NikkiA

praising 'loop' in the same post as describing lisp as 'elegant' shakes head

I dunno, '700 AU' gelled for me instantly, '15 times the distance to pluto' doesn't even make sense given pluto's orbit isn't anywhere near circular.

That's likely something related to USB legacy support being on or off.

A lot of modern BIOS/EFI also allow a hybrid setting that enables legacy support until the OS takes over, which can sometimes be better too.

ITYM Lilililililililililili....

The amount of software available for linux vs the BSDs tells me that the distro model has not hurt linux. If a homogenous software stack from a single centralised set of software was beneficial, it would be more likely that porting to linux from a BSD codebase would be the norm, rather than the other way around.

The web was only 3 years old when altavista burst on the scene.

So the window of there being 'no search engine to find what you were looking for on the web' was tiny.

Ironically, replacing multi-million dollar aircraft that 'fell into the sea' is part of what keeps the american GDP so high.

to be fair to linux, elf was bolted on after a few years, the original linux used a variant of coff without shared library support.

the odd thing is, at some point I ended up with `hash -R` as muscle memory that I always type before I correct it to a lower case r, and I'm not sure why, I can't remember any shell that uses `-R`.

> it is not just communist countries that nationalised things. Much of Europe did up to the 1970s, lots of Asian democracies did.

I suspect you're about to have your eyes opened to just how the american right feels about pre-neoliberal europe and asia.

Never really had the '3 times' problem, because I realised very early on that the USB logo is always on the 'up' side.

Tweets were geolocated, with a 'see tweets near me' page until about 14 years ago, so it's entirely feasible that at least some of that infrastructure has survived the feature being removed.