Mostly, yes. There are some WTF decisions to drop standard well-working packages because they haven't received any updates in a long time (if it works as intended with no logged bugs, why require updates?), and some dependency problems, but overall, it works fairly well, also for i686 (i386 is no longer supported). My main server is a PIII-S, running 32-bit Gentoo just fine. Things were built to last back then, and I think it's more likely that it will still be running in five years time than the much newer Xeon server next to it.
How exactly does one find SJWs? I tried looking for a website where they hang out, but I couldn't find anything. Admittedly, I didn't try very hard.
You don't find them; they find you.
The natural size of a clique of SJWs is one. Like magnetic poles of the same polarity, they repel each other. They seek out people to righteously smite, while avoiding those they claim to act on behalf of, lest they tell them they weren't really offended.
Breaking the 4th wall seems a little hackey and fun today, but when Cervantes first used it in his sequel to Don Quixote, it was revolutionary.
Not really. It was published around seven years after Shakespeare's (or an unnamed contemporary's) "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", which did just that. (Now imagine if Shakespeare had held copyright on the use of metafiction as a literary device, then the sequel to Don Qixote would have run afoul of it...)
Bet you're one of those crazy people who think one day we will be able to look at images on our phone to?
Not only look at, but create. I had a Bang&Olufsen phone that had a special matte grey plate covering half the front, which could be written or drawn on with a pencil and cleaned with an eraser. Doodling while on the phone - how's that for creativity!
Levandowski told the Guardian that, although he was sitting in the driver's seat the entire time, he did not touch the steering wheels or pedals, aside from planned stops to rest and refuel.
So not any different from driving with cruise control and lane assist, then.
Getting rid of money has been a dream of many, for a long time. From each according to ability, to each according to need.
we all want to live forever...
No, we all don't want that. Once your contribution to those who share your genes no longer outweighs your burden on them, it's time to die. And if I die sooner than that, it's no big deal - being dead is no hardship at all.
Perhaps especially in the field of medicine and pharmaceuticals, there are plenty of products that we see working, but nobody knows exactly how. Wikipedia has an entire category for just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know what you mean. I just ordered a new printer and I just returned it.
Just as well! With the new Telefax machines, you can print remotely - all you need is a phone line - you don't even need a Centronics cable! What will they come up with next?
If the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus would have understood that something could cause danger, and the precautions needed were reasonable, it's negligence.
Intent is not required. If I mail an envelope with a razorblade in inadequate packaging and the mailman hurts himself, I get sued, even if I didn't intend for him to hurt himself. If I leave the head off my well, and a neighbor's child trespasses and falls into it, I get charged, even if I didn't intend for anyone to fall into it.
It's not that simple. Anti-climb paint, for example, is only legal most places if you put up warning signs. That someone is breaking the law by climbing your fence doesn't remove your responsibility as it adds to his. Guilt is not a finite commodity, and a trespasser being guilty of entering doesn't make you not guilty of causing harm to his property. They are separate crimes. Revenge is not a legal right, and most booby trap devices are just that, even if relatively harmless.
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ?
Because we like to live in a world where we feel safe without having to take extra precautions. There are still places where people don't lock their doors and leave their keys in their cars in case a neighbor needs to borrow it in an emergency. That should be the standard, not an exception.
Are you in Europe or somewhere else with a Civil Law system? In the US, Common Law does not have the Civil Law limitation that no one should benefit from a crime, even the victim, and reparations can exceed the damage, with civil tort laws allowing for substantial remuneration for things like infringement on rights and emotional distress.
There is no intent to cause injury. Secondly, this is similar to the way banks put dye packs in stolen goods.
There doesn't have to be intent to cause injury. Gross negligence qualifies. And the bank dye packs is designed to stain the money, not the thief. That's a very important distinction.
Multi-user is a legacy from pre-PC days, even pre-UNIX-workstation days. Ive never even seen a true multi-user Linux system in the past twenty years of using it professionally, not one setfacl, not one multiuser terminal app I didnâ(TM)t already have in Cygwin for Christ sake. Just two admins on ssh stepping on each others feet while a third stares at top - this is multi-user in 2018.
First of all, you seem to equate user with person. The two are separate concepts. There are users who aren't persons, and persons who are multiple users. The web browser I post this from is a different user than the window next to it with my e-mail program. Should the web browser be compromised, it won't be able to access my other account any more than any other user on the system can.
And you're very wrong about true multi-user Linux systems. Even a simple NAS will typically be multi-user, so Alice writes files as alice and Bob as bob. But there are plenty of shared environments too - paying for a 24-core RAID 60 machine for each user and having them sit idle for 20 hours a day is not cost effective compared to using shared servers, even in 2018. To say nothing of the administrative nightmare of keeping a large number of machines in sync and at the exact same software versions and configurations at all times, compared to shared environments.
That may have been the case back in the day when time sharing was important because hardware was expensive. This is not the case anymore. Thus it is more important for several users to use the same device but not necessarily at the same time.
I'd say it's even more important today, both because security has become much more important, and because people today aren't accustomed to waiting for their turn, but expect instant network access with separation, so Alice doesn't see Bob's pictures but gets to her files whether or not Bob is using the device they're on, and knowing that even if Bob's account is compromised, it can't intercept her processes and get her bank account data.
But for the most part big applications aren't written in Java, afaict.
From my experience, anything written in java becomes a big application, gobbling up at least a quarter of your system's memory and pegging the CPU whenever it does garbage collection, unless you jump through hoops to limit resource usage when starting it.
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Is Gentoo a viable option these days?
Mostly, yes. There are some WTF decisions to drop standard well-working packages because they haven't received any updates in a long time (if it works as intended with no logged bugs, why require updates?), and some dependency problems, but overall, it works fairly well, also for i686 (i386 is no longer supported).
My main server is a PIII-S, running 32-bit Gentoo just fine. Things were built to last back then, and I think it's more likely that it will still be running in five years time than the much newer Xeon server next to it.
How exactly does one find SJWs? I tried looking for a website where they hang out, but I couldn't find anything. Admittedly, I didn't try very hard.
You don't find them; they find you.
The natural size of a clique of SJWs is one. Like magnetic poles of the same polarity, they repel each other. They seek out people to righteously smite, while avoiding those they claim to act on behalf of, lest they tell them they weren't really offended.
Boob singular means idiot. You generally don't say her boob (singular) was sticking out.
Well, Amazon is fairly big these days...
I still don't get the big deal about Uranus being a Gas Giant. How is that funny?
Because everybody knows it's an ice giant, not a gas giant.
Next up is probably removing man pages for being sexist.
And engrampa for making fun of the elderly.
Breaking the 4th wall seems a little hackey and fun today, but when Cervantes first used it in his sequel to Don Quixote, it was revolutionary.
Not really. It was published around seven years after Shakespeare's (or an unnamed contemporary's) "Pericles, Prince of Tyre", which did just that.
(Now imagine if Shakespeare had held copyright on the use of metafiction as a literary device, then the sequel to Don Qixote would have run afoul of it...)
It took a long time for SpaceX to build rockets that could reliably land again,
Why the past tense? What's the criteria here for deciding that "reliably" has been achieved?
History will remember Musk as one of our generation's greatest inventors.
What, exactly, has he invented?
Alumini?um isn't all joy. The cans are lined with plastic.
But I don't believe in Gravity. Now what???
You better buy some velcro then.
Lol!!! Then why do you feel the need to carry guns?
Guns are fine for hunting game, in the hands of sober adults.
Otherwise, I prefer that people (including cops) don't carry them.
Bet you're one of those crazy people who think one day we will be able to look at images on our phone to?
Not only look at, but create. I had a Bang&Olufsen phone that had a special matte grey plate covering half the front, which could be written or drawn on with a pencil and cleaned with an eraser. Doodling while on the phone - how's that for creativity!
Levandowski told the Guardian that, although he was sitting in the driver's seat the entire time, he did not touch the steering wheels or pedals, aside from planned stops to rest and refuel.
So not any different from driving with cruise control and lane assist, then.
Yes, and we all want free food, free electricity,
Getting rid of money has been a dream of many, for a long time.
From each according to ability, to each according to need.
we all want to live forever...
No, we all don't want that.
Once your contribution to those who share your genes no longer outweighs your burden on them, it's time to die. And if I die sooner than that, it's no big deal - being dead is no hardship at all.
Perhaps especially in the field of medicine and pharmaceuticals, there are plenty of products that we see working, but nobody knows exactly how.
Wikipedia has an entire category for just that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know what you mean. I just ordered a new printer and I just returned it.
Just as well! With the new Telefax machines, you can print remotely - all you need is a phone line - you don't even need a Centronics cable! What will they come up with next?
How is this "negligence"?
If the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus would have understood that something could cause danger, and the precautions needed were reasonable, it's negligence.
Intent is not required.
If I mail an envelope with a razorblade in inadequate packaging and the mailman hurts himself, I get sued, even if I didn't intend for him to hurt himself.
If I leave the head off my well, and a neighbor's child trespasses and falls into it, I get charged, even if I didn't intend for anyone to fall into it.
It's not that simple. Anti-climb paint, for example, is only legal most places if you put up warning signs. That someone is breaking the law by climbing your fence doesn't remove your responsibility as it adds to his. Guilt is not a finite commodity, and a trespasser being guilty of entering doesn't make you not guilty of causing harm to his property. They are separate crimes.
Revenge is not a legal right, and most booby trap devices are just that, even if relatively harmless.
Why do people find it acceptable that valuable packages are just left on the doorstep ?
Because we like to live in a world where we feel safe without having to take extra precautions. There are still places where people don't lock their doors and leave their keys in their cars in case a neighbor needs to borrow it in an emergency.
That should be the standard, not an exception.
Are you in Europe or somewhere else with a Civil Law system?
In the US, Common Law does not have the Civil Law limitation that no one should benefit from a crime, even the victim, and reparations can exceed the damage, with civil tort laws allowing for substantial remuneration for things like infringement on rights and emotional distress.
There is no intent to cause injury. Secondly, this is similar to the way banks put dye packs in stolen goods.
There doesn't have to be intent to cause injury. Gross negligence qualifies.
And the bank dye packs is designed to stain the money, not the thief. That's a very important distinction.
Multi-user is a legacy from pre-PC days, even pre-UNIX-workstation days. Ive never even seen a true multi-user Linux system in the past twenty years of using it professionally, not one setfacl, not one multiuser terminal app I didnâ(TM)t already have in Cygwin for Christ sake. Just two admins on ssh stepping on each others feet while a third stares at top - this is multi-user in 2018.
First of all, you seem to equate user with person. The two are separate concepts. There are users who aren't persons, and persons who are multiple users. The web browser I post this from is a different user than the window next to it with my e-mail program. Should the web browser be compromised, it won't be able to access my other account any more than any other user on the system can.
And you're very wrong about true multi-user Linux systems. Even a simple NAS will typically be multi-user, so Alice writes files as alice and Bob as bob. But there are plenty of shared environments too - paying for a 24-core RAID 60 machine for each user and having them sit idle for 20 hours a day is not cost effective compared to using shared servers, even in 2018. To say nothing of the administrative nightmare of keeping a large number of machines in sync and at the exact same software versions and configurations at all times, compared to shared environments.
That may have been the case back in the day when time sharing was important because hardware was expensive. This is not the case anymore. Thus it is more important for several users to use the same device but not necessarily at the same time.
I'd say it's even more important today, both because security has become much more important, and because people today aren't accustomed to waiting for their turn, but expect instant network access with separation, so Alice doesn't see Bob's pictures but gets to her files whether or not Bob is using the device they're on, and knowing that even if Bob's account is compromised, it can't intercept her processes and get her bank account data.
I don't know where you are getting this from, but Windows NT 3.1 was launched with multi-user support with customizable user rights.
In most contexts, multi-user implies multiple simultaneous users.
But for the most part big applications aren't written in Java, afaict.
From my experience, anything written in java becomes a big application, gobbling up at least a quarter of your system's memory and pegging the CPU whenever it does garbage collection, unless you jump through hoops to limit resource usage when starting it.