Preach.

Who?

Good job censoring the names, Rian Socia.

Ran the stack manually for decades, but spam makes it harder.

Run mailinabox now, it takes care of everything pretty well.

Oil was effectively plankton and other sea stuff.

Coal was forests.

Israel was ranked joint 14th by the national juries, but shot up the leaderboard thanks to the results of the phone and online vote

I mean, fuck subtlety right?

So correcting them on using the word ‘exaggeration’ when they used a form of exaggeration is being the grammar police when nobody called for you

have you heard of stylistic devices? this one is called exaggeration hyperbole.

I actually love the theory of the Mach nanokernel, I just also think Apple went their own way with it, defeating the purpose entirely.

And this is how you escalate a traffic stop into attempted murder of a cop.

You’re right, but rax is amd64.

I think there were a few early amd64 systems with genuine ps2, and I think you can still get one, but it wasn’t common, and honestly it’s probably usb->ps/2.

To be a pedantic asshole: mov eax, ecx? Unless you’re commenting on the insanity of interrupt driven i/O in the modern age of high performance, deep-pipelined superscalar OOO cores.

Qnx is certified and has (hard) rtos baked in.

But montavista and others give most of that by now for less and are more maintainable anyway.

Linux back then was just minix with more packages like x.

The kernel was absolute bedlam back then.

Msft funded them for a while to do this:

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/microsoft-s-ties-to-sco-confirmed-by-investment-group

Amen, freebsd crew represent!

And to anybody throwing shade:

BSD is literally the #1 mobile os, and has been for years, even if the kernel has extra chromosomes.

YOU HAD PEACE!!!

Peace of mind.

Peace that everyone wasn’t trying to force you to believe their opinions or be judged as evil.

I love the internet, but it desperately eroded the barrier that stood between our internal self-image and literally everyone else in the world.

Hyperbole is the rhetorical technique.

Exaggeration is just speaking like that.

From context it sounded like he was invoking the rhetorical meaning.

In https://interestingliterature.com/2015/09/the-interesting-origins-of-the-phrase-swings-and-roundabouts/

But he’s also sometimes credited with popularising, or even inventing, the phrase ‘swings and roundabouts’, meaning ‘a situation in which different actions or options result in no eventual gain or loss.’ In other words, ‘it’s all much of a muchness’. Chalmers used this phrase – and the accompanying sentiment or meaning – in a poem titled ‘Roundabouts and Swings’, which was first published in Chalmers’ volume Green Days and Blue Days in 1912. The original poem is interesting not least because it cleverly employs existing expressions (round and round, up and down) to describe the pattern of financial profit and loss experienced by the travelling man. In doing so, and in using the symbols of the roundabouts and the swings to reinforce this sense of gain and loss, the poem arguably helped to bring the phrase to a wider audience

And that is several square millimeters of cerebral cortex that you no longer have available for other patterns.

No, it’s called hyperbole.