I actually stopped building my own kernels around the time that everyone switched over to grub. I wish I could remember what specifically caused my problem, but I do remember running grub-install over and over, grub swearing up and down that it was installed and read my config, then rebooting and getting nothing. I'm pretty sure this was before I did root on raid/luks/lvm too.
I don't even mind when things break all that much. It can be fun to track down the problem and fix it. Grub is just inscrutable, it gave me no information to help troubleshoot, and I couldn't get any help from the Grub IRC.
The only problem I've ever had with it was PEBKAC: I upgraded the kernel and purged the old one, but didn't let the Grub updater run. A quick boot with a live CD let me edit the conf file and all was good.
The funny thing is, you had to do the same thing with LILO. If you didn't rerun 'lilo' after editing its configuration, it wouldn't boot. The big selling point of Grub was that you didn't have to do this. Grub will figure everything out they said. That didn't quite work out.
Sure, you can reboot a live CD and reinstall Grub, or run grub-update again. Most of the time that works. Once in a while it won't, and requires some serious brow furrowing to fix. LILO always worked. ALWAYS.
There's no amount of "study" on my part that could make Grub as reliable as LILO. There's also no amount of study that would make LILO as featureful as Grub.
I agree. From an ease of use perspective LILO was the shit. Never had a problem with LILO that couldn't be solved by booting a live CD and rerunning LILO. Grub, I've had no end of troubles with.
Unfortunately, Grub is pretty much essential if you want to do anything modern with your filesystems. Use any encryption, LVM, or RAID and you need Grub.
NAT is *always* about address space conservation. That is all NAT does. Any other function you believe NAT implies can be provided with a stateful firewall and no address translation.
The US has a modern, civilized, industrial society despite a government that seems dead-set on returning us to the feudal system. Not because of it
Indeed. It's almost like the policies of the US government are deliberately intended to further accelerate the concentration of wealth in the hands of the already wealthy.
Oh wait. You mean asking rich people to pay taxes to maintain the country they find it so lucrative to do business in is a return to feudalism? That would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic.
Sure, the US was doing fine before the income tax. Let's go back to the way things were then. Let's see, the income tax was instituted in 1861. Hmm, the Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863. So how do you want to divy up the slaves?
Customers create jobs. Keep pushing regressive tax "reform", and before long all your customers will be too poor to buy anything. Then no one has a job.
Both of those are real problems, but they are both more easily fixed than implementing a mind reader on Google's end, and they both have less severe consequences than fragmentation of the internet.
Then don't search for "MSE", it's a bad query. Provide the context the search engine needs in the query itself.
The fact that English depends on context is exactly why search engine queries should be literal. If you don't spell out the context yourself, you have no way of controlling what context you're getting back from the search engine.
Not really. All it requires is that you adequately describe what you're looking for. Since you know what you're looking for, this shouldn't be a problem. To repurpose an example used by another in this thread, suppose an oenophile searches for "wine". He doesn't have to know what linux is, or what microsoft windows is to know that he got the wrong page. Since he knows a lot about wine, he should have no problem adding extra detail to the query.
On the other hand, if Google wants to predict the intent of my search, they are going to need information about all the possible ways meanings I could have intended. In general that requires complete knowledge of my neural networks. In the end, you have Google running a "local copy" of the user.
The "main stream" media has been deliberately neutral for a very long time (despite having overwhelming "conservative" ownership). We have not had truely polarized mainstream media since William Randolph Hurst was alive and in control of a lot of the media
This is utterly false. The main stream media is entirely polarized towards maintenance of the status quo. They may show no preference towards either of the major parties, but that is because both major parties are in favor of the status quo.
Ask any third party candidate who would actually change something (e.g. Nader) about media bias. You will be enlightened.
Probably pretty similar. Scale free networks (the kind with super nodes) are incredibly common in nature. It would be a lot more surprising if they found that there weren't super node neurons.
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I actually stopped building my own kernels around the time that everyone switched over to grub. I wish I could remember what specifically caused my problem, but I do remember running grub-install over and over, grub swearing up and down that it was installed and read my config, then rebooting and getting nothing. I'm pretty sure this was before I did root on raid/luks/lvm too.
I don't even mind when things break all that much. It can be fun to track down the problem and fix it. Grub is just inscrutable, it gave me no information to help troubleshoot, and I couldn't get any help from the Grub IRC.
The only problem I've ever had with it was PEBKAC: I upgraded the kernel and purged the old one, but didn't let the Grub updater run. A quick boot with a live CD let me edit the conf file and all was good.
The funny thing is, you had to do the same thing with LILO. If you didn't rerun 'lilo' after editing its configuration, it wouldn't boot. The big selling point of Grub was that you didn't have to do this. Grub will figure everything out they said. That didn't quite work out.
Sure, you can reboot a live CD and reinstall Grub, or run grub-update again. Most of the time that works. Once in a while it won't, and requires some serious brow furrowing to fix. LILO always worked. ALWAYS.
There's no amount of "study" on my part that could make Grub as reliable as LILO. There's also no amount of study that would make LILO as featureful as Grub.
I don't. You don't need NAT to hide your internal network. Just a properly configured firewall.
I agree. From an ease of use perspective LILO was the shit. Never had a problem with LILO that couldn't be solved by booting a live CD and rerunning LILO. Grub, I've had no end of troubles with.
Unfortunately, Grub is pretty much essential if you want to do anything modern with your filesystems. Use any encryption, LVM, or RAID and you need Grub.
NAT is *always* about address space conservation. That is all NAT does. Any other function you believe NAT implies can be provided with a stateful firewall and no address translation.
The US has a modern, civilized, industrial society despite a government that seems dead-set on returning us to the feudal system. Not because of it
Indeed. It's almost like the policies of the US government are deliberately intended to further accelerate the concentration of wealth in the hands of the already wealthy.
Oh wait. You mean asking rich people to pay taxes to maintain the country they find it so lucrative to do business in is a return to feudalism? That would be hilarious if it weren't so pathetic.
Sure, the US was doing fine before the income tax. Let's go back to the way things were then. Let's see, the income tax was instituted in 1861. Hmm, the Emancipation Proclamation was in 1863. So how do you want to divy up the slaves?
Customers create jobs. Keep pushing regressive tax "reform", and before long all your customers will be too poor to buy anything. Then no one has a job.
What makes a fish and chips "northern"? It's just fried fish and potatoes, right?
Both of those are real problems, but they are both more easily fixed than implementing a mind reader on Google's end, and they both have less severe consequences than fragmentation of the internet.
And? Did you find an answer?
Then don't search for "MSE", it's a bad query. Provide the context the search engine needs in the query itself.
The fact that English depends on context is exactly why search engine queries should be literal. If you don't spell out the context yourself, you have no way of controlling what context you're getting back from the search engine.
Not really. All it requires is that you adequately describe what you're looking for. Since you know what you're looking for, this shouldn't be a problem. To repurpose an example used by another in this thread, suppose an oenophile searches for "wine". He doesn't have to know what linux is, or what microsoft windows is to know that he got the wrong page. Since he knows a lot about wine, he should have no problem adding extra detail to the query.
On the other hand, if Google wants to predict the intent of my search, they are going to need information about all the possible ways meanings I could have intended. In general that requires complete knowledge of my neural networks. In the end, you have Google running a "local copy" of the user.
And both of you can add extra terms to get the results you want. Not a problem.
On the other hand, if I want to help someone do some research on google, how am I to know what they will get from my search terms?
If you need your intent to be taken into consideration, refine your query.
Plato's Cave should be taught to kindergarteners, and the lesson reinforced at every grade until achieving one's doctoral degree.
Why? Platonic ideals don't exist, and it's not useful to pretend that they do.
The "main stream" media has been deliberately neutral for a very long time (despite having overwhelming "conservative" ownership). We have not had truely polarized mainstream media since William Randolph Hurst was alive and in control of a lot of the media
This is utterly false. The main stream media is entirely polarized towards maintenance of the status quo. They may show no preference towards either of the major parties, but that is because both major parties are in favor of the status quo.
Ask any third party candidate who would actually change something (e.g. Nader) about media bias. You will be enlightened.
Their job to return the results a user is most likely to be interested in,
No! Their job is to return the results most relevant to the query. If two people making the same query get different results, they are failing badly!
I think the way it works is that he's both ok with it AND against it, until you ask him.
Probably pretty similar. Scale free networks (the kind with super nodes) are incredibly common in nature. It would be a lot more surprising if they found that there weren't super node neurons.
Oh aren't you precious. I almost hope you get what you want, just so I can witness your disillusionment.
Yeah, it's not that funny. They didn't even map an ARCHipelago.
A fully functional jet propulsion system would be able to take off and land.
The mouse is really just a superficial input device that has no point.
This is true. Mouse free environments suck less.
I still can't figure out what's wrong with using 'login' as a login manager.
Because that wouldn't fuck shit up enough.