Space is the final frontier. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’d only heard about the 10C portion of the bill, but the rest of it is equally or more bonkers than that.

4. THE BILL CALLS THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT “AMERICA’S FIRST WRITTEN CONSTITUTION”

…Louisiana legislators do not mention that this document was prepared for the local governance of a few hundred religious extremists as a giant FU to civil authority, or that the compact was written before any of them had even set a Pilgrim foot on North America.

Maybe we should do what England did and set these religious nutters adrift and hope for the best.

As far as root causes go, my money’s on lead poisoning and meth.

Yeah, IRQ7 was also pretty common for sound cards as long as you didn’t need to print at the same time. For DOS games, that wasn’t a big deal but if you were running Windows and multitasking with something that played sound (I was an early adopter of MP3s), you couldn’t use both at the same time.

My first Pentium PC was all kinds of awful because it used that IBM Mwave combo sound card /modem. You couldn’t use the modem and play sound at the same time or it would lock the PC up. It was also configured by default to use IRQ7, so if you were online, you couldn’t print either. At least I was able to work around the latter by setting it to IRQ5.

Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend’s Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.

As it stands now, utilities have become the “insurer of last resort” when it comes to damage claims from wildfires tied to their equipment, said Emily Fisher, general counsel at the Edison Electric Institute, an investor-owned utility trade group. The industry has become difficult to insure because there isn’t a limit to their potential wildfire liabilities, Fisher added.

Power companies also need to spend billions of dollars to make their infrastructure less prone to start fires, funding fixes such as installing weather monitoring equipment, burying power lines and replacing old poles. “It’s not a sustainable regime,” Fisher said.

It is certainly sustainable, though it may not be as profitable. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t care less what the general counsel for an investor-owned utility trade group that only cares about the next quarter’s earnings has to say on the matter.

Right.

In reality, we’d end up with about a million Access “databases” (or Excel files) getting emailed around, lost, stolen, corrupted, etc (ask me how I know that lol).

I don’t know much about the market for car dealership software, but I work for a non-profit that deals with environmental remediation. Finding LOB software that meets our needs is an absolute nightmare because it’s so niche. What we can find is either crazy expensive, doesn’t do what we need it to do, is from some terrible fly-by-night vendor, or some combination of those. So when you do find something that mostly meets your needs, you pretty much have to take what you can get.

The government can incentivize or contract out companies to write software, but AFAIK, they can’t compel any company to do so. IANAL, but I would also assume they’d need to stop approving any M&As that may be contributing to market consolidation

You basically nailed it with “pipe dream”.

I was about to comment similarly.

This is why I always advocate against cloud and “always connected” services for critical line-of-business software (and software for personal use, but that’s a slightly different but also similar argument).

I’m unclear if CDK is a cloud service that’s offline for customers, but it sure sounds like it. The other possibility is a supply-chain attack which affected local installs, such as what happened with SolarWinds a few years ago, but with that many dealerships being simultaneously affected by CDK shutting down their systems, it seems more like the former.

one of the ways to avoid this sort of thing happening would be a diverse array of software to choose from

In an ideal world, that would be the case. But as is often the case with niche business software, there’s usually only a few players (if that many), and any newcomers are either bought out or can’t compete.

Where did he even get the badge? eBay?

IRQ 5, I/O 220, DMA 01 🤘🏻

I was poor, so mine was typically running the “or SoundBlaster compatible” card.

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Can’t speak for OP, but the Vault software itself is fine. It’s their recent change in licensing that has a lot of people upset and looking for alternatives:

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0.

BSL 1.1 is a source-available license that allows copying, modification, redistribution, non-commercial use, and commercial use under specific conditions. With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years.

That attitude aged like milk :(

“Thanks for blazing the trail, climbing the mountain, and throwing down a ladder for me to climb, but fuck everyone else; I’m pulling the ladder up behind me.”

-Typical ‘I got mine’ mentality

Bonus: “Surely the people I’m helping to pull this ladder back up the mountain won’t push me off once it’s done.”

Get 'em, RIAA.

Unlike the little guys downloading a few songs here and there, these companies are 100% making money off of the infringement. Maybe ruin their parasitic business instead of regular peoples’ lives for once, yeah?

Easier on my wrist, less arm motion, and my hand doesn’t lock into a claw shape after using it all day.

I really like my trackball mouse, though I had to buy it myself.

Though the intention was always to get this before the “friendly” supreme court.

Yup.

Best case scenario: The schools’ walls will be plastered with tenets from every religion instead of anything actually useful to learning or society.

Worst case: Christianity gets a free pass yet again, the goal posts are moved, and more of it is going to get shoved into everything.

My dumbass state requires every classrom display 'In God We Trust" and they got away with it because they’re not saying which God. Even assuming that’s a valid loophole (it’s not), it tramples on the rights of those who don’t believe in such fairy tales.

No they didn’t.

In a strictly technical / laboratory sense, maybe not. But in practice, they stopped just the same. I also slow down to a stop (regen braking is amazing) and don’t slam on my brakes at a stop light (like some drivers I routinely scowl at). And driving through the country and having to slam on the brakes when a deer jumps out (which was common where I lived), I noticed no appreciable difference in stopping distance between the two tire types.

…huh? ABS has nothing to do with rolling resistance…

ABS prevents the tires from locking up and skidding (anti-lock braking system, hence the name). Under normal driving conditions, it merely helps you maintain control, but on slick roads, locking up the wheels can skid you further than without it. So, no, ABS doesn’t directly relate to rolling resistance, but it’s part of a system along with the tires that contribute to stopping distance…which is what I was talking about.