You do know Sudo was invented on BSD Unix back in 1980 according to the man pages.

Linux Mint is stable and closest to Ubuntu with no snap

I saw comments just like this back in 2001 and 2009 here on slashdot lol.

If the government is stupid enough to do bank bailouts like in 2020 we will have massive inflation yet again and these companies will over hire and pay people not to work to keep competitors starved of employees and the cycle repeats and cars will then start at 70k and home mortgages will start at 4k a month for starter homes. People will riot if this happens.

We will have a recession and wages will go back to normal and housing and cars will crash like they did 15 years earlier back to normal and then things will return to nromal.

The point is companies until last year and in the late 1990s were willing to train or move people into these positions due to demand and lack of supply within budget constraints.

Now the market is switching back to normal as the demand was fueled by bailout and 0% interest loans which bloated the share prices of these faang aka .com companies so they overhired.

Now since you can earn 6.5% interest in a savings account the share price needs to grow more than that a year and the cost to pay the lines of credit moves up to hire people not to work (which they admitted was to hurt competitors) not to grow the company.

Prices as I saw in 2002 dropped. I remember 175k salaries for senior unix admins (in 1999 prices!!) turn into 60k a year contractor only no benefits by 2002. Things go up and down on value base do market demand and supply also gets impacted by laid off workers. Shortages in good times like 2020 and 1999 it is the opposite. Home prices are about to crash again too just like in 2009.

There was a shortage.

The cause of this and inflation are simply. An expansion of money supply. Bad government policies.

If a company needs to grow at all costs and have awesome liquity ratios (which means assets like money over debt + costs) the shareprice goes up. When this is low the share price goes down.

When borrowing costs and government bailouts from the Covid in 2020 threw out free money all the .com's took a shit ton of debt at .5% interest or something stupid low. If not hedge funds in London and Wall Street were taking .5% loans and investing ... viola SHARE PRICE HIGHS!

With extra $$$ they hired and hired and hired as it they were loaded with free money and wanted to hurt competitors by taking talent off the market.

Now since the debt is up and no income is earned the shareholders are asking for money since it costs now 6.5% interest and if the share price grows less than 6.5% then keeping it in a savings account is a better investment.

So we lay them all off to cut costs.

I think no kid out of school should be working at home earning 180k a year to moderate content data at reddit. Sorry, but it is a gaslight to us all timers who had to work harder for 20 years and still never earn that money. Economics are back in reality now.

To me it proves that maybe using gold and having a sane Federal Reserve is more important than use it as a political tool. I am still a democrat but it is getting harder and harder seeing stuff like this damaging people's investments and lives.

That is unethical. Only the shareholders and customers should be taken care of. You are robbing them essentially.

I know that sounds harsh and inhuman, but that is reality. You wouldn't want to pay $25 for a big mac meal or $50,000 for a Honda Civic because 1/3 of the cost went to terminated poor employees.

No one owes you a job. It is a right to work contract if anything.

Every contract I have signed (I am not even counting consulting/contracting) is that I can be let go at any time and i can let them go any time. However, its best to stick 2 years and give a 2 week notice and I can receive a reference.

Yes employers are worried about being sued but that is not a right. Only leadership typical gets severance and most of the time it is worth the savings not paying severance over possible legal issues.

Welcome to corporate America 101. Lol.

In my 46 years on Earth I have never received a severance package.

It is always go file for unemployment and get the hell out of my office. Why pay people not to work if the sole reason to let people go is to cut costs. If you pay everyone 6 months or 2 quarters then no money was saved letting them go?

"changing perceptions" through marketing? that sounds like an arms race with the other side. Long time ago we thought the right way to change perceptions was through good education and development of critical thinking skills.

Where did it all go wrong :)

It all went wrong when each sides of the discussion concluded that scientific papers supporting the other side were marketing fake-news, trying to gaslight them into supporting a scam to let the opposing side acquire money and/or power, rather than actual science.

Warmists think evidence against any aspect of their side's story is akin to smoking research sponsored by tobacco companies. Skeptics think any evidence for a global warming story has been corrupted, ala early drug war research on psychedelic drugs, to feed government power grabs and attempts to put rent-seeking taxes on commerce (e.g. Gore's carbon-credit exchange).

Now neither side believes academic papers on the subject. We'll just have to wait and see what the climate does.

Following this paper's prescription, of course, would just put the nail in the coffin on any remaining hope of convincing the population to pay attention to the sort of propaganda it prescribes. (Assuming the very existence of the paper hasn't already done that.)

Azure is the best cloud platform. I know I am going to get flamed but AWS is very expensive and has too many products that are thinly functional and lock you in more than any com/win32 garbarge I have seen 20 years ago. I am not saying Azure is perfect or doesn't offer lock in.

It is much easier to get started in Azure and Microsoft is adding AI with ChatGPT and CoPilot and is ahead over AWS in this area as well as existing integrations.

I am not much of an AWS expert but I am being trained at work and I do not like how it is setup and how so many components depend on another which have another subscription. We now pay millions upon millions a year and can't leave it.

I am being kind of forced to train in AWS and I do not like it compared to Azure. It is expensive and overly complex while Azure is gaining AI and will soon be integrated with ChatGPT and CoPilot. Azure is ahead in many areas compared to AWS and it integrates well with the Microsoft Ecosystem.

Flight time is about 20 years. (Proxima is about 4 light years away and the swarm is averaging about 1/5th lightspeed.) I suspect even some of us boomers can hang in here that long - even if life-extension treatments don't become available.

Oops. Maybe not. They're talking about 75 years before getting around to a launch.

I'll be surprised if the project stays funded, since even without delays everyone funding it will die before there's any payoff.

Flight time is about 20 years. (Proxima is about 4 light years away and the swarm is averaging about 1/5th lightspeed.) I suspect even some of us boomers can hang in here that long - even if life-extension treatments don't become available.

Also, I wonder what it will cost to fund the laser for half a century.

The launch and acceleration of the whole swarm is over in about a year. Individual elements are up to speed in much less than that.

(You HAVE to do it fast: Once they're moving they're out of range darned quick, so you have to get them to cruising speed before you can't hit them any more. Fortunately the little motes are really sturdy so you can give them a BIG big push.)

Read The Paper.

You cannot aim sufficient energy over distances like that
[description of betavoltaic battery run off "interstellar wind" of high-speed travel]

Oh, yes...

You CAN aim the propulsion energy well enough for long enough to get them up to 20%ish of lightspeed. After that the energy is stored in their momentum relative to that of the interstellar gas. You don't have to keep powering them from home and there's far more than you need to power them for the rest of the mission.

(I happen to know one of the people involved.)

You cannot aim sufficient energy over distances like that

They were originally intended to be powered by betavoltaic batteries (solar cell sandwich with a charged particle emitter for the peanut butter - like the "radioactive diamond" batteries but with Strontium 90 for the radiation source). But another dude computed what local interstellar hydrogen looked like when treated as a proton/electron beam at 20% of light speed and concluded no other radiation source would be necessary - by a long shot. Just launch with the supercaps charged and you're up to power-generation speed long before they're discharged. You only harvest a fraction of that energy - the "solar cells" are far to thin to stop many of the protons but they make lots of electron-hole pairs on the way through - and you use heavy atoms (much charge per atom) in their semiconductor structure to maximize that. That gives you plenty of power to run the computer, sensors, and attitude control. Also the transmitters to phone home, with several watts total over the surviving portion of the swarm.

and you can't slow these gram-weight "robots" down with this propulsion system.

Sure you can. That not-quite-relativistic hydrogen wind through the radiation battery gives you enough friction, when combined with attitude adjustments, to bring the swarm into proper formation and all traveling at the same speed by the time it reaches the target. (You launch it over a considerable period, with the later ones faster than the earlier ones so they all arrive at the same time.) It's slowed a bit by encounter time, but not by very much. So it has to look fast as it flies by.