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.

Unions for tech so we have a political voice to modulate technology in favor of humanity is probably one of the most important functions() a technology union could have.

Reducing any corruption, for it is the anathema of civilization. I wonder how many pro-freedom initiatives could be had if we all weren't so Pwned.

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.

C doesn't have strings, but sometimes people like to have some bytes with a 0 on the end. Some of the memxxx() functions are useful with C's fake strings. For example, memchr() is good for when you have a null-terminated string but it also some upper bounds. And stuff like strncpy() doesn't appear to have anything at all to do with null terminated strings, and is grossly misnamed.

That only explains why most (but not all) universities go along with the grift. It doesn't explain how we got into a situation where the entire government got behind it, and think tanks publish essays and establish a party platform around denying free college or cheaper tuition.

Variation of third verse: And all the teachers are dead

Mass debt is profitable to the ones pulling the strings of our government.