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The fact that government employees are shocked that the political appointees want to perform an industry-standard penetration test on the systems they are responsible for tells me everything I need to know.

What is the reason for the shock? I’m afraid we can only speculate.

What an absolutely insane narrative framing by propublica.

I have a theory on this.

Yes, sugar breaks down to the same fructose and glucose proportion.

That takes months. Even longer in concentrated syrup form. Even longer in the one of two components that bottlers get to make the syrup.

A freshly bottled coke in a glass bottle still has the undivided sucrose and that is why it tastes more crisp. After a while, it separates and it doesn’t taste any better because it physically isn’t different.

A freshly bottled HFCS coke still tastes fresh in all other respects, but is essentially stale on day one as far as the sweetener goes.

But by far the best is a properly calibrated soda machine with fresh syrup— but it’s only really fresh if it is sucrose. Otherwise it’s basically stale before you even make it.

Never go full retard.

Both of these oddities were addressed over 25 years ago when Mac OS X 10.0.0 "Cheetah" was released.

Many of the innovations of Mac OS X have been lost in later macOS, but this one stuck. Instead of saying literally "Program" it is the bolded name of the application. This serves the dual purpose of also identifying which program's window is active. Inside the application menu, you'll find both Preferences (now Settings) and Quit.

I'm trying to figure out if you are a Mac user taking a swipe at Windows or if you are genuinely unaware that more or less exactly what you describe has been implemented in a shipping product for over 25 years.

Are you sure IBM didn't care about 8080 compatibility? The PC was released in August 1981, a full 4 years before any of the other machines you speak of. That XT 5160-078 you speak of is a cost-reduced model with no hard drive from IBM, allowing dealers to install a compatible hard drive from a different supplier.

By 1985, the PC AT (286) had already been out since August 1984. And the original XT was October of 1983. And the XT itself is literally the same as a PC with more expandability: 8 slots instead of 5, beefier PSU, room for a hard drive.

It's unclear if IBM or for that matter anyone would have been able to start designing a 68000-based machine and bring it to market by the fall of 1981. Sun brought the Sun 1 to market in May 1982, so about 9 months later, and with a much higher price.

And what did the Sun run? UNIX. What did IBM run? Quick ports of the last several years of CP/M software made possible because DOS 1 was specifically designed to implement a CP/M-like API, and the 8086 was specifically designed to allow porting of 8080 assembler code directly to small model 8086 code.

I was disappointed when Microsoft dropped original WSL.

I'll admit I wasn't a Windows user at the time, nor since for that matter. But I had been before.

I knew the history of the "Windows Services for UNIX" and thought that it was incredibly interesting to have the Windows kernel, full driver support, NTFS, and the ability to just use Windows normally, but also be able to just do UNIX-type stuff more or less normally.

Which is what I've been doing on my Mac since the early 2000s.

Then Microsoft had to make Windows a complete shit-show. Not like it hasn't happened before, but they really got themselves in deep this time.

> Tbh, though, the only computer I've ever seen Hibernate work well on are Macs. Every x86 computer usually has some sort of issue with it, except for maybe business laptop models (eg HP's Elitebook line).

This has always been my experience, going back I'd say at least to the early 2000s on cheap laptops, and all the way back to the earliest days of sleep and hibernate on desktops, where sleep just doesn't matter that much.

When I started dabbling in boot code around 2006, I read a bunch of the specs and one of them was ACPI, which I only scratched the surface of.

I think until then it had just not occurred to me that a modern paged protected OS would even want to call into any code supplied with the computer, vs. having it come from a driver disk, or be built in to the kernel where everyone can see it.

The whole idea of a bytecode interpreter running random code supplied by a fly-by-night system builder is a little unsettling.

I've only had batteries leak in remotes left unused for over a year. I just pick up Duracell or whatever is at Costco.

I've also bought two replacement remotes off of Amazon in the past year, one Samsung and one Insignia. I think they were $15-20 each, which seemed very reasonable to me.

Generally they won't have the manufacturer's logo, but everything else on the outside looks 100% identical, and all the buttons worked.

How long does the breakdown take?

Coke used to be mixed, bottled, and shipped out in an extremely quick timeframe. Inventory turned over fast.

I suspect the separated components wind up being equal to what a stale soda has, one that has been on the shelf. It’s like buying a soda whose sugar component has already gone stale.

Sure, the rest of the flavors are there and still fresh, unaffected by the carbonated water, but the sweetness one is off.

Correct.

Whoever downvoted your comment has either never driven this stretch of the 5 or they are the reason it is so bad.

It’s the idiots in cars who insist on doing exactly 65 in the left lane next to a semi that cause the problem. Get past just one idiot holding back hundreds of cars and you will find miles of completely open road.

Did people just forget the era of CD burning? Cassettes sucked.

Normal non-tech people were ripping CDs with iTunes. "Rip. Mix. Burn." was a nationwide if not worldwide advertisement.

All of this still works, if you have a CD drive.

If you're going to bother buying a cassette player... what's the allure for that over a CD-R and a basic CD player. CD players in cars are going away, but they're still around in houses and inexpensive small boomboxes.

But then... what's the allure of that over say any old audio player that takes SD cards or just a USB stick. A lot of modern cars and also stereo receivers and TVs will take a USB stick and play files from it. These players are incredibly prevalent and very easy to use. And loading the music from a computer or even a tablet is easy.

Of these three, cassette is the absolute least likely to be available anywhere.

You can still have the experience of making a playlist and even putting the files on a USB stick for someone. Importantly, they can actually play it on their own listening device.

This is a time-tested winning strategy that too few corporate owners embrace.

When you look at some of the most well-known industrial companies, their founders basically did this.

Difficulty: give away too much of the company trying to raise capital and most investors won't let you do this. Of course, you aren't really the owner then anymore, are you?

I think that's the allure of effective altruism. You founded a company or were early enough in a company to have enough shares to sell to investors. Those investors want big returns. The company is now at their mercy, but hey, they gave you a pile of cash so you can spend it on feeling good.