We all need some sort of anchor for our worldview, yeah.
I happen to derive mine from the notion that there is an essential unity of all being.
If people want to put a beard on that, and call it "God", I don't have a problem with it. However, I have issues with anyone claiming to speak on its behalf, particularly when such claims involve long lists of rules that appear to benefit one race/nationality/social class at the expense of others, or that direct us to do things that are clearly counterproductive.
FWIW, I consider myself a Buddhist, although I also pay my respects to Guanyin, Ganesh, and Wong Tai Sin, as I owe each of them large favours (long story).
Yep yep yep. A lot of my issues seem to be due to or exacerbated by mild hypoglycaemia. Eating at fairly regular times and keeping junk food to a minimum seem to help a lot.
Vitamin D is a big help, especially here in Sweden where the amount of sunlight varies drastically (for me, almost catastrophically) between summer and winter. I take it daily. Seems to keep my internal clock synched better.
Cutting down a bit on the coffee and making myself drink more water has also helped me feel better in general.
Possibly the best single thing I've done is to get off the workaholic wagon and get completely away from work at regular intervals. And to try to work smarter instead of harder. My productivity was way down the first year or so, but has now come back up almost to where it was before--and I'm working 40-45 hours a week now, instead of 55-60 that I did for years. I'm enjoying my work lots more, too.
Maybe scientists have grown weary of having to compete with complete nonsense as if it somehow had equal merit?
Maybe it's not just scientists who feel this way?
You're doing the same sort of false equivalence thing that Fox News does with the "fair & balanced" bit.
I personally do not care if people want to believe in ghosts, gods, psychic powers and the like. I care that these same people can appreciate the work I do, understand it and (hopefully) find it interesting.
Your wishing for the impossible does not make it any less so. People who believe in nonsense are not going to appreciate sense.
I don't think you understand what the scientific method entails, or what "falsifiability" actually means.
Bit9? Seems to ring a bell... Oh, yes, aren't they the illustrious security firm whose site got hacked and turned into a malware redistribution centre about 6 weeks back?
Your claim notwithstanding, my experience on several different machines with several different Nvidia video cards suggests that the Nvidia Linux drivers for those cards kick ass.
Were you perhaps referring to Nouveau, which quite frankly sucks rocks?
(Sorry, guys--I've work to do and that means my desktop needs to stay up a bit longer than 10-15 minutes at a time. I'll check back with you in a year or two.)
And I didn't have Fruit Loops for dinner, I had hänt i veckan (also known as pytt i panna) with a couple of fried eggs on top. It's quite popular here. You should try it sometime.
Why do you persist in leaving out huge chunks of the story?
Linus did not just suddenly blow up at this guy with no prior warning and for no reason. Did you even read the mail thread? This was persistent misbehaviour (it had been going on for years) from a systemd dev who seems to believe that the kernel should adapt itself to whatever systemd happens to do. And I saw lots of mails there from kernel devs fully supporting Linus' view and complaining about recurring issues of this nature with systemd.
No, the fact is that Kay wants an exception to standard kernel behaviour merely in order to suit his "vision" for systemd. Except it sounds more like pure rationalisation/unwillingness to admit that he fucked up big time.
I'm not a kernel dev, yet I still know that non-namespaced arguments to the kernel belong to the kernel. Kernel debug is "debug"; systemd is not part of the kernel and thus its debug should be "systemd.debug".
"I'm not accepting any patches until you fix your bugs" is hardly suspending someone,
Only because that's an inaccurate misquote. Let's try the real thing:
"I will *not* be merging any code from Kay into the kernel until this constant pattern is fixed. This has been going on for *years*, and doesn't seem to be getting any better."
That's not a "fix this bug first" message... That's a much more general and sweeping "you suck, so you're fired," message.
It's nothing of the sort. It's a "you keep doing things in this very wrong fashion and breaking other people's stuff, and I'm not accepting anything else from you until you straighten up and fly right" message.
BK were very quick after that to start charging MySQL for it. As in "about a week later". MySQL put up with this for about 6 months (not being able to do much about it at a moment's notice), then switched to BZR, which they're still using.
BitKeeper had some nice whizz-bangs. But it also ate CPU like crazy--even a simple pull would peg it. You simply could not do anything else with your machine while BK was doing anything.
I remember at the time thinking it was pretty funny that BK assumed that folks who write an OS kernel would somehow be unable to write their own VCS.
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Then again, all of the Linux distros did the same dickhead forced UI paradigm shift thing that made Windows 8 terrible...
That's not true, not even for Ubuntu. Most if not all Linux distros give you a plethora of choices for your DE.
Use Windows if you like, but please don't assume that Linux distros are anything like what Microsoft delivers.
Nice try, but Roman's English is better than that.
We all need some sort of anchor for our worldview, yeah.
I happen to derive mine from the notion that there is an essential unity of all being.
If people want to put a beard on that, and call it "God", I don't have a problem with it. However, I have issues with anyone claiming to speak on its behalf, particularly when such claims involve long lists of rules that appear to benefit one race/nationality/social class at the expense of others, or that direct us to do things that are clearly counterproductive.
FWIW, I consider myself a Buddhist, although I also pay my respects to Guanyin, Ganesh, and Wong Tai Sin, as I owe each of them large favours (long story).
Hey! Nice to bump into you again, Paul.
Yep yep yep. A lot of my issues seem to be due to or exacerbated by mild hypoglycaemia. Eating at fairly regular times and keeping junk food to a minimum seem to help a lot.
Vitamin D is a big help, especially here in Sweden where the amount of sunlight varies drastically (for me, almost catastrophically) between summer and winter. I take it daily. Seems to keep my internal clock synched better.
Cutting down a bit on the coffee and making myself drink more water has also helped me feel better in general.
Possibly the best single thing I've done is to get off the workaholic wagon and get completely away from work at regular intervals. And to try to work smarter instead of harder. My productivity was way down the first year or so, but has now come back up almost to where it was before--and I'm working 40-45 hours a week now, instead of 55-60 that I did for years. I'm enjoying my work lots more, too.
Maybe scientists have grown weary of having to compete with complete nonsense as if it somehow had equal merit?
Maybe it's not just scientists who feel this way?
You're doing the same sort of false equivalence thing that Fox News does with the "fair & balanced" bit.
I personally do not care if people want to believe in ghosts, gods, psychic powers and the like. I care that these same people can appreciate the work I do, understand it and (hopefully) find it interesting.
Your wishing for the impossible does not make it any less so. People who believe in nonsense are not going to appreciate sense.
I don't think you understand what the scientific method entails, or what "falsifiability" actually means.
Seems the south park equation needs to be adjusted 1 in 4 Americans is retarded.
It seems that America just grown more stupid now its 1 in 3.
Judging by all the anti-intellectual fluff I've seen posted already in this thread, I suspect that your estimate may be a bit generous.
As a left-hander, I submit that the article you linked to consists of roughly equal parts of wishful thinking and of hogwash.
It's the same problem as proving that God doesn't exist, essentially--you're getting suckered into accepting that the wrong thing needs to be proven.
Oh, and all my mobile devices run Android, and yes, Android counts as Linux.
No, I've acquired a little stalker, and I am 99.999% sure that it's not Cwix.
Bit9? Seems to ring a bell... Oh, yes, aren't they the illustrious security firm whose site got hacked and turned into a malware redistribution centre about 6 weeks back?
Hey, whaddaya know, they are.
Apparently the US is the country in the world that issues a national ID number that's supposed to be some sort of secret.
Your claim notwithstanding, my experience on several different machines with several different Nvidia video cards suggests that the Nvidia Linux drivers for those cards kick ass.
Were you perhaps referring to Nouveau, which quite frankly sucks rocks?
(Sorry, guys--I've work to do and that means my desktop needs to stay up a bit longer than 10-15 minutes at a time. I'll check back with you in a year or two.)
That's a completely false equivalence.
Windows = Microsoft. (Only one vendor exists for that OS.)
Linux != Red Hat. (Many vendors exist for that OS--or roll your own, keep your money, and tell them all to fuck off.)
I call Ignorant or Troll, take your pick.
As long as we're nit-picking:
"An" is used before words beginning with a vowel sound. An apple, an hour.
You want "a", which is used before words beginning with a consonant sound or semi-vowel. A post, a yacht, a window, a horse, a 16 (sixteen) year old.
I have never been a patient in a mental hospital.
And I didn't have Fruit Loops for dinner, I had hänt i veckan (also known as pytt i panna) with a couple of fried eggs on top. It's quite popular here. You should try it sometime.
Why do you persist in leaving out huge chunks of the story?
Linus did not just suddenly blow up at this guy with no prior warning and for no reason. Did you even read the mail thread? This was persistent misbehaviour (it had been going on for years) from a systemd dev who seems to believe that the kernel should adapt itself to whatever systemd happens to do. And I saw lots of mails there from kernel devs fully supporting Linus' view and complaining about recurring issues of this nature with systemd.
No, the fact is that Kay wants an exception to standard kernel behaviour merely in order to suit his "vision" for systemd. Except it sounds more like pure rationalisation/unwillingness to admit that he fucked up big time.
I'm not a kernel dev, yet I still know that non-namespaced arguments to the kernel belong to the kernel. Kernel debug is "debug"; systemd is not part of the kernel and thus its debug should be "systemd.debug".
Only because that's an inaccurate misquote. Let's try the real thing:
"I will *not* be merging any code from Kay into the kernel until this constant pattern is fixed. This has been going on for *years*, and doesn't seem to be getting any better."
That's not a "fix this bug first" message... That's a much more general and sweeping "you suck, so you're fired," message.
It's nothing of the sort. It's a "you keep doing things in this very wrong fashion and breaking other people's stuff, and I'm not accepting anything else from you until you straighten up and fly right" message.
You left out a letter:
C-A-S-H.
BK were very quick after that to start charging MySQL for it. As in "about a week later". MySQL put up with this for about 6 months (not being able to do much about it at a moment's notice), then switched to BZR, which they're still using.
BitKeeper had some nice whizz-bangs. But it also ate CPU like crazy--even a simple pull would peg it. You simply could not do anything else with your machine while BK was doing anything.
I remember at the time thinking it was pretty funny that BK assumed that folks who write an OS kernel would somehow be unable to write their own VCS.
"That's what the judge is going to tell my wife."
I've run nothing but Linux on any of my (work or personal) computers since 2005.
On those occasions when I need to work with the Windows versions of our software, I have a Win7 VM that I run in VirtualBox.
Dual-boot? Why would I want to do that?
I heard your complete and utter failure to answer the question, yes.
Well, then, let's hear all about your many accomplishments that have made you such a smashing success.
We've already seen "ability to make one hyperlink and use it over and over", so you can skip that one.
Do go on, Mr Role Model, we're all waiting.