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As a long time *nix hobbyist user, I can't help but notice how containerization is starting to essentially provide microkernel-like os design patterns using the more mature Linux kernel instead of starting from scratch. I'm curious what everyone thinks about whether the containerization approach, at its best, like with projects like rancherOS (I'm guessing), can compete with a the theoretical strengths of a microkernel?

probably naive, but still honest idea here: what about a nationwide system to capture rain/snow and pipe it around where needed? A smart grid but for water. Rain/snow capture on every rooftop perhaps? It can be pumped into natural aquifers and existing artificial lakes all over the country. I couldn't help but think, as a California resident, that there should be some way to ship all that snow that was pouring on the east coast this past winter to where it was needed instead.

anyone have any insight into the perl anomaly in q3 of 2012? What was released then? Or, perhaps, what perl program really sucked at around that time?

I think (hope) fortune will favor more modular approaches to these types of suites/programs instead of huge monoliths. Since projects of this type, especially ones that are OSS, are so very new and few in number, it will take some time before we start to really figure out what the core components really should be, and even longer still to hammer out specs/APIs that allow interoperability.

IMO, Android 4 was the pinnacle of stability and usability in their lineage. I had a Moto X and 2012 Nexus 7. The upgrade to Android 5 on my Nexus was saddening; it was different for the sake of being different, and it fixed problems that didn't exist (and introduced many new ones).