SpunkyBarnes

Subscription paywall on link, archive version here.

That’s the caveat, if it’s true. If it is? Future’s sounding much brighter.

Also, TIL not to lead with a pun.

“In remarks Tuesday at the Capitol, McCarthy said the questions his party is raising about Biden family business dealings need to be investigated. “

At the same time, if your committee members were subjected to the same level of investigatory zeal, one has to wonder what those results would be.

Link goes to a white page … NVM, the Hill’s just loading slow is all.

edit: after …

Cool! Next, practical applications.

Oh, no, rural broadband and the telco money pit that was going to make it a reality are very real and I consider myself lucky to live where I actually have “choice” in my provider options.

As for performance clauses, who’s to say whether they were there and stripped out in committee.

My house is gigabit, everything else as a standard should be as well, IMO.

Traversing web and ftp sites by simple, progressive, suffix removal from the address. Sometimes very interesting what showed up that way. Security was spotty, an afterthought often.

TL;DR?

Approachable, detailed article touching on just about every major aspect of the mainframe; history, hardware, functions, relevance and resilience.

Will be sharing with my more technically inclined friends.

Funny, innit, how they invoke residuals as a reason to support their effort, while denying it to the talent via streaming clauses, creative accounting, outright bad contracts, or a combination of all? /smh

Cheers! And the same for you, sir. :)

Thank you, now it’s sounding more attractive, but it’d be a 50 mile drive to the closest IMAX (ours undergoing renovations ATM); so I may have to settle for less screen real estate and refer to the printed source material for further depth on the subject.