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Pilots don't want to use checklists either, but they put up with it because the checklists are written by other pilots and not HR folk, administrators or medical students given a task because everyone else is too busy.
It is slowly happening in some areas (trauma medicine) because it's being done well and being rejected in others because it is not.

Turning up while sick is not good at getting the job done but it keeps them in a job.

You said useless and disproved it yourself when you remembered that orbits other than equatorial ones are used.

More petty bullying and an empty bluff. If you had tried a bit harder in school it's possible that I could have taught you some engineering subjects in the 1990s before I went back into industry.
Funny how you keep on going on about reality and defy it at every step.

Ah, because for you, NZ == RU

In terms of getting into those orbitals, yes.

It appears your statement of "The claimed advantages of launching deep in the Southern Hemisphere are bunk" is dependant on Russia giving up on space entirely leaving no options for other players to get stuff to the ISS or descendants. That's a very idiotic assumption in my opinion and explains why you've been growling and flailing about like a dying beast.

With respect, it's reducing the chance of outages at the cost of some possible slight lifetime loss on the SSD and has nothing at all to do with saving on RAM because sometimes things go wrong and whatever RAM you have is never enough. That's why whatever tech journalist who fed you the line about your mythical industry default is incorrect. Some people do it but the downsides are too great for it to be widespread.

Plus these days Twitter gives you 140 characters and an animated GIF, which ought to be more than enough for any political soundbite.

Lennart is professional programmer who has had great success. You sound jealous

Yes to the first, but why did we have to be subjected to them for so long when they were still alpha quality? The second, no, I took a different path so cannot compare myself to him even when he's done stuff I would have considered utterly stupid at the age he did it at despite not being so much of a professional programmer.
Pulseaudio mostly works, which is about what you can say about computer audio on most platforms so that's a shining success. NetworkManager is a good fit for laptops, servers not so much but apart from odd glitches it works, which is more than can be said for MS networking so it's a success. Systemd - still not as good as what it is meant to replace and the non-professional bits of Lennart's behaviour mean it's deployed where it shouldn't be and many valid bug reports are discarded as if they are irrelevant.

Do you have something reliable to back up that statement?

I've been using the ganglia monitoring suite on clusters for a bit over a decade and on several hundred occasions I have noted that eventually cached stuff ends up in swap even if there's still some free memory. It's part of what it is for, getting stuff out of the way so you've plenty of memory to use.

how the fuck will a swap file/partition get written to ... if there's no power

WTF? Is this some sort of game where you NEED to win and are prepared to go beyond the far side of crazy to do so? If so just play with yourself and leave me out of it since I'm having a discussion not a game.

The default setup for modern Linux servers running on SSD (of which there are millions in production use) is no swap files or partitions.

It has always been an option and not bad for desktops but the default on servers - no that's just stupid since swap is often the difference between eventually getting something done or a complete crash leading to possibly hours of downtime.

The Russians HAVE to because they do not have control over a lower latitude launch location does not make it an advantage, it makes high latitude launch locations (& thus ISS orbital inclination) a necessary evil

Which then OBVIOUSLY means that if you are going to keep sending stuff to that location for years on end then there is a NEED for such launch sites. Did I use small enough words or should I try again? Which race card are you going to play next as a distraction to hide your lack of understanding of this topic that makes my limited understanding look like expertise?

I'll note that now that I've given you a detailed explanation why a NZ launch location is irrelevant

No you failed at that due to a series of assumptions that had nothing at all to do with my question - transparent avoidance tactics.

Ah, so it's your honor as a Kiwi that I impugned

Trying the race card TWICE?

Clearly your "The claimed advantages of launching "deep in the Southern Hemisphere" are bunk" is bullshit because you have descended to aggression, name calling and playing the race card on someone merely asking you a question to avoid answering it.

I think I get it. I think you know so little about the topic that you didn't know about non-equatorial orbits and didn't know the ISS, the thing most rockets are going to recently, is in one. All this aggression is just to try to cover that up.
It won't be hard to prove that wrong - just answer the question if you can. It's looking very much like you can't and that some computer network guy with a one dimensional understanding of orbits is bluffing to try to look important when nobody cares whether you really know your shit or not so long as you are honest about it.

NetworkManager, PulseAudio and systemd were internal Red Hat projects run by a guy called Lennart who will tell you that they are all far better than linux itself, which he would apparently have done himself only far better if he was only a little bit older. Red Hat didn't pick them from a list, they did them and were stuck with them.
The others were surrounded by the most noise.

you keep mistaking my popping your pie in the sky bubbles for ranting

Considering that I don't give a shit either way about rocket labs and have barely heard of them there is clearly no mistake. Are you going to keep on attempting pathetic bullying or are you going to back up or abandon your words above? Let's hear something that actually justifies your rubbishing of my mostly forgotten classes in orbital mechanics. Are you going to answer or do I just file you under clueless windbag who knows fuckall about the topic and just likes to verbally attack strangers?