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Comment not an endorsement (Score 1) 45

That's not because mainframes are priced attractively. It's because VMware is now spectacularly overpriced.

PC clusters have all but killed mainframes because for the vast majority of tasks they make more sense in every way. It's only a very few jobs that make more sense on a mainframe today, when clustering is mature.

We already knew BCM is largely crap, so this ain't news. It's just a ham handed ad.

Comment Re:The classic web development problem. (Score 2) 116

Why would any competent person agree to work for Trump's White House? Seems like a career-limiting move to me.

There are sadly many people who ought to know better who still support him. A person can be intelligent in some ways and not in others, or just have some kind of specific fault in logic which causes them to believe a specific stupid thing. I believe the majority of those cases are explained with cognitive dissonance, but it really boils down to willfully maintaining a blind spot to make oneself feel better.

Comment Re:Better than qemu-kvm? (Score 1) 45

For workstation stuff? QEMU/KVM is just fine. What you get with VMware is their "enterprise-y" features that aren't necessarily easy or available with QEMU, such as high availability, failover, backups, shared storage, software defined networking, templating, PCI / USB passthrough, etc.

The only one of those things you don't get with libvirt is SDN, the networking is fairly primitive yet.

Comment Re:No cookie for you! (Score 1) 41

Ah. I suppose that's mostly true, but have you considered laying on more protection? It's true that in most cases this simply renders the website inoperative, but in this case I got more functionality than you did. Sometimes I cannot make a website work within what I'm willing to allow in Firefox, and then I open that page in Chromium...

Comment Re:Isn't this fraud? (Score 1) 80

Have you heard of the Wheat and Chessboard problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Humans are bad judges of numbers, but let's run with it for a second. What's reasonable? 120% cap?

That's a good question, and I suspect it could be argued over all day; I don't have a proposed cap as I've put no thought into what the exact number should be. My proposal is long on support for personal responsibility but short on details, sorry.

Short of a fixed cap you literally can't make a rule that won't somehow be worked around.

In order to keep my proposal compatible with capitalism I haven't proposed a fixed cap, just that in order to have a higher salary you must also take on more responsibility.

Comment Re:Distrubtions with compiled in module: (Score 2) 63

This really points to a couple of things being true.

1) Distributions build too much stuff in and not enough as modules.
2) It's a PITA to build everything as a module, which helps explain 1)

I've built a lot of Linux kernels over the years, fewer in recent ones but still have done it occasionally. And it's the same now as then in that building a kernel which is more modular means running into more gotchas.

Comment Re:Isn't this fraud? (Score 3, Interesting) 80

I think jail time for corporate employees doing shit like this should be a last resort but at this point I don't really see any other good options.

Let them go free, but jail literally everyone above them on the org chart.

I actually propose that every executive salary be capped at a percentage of the sum of their direct reports, and that they share responsibility for any act they take.

Comment swallow harder, cucks (Score 1) 138

It's pretty hilarious that when you post facts about famous rich fucks in the Epstein class, sad piece of shit clowns come out of the woodwork to mod you down for it. Are you proud to defend a child fucker who gave his wife an STD about it and then tried to drug her without her knowledge about that?

Comment Re:Takes two to tango (Score 4, Insightful) 66

That's called spam, whether or not I or anyone else agrees with it (or not).

Spam is messages you have not agreed to receive. If he's sending them out to you then they're spam. If he's posting announcements about them, they're arguably spam. If he's including them in other messages then it's just offtopic content.

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