The age old joke about the computer encased in concrete at the bottom of the ocean does indeed come to mind.
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Ever so often i get a "you are posting too fast" even though it has been working on a comment for 10+ minutes.
I guess i got one too many flags aimed my way regarding my opinions of Mozilla's recent management of Firefox.
Ok, this is dumb. They want me to make more substantial comments, but when i try i get "you are posting too fast" thrown in my face.
Real "clever", HN, real "clever".
Oh, hilarious. The limit is 5 comments within 2-3 hours.
"Clever" way of silencing "troublemakers" without giving the impression that they have been silenced...
An official keyboard shortcut for going to reader mode.
The option of having the browser send all articles to reader mode when detected as possible.
Also, i think i once read that at some point Japan used a system based on a standardized rice bowl.
So in earlier days it may well have been easier to set the price of a service (or anything that involved laborers) based on the number of meals needed.
Thus i think the engine itself is likely to be with us for a long time, but perhaps not used primarily in the ways we do today.
I suspect it will be a futile effort because:
A, the person will know it is not alive.
B, stuff like this is done specifically to get people to click the video.
Frankly more and more the web is resembling a massive schoolyard, with people egging each other on with dares and promises of rewards if they do some kind of icky or potentially dangerous task.
One game i have been following recently released an update that allow twitch viewer to vote on various modifiers to the game play, more often than not to the detriment of the streamer.
There also seems to be a rise of "hard" games that are specifically there for streamers and their audience. This so that much like the audience of a gladiator match they get to jeer and name call whenever the streamer slip up and the play character gets mauled by some game mechanic.
Upon install, that required a Steam account, it would pull down 2x or more that of the content of the DVD to make the game playable.
And then i had to go mod hunting basically on day one, because they had implemented a non-optional head bopping on the first person camera...
With older _nix setups that was fully possible because daemons were pretty much (i am likely to get dogpiled on this) a user process without a shell to send output to.
With systemd on the other hand the state inside a systemd-managed unit, and the state outside of said "black box" may be wildly different. And to debug the person doing so have to attempt to maintain a massive mental image of state.
Frankly the kernel may well be the closest approximation, and it may well be better instrumented at this point. Never mind that building a second kernel in userspace is not a kudos point.
Then again, that notion brings to mind a certain comic about a self-ddos...
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2015/07/08/true-story-fixing-a...
Following the second link lead to:
https://www.gamewatcher.com/mods/death-rally-2009-mod/free-f...
That said, "death rally freeware" into any random search engine results in a number of sites that offer a mirror. Including moddb.com.
But so can traditional media, as there used to be a newspaper for every opinion out there...
But when containerization caught the zeitgeist, they were quick to trot out nspawn as an alternative to, say, Docker (never mind that Docker and RH devs had a bit of a spat around the same time).
Since then they have been shifting the goalposts towards whole system management, perhaps best likened to Windows Active Directory, by adding more and more sub-systems that frankly has crap all to do with booting.
On top of all this it seems the people involved regularly end up pulling grsec style "fixing" of systems that work in real life but are "broken" according to some spec or other (sometimes ignoring decades of hard earned experience in the process, as was the case with their DNS reimplementation).
Then again the other guy in the systemd team, Sievers, have a long history of pissing the kernel people off with out of the blue unilateral decisions.
I just worry when their buddy GKH is given the reins of the kernel when Torvalds steps down...
Now however the computer will do it, virtually for free, and then the hoard of data can be dug through for incriminating (or socially awkward) information.
Even if you do not have a Facebook account, Facebook likely has a shadow profile on you based on browser fingerprint etc showing up on various sites.
Also, your typical adblocker is not configured to block these buttons by default.
Much of the "nerds" used to identify as geeks, to separate themselves from what is these days labeled as "neckbeards".
the influx of media/design people via web dev, and them bringing with them their Apple "religion", has altered the landscape.
Back when i first go interested in computers, never mind first got online, just about the only people owning a Mac were people deeply involved either with print media or music.
The twofold change was that web design/development branched off from print media, and OSX bringing an off the shelf unix.
On a different note, those old systems had a RAM and CPU clock that was basically synced. Thus my understanding is that one could "cycle count" ones way to high performance code.
Somehow (neo-classical) economists have convinced the world that shareholder wealth are sacrosanct, and thus corporations will do all kinda of short term idiocies to boost share value and by extension shareholder wealth.