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I'm so sorry to hear that. Hope you and the family are ok or as ok as you can be. The numbers are unfathomable and unacceptable.

I this attitude a lot, especially from Americans. A 'well if you change this to help A, this other thing B will get worse'. All while the US is at the bottom of list for both A and B.

I guess if that data can be easily represented as plain text then git would work ok?

One of the fields I work in is science, and I'd say that 'selling-out' and 'promoting yourself' have always been two different things here, but it has seen similar cultural shifts as others have talked about.

Self-promotion can be very important in science, and I think it can be driven by an enthusiasm and belief that you have something important to say that would help others in their research.

Selling-out had a similar negative connotation in the 90s. Andrew Wakefield had 'sold-out' by associating himself with a business that severely undermined his authenticity. These days, cash-strapped universities encourage researchers to hawk themselves to nearby industry in the hope they can get funding and commercial interest, and many researchers are paid to stand up and talk about commercial products. Science very much relies on speaking honestly and in an balanced way, and combining this with financial interest adds extra strains to integrity.

How hard would it be to stabilise that API? My line of thinking is : sure maintaining a fork of the Linux kernel would be a huge amount of work, but would it be less than writing a new one and then maintaining that?

If the issue is just a stable ABI, why not just fork linux and maintain a stable ABI?

It seems drastic to me to conceive of an entire new kernel and OS just to resolve this issue and keep a stable ABI.

How about just fork Linux, and then they can keep it ABI compatible all they like?

Is that right? I didn't understand the technical reasoning behind Fucshia, but I understand there was always some disappointment that Linux took off the way it did when it was more of copy of unix rather than an evolution. Having said that, the issue was more with gnu than the kernel AFAIK.

I haven't been offering my judgement or opinion to or on my neighbours. My judgement is on the device, and to be honest, I might well have installed one of these devices without realising how it may make others feel.

The story about the cat was just a background line to give context for why I was calling on my neighbours, but it could be any number of reasons, I might even have been saying hello after moving into the area. That's not enough information for you to judge, or to know that we picked up the cat as a stray and took it in, but it is very much an outdoor cat and we're ok with that - it is after all, where we found it.

Are you always so judgemental and critical?

I guess it depends where you live and what experiences you've had so far. Your 'pre-test' probability I guess. I doubt there is much I would see on a video feed that would stop me finding out for myself who they are.

I wasn't asking for your opinion or your judgement.

Seeing a cat pass on a video feed is unlikely to tell you where your cat is.

Because when you can hear that people are clearly in, and you know yourv video feed is available to them, and no one answers the door after waiting and ringing twice, it's a reasonable conclusion. Especially when this seems to be a feature of those with Ring doorbells.

I'm not a computer scientist, but can someone explain to me how this can be a computer without all the other bits you normally associate with it other than the CPU. I.e. a chip for interfaces, the mmu/fpu (I don't understand how you can get the cpu to cover this role?). I can see it doesn't have/need sound/gpu. Just would have thought more would be needed!

Thank you, my cat mysteriously returned one day :) It was a weird experience, and I don't even look 'weird' (at least as far as I'm aware!).

How do you judge how suspicious someone is through a video feed?

I live in a big metropolis (Birmingham, UK), and have had no issues, The place I had it worst was when I lived in a cute 17th century village in the Oxford countryside. Had several packages stolen in the year I lived there.

I am also no fan of Ring or similar, though the reasons are slightly different. We lost our cat recently, and I went round my neighbourhood knocking/ringing on every door to ask around.

It was a strange experience as around 30% had these ring doorbells. It was unpleasant to know I was being recorded and judged, and often as a result, not answered.

I vowed at that point we would never consider one, if only because I don't agree that everyone should be treated with suspicion by default.

Sure metabolic syndrome is a thing, but can you point to me evidence it is caused by these drinks? I agree re: the metabolic pathways, but yet to be convinced that most of these issues are not primarily caused by obesity.

And sure, drinking enough sugar will result in obesity, but so will eating too much carbs or fat.

I see people who 'arrive' at something they have been working towards often disappointed. You may have been working towards this state for longer than you realised. These states are usually defined by a list of things - they can be material, or more abstract. You've valued them up until now, but now you've realised they aren't great values, not worthy of life motivation.

It doesn't mean they are bad things, and it doesn't mean you need to uproot your whole life to make yourself happy. But maybe you need to look around you, ser what you enjoy, what you think is important now.. What are your real values, and then your decisions in the future can help you lead a fulfilling life.

In much the same way not all suicides have a diagnosable underlying mental health disorder, not all acts of aggression have a diagnosable mental health condition. Of those that do, only a proportion will respond to treatment.

Perfect mental health care will not make everyone's mental health perfect, in much the same way that perfect health care will not stop people dying.

I have a newish X13 and have owned several ThinkPads since the T40. It is the best made machine from them that I've used so far. The keyboard is still good, not as great as the X230 or previous (not full size). The memory is soldered I believe, but harddrive is not. Screen is fine. It is AMD and had a few problems to start with which have ironed out.

I would say, overall, this is an excellent machine for doing work and build quality is excellent. It's a shame that Lenovo have such dubious ethical standards.

Why do people think that every mental health condition can be treated successfully? Why do people think that every bad thing someone does is due to a mental health condition?

It's only people like yourselves that fight for the right to hold the government to account that allows the US to be such a paragon of democracy where all your people, of any race, gender or financial status is fairly represented by your government.

Those countries that gave up the right to bear arms are such failures of democracy.

That period I stopped recommending linux to friends as I felt burned by the experience of losing gnome 2. I remember going from ubuntu 10.04 beyond support, to xfce, gnome fallback, gnome flashback, linux mint cinnamon, crunchbang (stayed a while), linux mint mate then ubuntuMate, where I've been for several years now.

I'd say UbuntuMATE is functional, boring and pretty, and frankly should be the modern standard for a work environment linux.

There was a several year hiatus between end of gnome 2 and beginning of mate, and even longer (a year or two) before mate was solid. During this time I remember a lot of attempts at gnome 2 replacement (fallback, flashback etc) and people jumping ship to xfce. I spent a while on ubuntu 10.04 LTS beyond security support then crunchbang before hearing of the mate project, then moved to linux mint and ubuntumate, which is where I've stayed. Those years were a bit disrupted and I stopped recommending linux to friends during that time.

I've been using MATE for several years now. It's very solid and they've improved and modernised it nicely since gnome 2 times.

I remember this was standard back in the day, and I think the time period was even shorter. Think it happened to me on Hotmail at 3 months.

I always said wired was better...