Great program. Needs better pay and more funding. A pathway for future federal service and job experience for young adults.

I assume programs like this, that we need to grow and to give more funding, would be eliminated depending on the results of this election.

Also since the article kept giving me popups about registering for $1, I archived it here: https://archive.ph/MM8WG

I guess older would be old enough to remember Cliff Burton.

My Metallica bassist is Newsted. Which means I'm not young, not old.

People who only knew Trujillo are the young bucks.

I agree, but the synopsis relies too heavily on extreme outliers to make it's case. Bill Gates was not a great programmer with a bit of luck. He was an ok programmer (IIRC, the only code we've ever seen from him is the QBasic game Nibbles) who was a nepo baby with family on the board at IBM where he got his first deal. This is the case for many other billionaires we are told to worship. Maybe they didn't all come the billionaire class, but they had plenty of resources available, access to extracurricular education as kids, and these kids weren't worried about their next meal growing up.

So just from the synopsis, there's not really a strong case against meritocracy. The bamboo ceiling that discriminates against Asian Americans in the workforce, and other institutional racism prevents true meritocracy. We also have this fixation, and it probably comes from Western culture in general, that when an invention or a new product comes out, we highlight and celebrate one person and that person is the "pioneer" or "inventor" of the project. From Neil Armstrong to Steve Jobs to Elon Musk, the media and our history books ignore the bureaucracy and teamwork of tens of thousands of people needed to bring a project to success. Safety experts, engineers, janitors, food services, logistics, HVAC teams, all important part of the process. The media also tend to reward grifters like that guy who was supposedly the inventor of Firefox a few years ago, and allow the "cult of genius" to run too far in our narratives. It's always the story of a single white guy with a good idea. Except in reality, it isn't that at all.

Finally, the reward for being "lucky" or whatever is far too high compared to the threat of just being "not lucky." A "lucky" person who worked hard and who is successful and never has to work again in their life and can afford to launch their kids in a way where they can live comfortable lives is one thing, I don't have a problem with that.

But to be "lucky" to the point where you alone have more money than a majority of mankind combined is another. There should be upper limits to wealth, and these feedback cycles do a poor job at ensuring the reward for success is distributed evenly to everybody who took part. Meanwhile the person who is equally talented/important but not as "lucky" still has to worry about their next paycheck, food on the table, and medical bankruptcy from a diagnosis or accident.

Less billionaires. Less starving kids. Free healthcare and education. Thanks for sharing.

I saw this in a magazine and it was so cool looking. A few months later I got Linux on CD and never looked back. That 3D Motif/fvwm look was amazing.

Funny enough, my BIOS did not support booting from CD. I remember in DOS, I had to load MSCDEX from a floppy but I have no recollection on how I actually booted and installed Linux from CD.

Tetris

When it's still green and hard.

Shred it, make papaya salad.This is what I spent a lot of my holidays doing as a kid.

https://www.saengskitchen.com/laorecipes/laopapayasalad

I never knew people let it get soft until I moved to South America. I didn't even know the orange stuff was the same fruit.

Also, mangoes are best when still green and crunchy dipped in spicy powder.

This should be a national law.

It's about as fast as a Haswell desktop, but a fraction of the power usage. It will run any modern OS.

$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.

We aren't so lucky. Hurricane prone area with a heavy population.

But we have passports to six countries so we are carefully evaluating our options. It will likely be the Andean region.

Sucks that the Clippers couldn't do a sign and trade. They could have made it work with Brandon Ingram.

Just the successor to pine. It works with IMAP and SMTP.

I've tried elm and mutt many years ago back in the 90s and pine was the easiest. So I guess I just stayed there and it works over my ssh connections too. To be honest, the number of personal emails that I've written over the past several years can be counted in the dozens so it's not that important to change any more.