There is no incentive to figure out meaningful shelf lives of drugs because the manufactures can, and would prefer to, make more. Why bother to bless a blister pack of pills for 10 years instead of two? The drug maker can profit 5 times instead of once. And, presumably, like many government agencies, the FDA is a revolving door agency so, if anyone were to rock the boat and suggest that many drugs retain potency for vastly longer than 2-3 years, it would severely limit their future job prospects.
when it's still who's got the FASTER single core that matters at the end of the day.
I'm not sure how much single core performance even matters at this point. My work machine is a modern i7 clocked at some crazy high speed while my home machines are a ThinkPad X220 and an old school dual Xeon X5690 setup. The work machine is actually worse than my old dual Xeon setup on multi-threaded stuff and, for a single core, is indistinguishable for real life performance. Yes, it compiles a lot faster than my X220 but, if I weren't compiling stuff, I wouldn't know the difference between the machines.
Except 2FA is optional. This is just saying when enabled it won't work on SMS anymore. So much for your rant on everything being the result of capitalism.
It is *for now*, sure. Who's to say that at some point it won't be required and the only platform that is supported is Android.
It's funny you mention the Uber drone part because I'll be holding out on autonomous cars until that is a reality. I'd love to be able to tell my car, "Hey, go buy me some beer" and it will be become an Uber whore until it makes enough fare to buy beer. I foresee entire new niche services popping up like liquor stores that will accept a remote ID card and "car stored credits" for the purchase of beer and just toss it in your autonomous car that will drive it back to you. It will be a glorious day for humanity. Or, at least, drunk old men.
99.99999% of these sites aren't huge for any good reason, they're just horribly inefficient.
99.99999% of all software "isn't huge for any good reason". Except for the fact that the developers decided to not use assembly so they could actually, I dunno, complete a project in a sane amount of time.
Have a look at MenuetOS. It's written completely in assembly, fits on a single floppy and provides a lot of the useful functionality that a modern desktop does. It's insanely fast and easy to understand (if you don't mind jamming 100 lines of assembly into your head to grok an if statement). Yet, no one (probably not even the developers) uses it as their primary desktop. It's an awesome project but, it's certainly never going to overtake any other OS in users.
You can stand on the shoulders of giants (or, in the case of the web, Trolls) or you can re-invent the wheel over and over. Thankfully, the modern software industry has mostly chosen correctly on this point. We are able to build nice things because the people before us have built nice foundations for us to build upon.
I'll let you get back to writing your custom XML parser...
The "View Source" functionality still works exactly as before. Except better. In Firefox, when I mistakenly hit Ctrl-Shift-C (which I do often), it brings me into an interactive "View Source" like functionality that is essentially a debugger. It's not [completely] the fault of webpage makers that the stuff under the hood is effectively gobbly-gook: That's just how the web looks now.
I'm not really sure what this summary is implying. That we should roll back the web to hand written HTML with blink tags so that kids can understand it? Fuck that. Get your kid a Raspberry Pi and as many $5 peripherals as they want. That's WAY more interesting than web programming and leads to understanding how things work instead of copy/pasting shitty HTML.
This is really an excellent thing to do. If they have the resources in counselors to handle it, it's really a great idea,
Well, it should be fairly easy to gauge whether or not they have enough counselors to handle it. Just watch the stats on high school graduation rate. My guess is that, in a place like Chicago, they are just about to plummet. It's kind of shocking to think that they are going to gamble the future of a generation of children based on whether or not they have enough competent councilors. But, sure, if they do have enough, it'll be glorious!
As I pointed out above, I only see two other options - publish his name, or not publish and don't give him a warning, which seems disingenuous since the threat is implicit once they have your information.
No, they had a third option: Act like fucking adults and ignore the entire thing. It's insane to think that we are watching a childish tit-for-tat between the President of the United States and CNN. If this guy, troll or not, had posted this last month, no one would have given even the tiniest of shits.
Exactly. WTF is a Kanye West? WTF is a Tidal? WTF is a Jay-Z? The last one is presumably related to a function in Cartesian coordinate space, the first one is either a new geolocation paradigm or something akin to a Rusty Trombone but, I genuinely can't figure out what the middle one is.
This sounds like excellent news for Florida Man stories. Education is the nemesis of Florida Man so, an outright assault on it should let Florida Man thrive.
I wonder if lower marriage rates has anything to do with this. Not being married, having a kid, etc. means less pressure to work and earn as much money as you can
I would like to posit a different theory: Not being married with children makes it more likely that you actually *want* to go home.
You might want to have a look at XFCE too. It has a proper, "Yeah, we solved this UI thing 10 years ago" interface. And, because it's been solved for so long, almost every knob and dial you'd want to fiddle with is exposed and thoroughly supported. It has quirks, to be sure, but, if you take a weekend to configure something like Debian+XFCE, you're unlikely to ever look back. That combo feels like a proper workstation and not some UI developers playground.
It's not just making them dumber, it's making them less sociable, have shorter attention spans, and vanity is rapidly increasing. As someone who also doesn't have a smartphone, I find it increasingly difficult to interact with people with smartphones. There is no depth or meaning to a conversation with someone who is just waiting for their phone to vibrate/beep. They are just killing time in the real world until someone gives them virtual gratification.
I always use "dist-upgrade" because it actually does what most people would expect "upgrade" to do.
Not really. Most people don't expect upgrade to remove packages or install new packages, which dist-upgrade can do. Most of the time it doesn't (except on rolling release systems), but by using dist-upgrade you are increasing the probability that you'll break something on your system. It's safer to use upgrade. If upgrade reports that changes are being held back, you should investigate why, and then take appropriate action (which may be dist-upgrade).
When I tell the system to upgrade, I expect it to install kernel updates. If you do an "upgrade", you may or may not get kernel updates because they may be considered a new package (for example, 3.16.0-4 vs 3.16.0-5). That's definitely not the functionality I want. The kernel, specifically, was what got me into the habit of using "dist-upgrade" instead of "upgrade". On debian proper, this is less of an issue since the kernel versions don't change often but, on Ubuntu, if you don't use dist-upgrade, you'll never get kernel updates. If I remember right, they went to the "always update the kernel version number" so that kernel installations wouldn't clobber existing kernels and possibly leave the system in an unbootable state.
Yikes, "dist-upgrade" certainly does *not* upgrade you to latest release of a debian based system. As per the apt-get man page:
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in/etc/apt/sources.list.
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages
If you aren't familiar with the terminology then it's a bit confusing but, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is just a smarter "apt-get upgrade". Neither of which change the distribution version. I always use "dist-upgrade" because it actually does what most people would expect "upgrade" to do. If you want to do an inline upgrade to the latest version of a debian based distro, you need (at minimum) to point/etc/apt/sources.list to the latest distro. Some debian based distros will automate this process with simple tools but, on debian, it's a manual (but fairly simple) procedure.
Why call people trolls that point out the problems with systemd swallowing log messages and not providing proper exit statuses?
Because this is a post about a new release of Debian stable and not a post about systemd. This is Slashdot and flooding a post with systemd hate is just beating a dead horse at this point. Most Slashdot users agree: Systemd sucks. But, there is no need to shit on every Linux post with systemd hate. We get it.
New releases of Debian stable *should* make the front page of Slashdot. It's a proper Big Deal. You can make a huge list of things that Debian stable is not: Not the most used distro, not the most user friendly distro, not the most up to date distro, not the most "libre" distro, etc... But, if you want to find a distro that meets one of those criteria, it's probably based on Debian. When they release a new stable version, the entire open source community benefits.
It doesn't matter which one is technologically superior. The one that will become the most adopted is the one that is most widely accepted for the purchase of drugs and other illegal goods.
For reasons stated above, putting a computer in the fridge isn't going to have the desired outcome. But, I have to wonder why this is something you would even ponder doing. Closed loop liquid cooling is cheap and very effective. If you want something more exotic than that, submerge it in Flourinert.
If I had the money to borrow Mirai, I can't imagine a more amusing thing to do than to poke holes in the WannaCry Dam. I tip my hat to whoever is behind this evil scheme.
In further comments, the Prime Minister stated, "We've long known that the internet is just a series of tubes and so we've decided that we are just going to go around and turn off all those little valves that lead outside the country. Once we've determined that our internet tubes are not leaking, we are going to add more tubes and those tubes are going to route everything into a big tank of internets. We plan to make a tank big enough to hold ALL the internets. It will be a much better paradigm than, for example, big trucks dumping things onto the internet. Instead, all the tubes will lead to the tank and the government will make sure the tank is full of clean, healthy internets."
It would have been a lot more interesting, and a lot more paradigm shifting, if it was 160TB of ultra-fast next-gen M.2 sticks with 0MB of traditional RAM and 0MB of traditional storage. That would be a truly unique machine to work on. If you read the article, this isn't even a single machine. It's actually 40 nodes with high speed interconnects. Basically, HP is now running Linux on their VMS clusters.
Wow, your "real world example" for "what does systemd solve" is literally a webpage that shows you how to disable the systemd built in firewalld and use the old iptables way of doing things. I think you might have given an ideal example of how most people deal with systemd and its ever growing host of half-baked replacements for established tools: Route around it whenever possible.
What is the deal with binary logs? I know AIX has them but why Linux? What's next, all the config files are stored in a flat binary database? Brilliant!
This sounds like a great idea. I propose we call it The Registry. We can even make tools to convert the binary into an almost-human-readable format. It will be glorious.
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There is no incentive to figure out meaningful shelf lives of drugs because the manufactures can, and would prefer to, make more. Why bother to bless a blister pack of pills for 10 years instead of two? The drug maker can profit 5 times instead of once. And, presumably, like many government agencies, the FDA is a revolving door agency so, if anyone were to rock the boat and suggest that many drugs retain potency for vastly longer than 2-3 years, it would severely limit their future job prospects.
when it's still who's got the FASTER single core that matters at the end of the day.
I'm not sure how much single core performance even matters at this point. My work machine is a modern i7 clocked at some crazy high speed while my home machines are a ThinkPad X220 and an old school dual Xeon X5690 setup. The work machine is actually worse than my old dual Xeon setup on multi-threaded stuff and, for a single core, is indistinguishable for real life performance. Yes, it compiles a lot faster than my X220 but, if I weren't compiling stuff, I wouldn't know the difference between the machines.
Except 2FA is optional. This is just saying when enabled it won't work on SMS anymore. So much for your rant on everything being the result of capitalism.
It is *for now*, sure. Who's to say that at some point it won't be required and the only platform that is supported is Android.
It's funny you mention the Uber drone part because I'll be holding out on autonomous cars until that is a reality. I'd love to be able to tell my car, "Hey, go buy me some beer" and it will be become an Uber whore until it makes enough fare to buy beer. I foresee entire new niche services popping up like liquor stores that will accept a remote ID card and "car stored credits" for the purchase of beer and just toss it in your autonomous car that will drive it back to you. It will be a glorious day for humanity. Or, at least, drunk old men.
99.99999% of these sites aren't huge for any good reason, they're just horribly inefficient.
99.99999% of all software "isn't huge for any good reason". Except for the fact that the developers decided to not use assembly so they could actually, I dunno, complete a project in a sane amount of time.
Have a look at MenuetOS. It's written completely in assembly, fits on a single floppy and provides a lot of the useful functionality that a modern desktop does. It's insanely fast and easy to understand (if you don't mind jamming 100 lines of assembly into your head to grok an if statement). Yet, no one (probably not even the developers) uses it as their primary desktop. It's an awesome project but, it's certainly never going to overtake any other OS in users.
You can stand on the shoulders of giants (or, in the case of the web, Trolls) or you can re-invent the wheel over and over. Thankfully, the modern software industry has mostly chosen correctly on this point. We are able to build nice things because the people before us have built nice foundations for us to build upon.
I'll let you get back to writing your custom XML parser...
The "View Source" functionality still works exactly as before. Except better. In Firefox, when I mistakenly hit Ctrl-Shift-C (which I do often), it brings me into an interactive "View Source" like functionality that is essentially a debugger. It's not [completely] the fault of webpage makers that the stuff under the hood is effectively gobbly-gook: That's just how the web looks now.
I'm not really sure what this summary is implying. That we should roll back the web to hand written HTML with blink tags so that kids can understand it? Fuck that. Get your kid a Raspberry Pi and as many $5 peripherals as they want. That's WAY more interesting than web programming and leads to understanding how things work instead of copy/pasting shitty HTML.
This is really an excellent thing to do. If they have the resources in counselors to handle it, it's really a great idea,
Well, it should be fairly easy to gauge whether or not they have enough counselors to handle it. Just watch the stats on high school graduation rate. My guess is that, in a place like Chicago, they are just about to plummet. It's kind of shocking to think that they are going to gamble the future of a generation of children based on whether or not they have enough competent councilors. But, sure, if they do have enough, it'll be glorious!
As I pointed out above, I only see two other options - publish his name, or not publish and don't give him a warning, which seems disingenuous since the threat is implicit once they have your information.
No, they had a third option: Act like fucking adults and ignore the entire thing. It's insane to think that we are watching a childish tit-for-tat between the President of the United States and CNN. If this guy, troll or not, had posted this last month, no one would have given even the tiniest of shits.
Exactly. WTF is a Kanye West? WTF is a Tidal? WTF is a Jay-Z? The last one is presumably related to a function in Cartesian coordinate space, the first one is either a new geolocation paradigm or something akin to a Rusty Trombone but, I genuinely can't figure out what the middle one is.
This sounds like excellent news for Florida Man stories. Education is the nemesis of Florida Man so, an outright assault on it should let Florida Man thrive.
Here's to you, Florida Man!
I wonder if lower marriage rates has anything to do with this. Not being married, having a kid, etc. means less pressure to work and earn as much money as you can
I would like to posit a different theory: Not being married with children makes it more likely that you actually *want* to go home.
You might want to have a look at XFCE too. It has a proper, "Yeah, we solved this UI thing 10 years ago" interface. And, because it's been solved for so long, almost every knob and dial you'd want to fiddle with is exposed and thoroughly supported. It has quirks, to be sure, but, if you take a weekend to configure something like Debian+XFCE, you're unlikely to ever look back. That combo feels like a proper workstation and not some UI developers playground.
It's not just making them dumber, it's making them less sociable, have shorter attention spans, and vanity is rapidly increasing. As someone who also doesn't have a smartphone, I find it increasingly difficult to interact with people with smartphones. There is no depth or meaning to a conversation with someone who is just waiting for their phone to vibrate/beep. They are just killing time in the real world until someone gives them virtual gratification.
I always use "dist-upgrade" because it actually does what most people would expect "upgrade" to do.
Not really. Most people don't expect upgrade to remove packages or install new packages, which dist-upgrade can do. Most of the time it doesn't (except on rolling release systems), but by using dist-upgrade you are increasing the probability that you'll break something on your system. It's safer to use upgrade. If upgrade reports that changes are being held back, you should investigate why, and then take appropriate action (which may be dist-upgrade).
When I tell the system to upgrade, I expect it to install kernel updates. If you do an "upgrade", you may or may not get kernel updates because they may be considered a new package (for example, 3.16.0-4 vs 3.16.0-5). That's definitely not the functionality I want. The kernel, specifically, was what got me into the habit of using "dist-upgrade" instead of "upgrade". On debian proper, this is less of an issue since the kernel versions don't change often but, on Ubuntu, if you don't use dist-upgrade, you'll never get kernel updates. If I remember right, they went to the "always update the kernel version number" so that kernel installations wouldn't clobber existing kernels and possibly leave the system in an unbootable state.
Yikes, "dist-upgrade" certainly does *not* upgrade you to latest release of a debian based system. As per the apt-get man page:
upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages
currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
of packages
If you aren't familiar with the terminology then it's a bit confusing but, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is just a smarter "apt-get upgrade". Neither of which change the distribution version. I always use "dist-upgrade" because it actually does what most people would expect "upgrade" to do. If you want to do an inline upgrade to the latest version of a debian based distro, you need (at minimum) to point /etc/apt/sources.list to the latest distro. Some debian based distros will automate this process with simple tools but, on debian, it's a manual (but fairly simple) procedure.
In other news, thousands of programmers appear to have gone blind and insane while screaming, "The Spaghetti! The Horror! It burns my eyes!"
Why call people trolls that point out the problems with systemd swallowing log messages and not providing proper exit statuses?
Because this is a post about a new release of Debian stable and not a post about systemd. This is Slashdot and flooding a post with systemd hate is just beating a dead horse at this point. Most Slashdot users agree: Systemd sucks. But, there is no need to shit on every Linux post with systemd hate. We get it.
Yes, the idea of systemd is great
Actually, I take that back. You *don't* get it.
New releases of Debian stable *should* make the front page of Slashdot. It's a proper Big Deal. You can make a huge list of things that Debian stable is not: Not the most used distro, not the most user friendly distro, not the most up to date distro, not the most "libre" distro, etc... But, if you want to find a distro that meets one of those criteria, it's probably based on Debian. When they release a new stable version, the entire open source community benefits.
Here's to decades more of Debian stable!
It doesn't matter which one is technologically superior. The one that will become the most adopted is the one that is most widely accepted for the purchase of drugs and other illegal goods.
For reasons stated above, putting a computer in the fridge isn't going to have the desired outcome. But, I have to wonder why this is something you would even ponder doing. Closed loop liquid cooling is cheap and very effective. If you want something more exotic than that, submerge it in Flourinert.
If I had the money to borrow Mirai, I can't imagine a more amusing thing to do than to poke holes in the WannaCry Dam. I tip my hat to whoever is behind this evil scheme.
In further comments, the Prime Minister stated, "We've long known that the internet is just a series of tubes and so we've decided that we are just going to go around and turn off all those little valves that lead outside the country. Once we've determined that our internet tubes are not leaking, we are going to add more tubes and those tubes are going to route everything into a big tank of internets. We plan to make a tank big enough to hold ALL the internets. It will be a much better paradigm than, for example, big trucks dumping things onto the internet. Instead, all the tubes will lead to the tank and the government will make sure the tank is full of clean, healthy internets."
It would have been a lot more interesting, and a lot more paradigm shifting, if it was 160TB of ultra-fast next-gen M.2 sticks with 0MB of traditional RAM and 0MB of traditional storage. That would be a truly unique machine to work on. If you read the article, this isn't even a single machine. It's actually 40 nodes with high speed interconnects. Basically, HP is now running Linux on their VMS clusters.
Wow, your "real world example" for "what does systemd solve" is literally a webpage that shows you how to disable the systemd built in firewalld and use the old iptables way of doing things. I think you might have given an ideal example of how most people deal with systemd and its ever growing host of half-baked replacements for established tools: Route around it whenever possible.
What is the deal with binary logs? I know AIX has them but why Linux? What's next, all the config files are stored in a flat binary database? Brilliant!
This sounds like a great idea. I propose we call it The Registry. We can even make tools to convert the binary into an almost-human-readable format. It will be glorious.