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Comment Re:Legit question, who is still using Gentoo? (Score 2) 28

Yes, I am ( and have been since 2005). It has become a smoother experience every year, but I guess that holds for many distributions.

Why? Inertia is certainly part of it. Rolling-release was one reason, which still holds, although there are other distributions that do this well now as well. A feeling of control I did not have when using Debian or Suse. A nice community that helps with with any issues. User patches! Live ebuilds at selectable git tags/hashes. There's likely other things.

To summarize, using it is quite pleasant generally.

Comment Re:Except for... (Score 1) 423

Those 3 lines of code....

https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk?t...

MIT Data analyst ...

I watched the video He's arguing that it is suspect that people purposefully not voting republican on all races (voting one party on all races was a separate voting option ‘straight ticket’) voted relatively less for Trump. That is not suspect, but actually to be expected, because those people explicitly chose to not vote a straight ticket. (Next to democrats wanting to vote for a republican congressperson they like, they may be republicans that dislike Trump's style, similar to Carly Fiorina, for example.) Furthermore, he says the ‘giveaway’ of fraud is that this is more pronounced when relatively more people vote a straight ticket in a precinct. Also that is not unexpected, as they are relatively speaking more strongly self-selecting to not vote a straight ticket. Finally, the way he presents the data, plotting percentage points (percentage differences) versus percentages is bad practice, because the percentages subtracted from each other correspond to different total numbers (1 percentage point for the first population may correspond to, e.g., 100 voters and 1 percentage point for the second to 10 voters). My impression: this is a biased analysis and the guy is misleading himself at best, but may be cynically doing it on purpose.

BTW, the “MIT data analyst” just has a bioengineering PhD from MIT, but is not associated to MIT. Furthermore, he is the “I invented email” guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:Software Tools Movement (Score 1) 83

I don't know much about it, but Microsoft's Powershell seems to address some of these limitations by passing *objects* between programs. That immediately eliminates the need for command line options that deal with selecting lexical or syntactic conventions.

There is also nushell that takes this approach. It looks interesting.

Comment Re:Is this a crisis? (Score 1) 138

The main thing to keep in mind is that the incubation period is two weeks, during which time you are infectious but not obviously sick.

Infected people need to spread viruses, typically by coughing or sneezing. So being sick, starting at ‘having a cold’ is a requirement for efficient transmission. (Source: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission.html)

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