The kids on my street do come and knock, but they don’t know what to do then. The just stand there waiting - I’m like “what do you say???”, and they go “uhh, thank you???”

C’mon kids!

lol, right, this is terrorism!

If 10 people are sitting at a table…

When Russian citizens understand there are direct consequences to them, Russian citizens stop supporting Putin’s actions.

Personally I’m glad the sanctions have some bite. You can’t expect to just keep living your life as you wish when your country is obliterating its neighbors and disrupting stability worldwide.

Performance is the major flaw with microkernels that have prevented the half-dozen or more serious attempts at this to succeed.

Incurring context switching for low-level operations is just too slow.

An alternative might be a safe/provable language for kernel and drivers where the compiler can guarantee properties of kernel modules instead of requiring hardware guarantees, and it ends up in one address space/protection boundary. But then the compiler (and its output) becomes a trusted component.

Prices have been going down around here.

Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.

No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!

Can you link or provide reference to the official US narrative?

yeah they are selling “wireless home internet” hard now, can’t have people using their phone hotspot for that.

Guys, he made the joke!

fyi the NeXT OS is called NeXTSTEP.

along these lines, you should also know about the condensate drain from your air conditioner – since water drips out of it all summer, it has a tendency to grow some algae or mold, and if it plugs up your air conditioner may flood and ruin your ceiling/walls/floor.

it’s worth paying that AC guy to come by every couple of years even if you’re not on their service plan.

for what it’s worth, coolant is not consumed by an air conditioner – the same initial charge can last 20+ years. Low coolant either means a leak, which the technician should have investigated and fixed or ruled out, or improper initial installation.