Comment Re:Legislated to... suck more? (Score 1) 48
Addiction and depression are facts of life. There is a percentage of the population who are caught up in it.
Ironic to say that while standing in line for coffee.
Comment Re:Copyright risk (Score 1) 38
anything that comes out of your standard LLM is illegal and unsellable
They won't decide that.
all the conflicting licenses that need fulfilling.
They might decide you need to pay a little extra to cover licensing.
Comment Re:Wrong approach (Score 1) 55
Clearly money is more important to you than principle. Jim Sachs has enough money he can care only about principle.
Comment Re:Good on Him (Score 1) 55
How many engineer man-years would it take to build themselves?
It could take a ten person team a year to plan and implement, if you want the cheap Harvard-style version.
Comment Re:You don't know what you have till it's gone (Score 1) 55
I considered the screen saver to be part of the device I bought years ago.
That was dumb of you.
Comment Re:$80,000 per year for exclusive rights (Score 1) 55
It takes care with thread priorities and mutexes in various parts of the underlying system, to make fish swim smoothly.
Using threads and mutexes is a non-standard way to animate fish, and if thread priorities are causing issues, something has gone horribly wrong in your programming. Did you use AI?
Comment Re: Surprised (Score 1) 172
An electric truck market should exist, but US automakers have to pay too much for batteries for there to be one here.
This should be repeated.
Comment Re:Garbage patch (Score 1) 40
A likely scenario is that microbes learn to eat it.
Comment Re:The problem probably isn't the disks (Score 1) 87
Amateurs. 640k is more than enough for anything. I've been going the opposite way.
I've been making the website favicon 640 gigabytes. It's not easy to do with a 16x16 icon, but the heft is worth the extra effort. You can feel the heft, the weight of the GB pixels flowing through your cable (if you didn't cheap out and get the wrong cable). Nothing beats that feeling of luxury.
I've been making the website favicon 640 gigabytes. It's not easy to do with a 16x16 icon, but the heft is worth the extra effort. You can feel the heft, the weight of the GB pixels flowing through your cable (if you didn't cheap out and get the wrong cable). Nothing beats that feeling of luxury.
Comment Re:The FAA has not phased out floppy disks. (Score 1) 87
Nah, you misread. They are replacing the whole system with 8-tracks. Kind of like this but more modern, with a type of limited random access.
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 282
Comment Re:Special case (Score 1) 68
That said, on my Debian/Devuan installations all these accounts with "*" and "!" have
It should be easy enough to test. "sudo adduser a" then "ssh a@localhost." Carefully modify your passwd file to change the shell to
I just tried it on Mint and
Comment Re:The title seems kind of wrong (Score 1) 68
Look at the man page for crypt. Having it return a non-POSIX return value is/was configurable on some distros. This isn't a problem on OpenBSD, the true system.
BTW a lot of SV startups allow login with an empty password, despite a suite of unit tests. No one likes to write negative tests, so here we are.
BTW a lot of SV startups allow login with an empty password, despite a suite of unit tests. No one likes to write negative tests, so here we are.
Comment Re:Okay (Score 1) 68
The Linux kernel, ostensibly, follows the same philosophy of "you do not break userland" but in reality bugs happen all the time and this kernel philosophy actually doesn't help at all because Linux is the worst mainstream operating system for any kind of backward or forward compatibility--for some fucking reason you can't compile a static binary on most distros.
The Linux kernel is great for backwards compatibility. GNome is horrible.
IF you make a backwards incompatible change, you are giving millions of people extra work. Don't do that.
Comment Re:they will keep selling them (Score 1) 282
The CCP opposes human rights. They hate human rights, and they label human rights as a red line they refuse to cross. They have race-based slavery.
