It doesn't seem like you use the internet much lol. I mean.. as soon as you say you can't mention Libera on the servers and will get K-lined if you do... people are going to scream libera at you. Welcome to the internet.

Based on what? I've never heard that "wind was supposed to take over gas". We need a mix of all energy sources. Increase wind and reduce our gas dependence? Sure. Nobody is saying we should be 100% wind... that's just dumb.

I'm a Texan as well... and Gov Abbott is a little bitch. Just like his friend Ted Cruz who *fled* to Cancun when his constituents were dying. Gov Abbott gives hand jobs to oil execs while we're dying.

Something something Hillary emails something something cancel culture something something I'm no racist but... something something. Putin without a shirt on, boo any hints of socialism, but full blown communist dictator I have a hard on.

First off, the question itself is phrased as an extreme to attract the "muh freedoms" crowd.
It's give and take.

1) Yes, government should be able to close down *physical* non-essential brick and mortar businesses in extreme cases for the common good. Keep in mind the physical aspect. This isn't telling your local candle shop it can no longer do business online, it's telling them that these X stores exists in a massive pandemic hotspot and them being open endangers customers.

2) Local + Federal government at minimum should offer tax breaks for non-essential businesses closed based on length of time.


This stuff isn't hard folks, yeah... it sucks and could impact some non-essential businesses badly (which is bad!) but the candle store not surviving is an easy call when you factor in risks to human life.

I mean, if a terrorist was threatening to blow up the candle store, i'm pretty sure the local government officials wouldn't let people pour in.

> No, it's getting it out there in a small way. It's got only a limited subset of the extensions that people will want on a desktop system, and it's priced high enough that only professionals needing a dev system will buy it. Enthusiasts will buy something ARM-based for half the price or less.

"The first million is the hardest" applies to a lot of things, this included.
https://www.investopedia.com/f...

You eat an elephant a bite at a time. A lot of these comments are making complaints that "1.5 Ghz and multiple cores" isn't good enough.
No revolutionary product comes to market fully baked, this is a pretty well known concept "minimum viable product".

Look at Bitcoin, in it's infancy it was plagued with issues (usability + training, technical). Now almost a decade later we're at 15k USD per bitcoin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disruptive technology tends to sleepily sneak in, then exponentially grow.

A lot of folks are missing the point.
RISC-V is *early* days. gcc just got basic support for the architecture a few years ago.
Don't see this as an attempt to make a disruptive product, it's not. What is *is* doing is getting the architecture out there in a big way.

* 20k enterprise router using this board? Hell yes.
* 20k enterprise storage array using this board? Hell yes.
* Open source developer want to play with something other than ARM + x86? Hell yes.

All of the things above help push the ecosystem further. More adopters, more patches to things like binutils, vim, bash, etc, etc.

* x86 has been in heavy development + usage for 40 years now. Of course clock speeds of RISC-V are "slower" at 1.5 Ghz.
* ARM is in every mobile phone. Of course it's cheaper!

However, RISC-V is a core which doesn't come with any IP licensing costs strapped to it. This explains why folks like Western Digital are backing them in a big way. Fast RV32/64 cores strapped to SSD's, HDD's, etc. No ARM licensing costs.

RISC-V is disruptive. It's just a disruptive in the "far down the road" way.

lol, nice call out to a single network like CNN is the only ones who do that shit. I laughed at Fox News during the Impeachment hearings where Fox News kept switching to previous non-live footage while damning Trump testimony took place. I generally go to the BBC or NPR for my news... they generally don't do that shit.

I'm a huge net neutrality supporter... however this whole thing is a mess. Scientific papers require references, research, and other supporting data before you can mass-publish claims to hundreds of thousands of people. Mr YeeHaw who's aunt said dogs can fly sometimes when the moon is out shouldn't be able to post this claim to 100's of thousands of users who might beleave him without any supporting data. Automatic flagging of questionable claims is pretty much the only way for platforms to manage these claims without tampering with free speech... but then the flagging of questionable claims itself may be considered tampering with free speech if the flagging is overzealous. Essentially that means flagging "obvious lies" is the only solution... leaving a *lot* of gray area.

Guys, i'm deeply interested in why folks are still up-in-arms about systemd.

Pros:
* Easy manifest to control processes and how they startup/run
* Manages logs for you (no more logrotate and kill -USR1 hackyness unless your app has complex logs like nginx,etc)
* Unified ecosystem, no more writing init scripts that may or may not work on Debian vs RedHat vs Ubuntu vs Arch

Cons:
* Gotta learn systemctl nginx restart vs service nginx restart (unless you're on Fedora/CentOS/Redhat which offers compatibility wrappers)
* Gotta learn to journalctl -u nginx vs grep /var/log/nginx/server.log for stderr/stdout from nginx. Otherwise logs are still at /var/log/nginx


The cons are pretty small and silly vs all the huge Pros. Is there *really* still a group of "get off my lawn" BOFH's which are driving this insanity?