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.

Swedish Resident Banana Alien. Why not just go all the way?

When they make the bread worse and raise prices to increase their profit margin. And show some ads to make extra profit. And start to pester you with more service tiers and subscriptions before they give you the bread because they’ll be able to scam some people into giving them another revenue stream…

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.

If she had, we wouldn’t be in this timeline.

That’s probably true for most people.

Rinkeby.

(Joking, of course. Stockholm is nice.)

Or an Imperial Wizard.

And that small batch had a label with a different list of ingredients/allergens somehow? I’m curious how that happened.

Let the wookiee in.

we can do that kind of thing again.

I admire the optimism.

No, they have colossal overpopulation.

Is just that it happened a while ago and now the massive population is getting old and the bottom of the pyramid isn’t looking too good for them anymore.

But still doesn’t have chamfers or fillets.

Funnily enough, one of the sanest EVs, the original Hyundai Ioniq, is just that.

Might also make the same argument for the e Golf and Fiat 500e and some others.

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.

It does if you follow through to the end. There may be local minima on the way.

Had a farm cat once that was nuts about raw potato and cucumber. No other foodstuff, but any whiff of those and she’d be right there too take them off your hands.

Great mouser, too.

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

No, it sounds like regression to a toddler’s inability to use pronouns.