When I was a kid, to start my dad's truck, you had to pull the ckoke, pump the gas a couple of times, start the engine, then slowly push the choke back in. That's a more obscure procedure than driving a car with a manual transmission these days.

Unlike Linux, that wasn't built in as a feature!

There's a difference between "Let's use Calibri to make our documents more readable" and "Let's go back to TNR becuase using Calibri is woke nonsense by Biden's guy". They could have used pretty much any other reason to switch back to TNR, but decided to make it a childish DEI/"woke" jab.

Is there any evidence that sans-serif typefaces are more readable? I’ve previously seen headlines claiming the opposite.

You can find evidence for both sides, because life is more complicated than that. Do you have 20/20 vision? Hi-def screen? High contrast? Floaters in your eyes? Cataracts? Are you tired? How is the text laid out? Line spacing?

Literally all of these can impact the answer.

Ok, now insert "broadly" or "generally" into the previous comment and respond to what they actually meant.

Mixed evidence like they said, it depends

I really like those service diagrams to show which stations are closed and how to get around them.

Unix pre-dates floppy drives, at least on PDP-11.

Unix just barely predates the PDP-11 itself.

I'm an "old-hand" at a non-FAANG big tech, and have not had a meaningful refresher in a few years, or even a salary bump for that matter. This is a bad time to be looking for a new job, but I should have jumped ship years or even decades ago. I'm sure I'm under-compensated for my level of experience. Don't get caught in this trap like I did.

I work on a project that we started in CVS, then moved to Perforce, and now on git. With full, intact history.

"All You Need" Considered Harmful

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916

goto is all you need.

"Harm is all you need" works with the Beatles song.

I like Chapter 1 of Evan Chen's An Infinitely Large Napkin for some more theory.

https://web.evanchen.cc/napkin.html

I fixed a malfunctioning refrigerator by replacing the control board, which happened to be a PIC16-based device used by many brands. This design is as close to "universal" as you can get, and this generic board was around 20% the price of the official replacement part.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/152763501102

That's because many different brands are actually made by Whirlpool. They're like the GM of the appliance industry.

How were the contributions by Richard Caley handled? "The legal reality was harsh: Richard’s contributions to Conquer couldn’t be relicensed. The university couldn’t help contact heirs due to privacy laws."

Author of the article here. Richard's contributions remain in the codebase but under original terms. We documented his legacy as a person, and that is explained in the README of the repository.

The notion that everything had to be relicensed under the GPL “so it could be properly preserved and packaged for modern Linux distributions” seems pretty silly.

Only if you haven‘t dealt with licenses. This software was published without a license.

It's a wonder the software's authors, users, and distributors have evaded dire legal consequences all these decades.

It's a ticking time bomb that distributors are steering clear of for good reason. You are correct that current copyright law is pretty silly, but that silly law is frequently enforced by serious courts.