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  1. Re:oh boy on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    $_ is a stolen construct from Perl.

    That was one of the things in PowerShell that I actually understood right away, from working with Perl for 10 years.

  2. Re:Wow. on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 2

    This is for those shops that do everything in Visual Studio, host their stuff on Azure, and have that one or two pesky Linux box for a solution they just couldn't kluge together on Windows.

    Now they can manage those boxes with the rest of their environment.

    This isn't a solution for you or me, but in a Microsoft-centric shop, this might be exactly what they are looking for so that they don't have to throw out all their management in a wholesale replacement.

  3. Re:I'll bite on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 0

    No, but the free tools that have existed for years that also work on Windows are.

    This is a Microsoft attempt to provide what Chef and Puppet have been doing for a long time, in their typical embrace / extend / extinguish manner. Now, instead of learning Ruby to work up a Chef cookbook, you can do it with PowerShell and take twice as long to write it while you instantiate .NET objects to do simple tasks! For example, in Chef:


    remote_file "/tmp/file.zip" do
        source "http://server/path/to/file.zip"
    end

    And in PowerShell:

    $source = "http://server/path/to/file.zip"
    $dest = Join-Path -Path $env:TEMP -ChildPath "file.zip"
    $wc = New-Object system.net.webclient
    $wc.downloadFile($source,$dest)

    That's stupid and annoying. Just give me a wget / curl command please.

  4. Re:I'll bite on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    Huh. I had no idea that using an IDE that integrates git so that we can version control our scripts and config files is "for beginners."

    Seems more like "the right way if you actually work with other people."

  5. Re:Not Actually $3500 on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 1

    Unless you do both at the same time, which is exactly what SolarCity is now offering using the Tesla battery back thing.

  6. Re:No, probably not on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but getting pissed about stuff on South Park is so last decade. Everyone expects juvenile attention grabs from them now, and is hardly shocked by anything done by that show.

  7. The SystemD marketing rolls on... on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've never seen so much evangelizing about a particular subsystem change in Linux before, which makes me think that unlike other past changes, this one needs it rather than having it's own benefits do the selling...

  8. Re:Can't wait to get this installed in my house on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    Batteries operate with direct current. Need a particular voltage / AC frequency? Get a proper inverter for your needs. Problem solved.

  9. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    How else is he supposed to keep enjoying his hot tub while doing laundry and cooking a Thanksgiving feast during a blackout, you insensitive clod?!

  10. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    So enter into a power purchase agreement, or a lease. Or, take advantage of one of the solar companies offering low interest loan programs.

    The days of having to whack out a 5-figure payment in order to go solar were over like 6 years ago.

  11. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 2

    Yeah - I'd love to have the geothermal heat pump, but I just have a regular one that exchanges heat with outside air.

    There's not a lot of heat to be pulled from the air when it's 5F outside. My electric bills were atrocious this winter from using what is effectively a giant toaster inside my air handler to heat the house. I'll be having someone coming by to "weatherproof" the house this summer in order to try to increase efficiency, but I'd love to put a nice whack of PV panels on the roof, and one of these batteries on the wall next to the electrical panel and water heater in my utility area.

  12. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 1

    And here's the companion press release from SolarCity, where they are reselling the Tesla product with their panel installs.

  13. Re:Straitlaced Engineers on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 2

    And as noted by others in reply to your note from others, your own fucking wayback machine link states:

    "Even under ideal conditions, Apple Watch may not be able to get a reliable heart rate reading every time for everybody. And for a small percentage of users, various factors may make it impossible to get any heart rate reading at all."

    Clearly, having a tattoo counts as one of the "various factors"

  14. Re:Waitasecondhere... on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because a god damn watch not being able to read your heart rate is absolutely equal to products that kill people, and products that have actual component failures that already result in returns and exchanges.

    Hyperbole much?

  15. Re:Waitasecondhere... on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 1

    From your own god damn wayback machine link:

    Even under ideal conditions, Apple Watch may not be able to get a reliable heart rate reading every time for everybody. And for a small percentage of users, various factors may make it impossible to get any heart rate reading at all.

    So they just added another point of detail. It clearly says that it won't work for some people, and apparently people with wrist tattoos are included in that set. Try again, yourself.

  16. the Air and Space museum, eh? on Submersible Photographs WW2 Japanese Sub's Long-Lost Airplane Hangar · · Score: 1

    WHICH Air and Space museum? The one in San Diego? Wright-Patterson AFB? Any of the other hundred scattered about?

    Why would I have to click on the link just to figure out wtf you're talking about?

  17. Re:Why? on Windows 10 Can Run Reworked Android and iOS Apps · · Score: 1

    While it was poorly worded, he meant to say the first PowerPC-native version of Word for Mac System 7.5. That would probably be Word 6.0. And it was ass-slow and terrible.

  18. Re:I See it made it to GoG.com DRM-free on Kerbal Space Program 1.0 Released After 4 Years of Development · · Score: 1

    If there's no registry crap, then all the installer is doing is inflating files into a folder. Who cares if it's InstallShield or 7Zip doing it?

  19. Re:Has to be worse? on ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through · · Score: 1

    One way I see, is that right now DirecTV does bundling with regional telephone operators for the TV bit of voice / data / TV bundles. You can bet that AT&T would put a stop to that, as that would mark a competitive advantage for them in that market.

  20. Re:Do the Math on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    When the profit is $0.70 per can, you're still looking at being +$7M at the same volume. And, if this change does what they're hoping, which is to preserve sell-through and maybe increase market share against competition that is still using aspartame due to whatever consumer belief may exist, $200k is a tiny investment for growth.

  21. Re:artificial sweeteners spike insulin on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Unless you're soaking in a hot tub that is:

    A. actually using chlorine (most use bromine because it's much more stable at hot tub temperatures, doesn't cause people's eyes to burn, and doesn't fade bathing suits) and
    B. being Dichlor-shocked while you're sitting in it,

    you're talking about a concentration of 3-6 parts per million if the maintenance is being done properly. It's enough to kill off single-celled organisms, but not enough to do jack shit to your skin.

  22. Re:Do the Math on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    so it would be $0.03 per can rather than $0.01. Oh, darn.

  23. Re:And they replaced it with? on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    Are we ushering in the age of Nuka-Cola?

  24. Re:Curse you, Entropy! on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    It doesn't completely solve the problem, but it allows for some recycling where there is no solution today.

    Pull burned carbon from air > make diesel > burn diesel > go to step 1.

    How is this not preferable to:
    Drill miles into the ground > inject god-knows-what fracking liquids > extract oil > flare off natural gas found with oil > ship oil to refinery > refine oil > burn diesel > go to step 1.

    I don't understand the mentality of "It doesn't solve every aspect of every problem neatly and completely, so it's shit and shouldn't be pursued."

  25. Re:Not enough resourcees on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 1

    And you're forgetting that once someone uses the diesel, it's CO2 in the atmosphere again.

    What, did you figure that Audi was just making diesel to pump back into the ground and forget about?