I wonder if lack of water/sewage lines qualify it as "unclean conditions."

Thanks - that's the one! It was my understanding it was condemned - I may be misremembering. What else do you do with illegal buildings?

There generally are strings. I can't find the reference, but a Florida home was condemned after the owner admitted they had no [grid] power or sewer. They used solar and composted. In many states, if you own real estate you pay taxes. You are required to do various things with the property and follow laws that often mean spending money.

It's all reasonable stuff, but it's hardly string-free.

I use 'the geforce experience', and my experience is crap.

Hit the upgrade button and the app appears to hang. No progress, no nothing. But it does seem to be downloading - I guess - since it snaps out of it sometime later.

All in all, I would absolutely not recommend it.

I'm a programmer, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised by my not understanding.

You're saying that having many many programmers that are really well paid and who provide a service with no requirements other than infrastructure (energy as clean as you provide and no manufacturing needs) who live, buy stuff, pay taxes, and all that - is a bad thing.
But having less well paid blue collar workers who buy less stuff, pay less taxes, and whose jobs require the inflow of goods and the outflow of goods (ie. who have more overhead and infrastructure needs) and who may or may not be replaceable with robots is a better thing.

How does that work?

As a previous resident of neighboring Redwood City I understand about screwing up downtown. Dunno how you'd fix it other than zoning or screwing with tax rates on software companies - and no idea how you'd do that. But the suggested financial angle - that I don't get.

Some of your questions make more sense than others. In the context of deploying, docker looks a lot like a VM deployment - except instead of having to build up a VM using chef, and with all the luggage that usually entails, the docker image tends to only be running the service. Imagine a linux kernel with only one process running. So there aren't a lot of edges to harden. Usually the service image gets launched in something that looks like a DMZ behind a firewall with a loadbalancer in front of it.. In our case it's a little wild west.

But part of the joy/ease of docker is that you build on some particular image. It would be easy to imagine an organization that was more .. organized than ours specifying a few base image flavors that developers would have to build off of - then you could harden those images all you wanted. I don't know that I would be a big fan of that, however. You can see where redhat supplies a lot of images, for example (https://access.redhat.com/search/#/container-images).

Concrete (semi bogus) example: you want to run redis (maybe on windows - where it's not trivial). There is a redis docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/redis...
"docker run -p 6379:6379 redis"
That will fire up a docker container running redis and will map the port on the image to the port on the docker host (usually localhost, these days). You can now connect to port 6379 and talk to redis. The container running redis is hard to describe - it's a full (stripped) linux system and it's only running that one process. You can fire up a shell on that container using another docker command and it has a bunch of the things you expect. Some shell (maybe bash or something lighter). Most of the filesystem stuff you expect. It's like a VM - if you built a VM to only run redis.

I don't know if any of this helps - it really is a weird concept - at least I had a really hard time wrapping my head around it. But I do love what I can do with it.

Docker is a freeze dried VM with mappable ports and filesystem. It runs on several OSs on various platforms. I'm not sure what its killer feature is. It isn't just the ability to include libs with your program - it's a way to include the entire OS with your program - with all the libs and whatever else you need.

Things I do with docker:
* get rid of RVM/rbenv, NVM, and all those other version managers. Just fire up a docker container with the version of ruby/node/whaterver you want
* package up services for deployment (web apps in my case) and toss the image to devops/IT to deploy
* test tools/software I'm not familiar with - not sure if you want to install latest? fire up a docker container and take it for a spin. And when you're done testing, maybe just continue using the container.
* run things on platforms that don't support them. Want to run redis on windows? docker container. Want to run git hubflow on windows without installing extra stuff? docker container.

https://www.qubes-os.org/ claims (tongue in cheek) to be "Reasonably secure." Really it loos like they are all about the security, so this is kind of a big deal for them.

https://www.qubes-os.org/tour/...
What is Qubes OS?
Qubes is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS is the software which runs all the other programs on a computer. Some examples of popular OSes are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. Qubes is free and open-source software (FOSS). This means that everyone is free to use, copy, and change the software in any way. It also means that the source code is openly available so others can contribute to and audit it.

the first time *this year* SpaceX has attempted to land one of its rockets on land

Why wouldn't you just plant another pole? Or put it on existing poles. It's not like these stadiums are mobile.

Full subject of "Terrible headline. DESKTOP DISTRIBUTIONS letting go" attempted. Failed - too long.

Fuck /.'s limited subject length.

There are a bunch of desktop distributions that will no longer do 32 bit builds. Makes sense.

No effect on kernel or disties for 32 bit systems/embedded/etc.

Yeah, it will. These phones represent a [large] minority of the marketplace. You really can buy a different phone. And you can buy a CD player.

Yeah - it's a shame that deal didn't work out for any of the involved parties.

Is there some reason we're now using this term? Maybe it's just me, but it really sounds entirely Hollywood.

Can we just say internet? Or web?