Bullshit. People who are difficult to work with are always a problem. They may be good at something, but they drag everyone else down to the point that they're still a net negative.

Where this relates to Linus has a lot more to do with the BS tallpoppy syndrome that people throw at him while not being part of the kernel dev circles. He's not by any measure that I can tell actually not a nice guy. He's just got a habit of sending curt emails.

They landed on the barge is the thing. And not badly either - you can see it come down, and then fall over due to skew angle. The fact it landed anywhere even near the barge is damn amazing.

You do understand how Oracle does init in Solaris right?

You do realize that systemd supports this seamlessly right? As in, I have customer services I can run on systems by dropping the init script into init.d and it will 'just work'. It'll even work automatically with dependent launches if tiu do your LSB headers right.

China is not going to collapse that quickly. The word "collapse" gets thrown around a heck of a lot as though these are things which can happen literally overnight, when really we're talking about multi-year declines which would hurt, but are not nearly the same thing.

Australia is fucked on it's present trajectory though because successive governments have had no interest in trying to diversity, and the population keeps buying the weird "we must be specialized for mining!" BS from both the politicians and mining companies.

The Russians landed one of the only working probes on the surface of Venus.

Exactly - evolution isn't "random". Mutations are random - but the development of specific traits requires an actual path from A to B that doesn't weaken a generation of organism too much, while still enabling them to survive the selective pressure in sufficient quantity.

That in the paper, by feeding constant low-level non-lethal doses, did not yield resistant mutants, suggests there's no easy way for MRSA to develop a resistance mechanism.

Paying customers for content provided by these studios, and the studios are actively trying to stop them from being able to pay them a price they have generally agreed is fair to let the members of the public able to pay in that currency.

Rendering artifacts due to floating point precision!

And an embalmed corpse that's been gone over by morticians to ensure it's presentable is any more "real"?

Last time 8000 police raided anything they were able to charge precisely 0 people with any crimes whatsoever.

Of course it's incorrect. You're not going to reduce emissions by opening some giant new resource which does the exact same thing, and promptly drops prices all over the world for it.

No one investing in that industry is thinking "obviously we're only going to get 10 years of development out of this". They're planning to burn every last bit of it.

I want 8K phone displays. Entirely so we can use them as VR displays.

I'd love to see some example workflows of how you work on something like X - or the kernel, for different classes of bug hunting. It's the type of thing I've always wanted to dive into, but just the thought of trying to get to the stage where I can tweak/run/debug is incredibly daunting.

This is wrong. Peak oil is when new discoveries are outstripped by demand. Its the point at which the oil industry cannot grow at pace with demand, and must plateau and decline. Prices will shoot up instantly because month after month there will be less oil for per consumer available and no reasonable expectation of that changing.