NHK is also available over the air in some places, if you have an antenna

I get a weak signal of it over the air, but that’s what turned me on to them originally.

it's a bad idea because your money will run out faster, if you just trade 9-5 you can space your losses out

The irony

Well how else are the rich supposed to buy the land, silly?

It's revelant on servers, workstations, embedded systems, and supercomputers.

So, basically everywhere.

The thing is: you're unlikely to be programming directly on top of the POSIX API unless you're doing something comparatively low level to the average programming that is done in industry today.

Embedded is an area where applications are often written right on top of libc and POSIX interfaces. Even many RTOS which are not fully POSIX compliant borrow a lot of ideas from UNIX.

whenever you walk into a casino you are constantly being watched, but the dealer isn't the one who does it

And yet they didn’t seem to notice right away. Dice not rolling seems like you could spot it.

Given that players register with their name and card, checking using random samples, or spot check, is enough to catch cheaters. They probably also have statistical data of the wins and losses.

The dealer isn't the only one who does it. They also watch you. And they are also being watched to make sure they aren't cooperating with you.

If you posted this message on the door of a casino, I imagine not many people would go inside. What people think is: "I could be rich and never have to work again."

If you hire a prostitute, they obviously aren't going to emphasise the fact that they wouldn't be there if you hadn't paid them. Part of what you're paying for is the fantasy. And sure, some people will be taken in by it. I've no doubt some people have fallen in love with prostitutes. Is that an indictment of the business model (both of casinos and prostitutes)? I'm not sure, but it does mean I don't find it problematic that casinos don't post their business model on the door. I think that, if the existence of casinos which don't emphasise their business model is problematic, then the stronger argument is the one which holds that it is better to not have casinos at all.

I just replaced my VT100 with an XTerm and I have to say I'm really impressed.

if you really want a GUI tab, I suppose you're right

i'll take the TUI tab with the added bonus of not losing my work when the window is closed any day.

I have my terminal set up so the window won’t close without prompting.

I also like being able to copy-paste things out of terminals, and Tmux makes it a bit difficult. I know how to use the scrollback in Tmux but it’s just so much easier to use the scrollback in a GUI terminal editor.

I think what you’re describing is more habitual than the strengths and weaknesses of different solutions. Which is fine but the discussion needs to be framed that way.

People disagreeing with me but that fact that we’ve had a dozen people propose a dozen different ways to do the same thing, that alone should be evidence enough that what we are arguing over is personal preference rather than “x can’t do y”.

Having been a Linux (and unix before that) user for decades now, I’ve seen people argue over vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, GTK vs Qt, GPL vs BSD and so on and so forth. They make all sorts of well reasoned arguments but it almost always just boils down to personal preference at the end of the day. Yet it’s amazing how many people think that their preferences are unequivocal facts.