT WANT some crappy formatting in my reply. If only I could hurl a javelin at those who think they need some font and size to express their point that could be made with text, of any size or font. The message is important, the delivery is not.

And a large wooden badger.

I paraphrase the line from "What about Bob?".

I loved HP for their RPN calculators. Later, I was unhappy with their oscilloscopes that had flaky triggers (compared with the excellent Tektronics.) Then I bought two well-used laserjets and was happy for years. So far, so good?

Their business behavior in the last decade* has been unacceptable. Reprehensible. "Burn in Hell, HP!"

* I don't know the exact dates. But at some point, HP went from customer friendly to customer antagonistic.

No mod points right now, but it sounds like you nailed it. It is always funny when a big corporation loses money on a really stupid purchase.

Minor thought: would the world be better if the stupid CEOs were prevented from getting into management? I do mean the truly stupid CEOs. For some reason, they worm their way into the higher levels. And stay there. And they destroy our industry.

If his wife could throw him a sandwich, why couldn't she send him money for his fare? I guess the story is deeper than the song suggests. (For those who do not get the reference, look up the "Man who never returned".)

I have thought about this, and think that something that is like archive.org for host and domain resolutions could be integrated into a host's resolver. Or at a higher level, browsers, email clients, RSS readers, and whatever.

What if there were a site that archived every DNS change, and your system could log everything. And on request, you could use the actual and not hijacked DNS data.

There were so many insightful posts about their insanity of changing their name, and I had mod points. Consider all those modded up.

I am reminded of the Monty Python episode where an agent changed the name of "Conquistador Instant Coffee" to "Conquistador Instant Leprosy". It was an "ad campaign" then a joke.

Many of us remember "New Coke".

Some of us may remember when "Dr. Dobb's Journal" tried to change their name to "Software Tools". I sent them a VERY STERN message telling them that they were assholes for trying that stupid move. I hope my small vote as a subscriber made them learn their error. FWIW, I actually bought almost all back issues before I subscribed in the mid '80s, so I had the complete collection.

Anyway, when a company has loyal (or at least repeat) customers, they should understand that changing their public image might be an offensive gesture to their customers.

As a certified private pilot and as a ham operator (extra), I have an opinion on this. Avionics are hugely expensive. Probably because they have to meet all kinds of FAA and FCC regulations. I could not just buy a Baofeng radio or other device and shove it into the sleeve where my King or other radio used to reside. I don't remember the details, but one of my radios was old tube and one was transistor. They both worked, so I was fine with that.

Now, today, it is different.

WRONG! I have brewed beer off and on for almost four decades. There is NO discarded barley or yeast. This should be the end.

As a brewer, I have two choices. The easier is to use malt extract, which is the sugar taken from the barley malt. The other is to extract the sugar myself from the barley converted to sugars. Either method uses yeast to convert the sugars into beer.

And there are NO carbohydrates left over. There may be proteins in the beer.

At the end, ALL the sugars are converted into alcohol.