What does GSI refer to? Googling did not lead to any obvious results.

It upsets me that so much video was recorded on tapes instead of film, because it didn’t wear well and looks awful today. The only hope we have now are approximations using AI.

Think of all of the 80s TV shows and movies we’d be streaming today if the quality weren’t so poor.

No one can guarantee that but if you place your dollars into assets, those assets will inflate.

16-bit Windows used the Pascal calling convention, with the documentation in the Windows 1.0 SDK only listing Pascal function declarations. (Most C programs for 16-bit Windows use FAR PASCAL in their declarations—the WINAPI macro was introduced with Win32 as a porting tool.) The original development environment for the Macintosh was a Lisa prototype running UCSD Pascal, and even the first edition of Inside Macintosh included Pascal declarations only. (I don’t know how true it is that Windows originated as a porting layer for moving (still-in-development) Excel away from (still-in-development) Mac, but it feels at least a bit true.) If you look at the call/return instructions, the x86 is clearly a Pascal machine (take the time to read the full semantics of the 80186’s ENTER instruction at some point). Hell, the C standard wouldn’t be out for two more years, and function prototypes (borrowed early from the still-in-development C++, thus the unhinged syntax) weren’t a sure thing. C was not yet the default choice.

>> Also, the stack is restored by the called procedure rather than the caller.

> What could possibly go wrong?

This is still the case for non-vararg __stdcall functions used by Win32 and COM. (The argument order was reversed compared to Win16’s __far __pascal.) By contrast, the __syscall convention that 32-bit OS/2 switched to uses caller cleanup (and passed some arguments in registers).

It depends upon how you define "success." I visit California regularly, and since the new minimum wage law went into effect, I've noticed reduced hours, reduced staff, and increased prices. So now my normal breakfast spot isn't open when I want to go there, so I eat at home. The places I visit when they are open are mostly empty, because the customers don't want to wait longer and/or pay higher prices.

So aside from the fewer employees getting a raise, the businesses are now under financial stress because of the reduced revenue, the customers have fewer options for where to eat, and the State of California and the local city/county governments will receive less tax revenue from these restaurants.

Like most of the other recent California legislation, it's a "success" at further damaging the local economy and encouraging people like myself to stay away.

What do you need these ports for, that you can't get with a modern USB-connected dock? It can't be a matter of portability since by and large laptops with Ethernet and SD-card I/O are going to be bulky, not-really-portable "desktop replacement" products anyway.

Capital gains are theoretical. You do not have that as money, but the state does want it as money. They are not what someone paid for your assets, they are what someone THINKS someone else might pay. Most smaller companies cannot be sold easily, and of course, the government is unwilling to take that as the valuation being zero (because what someone is willing to pay right now is in fact zero). And the government is unwilling to take any risk (they take cash only). So they're taxing money you do not have available to spend, and may not have at all.

Think of it as taking a $10k diamond with you. It's worth something, but ... maybe next year artificial diamonds double the size of your diamond start costing $500, and your diamond's value goes to $550. The difficulty is that the government demands "10%", which is $1000 in taxes on the "value" of your diamond now.

So for a big range of company sizes it's effectively a tax on nonexistent assets. This would not be the case for a huge (let's say revenue of 500k or more) company.

But the government chooses not to tax those big companies.

Isn’t clicking on a link in an email also problematic? It gets users in the habit of trusting links in emails. There is a history of those being used in bad ways as well.

I still don’t really understand what recovery looks like for a lost passkey… especially if I lose all of them. Not everything has a physical location where an identity can be validated, like a bank. Even my primary bank isn’t local. I’d have to drive about 6 hours to get to a branch office.

I mean, isn't it obvious? There is no demand for massive SSDs. The current "average consumer" capacity has stabilized at 1-2TB for a system drive. It's also what you buy for your PS5s etc. There's just not that many (popular) use cases for larger SSD. Even with gaming, which is probably the most widespread use case for "fast and big" drives, people found out that there's only so many AAA 150GB behemoths that they can play at the same time...

> (need to find time to buy an updated one (and a spare) w/ USB-C)

Once you find a TrackPoint keyboard model that you like, buy spares, since you might have a hard time getting a good design in the future.

For example, they went to a lot of trouble to develop TrackPoint keyboard SK-8855, with community input, and then discontinued it. To cries of anguish, scalpers and price-gouging on last remaining stock, and, years later, people selling filthy broken used ones for more than they cost new.

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd005137-thinkpad...

I don't think Lenovo has quite the same design sensibilities as IBM ThinkPad team had:

* "You, the user, want to throw away IBM's famed keyboards, and have a chiclet keyboard as the only option." (No.)

* "You want to remove the function keys that aren't necessary for Twitter." (No.)

* "You want to remove the tactile cues from TrackPoint buttons, so it looks more sleek, for your TikTok scrolling." (No. This is not a mindless "content consumer" device. "Think" is right there, in the name.)

* "You want to remove the TrackPoint buttons altogether, from a workstation laptop, so you can get RSI from clicking with your thumb on the touchpad below instead." (No, and now I think you are just trying to sabotage all the smart people who were using ThinkPads before.)

I'm still surprised that IBM was even allowed by the US gov't to sell ThinkPad to China. It was beloved fleet tech of US big business and government, as well beloved by techies ("innovators"). And maybe also a source of technology excellence pride, like fewer companies are now. Imagine the iPhone business being sold to China. Or Cisco being sold.