did they leave behind significant amounts of writing?

Nope. Which is what makes it so difficult. Additionally, adjacent nations like the Navajo, Apache, and others are very tight lipped about their extremely robust ancestral and oral history because of bad experiences along with taboos.

It felt like a mix of rightful wariness due to untrustworthy opportunistic anthropologists from the 19th and 20th century along with taboos that developed due to some sort of collapse.

I read something about the Sphinx in Egypt suggesting that modern excavations came to the conclusion that at least one Ancient Egyptian dynasty probably excavated it trying to figure out the history of it as well

I had to take some course that was something like "Programming Language Theory". As a result I had to look at the specifications for dozens of different programming languages. I remember looking at the features of some languages and scratching my head trying to figure out how some of this would ever be practically implemented by a compiler. Later on I found out lots of stuff is just implemented by a runtime anyways, which lead to me realize that those fancy language features are often better as a library.

I took a course exactly like that. I wonder if we went to the same school, or it’s due to curriculum standardization. The professor was particularly enthusiastic about Ada, so I had assumed the course was largely his creation.

the accreditation was through ABET at the time from what I recall

Not really, the next move is to establish standards groups requiring the use of AI in product development. A mix of industry and governmental mandates. What you view are viewing as COGS instead becomes instead a barrier to entry.

so what if a plaintiff represents themselves?

"Antennas are designed to either transmit or receive RF". This isn't even close to realistic. Outside of amplified or active antennas, they have to be bidirectional devices. An active antenna is just a normal passive one with a non-linear junction attached.

Sometimes "to either x or y" doesn't mean "to do one of x or y", sometimes it means "to be able to do both x and y (but not necessarily at the same time purposefully)".

we could meet in the middle: Azure support IPv6 with 0% uptime

should we try going back to IPX ?

IPX/SPX is datagram only. BUT it would be an opportunity to build a QUIC-like that runs over it :-)

Comically IPv6 now has almost all the neat stuff IPX did. There probably is an argument for more datagram centric networking these days as the underlying services are generally much faster and more reliable and there is so much more session tracking going on at higher application layers anyway.

Only if we're bringing back Token Ring, too.

That might be challenging, I hear people are pretty short on tokens these days.

There's only one token! It's just very popular.

While we're at what about older physical layers? Coaxial based stuff seems cool in 2026

Isn’t that what MoCa is for?

Isn’t twinax just “I heard you like coax so I put coax in your coax.”

twinax I think is used more like a balanced line with shielding. Twisted pair is preferred because it is cheaper, but for short stuff like SATA the cost difference is so low it might as well be used

If it’s not 10BaseT I can’t see small spread adoption.

Arcnet for me.

I remember removing the IPX route entries from our Cat65 MSFC back in 2006 and from the ATM/Framerelay WAN Equipment. Wasn't very popular with the customers.

I also remember the first IPv6 Workshop on W2k SP3 back in 2002. Not that long ago.

I've used IPX exactly once in my life, playing Diablo over modems calling my dorm neighbor to establish the connection (in 2005).

given the level of hostility most businesses have towards their customers, we should probably be opening links in disposable virtual machines

Or just log all cookies and other localstorage against the domain of the top-level window.location which would achieve most of what a VM would with much lower overhead.

The only problem is that this would break some things like certain SSO systems, so you would have to implement a white-list to allow shared state, and the UX for that would be abused to nag users to whitelist everything. Most people would just click “OK” by default like they do with everything else, and those of us with more sense would have a new reason to be irritated by incessant nagging.