You really don’t like Javascript that much? /s

I imagine the people that are paying $250k per seat are very very wealthy. Would you send $1 on a bottle of cold water at an event? As fast as you answered that, there are people that spend $250k with the same ease. To them $250k is like $1.

I can tell you thats not me.

Deliver 10 more outdated tanks to Ukraine?

Russia is fielding T-55 tanks onto battlefields in Ukraine. If that sets the baseline, then nothing the west has sent can be considered “outdated”.

The hearth has limited resources and it is dying now, let’s make better choices.

The way you’re phrasing your response suggests that if these rescues didn’t occur then there would be resources/money available for spending on something else. I don’t think that’s actually true.

The resources/money used to have rescues like this possible are the same ones we’d have to spend to support commercial use of the oceans. Policing, navigation map updates, ships, sailors, etc.

While there’s certainly a small variable cost for engaging this rescue, its not like people were just hired nor were ships just built yesterday to execute this search.

if we had to pay $1 million for each and every human being on Earth to be saved, there wouldn’t be enough resources to pay for that

I agree with that statement, however that isn’t even remotely reasonable to need to occur, so I’m not sure why even bring it up.

True employee engagement is Unionization.

How does adding extra electrons help with employee engagement? /s

Are they really losing?

They’re fielding T-55 tanks. Your explanation for that (which is suspect) is that they are being used for troop transport.

Why would a winning army be using tanks first made in 1958 and last made in 1962 as troop transport instead of modern present day BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles or modern BTR-80 vehicles?

Early Linux was painful. Hardware compatibility was sketchy. X11 graphics were especially suspect. These are days of CRT monitors, and it was a regular practice you’d have to craft your X Window config files by hand even inputting the refresh rates and specific resolutions your display would support.

Packages and package managers didn’t exist yet. I’d downloaded the (at the time) recent version of Slackware but had trouble getting the compiler working and nearly EVERYTHING required compiling from source. Easy accessible public version controlled source code repos weren’t a thing yet either. You had to go to an FTP site (or BBS) and hope the maintainer labeled the directory structure properly for the code and version you wanted.

I picked up my first commercially purchased copy of Linux (SUSE release 5) because it had 4 CDs of programs/utilities, had YaST, and I found a newsgroup posting detailing part of what I was trying to accomplish at the time, a dual analog modem bonded proxy (Squid!) to provide 128kps dial up internet for my employer (with a 6.8kps download time to users).

Lots of us weren’t running full IP networks at the time. At another employer I ran IPX (file and print for Netware services), Netbeui for Windows peer-to-peer connections, and finally TCP/IP for internet operations (full public IPs on each workstation with no firewall!!!)

but sometimes, I’m kinda envious of this early generation. For example, with this guy I know, his knowledge of legacy unix APIs is insane…

For the dozen things you’ve seen him pull out of his hat that look like magic to you there are a thousand things he knows about long dead technologies and techniques that were simply a requirement of getting through the day back then.

The before and after pictures are reversed. This monster went up to that carefully organized bin and mixed it to oblivion for a meme picture. /conspiracy

This looks like it should be the first post in a “choosingbeggars” lemmy community.