It's worth mentioning, he also wouldn't flame someone for breaking the kernel like this. The time he did flame someone for a similar bug, it was because the developer not only broke userland, but also began to argue that he was correct to do so. That is when he got flamed.

They used to. Scroll down and check out the part about Sim City.

Well yeah, actually, you should submit that story to Slashdot. I'd love to see the comments we get from it. Pull out the popcorn.

The clathrate gun hypothesis is scary, but so is the yellowstone super-caldera erupting, or a giant meteor smashing into the earth, and for that matter, so is global-thermonuclear war. Which one should we focus our efforts on stopping, if any?

Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

What do you think it means?

True.

Indeed, it's hard to see how this will be different than Star Trek, or Transformers.....

The dialog in the three prequels was not the best, but from a story perspective, can you imagine JJ Abrams even attempting to write the story of a nice kid becoming an evil dictator? Then turning it around to show he wasn't pure evil?

Hopefully Lucas will release his proposed scripts.

Given that the models overestimate the warming, choosing the low end is justified.

It's fair to consider the high end, though. Once again, a meter won't have people snorkeling in their houses. As mentioned, continental drift and rebound from the last ice age account for more change to the coastline than global warming (continents move around 2cm per year with continental drift). Add to that natural erosion, sediment, etc, and AGW is not the most important effect on most coastlines.

You actually made me interested. Looks like most of her funding comes from law firms and universities.

No true scientist, eh? If you want to find other examples, do a search yourself. It's not hard, I merely picked the first three that showed up.

In any case, the fact that there is a hiatus, and that the models are all wrong shows that there is something in the environment that is at least as strong as greenhouse gases, that the models (and scientists) are unaware of.

Also note that to get the high amount of warming predicted, CO2 wasn't enough (which will add ~1 degree of warming by itself). It was required that there also be positive feedbacks that amplify the warming, in some cases dramatically. The scientific case supporting the feedbacks is not anywhere near as strong as that supporting the initial CO2 impulse, and the initial CO2 impulse is not nearly as dangerous as the feedbacks. CO2 by itself is unlikely to cause any serious harm.

Unfortunately most of the research has gone into looking for positive feedbacks. It's not surprising that scientists have a bias in one direction or the other; the scientific method is a way to counteract that. We predict, we measure, and the measurements tell us if our biases were correct or not. The measurements are crucial.

Incidentally, Trenberth is fairly well-respected as a climate scientist.... he was twice a lead author of the IPCC report, and has won awards and honors in his field. So you can't discount him that easily.

I will definitely be making a post with my findings. Right now I am focusing on understanding the need that systemD fills. Clearly there are a lot of stakeholders involved in system startup (system admins, normal users, distro packagers, even Android), so I am trying to figure out what each of them want before critiquing the solution.

As for systemD itself, it's patterned off of launchD, which I find interesting. You can see an explanation here. The part I find interesting is how it manages dependencies: you don't have to explicitly list every dependency of a server, but rather when something connects to a service, launchD starts it right then. LaunchD takes advantage of the excellent inter-process message passing abilities of the OSX/Mach kernel.

There are red flags also. For example, Poettering started by converting the build scripts to C, explicitly because it was slow. He said, "grep must get called 70 times in my script. Think how long that must take, accessing disk, loading libraries, etc." This is an example of "the root of all evil is premature optimization." If he'd measured before starting, he would have found that calling grep 70 times takes a fraction of a second (on my laptop, anyway). And indeed, when he was done rewriting everything in C, he was disappointed to find it didn't go much faster.

Also, I think binary logging is moronic, but that's been hashed out in many places and you probably already know about it. Apparently some people like it.

I'm kind of reticent of writing posts as I go along because I may change my mind once I understand the purpose of something, or why something is written in a certain way, but maybe I can put a disclaimer on top that it's a work in progress and don't take anything I say seriously?

That's true, there's a subdevelopment near me, built on a river flood plain that flooded in the 90s. It was under 15 feet of water. I have no idea why they built there, and no idea why people buy there.

Not really, she favors Dodd-Frank.

I appreciate you working hard to get through to me. However, in this case, the facts are on my side. Learn to research.

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You can see scientists are looking for explanations, rather than denying that the hiatus exists. Also, it's an honor to have a conversation with Bruce Perens.

If they're not getting paid $120k, they're not high-paid. Even calling $120k 'high-paid' is a bit of a stretch.