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Comment The chain of technology (Score 4, Interesting) 198

Most of the world's oil technology was developed using coal power
Most of the world's coal technology was developed using wood power
Most of the world's wood technology was developed using driftwood and animal technology

and so on and so on. These gotcha-memes never really stand up to examination of any kind, much less close examination.

Comment Re: Getting 7-8 years before installing Linux (Score 1) 21

Iâ(TM)m running Monterey on my 2015 MBP via OCLP. This was mostly so I could run a newer version Lightroom. I also have an external boot drive that I move between this MBP and an 2013 Mac Pro. The Mac Pro natively supports Monterey. I wasnâ(TM)t sure if OCLP would be happy with Ventura or newer in this configuration. Howâ(TM)s the performance of Ventura on your system?

Comment Re:"Dark message mode" (Score 1) 17

Everything serious takes a long time with Mozilla (applies to their browsers too). I wonder if they'll ever announce that maildir support isn't experimental? It would also be nice if they dragged the Thunderbird editor out of 1998 and made writing emails a bit more modern. I use Thunderbird because I've used it since Netscape Navigator, but if I discovered it today, I'd just laugh and move on.

Comment Lifespan of cars in the future (Score 3, Insightful) 24

This type of supply chain breakage is why I think we have already passed peak automobile lifetime (cars built 1990-2010): in the future when critical parts fail there won't be any spares, and unless one is willing to take on 10s of thousands of dollars of firmware modding no workarounds either. I would not expect cars sold after 2010 to have lifetimes of more than 10 years or so.

Comment Re: um what? (Score 1) 74

We use NASM for all of our x86_64 platforms, and clang for arm64. We even cross-compile Windows on Arm using clang-cl on Linux. Some team members would like to use clang for everything and eliminate VS Studio, gcc and perhaps even Apple clang, but that would also mean updating a bunch of old assembly.

Whatâ(TM)s the appeal of MASM? Why would somebody want that to be cross-platform given the existing alternatives?

Comment Re:They could do that? (Score 1) 106

Also illegal in the UK. While they can relocate offices, they'd have to go through an employee consultation process and they certainly would be making redundancy payments. It's also typical to have 1-3 month notice periods in employment contracts. The way TFA is phrased sounds like constructive dismissal.

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