In the S&L fiasco, the ownership of failed S&L's was zeroed out, so the owners lost their entire investment. In the banking fiasco, the banks (with few exceptions) did not fail, though many should have. Therefore, the owners kept their investment even though they should have lost their shirts. The difference was appalling and dramatic, a true FU to the public by both Bush and Obama.

Summary: Kernel developers need to be nicer, while kernel maintainers need to be smarter. Sometimes we're all in situations where it just seems that the probability of change is so small that no amount of effort, no matter how little, is worth making. But the kernel is not one of those situations, as incredible achievements like eBPF can get in despite the obvious lack of understanding early on by the kernel maintainers. IMHO the same is true here with bcachefs. This could truly be the future of filesystems, at first integrating everything good about ext4, mdadm, lvm, bcache and zfs. I use all of these and look forward to replacing them all with bcachefs. And the concept of tiered storage in bcachefs could be extended to include proper backup in the filesystem. For example, in addition to foreground_target=nvme and background_target=hdd, we could have things like offsite_target=Box, hotsite_target=AWS, coldsite_target=NAS. Get on board the hype train!

I was particularly struck by this announcement because some years ago Verizon sold off its land lines to Frontier in our area. This meant that we had to drop the land line because the service actually got worse, a result that never occurred to me as a possibility. Frontier is the worst run company I have ever had the misfortune to work with. For the most part, the people were pleasant but totally incompetent.

During Katrina, the landlines never went down though cellphone and internet did so we tried to hang on and hold out. But then the ATT service was unavailable for 4 months even though they kept billing us for the landline and the service deteriorated, so eventually we gave up. In North Carolina, Versizon sold their landlines to Frontier, a company of spectacular incompetence. We gave up there also. Face it: they don't want you; move on.

Unfortunately, Huang creates suffering. Drivers break with Linux kernel updates and in general Nvidia cards are a giant hassle. A little cooperation would make a whole lot of suffering go away, but apparently we are all better people due to our Nvidia-induced suffering.

Is there ever a reason to use a Broadcom product or service if there is an alternative?

Employees, except professionals and managers, must be paid overtime. In the normal case that means if employees work over 40 hours in their work week they get an extra 50% for those overtime hours. The employer has the responsibility of tracking hours worked and this can get intrusive if the employee is traveling around and is not supervised in a fixed location. Why should companies and individuals be forbidden to pay and be paid based on what they get accomplished rather than hours worked, especially if it avoids intrusive tracking and surveillance?

Apple now is more about specs than performance. The price to spec ratio has just gone down. But you're right: thermal throttling will mean that performance is unimproved.

My favorite study along these lines was a randomized selection of men, half of whom were injected with steroids and half got no steroids. Neither group showed muscle gains during the study period. Not mentioned in the headline was that neither group lifted weights or engaged in any exercise. So in a sense the headline was true: just taking steroids doesn't give you big muscles. But the guys in my gym who took steroids got big because they were able to recuperate faster from heavier workouts.

Windows 10 Enterprise is the product; along with Office 365 they lock in business users and bring in revenue for Microsoft. The other versions of W10 are various levels of unpaid alpha testing (Insiders) and unpaid beta testing (Home/Pro). Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC is a red-headed step child that Microsoft begrudgingly has around because it has to.

My university got a "supercomputer" and I got excited about what I could do with all of its capabilities. Then I started submitting jobs in batch that were limited to 64gb of ram. I could request 128gb batch machines which would take hours to become available and the maximum machines were 256gb which would sometimes take days to get. Storage was limited to 1TB. Of course I didn't have the permissions to install software so it was an endless hassle to request installation of new versions. So I went back to my own dual E5-2667v2 processors ($590 for both) and 96gb of ram. My z620 is no supercomputer, but it is better than my share of the supercomputer.

I'm just guessing, but I don't think you live in New Orleans.

Another factor is the exchange rate. The dollar was strengthening in the last half of 2016 and thus coming to the US was becoming more expensive.

On Windows 10 I used Bash (WSL) for Linux use and Hyper-V for a Windows 7 VM I need. The system crashed so hard that it could not be repaired, restored or resuscitated in any way. In a sick way I was amused when Bash was reclassified as Beta and removed from the Long Term Servicing Base (LTSB) not long after my system crashed. The official MS line was that WSL was included in LTSB by accident. Somebody was as stupid as I was and thought WSL was ready for the real world. I reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch (I have to use it for work) and now use VirtualBox for both the Windows 7 VM and now an Ubuntu Server VM (which I ssh into from Windows 10). I now have no problems, plus the video with VirtualBox is much better than the video with Hyper-V.