What I noticed right away was: It’s the ugliest hello world ever. It’s the slowest hello world ever. (For a long time it was also the record size hello world at something like 64MB, but that’s later and on a compiler.) And it doesn’t actually run on any platform except one: jre. And most binaries you find only run on one version of that one brand of jre.

Still, not the worst thing for writing web services in in late 90s. Doesn’t matter how slow it starts or how much space it takes. Responding to requests, being familiar to new programmers and living in a sandbox was enough.

Any sufficiently advanced technology does. It’s nice to have tools, whether they’re ready baked ones or there’s some assembly required. The latter tends to be more adaptable, but using what’s in reach is smart.

Swedish Resident Banana Alien. Why not just go all the way?

When they make the bread worse and raise prices to increase their profit margin. And show some ads to make extra profit. And start to pester you with more service tiers and subscriptions before they give you the bread because they’ll be able to scam some people into giving them another revenue stream…

Internet archive has been seriously endangered for a long time now. They were even attacked a while ago. The wayback machine is still not fully functional.

It’s one of the greatest existing libraries of information and culture in existence. Consider donating, if you can.

I remember a story and pictures where there was a party of some sort and at some point during the night people decided to go get food. Maybe the handiest place was a drive through our maybe it was just one of those ideas, but a fairly considerable number decided to go walk to the nearby drive through. There was a picture of them, in a long single file lined up along the lane.

If she had, we wouldn’t be in this timeline.

That’s probably true for most people.

Rinkeby.

(Joking, of course. Stockholm is nice.)

There should be an edit function on a comment. Of course clients and federation vary.

or opera

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Solution

Yes, unless your only metric is fuel consumption or range with a given tank. Then they’re pretty strong.

Only 70% going out the tailpipe.

Or an Imperial Wizard.

Well, maybe not born, but certainly raised.

And that small batch had a label with a different list of ingredients/allergens somehow? I’m curious how that happened.

Ah, Liurnia of the Lakes.

Let the wookiee in.

He’s going for speed!

we can do that kind of thing again.

I admire the optimism.