...NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i'm unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround...
...i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended...
edit: ...is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..
...the original compact ford ranger was a great little truck!..the midsized replacement forsook its charm, though...
...i'm not even sure who makes compact trucks in australia anymore, but they're not sold stateside...
...no, that's just the common american pickup: monster trucks are much larger...
...problem is that manufacturers are discontinuing cars to focus upon SUVs + trucks...
...registration fees should be proportional to GVWR and speed limits (and fines) should be based upon kinetic energy...
...minivans are fantastic purposeful vehicles and probably what one-quarter of SUVs should be driving; the other three-quarters should be driving cars if they hadn't been swept up in the road-tank arms race...
...so it used to be pretty common in small towns (pre-walmart mainstreet USA) for hardware stores to include a toy department, usually downstairs in the basement, much like how drugstores typically did double-duty as lunch counters...
...the small town where i went to college, though, enjoyed a stereo/mattress/ski shop, and i never wrapped my head around that combination...one of the local grocery stores (pre-hypermarket) also had a full computer department; the most well-appointed amiga retailer i'd ever seen, replete with rendering hardware and video equipment...
...PIPs only serve to establish cause for terminating protected classes...
...i'm absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i've checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn't matured into a stable production-ready platform: i'm not sure if that's an artifact of technical viability or developer interest...
...i don't, and anyone who cares is a sexist bigot, including yourself...
People who use YYZ often live further than that so add any additional time from that.
...ah, that explains the rush...
...i've waited thirty years for pinch-rolling to become socially-acceptable again: is now my time to shine?..
...skinny pants look skanky as f*ck and grotesquely unflattering: just wear shorts instead...
using the r-slur to describe something seen as stupid.
...re-publican?..
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...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..
...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..
...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..
...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...