"Who the hell" writes an OS in assembler in the 80s? Uh, some of the utilities are in C, but compilers were slow and generated slow code back then, and it was quite noticable on a slow machine. When every byte of memory counts, you often need to hand-optimize.

Two pilots were on board. Apparently there were issues with the ship's propulsion system at last inspection. My money is on a mechanical issue; if not, this was a monumental fuck up by the harbor pilots and/or the crew.

edit: lol, I am pleased with how this comment has aged. Yes, it was a power loss. Quick thinking and action saved lives. Bravo. Now it remains to be seen whether deferred maintenance or similar negligence were to blame; if so, people need to pay up.

Honestly if even half of the effort that goes into every XMPP replacement du jour instead went into improving existing XMPP clients, we wouldn't even be talking about this.

DP has HDCP too. I get what you're saying, but there was more profiteering involved even than what you describe.

Because the cartel members want their super high res content only available with Genuine DRM Bullshit™. The gambit won't work, of course, but they're gonna try like hell.

Aside from DisplayPort having more bandwidth, as someone else pointed out, HDMI is consumer video garbage. DisplayPort was designed for use as a computer display. Also, HDMI Forum is a cartel that charges ridiculous licensing fees for their proprietary interface. VESA is a standards body and their licensing costs are much more reasonable.

You'll probably be severely throttled (I know my local coffee shop does) and if you aren't, you'll be being a huge dick to anyone else on that AP. I strongly advise against it.

Torvalds isn't an asshole because of a nonexistent moral compass. He just has strong opinions, and he's usually right, anyway.

Laughing at all the Hollywood shit in this thread. A single pass erase (or ATA Secure Erase, if they are SSDs that support the command) is more than enough. Nobody is going to waste time and money recovering data of unknown provenance from a landfill.

Papal infallibility is also traditional doctrine. Sounds like some people really want to be excommunicated.

It seems every new shiny technology today tries its darndest to short-circuit 40+ years of advances in OS virtual memory design. Between Electron and Docker, the entire idea of loading an image into memory once and sharing its pages among hundreds of processes is basically dead. But at least there's lower support burden!!!1111

If you think OpenAI themselves are any better than Google, I have a bridge to sell you.