Step 1: pay AI for "code"
Step 2: pay actual dev to fix "code" ...
Step 4: give CEO bonus!

What he's complaining about is the ones that are linking to the final version of the patch, after problem reports, patch discussions and ACKs and such were all in other threads - those threads are typically just "here's the final patch". There's no discussion to be read there. Typically there's a whole lot more that happened before, but that's not what's getting linked in some of these patches.

The intent of the Link: is to link to the problem report, debugging, discussion of the problem/patch... and some do that. But that's not the problem here.

It'd be like a Wikipedia page just linking to itself for reference. There's obviously more information that led to the page's creation... but the link itself is just garbage.

But a patch with a link to the patch is not a useful link. The link should point to the problem report or at least discussion. That's what Linus is complaining about - people are using Link: to link to the final version of the patch on LKML which at most has "Ack" replies. That adds zero useful information.

A problem with limited-time spectrum licenses is that it costs companies large amounts of money to deploy hardware to utilize the spectrum, so they're not going to want to do that if they face uncertainty about continuing to use the spectrum. Now, "use it or lose it" rules make sense, where if a company (e.g. Dish) is just sitting on unused spectrum, they should either be required to return it to the government or auction it back off under the same rules as the government auctions.

Ahh, thanks, memory is fuzzy.

IIRC a bunch of the Dish spectrum was formerly Sprint spectrum that T-Mobile was required to sell as part of their purchase of Sprint. Dish claimed they'd set up a new "4th carrier" for competition, which they never did - it seems like T-Mobile should have the right of first refusal on the spectrum, at least the formerly-Sprint part, rather than have it all go to a competitor (and at a profit for Dish, who did nothing but squat on a valuable resource).

LOLwut? Like... a history book? I know those are hard to find and read these days.

Remember that the people who wrote/signed "We the People" were mostly rich white men who owned not only property but also people. All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others.

Or better, don't buy from Amazon. Since they single-bin all supplies of the same product number, even if it's "sold by Amazon" you can still get a fake sent in by a reseller.

VISA/MC got a lot more restrictive after VISA was sued in 2022 for handling payments for Pornhub and a judge wouldn't dismiss the suit. It looks like VISA got the claims against them dismissed a few months ago, but even the fact that they had to deal with it for 3 years has left them pointing at that as justification.

There were some minor things changed and added for movie storytelling, and some things done by a team compressed into a single character, but it was basically accurate. It wasn't documentary-level accuracy, but better than typical Hollywood-level "based on a true story" accuracy.

Yep, Alabama had used Blue for an event almost 300 miles away in the middle of the night, so I disabled it. Then recently, they used the Extreme threat category instead of Blue (probably because everybody disabled it) for another similar event. So now I can choose to either get tornado warnings (I have other means, but it's good to have multiple) or disable useless "back the blue" alerts.

You appear to be talking about leap seconds and GPS, which are unrelated. GPS doesn't use leap seconds,

Blaming the employee for the failure of the company is wrong. The company failed because they didn't have good data management or access controls. If the password was compromised due to being "weak", then the company also didn't have good password controls.

Who did that? Many years ago, I had to get a math minor (which I ended up with a second major) to get my computer science degree. Looking at my school's current requirements, they don't have quite as much math required, but it still has all the calculus, linear algebra, and probability/statistics (with a note that you can add one more math class to fulfill the technical elective in CS and also get a math minor).