What I noticed right away was: It’s the ugliest hello world ever. It’s the slowest hello world ever. (For a long time it was also the record size hello world at something like 64MB, but that’s later and on a compiler.) And it doesn’t actually run on any platform except one: jre. And most binaries you find only run on one version of that one brand of jre.

Still, not the worst thing for writing web services in in late 90s. Doesn’t matter how slow it starts or how much space it takes. Responding to requests, being familiar to new programmers and living in a sandbox was enough.

Any sufficiently advanced technology does. It’s nice to have tools, whether they’re ready baked ones or there’s some assembly required. The latter tends to be more adaptable, but using what’s in reach is smart.

Internet archive has been seriously endangered for a long time now. They were even attacked a while ago. The wayback machine is still not fully functional.

It’s one of the greatest existing libraries of information and culture in existence. Consider donating, if you can.

I remember a story and pictures where there was a party of some sort and at some point during the night people decided to go get food. Maybe the handiest place was a drive through our maybe it was just one of those ideas, but a fairly considerable number decided to go walk to the nearby drive through. There was a picture of them, in a long single file lined up along the lane.

Probably because it’s brown and makes the room look like a barn. But not a trendy one.

I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

Or just aren’t into brands or burgers, but remember a name they liked once.

Or just a brain fart.

A personal wiki or a text file, depending on the place. Would be nice to have some compact non invasive ticket system, but I’ve never seen one.

I’ve used literal card decks and GTDish pen and paper systems when there was more demanding need on tracking things. They’re effective.

I’d get a new drive. Install a sane os and needed tools and use that. They should be cheap these days. Put the old one in a safe place in case you need something from it. When you find it years on and notice that there was nothing important there after all, recycle it. That’s a much safer approach.

I still don’t. But I’m hoping that avoiding anything by Amazon helps.

That posting it now is trumputinist propaganda.

That’s interesting, thanks. Can I ask what that vram is getting used for? Gaming, llms, other computing?

Intel has been a mistake since 1978. But evil doesn’t generally die.

Yes it is. But there’s an easier cure for it.

Literal smokescreen

It’s difficult to get into on purpose.

Had to read this a few times until it clicked that it doesn’t mean as opposed to getting into accidentally.

You know what they got now? Devil’s Night greeting cards. Isn’t that precious?

Notice how it says four years? It’s trumputinist propaganda. And yes, you can see it worldwide.

But it might not have been a crime not to. Maybe there’s a precedent now. Ianaloa.

It’s almost as if people don’t like posts with zero content besides some clickbait link.