Why not buy a robot arm and make your own car? Maybe not today, but manufacturing itself is bound to be obsolete one day. And then we can just shrug at GM when they are sad about all the 3D printers and Chinese imports.

Have fun running an economy where nobody has a job. At some point there ought to be a cause for concern, even for the laissez-faire anarcho-capitalist types, at least the ones that can do basic arithmetic.

;-)

When I was an apprentice, the journeymen were better at arithmetic than this, probably because it was life and death calculation when dealing with a 3-phase 100A circuit. (all my very obsolete and half-forgotten training is in industrial, not whatever they have going on in data centers)

If their not editing Xorg config to add modelines, then is it really Linux anymore?

Civics and philosophy are above an electricians pay grade, nor is it for them to determine alone.

Some solidarity from the IBEW on the issue of AI and data center bubble would be nice. But the lack of a unified popular position is a key hurdle right now. It is unreasonable to expect electricians to fight for a position that AI opponents cannot clearly communicate.

Sysvinit had /etc/inittab as a config file and it was fine most of the time. You pick a run-level and kicks off any matching items, like terminals and scripts. It used to be that you'd point it to a single script (rc.local) for your customization. In many respects that was easier than how we handle model systems. The script would run from top to bottom. Each step was one to five lines of really basic shell script. After 5 minutes your server was up and running and you wouldn't need to reboot for another year.

When packages wanted to bundle their own start/stop logic is where the simple times ended. Long gone are the days that running a program starts a daemon, and sending it signals kills it. Now every service has a 50-100 line shell script to wrap it. And even with systemd you end up having to go in there and monkey with that script sometimes.

The law clearly states that if you're rich, then it's not a serious crime.

Since the public will be bearing the social and economic consequences of AI, it should be collectively owned and operated.

You could buy software in the 1990's and resell it. The transferability, enabled by it being on physical media, made it a a kind of ownership and a regular sale.

I hope they can turn it around and keep up with market trends.

Because Norway wasn't founded by Puritans and Calvinists and fundamentalist Christians. Predestination makes is easy to rationalize that a person belongs in prison forever.

in embedded use I ban strncpy and offer a strlcat version.

Some cops are bad cops. Some cops are presumably not-bad, but have done a piss poor job of policing the bad cops.

"The rotten apple spoils his companion." — Poor Richard's almanack, 1736

I don't like city or highway driving. Country roads and off road are my preference. And if I'm commuting, I'd rather catch up on my inbox or read a book than white knuckle down the mountain in heavy traffic.