someone should calculate this.

"Dieing from covid is like winning $1000 in the lottery"

// It sure isn't like winning $1 Million. // And it sure isn't a $2 winner // Somewhere in between.

engineering

How about proprietary "non unix's"?

Anyone running VMS? RSTS/E ? Or on rare hardware, OS-32 on a PE 8/32, or MPX on any SEL 32 family? MPE on Harris ?

Part of our business-critical financial analytics software was running on VAX/VMS, then AlphaVMS decades ago. Written in DEC Pascal (let's just say - not really compatible with any other Pascal dialects I am aware of). We managed to port the whole system to Linux (before Linux became fashionable) by a godawful contraption made of Scheme, Perl, shell and elisp - it "translated" the Pascal code into a dialect understood by p2c, which in turn translated it to C. That was mucho fun!

I have an AlphaServer in my collection, running OpenVMS. It's been a while since I've booted it up. It's very loud.

ssh'd to a live alpha server at work last year. there were some files on there I wanted to look at.

the machine has to be at least 20 years old at this point. but it feels fast. bash. find. xargs grep. command line stuff very responsive.

it felt fast back then. i do remember that.

Alphas were incredible when they first came out. The one I have is a DS10, probably also 20 years old-ish. It still feels responsive.

It was a DS-20

I know the problem. My AS/400e would also get much more powered on time if it wasn't so damn loud.

I'VE GOT A SUN BLADE WORKSTATION. YEAH IT'S RUNNING RIGHT NOW, HOW COULD YOU TELL?

Unironically this question could deserve its own thread.

if you work for a defense contractor, it's every 6 minutes (tenths of an hour)

Wow! I can imagine at a government-size scale, 6min of time is actually quite expensive comparatively

I think he missed the cloud revolution. Linux / containers and the browser is where the action is in 2020. windows is just a truck that holds a web browser.

Starting about 5 years ago, I noticed that when i type letters show up out of order.

seems to be more prevalent on newer keyboards.

also, the interaction with automatic spelling correction / word completion can make mistakes show up that were not from the typist.

voluntary, i think this is a great idea.

whenever a new hire starts, and they have any kind of military training (enlisted, officer, drop out from service academy, JROTC, ROTC, or CAP) there are a couple of things that are never problems.

#1. They show up on time. Properly dressed.

#2. When given a task they do not understand, they ask for clarification.

#3. Given a directive from above, they express themselves, and then do what they are told.

I am sure these are not universal positives for every situation, but almost so.

My experience in the USAF. The tech school I was in lasted about 7 months. Every week we had tests. Drop 2 tests, and you moved over to "Bakery Operations School" two buildings over. It was a 2 week class and they always had openings.

Some people got lucky, it was always "convenience of the AF", and the list changed every week. You could wash into loadmaster or DLI, if your scores were good and there was an opening. But they wouldn't keep you on casual status very long, only a couple of weeks. Due to numbers, security police was common. Low score required, lots of demand, short tech school.

Now to casual status. We called it "AFI, Awaiting Further Instruction". The NCO supervising was always old and or bitter about the USAF. He was being forced to supervise a bunch of young airman against his will. The goal was to do a little smidgen of work, then hide until 4pm when the duty day was done. Don't get caught so the NCO had to really supervise.

People wash out of training all the time.

You don't join to be a SEAL, you join to be a Sailor.

The AF is full of Security Police that though they were going to be Para-Rescue, and washed out of the training pipeline.

Don't buy the ticket, you won't have to take the ride.

Lubbock. Tyler. El Paso. Places where real estate is cheap, and there are no democrats to have work rules.