I'd like to search to work reasonably, be able to sort by date--including files within directories and get total size of directories for a start.

I'm not sure i need ai to look thru directories.

Zoom? Is that still a thing?

...I remember running Unix on a PDP-11 at Princeton U in 1974-78. I'm pretty sure that the original Bell Labs Unix was developed on the PDP-11 by Brian Kernighan, Ken Thompson & Dennis Ritchie. They may have been hanging out at Princeton at the time.

Again, my memory is a few bits short on the details.

Perhaps this wasn't an official "DEC Unix" as that hadn't been invented yet. Also remember running RT-11 and RSTS on the PDP-11.

Those were the days of great mini computers!

Cash is somewhat expensive for retailers. No one ever stole the credit card receipts. With cash you need to pay for a transfer company, do register accounting and train employees.

Credit card transactions are a bit faster than cash or check. And with credit (or debit) cards there is almost no risk of fraud. You know the customer is good for the payment and the cashier isnt pocketing the cash.

That said, the rent is too damn high.

I was surprised to find that Zelle has higher dollar volume than venmo:

151 million consumer and small business accounts are enrolled to use Zelle, an increase of 16 million from 135 million in 2023. Zelle transactions grew 25% from 2023 to a total of 3.6 billion, exceeding $1 trillion in annual payments volume for the first time.

It seems like an easy solution would be to block incoming calls by country of origin or phone provider. For example, i never want to receive calls from India or weird telecos.

Als ability to switch to caller pays a few cents to get their call connected. The few people who call me would be willing to pay.

Back in my day we called these a terminal. And the cloud "timesharing".

Yes they are different, but is this all we got after 50 years? (TSS 360/TOPS 10/Multics/RTS11/TSS8 all date from the mid 70's.)

This already partially exists with + addressing. You can create disposable addresses by inserting a +;after the local part and before the @. Will not fool a human but useful for random list sign ups.

Also works with Office 365.

I thought this was an posting on bring back the Gopher Protocol:

The Gopher protocol is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.

Now you kids get off my lawn.

Services like FedNow and ACH RTP are nearly instantaneous and have a much lower overhead cost than a trip through "stablecoin". The limits are $500,000 for FedNow and $1 million for RTP.

There's always old school "wires" which can have higher limits -- and slightly higher fees (around $15 or less for commercial entities).

Tell me again the value of the stablecoin approach? Other than another intermediary that can take a little bit of the pie.

Probably emailed something like info @ delta.com or executives @ delta.com. There call center is probably overwhelmed with emails to executives with refund issues and cancelled flights.

There probably is an senior Microsoft account executive who probably has a real email address for the Delta CTO.

Mostly replace mice when they get too grimy or physically damaged from having something heavy fall on them. Or getting the cord yanked out and then the usb port gets damaged. Or if something gets spilled on it.

And a shinny new mouse is a relatively cheap treat. When an employee leaves we almost never reuse their mouse. Getting a used mouse is kind of gross.

Lifetime mouse seems like a bad idea.

I love the excuse of "a single content update". Ummm, isn't this really your job to make sure all the updates are correct.

Gee everything was going well until "Hi, I'm Jake from Austin" pushed the wrong button.

Don't you really want to compare it to the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458 metres per second or 1.079e+9 kph) as that is a universal constant which the aliens will easily understand.

To put into context, 692,000 kph is 0.06% the speed of light. This isn't going to be a contender for the Kessel Run.

Also, don't you need to indicate the frame of reference that you're measuring the speed in?