The focus on Microsoft is odd. I remember most people using WordPerfect for DOS and other non-WYSIWYG word processors up until around 1993. These were much better for focusing on writing. MS Word came from behind and started to take over as Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95 became standard. Word wasn’t the best word processor back then and was very buggy, but Microsoft succeeded in marketing it as a natural companion for Windows and bundling it with Excel and PowerPoint, and WordPerfect was slower to move to WYSIWYG.

The rise of the web was also happening at that time, and this article doesn’t give it enough attention as a major influence on document format and a motivation behind markdown.

I’d imagine the $20K price is for a model so basic many people won’t want it. it will be interesting to see what the price is for a model most people would consider an acceptable basic car or truck.

This is how it works all over the world. They wait around the corner until the global bathroom camera system shows you taking a dump, then they zoom up to your door, knock quietly and leave. But if you don’t take a dump they don’t knock and just leave the “sorry we missed you” card instead.

How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s very up to date yet reliable, package management doesn’t require me to get my head around anything complicated, automatic btrfs snapshots allow me to rollback if I mess anything up, and I like KDE Plasma and the YaST utilities.

Lol, “could”. Good old NYT, always dodging and fudging.

Yes, apparently their protocol sends everything to every node, so it would overwhelm anything but a very powerful and expensive server. The Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol is more efficient and only sends traffic where it is needed.

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Not sure he even knew in the first place.

Don’t look up!

Maybe they should make it illegal to say “measles” too.

All the US horse exporters are busily painting stripes on their animals right now.

Canadians have always traveled to the USA to to a bit of sneaky bargain hunting. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this start going the other way.

Meanwhile Trump is doing his best to force everyone to use coal. Maybe it’s an employment program for the under-10s, with so many new chimney sweeps needed.

There’s a photo of the sign near the end of the article. It’s not yellow but it has yellow writing.

I have a bunch of colleagues like this. If they were left to their ways we’d still be using unpatched frameworks from 20 years ago. I find it pretty frustrating.

“Winning” presumably means achieving something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.

To be fair, he’s talking to the founders of startups, not employees. But still, he sounds like an ass.

So you’re allowed to build clean energy projects as long as you don’t mention what makes them worth doing, and only employ white men?

Superficial? Quite possibly.

He has really changed a lot too.