This guy sounds like an asshole with an axe to grind, honestly. Nobody completely in possession of their rational faculties writes a Twitter thread that long. If I got this in an email, I would read about a quarter of it, realize the author is crazy, and put them in my spam blocklist.
This is why we'll never launch another successor to Hubble: you can do better from the ground for a fraction of the cost -- hundreds of millions instead of tens of billions.
The James Webb Space Telescope (which at this point may very well never fly) views in the infrared, which you can't do from the ground. $8 billion and counting.
Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador. Why on earth would you build such a thing?
Russian Ambassador: There were those of us who fought against this. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap.
Muffley: This is preposterous! I've never approved of anything like that!
Russian Ambassador: Our source was the New York Times.
We're a group of people who are trying to change the world for the better, that's who we are. For us, technology is a background thing.
This pretty concisely sums up everything that is wrong with the tech industry: this sort of smarmy hubris is why everybody else wants to repeatedly smack Teh Tech Bros with a length of hose.
This is not the same problem. His configuration file is fine. Not sure what the problem is in this case, but plenty of people install mysql-server 5.7 on fresh 16.04 without encountering it. So suffice it to say it is probably something weird to do with his particular circumstances, maybe the slightly odd Microsoft Azure configuration. Weird stuff happens in VMs sometimes, especially on cloud services.
Nope. Happened to me on a bog-standard from-scratch 16.04 install onto an empty drive. BTW, if you poke around on this one, you'll see that this, and apparently related install problems, are pretty widespread. And, apparently miraculously, the install works just fine on 17.10, which uses a different version of mysql-server. As it did in 14.04.
I'm not sure about you, but if I were Canonical, and suddenly a whole bunch of people were discovering that the install script for a very widely used database server was all of a sudden nontrivially borked for a whole bunch of people using my "stable" release, I would do more than shrug and call it somebody else's problem. Or at least backport the fix once it showed up upstream. YMMV. Me, I'm looking into other distros.
Then these versions of the packages shouldn't be in a stable release in the first place. They are not ancillary systems: they are core functionality, and if they have major bugs, they shouldn't in something called a "stable release".
Having been a big Ubuntu fan (yes, including Unity) for quite a while now, I have been severely underwhelmed by the 16.04 LTS. The thing that really gives me pause (in addition to the basic instability of what is supposed to be a stable release) is the show-stopper bugs in major projects that have gone not only un-fixed, but unaddressed for nearly two years.
Both of these examples are _major_ bugs in _major_ packages in the distro. And nobody has bothered to work on them, at all. This suggests to me that Ubuntu is too short on manpower to actually maintain the distro at an acceptable level.
Halfway through the end scene it was clear that all involved were doomed. Of course the transmissing HAD to happen. But Darth Vader HAD to find out. The two main characters HAD to die etc. Not very interesting
This change, however, strikes a nerve for me personally. It's a combination of Big Brotherly data accumulation and usage against people, along with a heaping helping of, "Screw you, rich boy," shakedown.
If this is the way data collection is going, and how it'll be used, then THIS kind of abuse of people's wallets may finally be what wakes up the average Joe as to why privacy still matters.
Word, Bro. Fuck over poor people? Awesome, that's capitalism. Suck it up, snowflake. But fuck over the rich bros? Man, that should be a wakeup call to everybody.
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It's funny how they point to aviation as nearly infallible when they talk about self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars don't have to be infallible. They just have to be safer than the average person, which is a really low bar.
The new feature here is that this turbine also works with wind coming from below or above.
Awesome. When I move to a planet with vertical wind, I'll let them know.
This guy sounds like an asshole with an axe to grind, honestly. Nobody completely in possession of their rational faculties writes a Twitter thread that long. If I got this in an email, I would read about a quarter of it, realize the author is crazy, and put them in my spam blocklist.
This is why we'll never launch another successor to Hubble: you can do better from the ground for a fraction of the cost -- hundreds of millions instead of tens of billions.
The James Webb Space Telescope (which at this point may very well never fly) views in the infrared, which you can't do from the ground. $8 billion and counting.
You can still download and run encfs. It just isn't supported by default.
Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador. Why on earth would you build such a thing?
Russian Ambassador: There were those of us who fought against this. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap.
Muffley: This is preposterous! I've never approved of anything like that!
Russian Ambassador: Our source was the New York Times.
We're a group of people who are trying to change the world for the better, that's who we are. For us, technology is a background thing.
This pretty concisely sums up everything that is wrong with the tech industry: this sort of smarmy hubris is why everybody else wants to repeatedly smack Teh Tech Bros with a length of hose.
... but I thought they still had a functioning road system.
This is not the same problem. His configuration file is fine. Not sure what the problem is in this case, but plenty of people install mysql-server 5.7 on fresh 16.04 without encountering it. So suffice it to say it is probably something weird to do with his particular circumstances, maybe the slightly odd Microsoft Azure configuration. Weird stuff happens in VMs sometimes, especially on cloud services.
Nope. Happened to me on a bog-standard from-scratch 16.04 install onto an empty drive. BTW, if you poke around on this one, you'll see that this, and apparently related install problems, are pretty widespread. And, apparently miraculously, the install works just fine on 17.10, which uses a different version of mysql-server. As it did in 14.04.
I'm not sure about you, but if I were Canonical, and suddenly a whole bunch of people were discovering that the install script for a very widely used database server was all of a sudden nontrivially borked for a whole bunch of people using my "stable" release, I would do more than shrug and call it somebody else's problem. Or at least backport the fix once it showed up upstream. YMMV. Me, I'm looking into other distros.
So take your money and find a better supplier.
There's no excuse for continuing to complain about how poorly a product is being maintained, and not doing anything about it.
This, right here, is how open-source software companies end up circling the drain.
Also, as a followup, the mysql bug also happens on fresh installs (it just isn't included in that particular bug report):
https://serverfault.com/questi...
There is no excuse for this.
[... lots of finger pointing ...]
Then these versions of the packages shouldn't be in a stable release in the first place. They are not ancillary systems: they are core functionality, and if they have major bugs, they shouldn't in something called a "stable release".
Fuck you very much.
Having been a big Ubuntu fan (yes, including Unity) for quite a while now, I have been severely underwhelmed by the 16.04 LTS. The thing that really gives me pause (in addition to the basic instability of what is supposed to be a stable release) is the show-stopper bugs in major projects that have gone not only un-fixed, but unaddressed for nearly two years.
Here's one (Status: confirmed / Importance: High / Assigned to: Unassigned)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
Here's another one (Status: confirmed / Importance: High / Assigned to: Unassigned) :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
Both of these examples are _major_ bugs in _major_ packages in the distro. And nobody has bothered to work on them, at all. This suggests to me that Ubuntu is too short on manpower to actually maintain the distro at an acceptable level.
Canonical, WTF?
Also, have you ever _really_ looked at your hand?
This. Transaction verification is a long-solved problem that Americans refuse to adopt because we're too fucking stupid.
I aspire to the perfect Slashdot post, which is equally modded "Funny" and "Troll".
This. Transaction verification is a long-solved problem that Americans refuse to adopt because we're too fucking stupid.
I didn't know they were a protected class.
Or is it that they just haven't finished compiling yet?
Halfway through the end scene it was clear that all involved were doomed. Of course the transmissing HAD to happen. But Darth Vader HAD to find out. The two main characters HAD to die etc. Not very interesting
I felt the same way about Hamlet.
This change, however, strikes a nerve for me personally. It's a combination of Big Brotherly data accumulation and usage against people, along with a heaping helping of, "Screw you, rich boy," shakedown.
If this is the way data collection is going, and how it'll be used, then THIS kind of abuse of people's wallets may finally be what wakes up the average Joe as to why privacy still matters.
Word, Bro. Fuck over poor people? Awesome, that's capitalism. Suck it up, snowflake. But fuck over the rich bros? Man, that should be a wakeup call to everybody.
This was so idiotic it made my brain bleed.
black female officers are so normal that we needn't even talk about it anymore
... except that if you actually put a black female officer on the show, all the Bros are going to whinge about what a SJW you are!
Apparently, the message did't stick.
I really like Unity!
Languages change. 500 years from now, will people be able to understand our current writing?
We can read Babylonian, Egyptian Heiroglyphs, Old English, Mayan. 500 years isn't that long.
... low numbers on Slashdot are not to be trusted.
@realDonaldTrump is a blue check. What more do you need?