Lately, like following ChatGPT 3.5 release era, I had found Grammarly now replacing entire sentences with LLM replacement which are random and inject bias to being near useless. It did this some before. The problem is I can't even tell if it's defensible from a grammatical point when it uses an LLM to do this. At some point Grammarly reached too far in the cookie jar and I no longer trusted that someone who read the Grammar rule book verified any part of the elaborate suggestions.

I haven't logged in for months. I guess I was no longer learning from it. I need to take a closer look but sys admin outrage from pushy sales people doesn't bode well in my mind.

Perfect. I'm looking for a program that executes everything it reads. You've tracked a 20-year-old security bug for FoxPro? That's gnarly. What if, instead of reviving FoxPro, we summon a new type of DOS with no security model to begin with? FoxPro was always better that way.

Hear me out. So, you have your regular computer on your desk, right? I call that the REAL SECURITY computer for REAL WORK: You know, your typical choice of Windows 11, Apple, or Linux. The biggest names in security. The names we trust. Real work. Real computers. Real security.

Next to it sits FoxPro, running new DOS on a separate computer with no security model at all.

Here's the ergonomics. You press your hands against your desk and push your office chair off like a boat, gliding away from the SECURE COMPUTER in the REAL WORLD toward FoxPro. FoxPro reads everything and executes with religious zeal.

- written from my treadmill. edit: fix typos

"Definitely"? A unit can look clean after treatment while still being mid-cycle. Rent it during that window and the roaches come back through no fault of the tenant.

It wouldn't even be that crazy to postulate the life-cycle of a roach could track the 2-Year Apartment Rule (minus any residual effects of the extermination).

I don’t know how you get a moral judgement out of this article. That's misdirected blame. It pressures tenants into staying quiet or spraying their own units for a building-level problem.

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From this article on the American Cockroach https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/american-cockroach

> Development to adult averages about 15 months, varying between 9-1/2 to 20 months.

> Buildings with multiple dwellings usually require the treatment of each unit.

This pretty much contradicts blaming the tenant and the roach development aligns with the 2-Year Apartment Rule. It says apartments usually require each unit to be treated. That means no single tenant can do that. That makes it a building-level infestation by definition.

Emacs, LuaTeX et al, GhostScript, and PDF take the liberty of upgrading my $100 Times New Roman Pro to Libre New Roman (from the LibreOffice typesetting subsystem) without my consent, and I have to link it using configs like a C library and hope the path environment variable is clobbered together in the right order.

Or you can use the Weenie Hut Junior HTML-V8 infused PDFium, where I basically have to manipulate a tamper-resistant DOM to print a post on most social media sites. Then Chrome uses whatever font it feels like for the timestamp and header. It's almost easier to hardcode my Times New Roman Pro font file into their source code and recompile Chromium, and last time I attempted that, my computer BSOD'd since I forgot only the bourgeoisie can actually use open source, not just look at it.

That's why FrameMaker is the standard generalized markup editor.

Things ahead aren't looking too good, especially after Xerox drivers had that glitch that replaced numbers with different-looking ones. Don't get me started on my recent HP all-in-one fax machine nightmare. Maybe the smug LISP weenie that joked about stapling his s-expr onto the IRS worksheet was right.

If anyone finds this comment, tell my family I died trying to find a way to share the best version of the Times New Roman font for them to read the XML in.