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Comment Re: Minimize the use of JavaScript. (Score 2) 53

"When I look at some web sites, I get the impression that the person who built the web site was not caring about good communication, but was wanting to get experience with JavaScript." Exhibit A: https://medium.com/javascript-... The webshit who wrote this article is in his first year of a software "engineering" degree at an Indian University, and he's recommending next year's hottest webshit technologies.

Comment Re:I want to know how they dispose of the waste (Score 1) 122

Also, why would you try and bury a guy in the clothes he was wearing when he died, never mind the fact that he's wearing probably millions of dollars in functional hardware that's owned by the company. And why would an alien spacecraft have a nuclear plume? If they're travelling on nuclear fission (not even fusion) they're not as advanced as they are portrayed.

Comment Re:So even longer then? (Score 2) 122

My biggest concern if this is successful, I can see other movies in the future doing this to make a few more bucks.

The feline has escaped the containment device. Both the #1 film (Avatar) and #3 film (Titanic) already did this trick. Endgame is just following the pack.

The only thing they've achieved with this is to make it harder to find the "correct" version to download. I'm not going to pay full price to see a post credits scene

Comment Re:Another survey, another ranking (Score 4, Informative) 194

This, and the dark theme preference is not consistent with industry. It's heavily skewed towards young, unmarried coders who code at night.

Dark theme: because for some reason developers are overwhelmingly choosing to not stare into a bright white light all fucking day and/or night too, even going so far as to install browser extensions to make all websites dark.

And all this for what? So some fucking design wankers can apply their print design knowledge to something that isn't a printed page.

Comment Re: This is just part of bargaining. (Score 2) 236

This is about cost,

No shit sherlock

nothing more.

And that's where you're wrong; cost was merely the trigger that made them decide to go ahead with this multi year project

from their site, explaining the rationale:

The project’s principles of engagement are to:

Deliver the same service to every category of CERN personnel

Avoid vendor lock-in to decrease risk and dependency

Keep hands on the data

Address the common use-cases

You must be one of those people who only read the headline and think you know what's going on.

Microsoft recently revoked the organisations status as an academic institution, instead pricing access to its services on users. This bumps the cost of various software licenses 10x, which is just too much for CERN's budget.

Budgeting must be hard for you, so reduce the numbers to something within the realm of your usual lifestyle:

If your electricity provider decided to raise your bill to 10x what it was last year, you would be also want to shop elsewhere, or for a more 'IT' scenario

If MS decided to raise your Azure fees by 10x, you'd start porting your shit to AWS or Google etc

Have any of these big dramatic exits from the Windows OS ever actually gone as planned? I can't think of one that hasn't gone "casters up."

Google did this nearly a decade ago.

Comment Re:How will this be maintained? (Score 1) 144

Ever heard of ssh, shell scripts, apt-get, etc? Yes, I have. Most of them are very useful, but for me, apt-get is absolutely useless. You see, it's designed to install, update and upgrade .deb packages on a Debian system, and I use Fedora, based on RedHat. Instead, I use dnf, which is the RedHat equivalent. In the future, you might give a little more thought to making your suggestions distro-agnostic.

That's what the 'etc' was for, dipshit.

Comment Re:How long until old laptops are cleared out? (Score 1) 135

Yes yes, we know, because you keep mentioning it. Give it a rest already. Chromebooks are single user machines. One use, one chromebook, they're not meant to be shared.

I have a Chromebook, It allows multiple user accounts, even a guest account.

It even has a quick "note taking" feature that does not require a login, just pull out the stylus and the default stylus app opens

Comment Re: How long until old laptops are cleared out? (Score 1) 135

Pretty sure this only applies to laptops released after today. Laptops released last fall all have crostini support (that's the Linux feature the article dances around the name of) but latest Chromebooks will have a newer kernel version which enables more features. Chromebooks never have their kernel updated. If you want the latest hotness wait for Chromebooks released in June 2019, newer production of old models will never get the update.

I bought an Acer Chromebook tab 10 recently, it had an update to allow me to use Linux on it. I've either got a new enough kernel already for a device that came out last year, or they have updated my kernel (unlikely) Either way, the implication is that one does not need a June 2019 or newer ChromeOS device to use Linux.

Comment Re:So far, UWP does not look so good (Score 1) 78

If there is a move to a UWP world, I'll be looking at other operating systems.

You should have moved already. There already was a move to a UWP world. It eventually failed, but around the same time, my main OS changed from Windows to Linux Mint. Windows has been banished to a VM where it can't cause me any long term problems.

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