Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.

Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.

> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them.

Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.

Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!"

But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?

Right? Just gross...

I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.

Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.

Completely unnecessary retort. At no point did anyone in this thread state that sorting legos was a major problem of society.

Rather, the GP merely implied that some parents would love to have a robot to sort their kids legos, and that (ironically) even that unimportant "need" is more important than replacing git.

I have a lot of fun with my old PDP-11s. Being able to run an original version of Unix on a machine with actual core memory (that I restored to working order) is a real kick for me. Gives a sense of depth to the software I run on my modern Linux laptop.

"Let them write blogs!"