I did everything under my real name up until last year, this is why I stopped. I remember being told over and over again never to use my real name on the internet. I wonder why we stopped telling people that, it was a good idea.
I really love the greenfield situations where you're building stuff up from scratch and have minimal APIs to deal with so you can just keep everything in your head and plow through writing tons of code. No one pays you to do that though.
You will never destroy ethnic identity in humans because once you manage it for one or two races, one of the many remaining will just over run them. It's not just a waste of energy to try, it's actively harmful and often causes reactionary movements like this when people realize what the end of it is.
Software rots man. It can be really hard to run some open source software from the 80s and 90s. This is actually one of the big arguments for Open Source: Access to the software is way less interesting than the support/community/ecosystem around it; there's no reason not to open source your software and not doing it actually harms the users.
Yeah, Pixar literally had to spin up VMs of their old software stack when they had to remaster the Toy Story films because it was less work than getting it running again on their current stack
Actually, it seems to me VMs are an ideal way to preserve things like that. Perhaps it should be standard procedure for the archivists of such big films to build and preserve a fully functioning, self-sufficient rendering environment in the form of a virtual machine.
Until we switch to another architecture. It's pretty likely the x86 architecture will be gone in a few decades. Rebuilding VM software to run on new hardware is probably harder than fixing bugs in a JPEG decoder.
Nobody ships a PDP11 or VAX anymore. 6809? 6502? I think even the one ubiquitous 8080 isn't being produced anymore. And when IBM falls, System/360 will also be gone. There will be a transition period in which everybody scrambles to convert their systems, but after that it's EOL.
I expect that to happen to /360 as well (there's more than one emulator; there's even support for the old consoles), but the hardware will be gone. And --in case of the JPEG2000-- once x86 is gone, it'll be an old decoder running on an old, unsupported OS running on unmaintained VM software running on a hardware emulator (which will also have a limited support). Not a great outlook.
I can taste the different kinds but I honestly don't mind the Folgers bagged coffee. It's nice because I can just use my normal electric kettle and there's hardly any mess.
Solar panels are pretty hard on the environment and (in places with poor regulation) the people manufacturing them but once you've got them set up they're pretty fantastic (provided you don't accidentally smash them like I did my first system.) You have truly independent energy this way. Also there are consumer products like the jackery that make moving power easy for normal people so It's not hard to share with your neighbors when they need some extra too.
I'm not a fan of giant solar farms cut into forests, but if someone adds panels to their roof or yard seems like an easy enough way to cut energy demand in the sunbelt in particular.
