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Comment Re:The Pentagon is more important than climate cha (Score 1) 163

Is that parody or is that news? I cannot believe that one-sided, war-mongering, short-sighted propaganda piece is called 'News'.

Personally I'm in great anticipation of the upcoming flag day, when some particularly onerous climate-change related events (e.g. the permanent evacuation of Miami, or perhaps just food shortages due to widespread crop failures) occur, and Fox News shifts seamlessly from denying the existence of global warming to blaming the Democrats for not having done enough to prevent it. Good times.

They don't need to shift. Fox News is perfectly capable of denying it exists, blaming the Democrats for it, and blaming the Democrats for not doing enough about it, all the same time from the same speaking head. That wouldn't even be anything unusual, we call that day Tuesday.

Comment Re:Down side (Score 1) 141

One downside of the A+ is that it still has only a single USB 2 connector.

There are two down sides worth noting. That's one of them; have they got USB figured out yet? Just one port is bad enough but if they bugger the polyfuses again... But the real problem is the RAM. 512MB is cramped. 256MB is unacceptable.

A modern standard ARMv7 instead of the odd ARMv6 would be greatly appreciated too.

Comment Re:Not how I remember it (Score 1) 236

The part about Clinton and SA was accurate. However, by the 90's. a lot of people were working on work-arounds for SA. SA implemented by making each satellite's clock go fast and slow deliberately, so you could fix it by having a ground station with a good clock looking at the same satellite, and sending corrections, so removing SA wasn't as big a deal as it would have been in 1985.

Yep. Specifically it was commonly defeated by cellphone tower, AGPS we now use for a faster lock, can also defeat SA. All you need is something that already knows where it is and can correct for the local GPS error, such as cell-phone tower.

Comment Re:Speed (Score 1) 928

And that matters to a server how? I reboot my linux servers as little as absolutely necessary (security updates, kernel patches, etc). The added overhead and complexity of debugging why there was a problem with systemd (and its infuriating lack of text logs I can work with in any number of tools) is not worth 2 minutes of saved time every 3-6 months.

The binary logs are optional. I haven't used them, why would I?

Comment Re:Speed (Score 1) 928

I've killed systemd shutdowns hard after 15 minutes of timing out waiting for an nfs share that went offline.

The old system didn't do that. Not to detract from the lovely startup times, but it's not "all baked" yet.

I am pretty sure that would happen under sysv as well, though the old script might have had a workaround for the issue. NFS lockup issues is kernel "bug", the kernel refuses to shutdown or stop any requests that could lead to data loss, but if the NFS server is unreachable, that is impossible to avoid, so they just hang. This leaves to processes that can't even be killed with -9.

Sometimes risk aversity in a kernel developer is worth beating them with a bat over.

Comment Re:Thanks for making my point (Score 1, Insightful) 928

I worked on space rated instruments at NASA Goddard for a while, and talked to a very old dude who claims to have seen this happen once in his very long career.

It happens about 40 times a day on you average PC, it is just rare it hits anything vital. If you run ECC memory you can track how many read errors it corrects. In fact error-correcting memory exists for servers and workstations for this very purpose. It is real and common.

Comment Re:I don't know what they are doing to burn coal n (Score 1) 332

Also note, very few people in Denmark uses electric heating as you can get hot water from centralized production into your home (not clean only for use in radiators). My parents gets their heating from a power plant 20km away.

Not to nitpick, but danes refer to that centralized production as "surplus heat". The "surplus" heat is heat generated as a bi-effect from producing electricity.... - from coal. So, when the electricity all comes from wind, the danes need to find some other way to heat their houses during winter.

It also comes from trash burning, but yes. There are issues to be solved for sure.

Comment Re:circular politics (Score 2) 332

The Danes are probably looking to Sweden who has been doing this for years. Though in Sweden it only works because they buy coal-fueled power from Denmark during the peak hours.

Not sure who is planning this nonsense in Denmark now. We already have 33% wind power, but due to the issues with peak-power it will be hard to get above 66% and even that will require massive extra capacity.

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 558

3)Debit cards do not earn you interest. If you have an interest checking account (rare, and usually such a low rate that its a joke, sub 1% in most cases), you earn that money regardless of if you have or use a debit card.

5)Emergencies/hard times. Sometimes shit happens. You may lose your job and run low on cash. You may have a series of car and house repairs. Its always a good idea to have an additional emergency fun you can call on for short term cash.

That is why you have credit lines and always keep your account around zero or below. The interest on my debit card is 7% for minus or effectivly 0% for plus. Banks are always willing to give you a credit or one or two months full salary if you show them your job contract. That is often better or similar to most credit cards, except the standard interest is much lower, and if you negotiate with your bank you can get even lower interest OR higher credit.

Credit cards are never a good idea, and only makes sense if you live in a country where they are required. Which means the US.

Comment Re:Is that unreasonable? (Score 1) 282

Probably just an urban legend. They were growing steadily before then, and aren;t that far off the Danes, Swedes, Austrians and French.

The men are not that far of from Scandinavians, but the women are. That is the main difference in the average heights, the Dutch women from that generation is as tall as the men.

Btw. A good counter point to the original talk about genetics is ancient Scandinavians. The Vikings were almost as tall as modern Scandinavians, it wasn't until a feudal society was created that the lower peasents class became as short as other places in northern Europe.

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