Just because you leave your front door open doesn't mean someone has a right to rob your home.

Who are you? What do you even do with the rest of your life when it's not waiting to post something about systemd in every single article on Slashdot?

Browserify lets me write a server, import modules with npm, then require() them in my clientside Javascript and have everything be automatically pulled in by npm. It means I can move logic client to server side trivially. node.js is a huge benefit to rapid web app development. I don't know that I'd implement heavy business logic in it, but when you're building a web app the client and server are fairly intimately tied together.

That's a level of seamless you just can't get from any other combination.

I really don't know what sysadmins can be complaining about with node. npm install and you pull in all the dependencies. Without needing superuser privileges, or performing system-wide installations. Node.js apps play very nicely together in my experience.

Yes. All that free software is being so unfairly kept from you.

Of course he doesn't. He might as well have randomly picked any line from "dpkg -l | grep lib" and written the same article. It would've been exactly as sensible.

Mint also works just fine with systemd, the biggest problem was needing an mdm.service file (which is now in MDM head i believe anyway).

Yes. Welcome to parallel programming and all serious software development since the 1980s. It's complicated. Get used to it or stop worrying about it.

Isn't libsystemd a shim library? Isn't that it's whole point? Since you know, it gets installed without the rest of systemd by software which wants to connect to systemd if it's running but otherwise ignore it?

You need 120hz for VR displays, which is exactly where 8K embedded displays are actually useful, and the same reason John Carmack wants to try and cram that into an intelligent interlaced format to optimize for a 60 Hz capability model.

This attitude is part of everything that's wrong with the prison system. The idea that prisoners should be relied upon and expected to met out additional extrajudicial punishment to other prisoners. The idea that prison rape is "ok" because it's happening to other prisoners.

It's the pulse rate of the radio. The radio turns on and off at audio frequencies, so the interference smears out to become the classic chirp sound.

Also speed means the laser doesn't need to be highly destructive. There's absolutely no problem with simply locking a suitably powerful laser on a target and firing it continuously until the target undergoes a failure, because so long as your tracking is working you pretty much will never miss - there's 0 effective flight time on terrestrial scales.

Your nation is a democracy. Represented by the people. If its not that, then it doesn't matter what you think. But you seem to think it is that. In which case, taxes go to the people, and for the provision of their needs.

Keep on chugging that koolaid. But there's no possible way Apple Australia earns $6 billion locally, with our local 20% corporate tax rate, yet somehow only pays $80.3 million in taxes.

It's bullshit, and everybody knows it. Except you, apparently.