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…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…

…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…

edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..

…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…

…my grandmother never drove in ninety-one years after suffering a siezure in her youth; now i work with a girl who does likewise…

…i think pornhub’s leaving money on the table not starting a SFW video platform…

…jordan cochran…

…overtime?..welcome to the world of exempt employees where anything less than 45 hours requires “voluntary” salary deductions…

fear leads to anger.
anger leads to hate.
hate leads to fascism, i guess.

…i relish saying canadia; it rolls so deliciously off the tongue that i can’t resist using at every opportunity…

…ah, that explains it!..no other EGA games affected me the same way…

…ye gads, something about the low-framerate EGA + flat topology in catacombs 3D gave me ferocious motion sickness at the time; even looking at screenshots still makes me feel queasy to this day…

(never had that problem with ultima underworld)

I understood that reference.

…do you ever smell things which nobody else notices?..

- TOOT IT!

Baah Weep Granah Weep Nini-bong.

…my original aftershox aeropex eventually developed a stereo imbalance after about four years of daily (all day) use, but they were fantastic for a collaborative office environment where other headphones get in the way; i recently replaced them with shox openrun pro which offer improved bass response but are otherwise nearly indistinguishable (although i prefer the original UI voice)…

…of course they’re not high-fidelity headphones, but especially with the improved bass i find myself enjoying music in a way nothing short of speakers can replicate in a shared workspace; i just forget that they’re there more often than not…

…they make for transparently fluent remote conferences, too: it’s kind of funny, since i brought mine into the studio after the pandemic, they caught on and now half our office wears them…

…american residential houses are neither expensive nor slow to construct and 3D printed houses aren’t significantly cheaper nor faster: what’s expensive is land and infrastructure and what’s slow is permitting…

…macintoshes have featured native multihead support since at least 1987…

…with the prevalence of clickbaity bottom-feeder news sites out there, i’ve learned to avoid TFAs and await user summaries instead…

(clicks through)

…yep, seven nine ads plus another pop-over, about 15% of window real estate dedicated to the actual story…

Take a bath. And get a job.

(but yeah, eleven is awful)

(it’s actually three teaspoons per tablespoon)