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Perhaps the title would be more accurate if it were "The way my friends and I prefer to think of it, the age of the universe is nearly twice as old as we used to like to think of it."
Perhaps one could say, "It was clear who was right and who was wrong--whichever side you were on, that side was right and the other side was wrong" whichever struggle is being considered. Whichever faction you identified with was right, just like now.
Illinois manages to be as much as 55% blue because Cook County/Chicago overwhelmingly votes Democrat, and always has.
Chicago (Cook County) went 83% for Clinton in 2016, 74% for Obama in 2012, 76% for Obama in 2008, 79% for Kerry in 2004 and 68% for Gore in 2000. Biden's 2020 numbers were on the low side of average for a Democrat candidate there, probably didn't involve an unusual number of independents or disaffected Republicans...
History rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.
Agree wholeheartedly with your (a) and (b), and would add:
(c) Emacs won't disappear after a few years (where "few" can mean decades if your career lasts that long - mine ran from 1967 to 2011 and I still use emacs daily) the way virtually every (or maybe every) "more intuitive" editor/environment will, given time. Your investment in learning it will really pay off.
While I've been a "geek" since I joined IBM in 1967, I've been primarily a writer for at least 35 years. In that time, I've used Wordstar, WordPerfect, literally every flavour of MS Word up to 2011, vi, iTerm and emacs.
I've converted files of one format to another to another to another, and finally to ASCII text and that is that. No more orphaning as one or another company goes out of business or decides to update their file format.
My editor now is Emacs and, depending on who/what I'm writing for I use plain text, or org or md if I need to include basic formatting. I've published enough to know that I'm a wordsmith, not an artist and going beyond basic formatting is a job for a typographic artist, which I'm not.
I know that makes me a grumpy old fart, as does my refusal to rely on The Cloud (i.e., Somebody Else's Computer) for backups, and so be it. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice (or more), shame on me.
Wrong type of Bugatti - I was hoping that it would be a Type 35 or something of that ilk. Too bad.
There seem to be a lot of Apple users who wouldn't agree. My MacBook Pro is early 2011 so I haven't been able to use the newest, but I can't say that each upgrade from Lion to High Sierra was clearly an improvement for my use cases (writing and coding). YMMV.
Can't help thinking of the Yogi Berra quote (whether he said it or not), "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
Seems like there are a lot of folks interested in blogging support, considering that nobody reads blogs anymore.
ACM has Stoyan's "Early LISP history (1956 - 1959)" at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800055.802047
I love my 2011 MacBook Pro's hardware - the case, the keyboard, the hinges. I liked OS-X Lion just fine, and every update since then has seemed to be a downgrade...I still need to use the 2011 Office I bought then now and then, or I'd have converted it to Debian years ago.
I've remained informed about these issues without frequenting any "news" sources. Government, hospital, pharmacy sites all provide that without the "clickbait" factor (or at least with much less).
"engine fires..." not gas tanks.
Not if, when.
"hide shortcomings" like what? Doesn't language like "by default" infer/suggest/imply that there would be circumstances in which they would save logs? And wouldn't an obvious circumstance like that be a warrant?
Not sure that history would prove that out. Highly structured, militaristic colonial powers (Inca and Aztec, Mandarin Chinese, Vedic Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Western European) all had pretty good runs. Have there been societies that "place a high value on all people and their many quirks instead of conformity to an arbitrary leader" who have been dominant for spans of centuries? I can't think of any.
Debian's been my workstation OS for many years. I mainly use Emacs, the shell and a browser so familiar and stable is all I ask of the OS. I'm on 10 now, will probably update to 11 shortly.
I have a Win10 installation on a drive on a second workstation should I ever need to run a commercial, Win-only app, but it mainly just gets started every few months to catch-up on updates. I'm fond of my 2011 MacBook Pro (the hardware) and have become less and less impressed with the OS and apps as time as gone by (and as I made the mistake of installing updates). It's the only machine that I allow the camera on, so it's the go-to for Zoom.
It's a poor person's problem, doesn't apply here...right?
It almost sounds ironic...and not everyone likes irony.
"In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms..." sounds exactly like they will "go into your drive and remove doubleplusungood content."
Yet another reason to avoid using cloud (i.e., someone else's computer that you don't control) products.
Somehow negotiating a delivery date feels different from feeling free to use company resources to discuss outside politics...but I'm old fashioned, I know.
translation: I don't like what Project Veritas presents, so it must be wildly deceitful, and I need not consider the issue any further.
"you guys"?
My father served on the U.S.S. Kadashan Bay, CVE-76, part of Taffy 2 during the Leyte landings. The bravery of the men of the Johnston, the other destroyers and the aircraft crews who so harassed Vice-Adm. Kurita's ships that they turned tail saved innumerable lives, including that of Lt. Homer Smith. I would not be here without their sacrifice - bless them all.
Consider "Britain BC" and "Britain AD" by Francis Pryor for a start. One thing that the recent (since I was in university in the '60s) archaeology has taught us (yet again) is that no one writes history without having an angle (no pun) and the angle is often political with the result that history is very often quite misleading if not outright wrong. The notion throughout European history and archaeology that changes in physical culture (tools, pots, etc.) and even language necessarily mean wholesale changes in populations is being seriously called into question by recent archaeology and DNA studies.
I've been using stand developing with my Tri-X film, and delight in the results, so the thought of being able to get similar results with my digital work sounds great. Thanks!
Interestingly, using Cloudflare's dns this morning around 0900 US Eastern time, I got through just fine. And a few hours ago, using DNSWatch, I was able to get through. Trying to muddle through what was happening, I found this: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...
Clearly, Cloudflare was resolving it this morning, and it isn't now. Just why, hard to say. I have other things to do, so that's where I bow out...
Packaging and labeling are different for bulk commercial and small-package grocery-store logistics.