WalterSlovotsky
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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:01PM (#49262917)
The problem is I typically only want a single burger, but I have to buy the ingredients for four or more. To purchase all the ingredients to make a home made quarter pounder with cheese, I am spending around 40-50 USD. Sure, I could make five or six with those ingredients, but that is irrelevant if I only want one. And many of those ingredients are perishable. Unless I am eating several quarter pounders a week, I am saving money by getting a quarter pounder from Macca's when the mood strikes.
Re:Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail
on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:24AM (#49244928)
Somewhat ironic, since AJAX was originally created by Microsoft to implement the Outlook web client.
Re:Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technica...
on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:57PM (#47264916)
Xerox was a photo copier company. Actually, they were more of a photo copy company as most of their revenue came from charging the customer by they number of pages photo copied. This was the lens through which they looked at what was being produced at PARC, how is this going to cause my customer to need to make more photo copies. How is having working RPCs going to result in more photo copies being made?
Computing just wasn't in their DNA and those people at Xerox who did see the potential in PARC never had the leverage to reorient the company to take advantage. This is almost always the result when a for profit corporation invests in fundamental research that is not intimately related to their primary revenue source.
Re:Avoid UUIDv4 Primary Keys
on Monday December 15, 2025 @12:11PM (#46277250)
The preferred method would be gender affirming surgery.