Especially when history has shown that Microsoft had and has issues with security basically everywhere.

I was just using it. But the behavior/reaction to button presses showed me that a button was obviously connected to the wrong function.

I don’t know how to see a memory bug in an out of order elevator, but I once saw and reported a wiring error of a working elevator. It was an interesting talk at the reception desk, but as I could precisely describe what was wrong and the verifyable consequences, they took me seriously. And sent me a “Thank You” email later ;-)

Back then, the internet was a thing of trust and cooperation. We got an assigned port number the same way. Current problem: Our company changed over the decades, and I no longer have the email address that would identify me to the IANA as the one who requested that number reservation.

One key point here is: While you actually can replace a bunch of junior developers with AI in some places, any replaced junior developer will never become a senior developer that cannot be replaced by the AI because he/she is basically experince on two legs.

So, corporations, don’t complain about the lack of experienced, senior personnal because YOU have been the main reason they don’t exist.

I had a friend at university who got a job fixing cobol stuff before Y2K. The bank paid him extremely well, housed him in a luxury apartment during the job, and, as he had no driving licence, dropped in a car with free driver for him.

Ahh, the good old RFCs dated April, 1st. This one is number 1149 ( A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers), and got later updated in RFC 2549 (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service).

Well, you can say exactly the same about COBOL…

People are still using those?

Apart from Python, is anyone of the listed contenders actually still breathing?

Well, to be honest C is still C, but it’s children have run mad.

We did Prolog in university - actually it was one of the two languages we had to learn in CS, the other one being Pascal.

I always considered Prolog a pain in the ass and unsuitable for anything bigger than a piece of homework due to the “we don’t do loops, we have tail recursion” making the code unnecessary complex and hard to read. On a list of Write-Only languages I’d rate it a few steps below Perl.

Old enough they still know Prolog.

If the disks are of the same type, check their serial numbers.

Once I set up a RAID with four 120GB disks. Back then, they were basically close to cutting edge technology as a 16TB drive would be today, and expensive as f-ck. Within a week, two disks failed, bringing the raid down. One failed in the evening, the other in the morning. When I called about warranty, I noticed that all four disks were within ±20 in their serial numbers, and got suspicious. I got the two drives replaced (with different, wide spread serial numbers), set up the RAID again, only to have a fail within less than ten days again - another one of the original set dead. This time I asked not only for a replacement of the next dead one, but also of the fourth, which was declined. I cut my losses and set up a way smaller RAID with only three disks. The fourth is in a drawer somewhere, wit a big red warning sticker.

Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically

Nope. Firefox does not, because either Firefox is running, or the PC is down or sleeping. So I have to close Firefox, open a shell, update that snap shit, and restart Firefox. Which pisses me off to no end, apart from the point that snaps are a waste of resources and a bad idea in general.

What a joke:

go to Preferences | Settings | Cartridges | RAM Expansion Module, enable it and select the file reufile.linux, and make sure to select the correct size (16MiB)

So this only works if one adds a f-ing 16MB RAM cartridge to the system?

This is not “Linux running on a C64”. This is Linux running on a platform that marginally includes some C64.

If you are starting from scratch, why do they limit the language selection?

Quoting from memory: “Remember the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”

If I would complain about any new language or environment I’d be dropped in, I’d probably in the loony bin by now.

Tell the team leader that you don’t know the language but are willing to learn, read the existing code which will give you a feel for the language, the project, and the local programming style, all in one go, and you should be fine. Imagine the backend was written in PL/I, Prolog, or LISP instead of just another ALGOL dialect ;-)

That is exactly the case here. I’ve got a private wiki with a rather large extension by now, and it is the only PHP project I have. So whenever mediawiki f-cks something up, which is nearly every update, I restart my PHP skills to find and fix the sh-t they did to my code this time.