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The world outside of the USA that functions perfectly fine with CCS2 adapters.

The farebox recovery ratio in many western nations are not enough to ever fully fund public transport. In many cases, the systems to collect fares end up costing hundreds of millions of dollars. These costs are never made back. It makes sense to make it free.

Fun fact: z/OS is now emulated on Red Hat Linux nowadays for "new" deployments.

I'd read the following before eating too many Brazil nuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut#Nutrition_and_human...

Communications of the ACM.

> Such small software shops like Microsoft unfortunately cannot afford to hire designers to do multiple sets of icons.

I had to chuckle. I remember back in the Windows 3.11 days, there used be a separate monochrome set of icons for all Windows (and Microsoft) programs.

> An engineering company should have engineers as managers from the bottom level all the way up to the CEO.

Sun Microsystems had this. Didn't work too well for them.

It's not at all as simple as this.

I think this aspect is also worth considering: https://www.thebillfold.com/2012/05/only-an-idiot-would-rob-...

I believe Bryant and O'Hallaron wrote a text book just for this course. You can always "optimize" it by reverse engineering the benchmark app and providing the correctly aligned blocks to the bench-marking application. It'll beat the standard malloc calls by several magnitudes if you were to do that.

This is one of the reasons why people write custom allocators - to suit a specific purpose where the allocation pattern is known well in advance.

This is probably the best way to learn about pointers in C. The book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" addresses this area very well: https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product/Bryant-C...

Debugging it is great fun as well.

Bluetooth still isn't perfect for certain use cases. That's why Apple ended up augmenting it for audio.

Apple was an early adopter of the standard. I remember when being amazed at being able to use a Bluetooth keyboard in the EFI!

> A lot of people forget that the G in GTK stands for Gimp

Source? It's always stood for Gnome Toolkit. You must be confusing this with the GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) that's between the library layer and the display server. The GDK is part of the toolkit.

Is this an msi hiding in a wrapper? Anyone who has dealt with the innards of an msi file knows it's a dog's breakfast!

They even had a version of Java for .Net called J# (J-Sharp). That didn't last long.

> You need a special screwdriver

P5 Pentalobe screwdriver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentalobe_security_screw

A couple of things I've noted over the years:

- Fields, or anything that uses fields: They're completely broken. They only seem to function in straight-forward case. For e.g: it's very easy for sequences to completely go off whack.

- File comparisons: this feature can only tolerate up to a certain number of pages. It will crash and burn for large documents. I sometimes wonder why this is even offered!

- Formatting: No matter how carefully paragraph spacing etc. is controlled there are always instances where things won't work as intended. A good example is cover pages.

- Hanging and freezing on large documents while Word figures out how to render them.

- Font rendering: it's never great. It never looks the same as what it would on a printer (irrespective of the printer). The Mac version does a decent job, but the Windows version, even with ClearType configured, is not great.

- Lastly, my biggest issue: feature incompatibilities between the versions of Word available on Mac and Windows. The Mac version (the latest O365) release doesn't have a lot of advanced features that are available on Windows such as document signing and style breaks.

I'm glad there's always LaTeX.

For any serious writing, Microsoft Word is one of the worst pieces of tools out there. It starts showing its ugly side when start using anything remotely advanced.

I'm hesitant to rely any new Google services these days thanks to Google doing this almost all the time.

Hit Command+Shift+G and it will pop up with a dialog box requesting the path.

No functionality to cut and paste for one... Adding extensions (for example installing XtraFinder) has become a pain due to the new security features that need to be turned off.

The great thing about a Macbook is the warranty. If you have coverage, you can get it repaired anywhere in the world. It's a pain with any other manufacturer.

The link reads like an advert.