We've been reading your comments for decades.
And yet you're still here. Thanks.
It's not them. It's you.
Says the guy who's never read the source code. What a dumpster fire.
Not you, the systemd source code.
There are some people who just can't be rehabilitated.
No that is too strong a claim. The best you can say is, "There are people we don't know how to rehabilitate."
Our understanding of the brain and psychology is so weak that over the next century or so, our knowledge is going to increase dramatically. Not long ago, people were seriously doing lobotomies (there's an argument to be made that we are still doing it today, but with chemicals. Certainly our understanding and treatment of ADHD will improve dramatically in the future, and what we do now will seem archaic if not barbaric).
America's state prison systems need ways "to keep people from returning to prison,"
A noble and excellent goal. 90% of Americans can support this (the others are profiting from it).
bring together prisoner data from its disparate sources into digital dashboards. From there, corrections staff can see information — such as court records and notes from parole-board hearings — about a prisoner or parolee all in one place.
Ok, sounds like a great thing for computers to do. If they can get AI to help, then great. (Note: the AI isn't going to open manila folders).
The company says its efforts are working: Recidivism has fallen 16% in the prison population its systems track. It is the result of "just streamlining these workflows and knitting someone's journey together end to end,
Sounds like they are not releasing people with a high risk of recidivism. In other words, they haven't fixed the problem of recidivism, they've just kept people in jail longer.
I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative
This kind of thing should be encapsulated in a macro or function so you don't make mistakes.
Using the raw stdlib string library will cause security problems. These can be avoided 100% by using custom string functions.
I expect SystemD was originally created because someone looked at Apple's LaunchD and decided they wanted a GPL-compatible alternative
Looked at LaunchD and decided, 'This would be better if it were done in a Microsoft way."
Further to that systemd is highly modular. Most of it does not run in PID 1. On my fedora system there are half a dozen individual systemd module packages that can be used or not as the system needs and is designed. systemd is not at all monolithic.
The only people who say that haven't actually looked at the source code, or are liars. I don't know which one you are.
At least you didn't say "Systemd is small", which it isn't.
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