Parts of it are. The kernel is derived from a Mach microkernel (an experimental kernel in the 80s, which was theoretically supposed to allow different OS personalities to coexist in the same system, sharing resources; macOS’ Darwin/XNU kernel doesn’t implement this capability in full, but you do get the Mach Ports interprocess communication mechanism, and a BSD UNIX personality permanently attached).

30 years on, that guy still had all those gadgets dangling from his belt, but now he’s the crazy old guy who lives in the junkyard

IIRC, it’s still 100% privately held by the founders, who have no intention of selling up.

* golf clap *

Another recommendation for Mullvad. Solid privacy options and no marketing snake oil

I wonder what the proportion of bots to actual gamergate incel chuds who idolise Musk was.

I read a while ago that the landraces of cannabis that were used sacramentally by Rastafarians in Jamaica are believed to be extinct, replaced by more profitable high-THC varieties grown by organised crime for export to US consumers.

Probably a reeducation-through-labour camp

What about swearwords? Does the word “fuck” appear less often here than in Microsoft Windows and/or the Linux kernel?

It’s to differentiate the predatory ad-targeting/consumer-profiling cookies you’re meant to keep from the placebo ones you can turn off to feel more comfortable sharing your data with the data miners.

The downside of that is that you have to code in Go

Swift could be a good choice.

Were they emulating the x86 code in realtime, or pre-translating it to RISC-V in the way that Apple’s Rosetta 2 does for ARM? If the former, that is indeed impressive performance.

You don’t say

They called them “workhouses” in the Victorian era. Now they’d probably call them “mutual obligation settlement centres” or something.

The Swumbles Big Jumble naming scheme can probably be traced to ZX Spectrum games coded by 15-year-olds in northern England in 1983 or so

That looks great. It reminds me of London Crossrail.

The space will reduce congestion (and not being squashed into a sweaty crowd in a narrow corridor is a quality of its own), and space overhead will reduce the risk of airborne viruses spreading. Also, for those prone to claustrophobia, it’s an accessibility issue.

Yes, it could have been done cheaper and smaller, if one wanted to reinforce the late-20th-century ideology that public transport is a bare-bones soup-kitchen service for those too poor to drive, in which case the money saved could be spent on cutting petrol taxes. Though thankfully we have moved on from there as a society.

Wouldn’t this be about the time anti-SLAPP laws come down on Musk like a tonne of bricks?

If you have frequent traffic on a line, it pays for itself in lower running and maintenance costs and improved speed and acceleration.

That, of course, assumes you have the right of way, which does not apply in large parts of the US, where freight operators for whom electrification doesn’t work own the lines.