What I personally have in mind is something very different-a terminal ioctl which gives you an fd which speaks a completely different protocol, such as JSON-RPC - or whatever else you prefer - to avoid endless disputes over which alternative protocol to use, it could be you pass the ioctl a string saying what alternative protocol you want, and it gives you an fd if the pty master has registered support for that protocol, an error otherwise. The “other fd” could actually be a Unix domain socket. This also means the kernel code change required would be minimal - it doesn’t have to actually understand the alternative protocol, just let the pty master register a mapping of protocol name strings to listening sockets.

> This API has just recently finally lost to UNIX's in-line signaling, because the in-band controls can be proxied through almost anything, including literal serial line with two RX-TX wires and a common ground; the downside, of course, is that you have to build "out-of-line" signalling on your own.

SSH/etc is totally capable of carrying “secondary channels” - that’s how it implements X11 forwarding, port forwarding, etc - admittedly would require some code change in SSH clients/servers but the change would be modest rather than massive.

The Windows approach can’t be so easily forwarded over the network because it is defined in terms of a C language API not a wire protocol. My idea doesn’t have that issue

It could just be the path to a Unix domain socket in an environment variable, where that socket speaks some kind of RPC protocol

Lots of people have ideas for programming languages; some of those ideas may be original-but many of those people lack the time/skills/motivation to actually implement their ideas. If AI makes it easier to get from idea to implementation, then even if all the original ideas still come from humans, we still may stand to make much faster progress in the field than we have previously.

Is there some law saying they can’t?

This is a carpark. If you own a car, you are legally required to hold a CTP insurance policy as a condition of registration-so to be able to use the facility, you legally need to be customer of one type of private financial institution; given that, is it really problematic if council requires you to be a customer of a second kind as well, when close to 100% of the population are?

It varies from person to person; some of that variation is social/cultural influences, some is life experiences/circumstances, some is just randomness-but very likely it has a genetic component.

If certain alleles predispose one to be more likely to desire to have children, then in a society with strong social pressure to have children and limited availability of contraception, the selective pressure in favour of those alleles is going to be limited; in a society where social pressure to have children is low and contraception is readily available, those alleles will significantly increase the odds of having children, likely resulting in their frequency increasing over time, and maybe even (in the very long-run) a rebound in TFR

Have you talked to her about what the problem is? It doesn’t sound like you have. In which case, that almost certainly is at least part of the problem

If you read the regulations, they provide for the permits to be issued to members of the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs, since some classic cars have difficulty running on unleaded petrol. https://www.fbhvc.co.uk/fuels says "the Federation lobbied successfully to secure an EU concession for the sale of leaded petrol in the UK, a concession which survives to this day, although current sales outlets are few in number, and the uptake of the product is quite small. In part, the difficulty of setting up a satisfactory distribution for leaded petrol for the use of historic vehicles, is proof of the general truth that a good distribution system for specialised fuels for historic road vehicles is not a viable commercial proposition". It sounds like there may still be a small handful of isolated places where you can legally purchase small quantities of leaded petrol in the UK for use with classic cars – more likely the clubhouse of a classic car club, or a mechanic who specialises in such vehicles, than an ordinary petrol station.

The regulations also exempt military vehicles, but I'd be surprised if there was any remaining use of leaded petrol in the UK military.

The regulations apply to land transport vehicles, not avgas. Leaded avgas is still legally used in the UK for general aviation, despite repeated attempts to move away from it.

I’ve seen Notes 3 clients and servers on the usual abandonware sites, but never any pre-3.x version

This is only because the drafters of the US constitution didn’t think to list corporations law as an enumerated power of Congress - I don’t think they omitted it out of an ideological conviction, simply because nobody thought of it at the time. That said, given SCOTUS’ expansive reading of the interstate commerce clause, there’s a decent chance SCOTUS would let them get away with a federal corporations law, but they’ve never had the political will to attempt a general federal incorporation law

The drafters of the Australian constitution did list corporations law as a power of the federal government-but they were working over a century later, and they studied the US system intently to try to identify what worked and what mistakes to avoid. However, it took until 1989 for a federal corporations law to be enacted, and then the High Court ruled in 1990 that the new federal corporations law was unconstitutional, because the corporations power in the constitution only authorised federal regulation of existing domestic corporations, not the act of incorporating them - however, this was fixed by a federal-state agreement voluntarily ceding corporations law power to the Commonwealth (this is another innovation the Australian constitution has compared to the US - the ability of the federal level to gain new enumerated powers without constitutional amendment, by the states voluntarily agreeing to cede them)

Part III makes it illegal to sell leaded petrol in the UK without a government permit

No idea how many of these permits have been issued

That was true five years ago, but no longer-Algeria, the last country to allow it, banned leaded petrol in 2021 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58388810

For certain types of firms, daily revenue figures are likely to reveal individual deals. Many B2B firms have a modest number of high value deals, a daily data feed might show $0 revenue one day $1.374 million the next, which is more likely a single deal of that size than two or more smaller deals-and that would reveal a lot to competitors-especially if those competitors are in other jurisdictions which haven’t mandated this form of extreme transparency

Of course, EV certs aren’t as attractive as they used to be given browser UI changes no longer call them out like they used to. But if we are going to have “extra-verified” certs, it might make sense to mandate a higher level of DNS security for them

Most large enterprises, you’d have core business applications running on a mainframe or minicomputer or Unix host, and you’d need a terminal emulator to access them from your PC/microcomputer. A lot of places used mainframe/minicomputer-based email/calendar (e.g. IBM PROFS, DISOSS, SNADS, Office/36, OfficeVision; DEC ALL-IN-ONE; DataGeneral CEO; HPMAIL; etc) and centrally hosted word processing systems (e.g. IBM DisplayWriter) were commonly used for document/content management. And then added to that you had services like CompuServe and BBS systems

It is likely the Microsoft Works developers dogfooded its terminal emulator a lot, since at the time Microsoft ran its business on Xenix servers, until they eventually migrated to Windows NT in the first half of the 1990s

Both grandparents divorced means you go from two family units involved to four-which in itself adds logistical complexity-and new partners doubles the opportunities for interpersonal conflicts

Isn't that basically every democratic country?

We can't judge how "right" or "left" the political culture of a country is by how frequently the right or left win office, because in the long-run they tend to win office roughly equally often just about everywhere.

A better way of judging this question, is how the policies of their main left/right parties compare to those of their counterparts in comparable countries