See there it is - horse fucking. That's exactly the kind of slippery slope that the anti-gay-marriage people are fighting against.

(/sarcasm)

I was home-schooled untli year 11. I got 96/100 in the school system, which I considered to be a pretty good score (made me about 8th in a school of 500ish). My sister came through 3 years later and got a straight 100/100. She was also home-schooled until year 11.

The plural of annecdote is still at the opinion level here. Just like any schooling - it depends more on the method of teaching and the individual student than where the schooling is.

In my case, my parents mostly just left me to my own devices. They pointed me at the enclopedia and told me that most of what I needed was in there somewhere, and showed me how to use the index. This was mostly pre-internet. They also took us to the library frequently so we could have access to more books than they could afford.

Yeah, but it's probably about the same quality as what Galileo had, which might be kinda the point...

Fuck yeah. If I make major software changes on a server, I damn well want to reboot it and make sure it can bootstrap from scratch.

Actually, unless it was a really minor fix, I'd probably want to reinstall it from scratch. That takes ~10 minutes (bit longer these days because hardware takes so bloody long to init).

That way I know I haven't built a multi-tentacled monster of a system with cross dependencies which will never start ever again. You already need a failover plan for when (not if) you have a hardware failure, so you may as well be testing it frequently by going through said steps - and a significant upgrade is a good time to do it.

This idea of upgrading everything in random order and restarting just the affected services doesn't scale. Reinstalls all the way, baby.

"The issue with systemd: it reeks of a solution looking for a problem."

I dunno - I've rolled a bunch of stuff using daemontools, a bunch of stuff using other daemonisation techniques and a nasty complicated dependency tracking system on top of that - it's complex, but it works.

If there's a standard tool doing a significant part of that heavy lifting across all the linuxes, that's a big win in my book. I buy some of the "it's too complex" argument, but not enough to overthrow the benefits of being a standard part of my installs.

Which leaves security exposure, and that's an interesting question... but assuming it's not really awful, its ubiquity should get more eyes and more fixes than running something rare.

Erm, preview drongo:

#include things_which_are_crap_like_beta.h

Tell me the last time you heard a cash story that wasn't about money laundering or counterfeit cash.

Person pays person for product and/or service, everybody happy with transaction - not news.

Basically, news stories are an indication of shit that sells news - and unsurpisingly, money laundering is one of those things. So news stories are biased. You mostly hear about the things which are crap, because they're "newsworthy".

#include

I would say "sunk cost falacy" is a more accurate description. They've invested a lot in it, and to hear that it's not actually what the audience AHEM content creators want is not a message that can get through. Too much invested in the shiny and the "but it's not PRETTY or ELEGANT", OMG how can anyone love something so ugly.