@amszmidt
Trump delena est.

@mos_8502 @retrotechtive
I don't know specifically about how Mr. Jobs felt about it, but in general Apple management seemed pretty determined to kill off the Apple II line, while simultaneously trying to wring every last bit of revenue from it that they could. At the time it was the Apple II that was paying the bills, but management only grudgingly allowed a little bit of engineering expenditure on it. The Apple III and Lisa had been their original big hopes for killing the Apple II.

@freemo Looking mighty sharp!

@batkaren By age 35, your clean room Unix-compatible operating system keenel should be well on its way to world domination.

@silverwizard @mwl
You might need something more like this:
http://holyjoe.org/poetry/anonE.htm

I think I need to archive my Firefox profile and start a new one. Some web site managed to get something in there that frequently displays virus alerts at the top right corner of my screen with links to fake McAffee and Norton. This is on my desktop Linux system, any time Firefox is running, even though it odesn't show a window for whatever site caused it.
Grrrr.

When do I get my next instar? I feel like I'm ready

@mos_8502
I don'tind if the UI makes it relatively obvious to a new user how to do simple things, as long as it doesn't get in the way for a more experienced user.

@clacke
Did you hear how the pedant died?
He fell down a Well, actually...

@freemo
Not quite. Alexander Bell suggested use of "Ahoy" for the telephone greeting. It was Thomas Edison that popularized "Hello" in its place, though he didn't invent the word. Usage of "hello" in print existed as far back as 1826.

And you may find yourself maintaining a large codebase
And you may tell yourself, these are not my beautiful data structures
And you may ask yourself, who wrote this crap
And you may ask yourself, how did I get here

@ryanc @manawyrm @gsuberland AFAIK, the closed captioning on line 21 is encoded in the video, rather than being in the DVD metadata. At least, I don't recall seeing any metadata support for it in the DVD 1.0 spec, back when I had access to that.

@gsuberland @ryanc
OCR?
It sucks that the DVD standard didn't require that a textual form of subtitles be provided.

@clacke I got that laptop in 2018. While I really wanted the 4K display, it's been a mixed blessing, as there is still a lot of non-hidpi software out there. If I were buying a 15.5" now, I think I might stick with "full HD" 1080p.(1920*1080).

@clacke
My laptop has a 2160p ("4K", 3840x2160) 15.5-inch LCD, so I have to change the display settings to a substantially lower resolution to be satisfactory for screen sharing. It's a hassle, but I do it.

@corbet Maybe Google could ameliorate the pain of killing their Short URL service by setting up a system where you could query one of their short URLs that are going away, and get back a redirect to the URL it originally pointed to.

@mekkaokereke
I agree that switching is not smart, and also VEHEMENTLY AGREE that Harris is eminently qual8fied.
The wnti-DEI crowd can go **** themselves.

@clacke
Sometimes I just want it to stay saved, you know.

@thomasfuchs Do you know what specific editions will be affected? I assume that Enterprise either won't have the advertising, or that it can be disabled by group policy. Otherwise they'll have crowds of corporate IT people storming Redmond with torches and pitchforks. But what about Pro?
I mean, I wouldn't be thrilled with it even for Home, but I generally use Pro. (Currently only Windows 10 and earlier.)

@ryanc The whole point of IVR is to strongly discouraged the caller from talking to a person.