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Comment Re:I'll bite (Score 1) 265

-- all in one language with a common syntax.

that's the bloody misconception; a perfect all-in-one fits-all universal command line interface.
it's the tooling's limitations glued by scripting language you choose that leads to unintended but creative and useful matter.
the powershell's achilles heel is just that, the power of all the master of none.

Comment Re:Teamsterst (Score 1) 228

Hopefully this will put an end to one trucker passing another trucker because the first one is driving the speed limit and the other one wants to go 1 mile over the

The trucks are rev- and/or speed limited (at least here) to 55 mph.
It's just like Tour de France, truckers lurk in each other's jetstream, because it's easier and economical to drive next.
To change heads, the truck needs to overtake without the tail losing momentum.
I doubt a computer would do it more efficient, a train will.

Comment Re:Why such crap? (Score 1, Troll) 263

Do you have a better and more reliable tablet system in mind, or are you suggesting that they should have stuck with the 35-pound suitcases full of printed material?

It takes less than 1 mins of googling for rugged laptop/tablet or whatever, and I'm not even qualified to make such as decision.
(e.g. panasonic toughtablet)
something pretty vital to ops should have had more consideration than guessing a popular consumer item will do.
What the fuck are they thinking when replacing critical units?

Comment Re:systemd rules!!! (Score 2) 494

Who keeps modding these posts up? Using "journalctl -f" to view output from stderr to debug why daemons aren't starting is a feature I use often as part of my job.

Don't know about your job, years of running init rarely needed to debug or check why/if/when daemons aren't starting. on production systems. with users. with usb thingies. with eth failover.
Honestly, you fucking seriously mean to say THE FIRST PROCESS STARTED UPON BOOT NEEDS DEBUGGING and claim systemd is an improvement?!?!?

Comment Re:No use (Score 2, Funny) 66

How did you manage a score of two?

I created an account over 10-15 years ago, treated it with utmost care and love, only now and then jesting, but very cautiously and carefully.
With the occasional post, my precious karma went silently up and up, and up and up.
Until today, I felt the longing for OMG frist post, succumbed and finally blew it all on an Nvidia topic.

Perhaps on topic, what useful task would this card capabilities be insufficient for? (useful in the sense with video output)

Comment Re:Too early for criticism. (Score 2) 238

Spawning programs on public money is not a startup.
Key to success is to level the playfield for commercial activities (all contenders pay more or less identical tax, no monopolies) and spend money on activities that are not commercially viable yet valuable.
In short, you'll end up with effectively bureaucrats hopping from one program to another writing pretty money requests and/or companies squishing creativity.
For some constructive criticism, if anyone knows of a place succesful as mentioned above, please do share.

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