Skunkleton

It's certainly my favorite. Pragmatic, simple, and complete. What's not to love?

I would like to defend arch here.

In my experience, Arch's main focus is on upholding a simple consistent architecture. There are tools that do something like the bare minimum required work, and then excellent documentation so that the end user can correctly perform the remaining required work manually (or via their own scripts).

As a result, there are certain features that will probably never be implemented. For example, if you wait too long between upgrades, your signing keys will be out of date. The solution is to upgrade the "archlinux-keyring" package first. Should pacman automatically do this? It would be nice, but it would also introduce a special case into pacman. Would that special case be abused to do unexpected things?

Another example is installers. Writing a basic installer for a single machine is easy. Writing an installer that covers any machine is very hard. Writing an installer that covers any machine with any configuration the user might want is impossible.

Put another way, everyone likes that Arch has up to date packages and an excellent wiki. Would either of these exist if there was a bunch of extra complexity that needed to be integrated? Is there any need for an excellent wiki if installers automatically resolve all your problems?

Maybe they are arguing that GenZ should commute to the past? That way they can spend their 2022 dollars on good value 1970s products?

Sounds right to me. When you look at markets where reliability is important, you see appliances that are the same. You can get good quality commercial washing machines.

Software engineers are usually not tracked hourly. There are common exceptions such work done for government programs, or contracting. Even in these scenarios, hours are not usually tracked by any authoritative system. In the end, the only feedback you get is based on softer metrics like availability during business hours, or on time completion of work.

In my experience, lots of engineers will show up far after 9 AM and leave well before they have reached a full day of work. Its a very privileged system that exists because it is so hard to hire engineers. At least for now.

It was also based on existing open source. None of this is to say that Chrome wasn't an amazing accomplishment. I do wonder how much crunch time the Chrome teams face now that Chrome has customers?

Those same satellites will cover land as well, right? I would guess that they are hugely over provisioned for their maritime usecases in support of their main mission.

NY had one of the most extensive systems. Compared to other places, like my home in the Bay Area, even at 20mph the subway is effectively faster.

I’m not sure where this idea that subways are fast comes from. The average speed of the NY subway system for example is ~20mph. High speed rail is a different story of course.

> 1.5 hours of sitting peacefully on public transit is dramatic

Sitting peacefully isn’t really possible on a lot of public transit, especially during rush hours.

There is a cold cucumber soup that uses kvass as its base. I would recommend giving that a try as well.

I just paid my lunch tab by scanning a QR code on a receipt, and then tapping Apple Pay. It was rad.

Don’t you think that law is a bit too convenient? Instead of individuals maintaining liability for their actions, now there is some legal entity to blame. It doesn’t matter what the law says. All of these amoral decisions are made by people.

A person makes the decisions on what packaging Amazon uses. A person makes the decision to purchase goods from Amazon. A person makes the decision to not propose regulations.

Corporations are logical entities made up of individuals. Individuals still make the choices. Individuals must be accountable.

> Yet again blaming individuals' choices when large corporations are by far the largest global polluters.

Corporations don’t exist. There are only individual people.

Yes, but setting aside direct ownership which is not a prerequisite for investing in any coin, how is bitcoin a better choice? It seems to me that is like saying, well you really should have invested in Exxon and you would be ok now.

Correct me if I am wrong here: trees are part of the regular carbon cycle. They don’t live very long on a geological scale, and when they die their carbon is repurposed. The big issue is that we are taking a ton of carbon that was effectively sequestered and releasing it into the atmosphere. There is no known biological mechanism to resequester that volume of carbon.

You would be interested to know that this already exists in the form of BPF.

Odd to not see any mention of vfork. vfork solves the problems with fork/exec for large programs.

I really hope not. Why would the server have the keys needed to decrypt the vault?

echo I totally made this file five years ago > filewithtimestamp.txt

This approach uses LE as a trusted third party. The date on the cert is valid if you trust letsencrypt.

Is it though? Diablo 100% grind after the story (which can be completed in a few sittings).

Professionally we collaborate with our peers to achieve some goal. In school, the goal is individual achievement. If you "collaborate" in this way in school, you absolutely aren't achieving the purpose you are spending so much time and money working towards.

Dumb question maybe, but where does all of the organic material needed to grow the strawberries come from in this case?

Are we confident that this is the best solution or are we still exploring alternatives?

> So much more cost-effective than slavery.

The point is that it's not slavery, its cheaper.

But DC is used for distribution, just at extremely high voltages.

Seems like luck of the draw. I’ve had the same random freezing issues

Humans have done a pretty good job of overcoming the planet's carrying capacity through social and technological means. At some point, human's current organization and ability hits a limit and there is a period of stagnation, or regression. To me, and to others, these are not hopeful times. In the world that I live in, the best means I have to support myself also disconnect me from real community.

Living in the Bay Area, there is no real sense of permanence. Many people are here because salaries are so high, but if they don't stay high they will need to leave. Many people are pushed out because the area has become so unaffordable. Many of my closest friends live day to day not knowing if their visa will be renewed. A friend at my company just relocated to Vancouver because he didn't luck out in the visa lottery. I have several friends who are looking to leave because they cannot provide stability for their children. I myself am renting. I would like to stay here permanently, but the houses on my street have doubled in price (not value) over the last two years. I still may be able to afford to buy one, but the idea of paying more than 10k/month for an 1300 square foot house is hard to swallow.

California of course has tried to address these problems, and has been trying to address them for a long time. Overall, these efforts have been a failure sometimes doing more harm than good (see prop 13). California hasn't even been able to build a functioning high speed rail system even though it has been fully funded for over 20 years. The society that made these places does not seem to be the society that we need to fix their problems.

We have many people, with many ideas. We don't need more people to keep having new ideas. We just need to provide a stable environment for the people that we do have, and give them the space to express themselves.

Edit: btw, if it is true that new ideas are what we need, then the best way forward is adoption. What better way to get a new idea into a desirable place?

We have so many people who's ability to contribute is under utilized. Surely elevating these people is a more efficient way to capitalize on the resources invested.