You mean like BSD not having ext4? Sorry, I understand that you are convinced that BSD is better. And I may do zfs the next time I do an install...but I'll need to do a lot of research first. And reformatting my disk to a new file system isn't something I do casually.
It is one of a very few things that might have caused the boot time slowdown. I'm not necessarily blaming it for that, but boot time sure didn't speed up. It became extremely difficult to access drives installed by other OS installations, and I am blaming it for that. (Yes, a hand configuration was able to fix the problem, but it's something I've had to do after each installation, and is quite annoying. But perhaps I should be blaming grub2.) The log files aren't accessible as text, and even the maintainers of systemd acknowledge that *that* is their fault. The last time I looked it was "won't fix". There are other annoyances, and absolutely no benefits.
ZFS might work. FAT won't, because it doesn't maintain file status flags. Also, MS has in the past made some claims to owning the file system, so I generally avoid it to the greatest extent possible, to the point of reformatting usb drives that I buy.
You are assuming that I have already decided to commit to BSD, and this is a false assumption. I'd be willing to compare.
The suggestion that I install it on a VM has *some* merit, but doesn't really address my problem. Neither does the ability to make backups. What I need to do is switch back and forth between the OS systems with the same data set. For that I need the data in a file system that both OSs can handle properly. And I currently use ext4 for several reasons. It sure isn't perfect, but it works well for my needs. I don't have a spare main computer, so any solution depending on that fails from the start. I do have backups to usb drives, but they won't fit on a dvd.
What I might be able to do is ensure the backup is current, install a BSD, re-formatting my disk in the process, roll the data back in, test it a bit, ensure the backup is current, re-install Linux, re-formatting my disk in the process, roll the back up back in, compare a bit, go to step 1. This doesn't appear at all practical to me.
I *don't* have any microsd cards and my system isn't embedded, and booting has slowed down since systemd was added anyway. (I can't say it was caused by systemd as other things were updated a the same time.) I'm not convinced that there is any benefit from systemd to a single user on a single system. I *know* there are drawbacks.
My guess it that systemd benefits those administering multiple systems, but I don't do that, so it's only a guess. It sure hasn't improved anything on my systems, though I haven't experienced the nightmares some have reported.
The problem I have with the BSDs is that I can't test them out, because they can't handle ext4 filesystems in read/write mode, so I'd have to commit to a switch before testing how it worked. Sorry, not going to happen. I understand that if I'd started with a BSD based system the same problem would exist in the other direction, but that's not what happened.
It's really too bad. The first Unix I ever used was a SysV on an Altos minicomputer, a generic AT&T Unix. I rather liked it, which is why I switched to Linux after that machine went away. But I've pretty much had it with having to rebuild all my files from scratch, because the new system won't handle the way the old system wrote the files, and I don't want to switch without extensive testing.
It's possible that JavaScript is the ideal solution to some problems, but it sure isn't the ideal solution to all problems. Or even most. Perhaps not many.
FWIW, I looked into using it and I would have needed to write a custom library in another language to even make it possible...a much better choice was to just use a different language. Not, admittedly, the one I would have used if I were writing a JavaScript custom library.
The language that's best depends substantially on the problem you're trying to address. E.g., if Ruby with guilds were available, I might well have chosen to work in Ruby...but that's a few years off.
I wouldn't exactly say it's cooler, but it's something that any good theory of gravity is going to need to explain, and we need a new theory of gravity, because General Relativity doesn't play nice with quantum physics...but they both seem correct everywhere we can test either of them (usually, though, we can't test them in the same places).
He was probably assigned to do it, and, yes, had decided it was a bad idea before it was assigned to him...but he didn't want to turn down the assignment.
I'm sorry, but when I routinely read reports of police getting away with murder, don't expect me to believe they always pay attention to the requirement of a warrant.
I don't drive, so when this happened to me it was extremely frustrating. To make matters worse, there was a UPS store close by that was willing to accept delivery and hold it for me, but the USP terminal wasn't willing to ship it to them, even for extra payment. And there was no transit to where the UPS terminal was. And how long would I need to pay a taxi to sit there waiting?
I nearly said "fuck that package, I'll do without" without even knowing what was in it. (It was a present from a relative.) Fortunately a friend was willing to drive me. But talk about unaccomodating!
They also didn't pick up the signed tag that said they could leave the package, so I suspect they only made one delivery attempt.
Whether that's true or not depends on what "perverted crimes" are in you locale. It's claimed, on what grounds I don't know, that the average US resident commits more than one felony per day. Do *you* know what all the laws say is a "crime"? What's the difference between a crime and a "perverted crime"?
If you had asserted that most people don't hurt other people against their will I would have agreed with you, but "perverted crimes" is basically an undefined term.
How much land it takes to support one cow depends a *lot* on the nature of the land. I don't think the data you supply allows one to make an even approximately accurate calculation. If I took your opinion seriously I'd ask my brother, who owns a small ranch what he figured. He must figure it pretty closely, as he needs to buy hay each winter...but what he worries most about isn't hay, it's water. Even so, his opinion would just say what he needed on his land. Ranchers on desert land would need a lot more land/cow. Ranchers with lush pastures would need a lot less. Ranchers with grazing access to national forests... well, they wouldn't figure that way at all.
My guess is this isn't quite the same process, but it could be. Or this could all be PR fluff. It's still probably a worthwhile thing to do.
OTOH, I understood that processing manure this way lost a lot of the nutrients which would otherwise (eventually!) be returned to the soil. But eventually can take a long time, especially if you don't have decent native dung beetles. (Australia had to import some IIRC.)
More, methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, even though shorter lived. I believe the half-life of a methane molecule in the atmosphere is supposed to be around 20 years...then something eats it and turns it into CO2.
In addition to the other response... Toyota make lots of things, not just cars. If this catches on they'll be quite willing to make it (subcontracting it out?) and sell it to others.
You clearly have strong opinions about how the singularity will manifest...and that's in direct opposition to the very concept.
The Technological Singularity is incredibly dangerous to humanity, and if we could depend on rational humans running things I'd be strongly in favor of avoiding it. Unfortunately, it may be our best hope for surviving the century, but I put our odds of surviving it at no more than around 60%.
Welllll....the Los Angeles area has long had the Santa Ana winds, and It's long has less rain. I think the higher temperatures are the main cause. I did hear once, about a decade ago, that the effect of climate change was as if the traditional climate had moved north a few miles, so possibly the Los Angeles climate is now more like that which Baja California used to have, but I only heard that once, and I'm not sure you need to make that kind of assumption. I think drier suffices.
While what you said is largely true, higher temperatures and drier weather increase fire danger, and those have both increased all up and down the US West coast. There's also insect pests moving North as the weather stops getting cold enough to kill them off. This has caused large numbers of tree deaths in, e.g., Oregon and Northern California, and dead trees are fire hazards.
So fire dangers have gotten worse, It's also true, however, that methods to combat those fires have improved. It's my judgment that fire danger has gotten worse faster than methods have improved, but this is a judgment rather than a fact. That fire danger has gotten worse is a fact. And this isn't helped by people planting flammable things around their houses...and then not watering them in the dry season.
The thing is, there's costs and then there's costs.
Rooftop solar may well be more expensive per se, but with other approaches every middleman takes a cut, so the cost to the individual may be less even though the costs of the installation are greater.
OTOH, most rooftop solar systems don't include in their costs sufficient battery power to sustain overnight. So you get a favorably biased system costs, as the utility has to cover for when the sun is down, and it has to swallow the excess when the sun is up. This will cause problems, and has already in some places. This make the cost to the individual *less* than the actual costs. This was the thing Elon Musks "power wall" was supposed to address, but I'm not sure I'd trust that much lithium battery charging in a house I was living in. And I'm not sure I trust his cost estimate. (OTOH, he was pitching it really as isolated communities, etc., where it can really make sense. I think the home installation angle was really just covering all bases. So he's installing it in Australia and Haiti, where it really makes sense.)
The fisheries won't die out, they'll just switch to "fish" that prefer an acidic environment and that people find disgusting. But there are already people who eat jellyfish, and that looks like a recipe for them...and probably squid and octopus. Things that don't have bones or calcium based shells. Sharks would be right up there, but they reproduce too slowly, so they are already endangered from people eating them.
As for sea level rises...it depends on how thorough the melt is. If Antarctica goes Chicago will be under water. So will the Mississipi basin. I think Colorado and Wyoming might be OK, though they'll get a bit crowded. Possibly the New Mexico highlands and similar places in other countries. OTOH, Greenland and Antarctica will provide new land. Probably not as much as gets covered, though. But expect a lot of earthquakes all over because of the global changes in stress as the weight shifts off Antarctica and Greenland, so they start rising higher. (Northern North America is still rebounding from the melt after the last glaciation. I'm sure similar things are going on in Siberia.)
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You mean like BSD not having ext4?
Sorry, I understand that you are convinced that BSD is better. And I may do zfs the next time I do an install...but I'll need to do a lot of research first. And reformatting my disk to a new file system isn't something I do casually.
It is one of a very few things that might have caused the boot time slowdown. I'm not necessarily blaming it for that, but boot time sure didn't speed up. It became extremely difficult to access drives installed by other OS installations, and I am blaming it for that. (Yes, a hand configuration was able to fix the problem, but it's something I've had to do after each installation, and is quite annoying. But perhaps I should be blaming grub2.) The log files aren't accessible as text, and even the maintainers of systemd acknowledge that *that* is their fault. The last time I looked it was "won't fix". There are other annoyances, and absolutely no benefits.
ZFS might work. FAT won't, because it doesn't maintain file status flags. Also, MS has in the past made some claims to owning the file system, so I generally avoid it to the greatest extent possible, to the point of reformatting usb drives that I buy.
You are assuming that I have already decided to commit to BSD, and this is a false assumption. I'd be willing to compare.
The suggestion that I install it on a VM has *some* merit, but doesn't really address my problem. Neither does the ability to make backups. What I need to do is switch back and forth between the OS systems with the same data set. For that I need the data in a file system that both OSs can handle properly. And I currently use ext4 for several reasons. It sure isn't perfect, but it works well for my needs. I don't have a spare main computer, so any solution depending on that fails from the start. I do have backups to usb drives, but they won't fit on a dvd.
What I might be able to do is ensure the backup is current, install a BSD, re-formatting my disk in the process, roll the data back in, test it a bit, ensure the backup is current, re-install Linux, re-formatting my disk in the process, roll the back up back in, compare a bit, go to step 1. This doesn't appear at all practical to me.
I *don't* have any microsd cards and my system isn't embedded, and booting has slowed down since systemd was added anyway. (I can't say it was caused by systemd as other things were updated a the same time.) I'm not convinced that there is any benefit from systemd to a single user on a single system. I *know* there are drawbacks.
My guess it that systemd benefits those administering multiple systems, but I don't do that, so it's only a guess. It sure hasn't improved anything on my systems, though I haven't experienced the nightmares some have reported.
Illumos seems to be rather niche.
The problem I have with the BSDs is that I can't test them out, because they can't handle ext4 filesystems in read/write mode, so I'd have to commit to a switch before testing how it worked. Sorry, not going to happen. I understand that if I'd started with a BSD based system the same problem would exist in the other direction, but that's not what happened.
It's really too bad. The first Unix I ever used was a SysV on an Altos minicomputer, a generic AT&T Unix. I rather liked it, which is why I switched to Linux after that machine went away. But I've pretty much had it with having to rebuild all my files from scratch, because the new system won't handle the way the old system wrote the files, and I don't want to switch without extensive testing.
It's possible that JavaScript is the ideal solution to some problems, but it sure isn't the ideal solution to all problems. Or even most. Perhaps not many.
FWIW, I looked into using it and I would have needed to write a custom library in another language to even make it possible...a much better choice was to just use a different language. Not, admittedly, the one I would have used if I were writing a JavaScript custom library.
The language that's best depends substantially on the problem you're trying to address. E.g., if Ruby with guilds were available, I might well have chosen to work in Ruby...but that's a few years off.
I wouldn't exactly say it's cooler, but it's something that any good theory of gravity is going to need to explain, and we need a new theory of gravity, because General Relativity doesn't play nice with quantum physics...but they both seem correct everywhere we can test either of them (usually, though, we can't test them in the same places).
No. I can't tell what your asserting because your words aren't meaningful. IOW: Sorry, but when I get a syntax error I can't compile.
I don't know whether I agree with you or not.
Before I retired I routinely had packages delivered to me at work. We had about 100 people working there, so not large, but also not small.
He was probably assigned to do it, and, yes, had decided it was a bad idea before it was assigned to him...but he didn't want to turn down the assignment.
I'm sorry, but when I routinely read reports of police getting away with murder, don't expect me to believe they always pay attention to the requirement of a warrant.
I don't drive, so when this happened to me it was extremely frustrating. To make matters worse, there was a UPS store close by that was willing to accept delivery and hold it for me, but the USP terminal wasn't willing to ship it to them, even for extra payment. And there was no transit to where the UPS terminal was. And how long would I need to pay a taxi to sit there waiting?
I nearly said "fuck that package, I'll do without" without even knowing what was in it. (It was a present from a relative.) Fortunately a friend was willing to drive me. But talk about unaccomodating!
They also didn't pick up the signed tag that said they could leave the package, so I suspect they only made one delivery attempt.
Whether that's true or not depends on what "perverted crimes" are in you locale. It's claimed, on what grounds I don't know, that the average US resident commits more than one felony per day. Do *you* know what all the laws say is a "crime"? What's the difference between a crime and a "perverted crime"?
If you had asserted that most people don't hurt other people against their will I would have agreed with you, but "perverted crimes" is basically an undefined term.
I agree. Being an atheist is as silly as believing in God...any god.
The only two rational positions are gnostic and agnostic. I happen to be both.
How much land it takes to support one cow depends a *lot* on the nature of the land. I don't think the data you supply allows one to make an even approximately accurate calculation. If I took your opinion seriously I'd ask my brother, who owns a small ranch what he figured. He must figure it pretty closely, as he needs to buy hay each winter...but what he worries most about isn't hay, it's water. Even so, his opinion would just say what he needed on his land. Ranchers on desert land would need a lot more land/cow. Ranchers with lush pastures would need a lot less. Ranchers with grazing access to national forests ... well, they wouldn't figure that way at all.
My guess is this isn't quite the same process, but it could be. Or this could all be PR fluff. It's still probably a worthwhile thing to do.
OTOH, I understood that processing manure this way lost a lot of the nutrients which would otherwise (eventually!) be returned to the soil. But eventually can take a long time, especially if you don't have decent native dung beetles. (Australia had to import some IIRC.)
More, methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, even though shorter lived. I believe the half-life of a methane molecule in the atmosphere is supposed to be around 20 years...then something eats it and turns it into CO2.
In addition to the other response...
Toyota make lots of things, not just cars. If this catches on they'll be quite willing to make it (subcontracting it out?) and sell it to others.
You clearly have strong opinions about how the singularity will manifest...and that's in direct opposition to the very concept.
The Technological Singularity is incredibly dangerous to humanity, and if we could depend on rational humans running things I'd be strongly in favor of avoiding it. Unfortunately, it may be our best hope for surviving the century, but I put our odds of surviving it at no more than around 60%.
Well, one reason for it to be modded that way is that few in the US know much about the Philippines, but they've definitely got opinions about Trump.
Welllll....the Los Angeles area has long had the Santa Ana winds, and It's long has less rain. I think the higher temperatures are the main cause. I did hear once, about a decade ago, that the effect of climate change was as if the traditional climate had moved north a few miles, so possibly the Los Angeles climate is now more like that which Baja California used to have, but I only heard that once, and I'm not sure you need to make that kind of assumption. I think drier suffices.
While what you said is largely true, higher temperatures and drier weather increase fire danger, and those have both increased all up and down the US West coast. There's also insect pests moving North as the weather stops getting cold enough to kill them off. This has caused large numbers of tree deaths in, e.g., Oregon and Northern California, and dead trees are fire hazards.
So fire dangers have gotten worse, It's also true, however, that methods to combat those fires have improved. It's my judgment that fire danger has gotten worse faster than methods have improved, but this is a judgment rather than a fact. That fire danger has gotten worse is a fact. And this isn't helped by people planting flammable things around their houses...and then not watering them in the dry season.
The thing is, there's costs and then there's costs.
Rooftop solar may well be more expensive per se, but with other approaches every middleman takes a cut, so the cost to the individual may be less even though the costs of the installation are greater.
OTOH, most rooftop solar systems don't include in their costs sufficient battery power to sustain overnight. So you get a favorably biased system costs, as the utility has to cover for when the sun is down, and it has to swallow the excess when the sun is up. This will cause problems, and has already in some places. This make the cost to the individual *less* than the actual costs. This was the thing Elon Musks "power wall" was supposed to address, but I'm not sure I'd trust that much lithium battery charging in a house I was living in. And I'm not sure I trust his cost estimate. (OTOH, he was pitching it really as isolated communities, etc., where it can really make sense. I think the home installation angle was really just covering all bases. So he's installing it in Australia and Haiti, where it really makes sense.)
The fisheries won't die out, they'll just switch to "fish" that prefer an acidic environment and that people find disgusting. But there are already people who eat jellyfish, and that looks like a recipe for them...and probably squid and octopus. Things that don't have bones or calcium based shells. Sharks would be right up there, but they reproduce too slowly, so they are already endangered from people eating them.
As for sea level rises...it depends on how thorough the melt is. If Antarctica goes Chicago will be under water. So will the Mississipi basin. I think Colorado and Wyoming might be OK, though they'll get a bit crowded. Possibly the New Mexico highlands and similar places in other countries. OTOH, Greenland and Antarctica will provide new land. Probably not as much as gets covered, though. But expect a lot of earthquakes all over because of the global changes in stress as the weight shifts off Antarctica and Greenland, so they start rising higher. (Northern North America is still rebounding from the melt after the last glaciation. I'm sure similar things are going on in Siberia.)