Sheldon's website is such an awesome relic of the internet we all miss. It still has a ton of relevant information if you ever find yourself dealing with obscure wheel sizes or something like that. Love it. RIP.

Yeah, I was really expecting them to just continue the partnership that Apple announced when the iPhone 16/iOS 18 came out, but I suppose it's been pretty much radio silence on both fronts since then. Although the established stability and good enough-ness that Google offers with Gemini are probably more than enough reason for Apple to pivot to them as a model supplier instead.

And a no soliciting sign is no more cosmically binding than robots.txt. It's a request, not an enforceable command.

Tell me you work in an ethically bankrupt industry without telling me you work in an ethically bankrupt industry.

It really does seem as though Broadcom is entirely shifting VMware's focus the the top 5 or 10 percent of customers who probably make up the vast majority of the actual profits. The message they've delivered time and time again to businesses outside that group is pretty simple "go away" price.

Problem is when the expunged 90% creates a market that gets filled with a cheaper product that also can do what the top 10% needs.

Then VMware dies because it cannot decrease prices anymore due to lack of volume.

It seems like it, making VMware Fusion and Workstation free seems to fit with that strategy.

A bit of nostalgia: my first VMware product was VMware Express for Linux. It was a stripped down version of Workstation (probably 2.0?) that could only run Windows 95/98:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010124081300/http://www.vmware...

Does anyone remember Win4Lin 9x (based on SCO Merge)?

I believe they are referring to the fact that the article states that every crew member survived. As in, none of them didn't make it.

The human crew members made it.

+1, there are definitely some sad parts to this story.

He did one better - Shackleton returned to England with more crewmembers than he departed with.

If you don't count the dogs.

And Mrs Chippy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy

Personally, I don't agree with this proposal. While yes, I agree, that bare excepts are often a source of bugs, I don't think it should be the language's responsibility to nanny the programmer on such things. To me, this seems to only reduce the functionality of the language. If explicit exception handling is necessary, let the programmer make that decision.

An ATM withdrawal with a credit card is a cash advance.

Oh my bad, read the question wrong. They just don’t support CCs. Debit only

First thing that came to mind. I remember in school at least 10 years ago we used it because a teacher liked it. Most of us just used it as a Powerpoint alternative, but a few kids definitely harnessed the extra power available over a generic slideshow. I remember being really impressed at the creative presentations a few people made with it. Fun times.

I think the point is that this person has spent so much time experiencing this phenomenon on the internet, that the effects are bleeding into reality.

Not everyone spends so much time on this site that they can easily spot a post as an extension of a related discussion elsewhere on the site. Someone posted this page, it got upvoted by others who found it interesting, and now it's on the front page. What's wrong with that?

Popular content is not necessarily good content (very boring to say this, but just look at reddit). And posting articles to get upvotes, which I'm not saying this post is necessarily doing but at least _some_ are doing, leads to lower quality. HN barely has any methods for maintaining overall quality of the website and it will automatically degrade as it gets larger.

To simply allow these posts and having them hit the front page when they get upvotes is a valid position. But I think it contributes to a website that is less interesting.

I don't think these posts should be removed, but they should at least be frowned upon, and/or linked to the original comment thread.