I remember selling my hoard of Bitcoin at $4500 thinking how absurdly high it was and that it was just a fluke and how stupid it all seemed. Look who's stupid now. I still retired, but "if I'd just HODLed" I'd be a retired philanthropist instead of just retired and comfortable.

Even if repairing the damaged A380 is not feasible, but an A380 is still desirable for the route, there are dozens of A380s that have been retired or are in long-term storage (a couple of dozen more have been scrapped already). I expect any of the owners of those planes would be happy to get them off their hands (assuming that none of them are already owned by the affected carriers).

Woah... Dumb question, but would a wing spar be repairable or replaceable?

Just slap on some Cylon organic resin. Eventually it will infuse itself into the spar and act like cartilage.

No problem here. Nothing about cookies or anything else. The problem must be on your end.

Almost got plowed into by one of these oversized trucks a few days ago. I was walking in the driving lane between rows and a guy in one of these oversized pickups drove through the parking spots into the lane. He stopped only a few feet from me, then admitted he didn't see me.

Aside from the oversized truck, this is why you don't drive through parking spots.

You could do a study in other countries and compare the results. They have the same gadgets, but not the increased hoods on their cars. Once you corrected for the gadget distraction, you will still find higher casualty rates.

Why not? If they can get a better deal using one provider or source than another, why not take it? Or do you want them to just spend their money like a drunk sailor like most Americans do?

I expect plant construction (especially lots of concrete) is a much bigger emission concern than mining the fuel (a little fuel goes a long way, although it takes a fair amount of mining and refining to get that little bit of fuel). The further down the stack you go, NOTHING is absolutely carbon-neutral (solar and wind construction require raw materials too, as does all distribution no matter the generation source), but it's a matter of scale vs. return.

At this point, it's not clear that the construction emissions of big nuclear makes it a net win over its expected lifetime when compared to solar/wind. And small nuclear is still mostly vapor, and not clear that it's actually solved the scaling costs that made huge nuclear attractive in the first place. Continuing to operate the nuclear that's already been constructed for a long time probably makes it a reasonable win (of course, if we ever get a more reasonable way to deal with the waste).

As for the water... big plants are typically built directly at water sources and manage it directly, so they aren't really "consuming" it in the way datacenters do (where they just want to hook up to municipal water sources and outsource the management costs). Plants are restricted in output water temperature so as not to cause harm to animal/plant life downstream, and while some (depending on design) do evaporate a bunch, it's still right there where it came from. So I don't _think_ they have a significant impact in the way datacenters do.

The problem with the simple bits is that many services aren't that simple anymore. There was no way to express dependencies, so ordering could be annoying. There was also not consistency between distros on the helper bits, so cross-distro startup scripts got pretty gross.

I've been around Linux long enough to remember when people STARTED using Miquel van Smoorenburg's sysvinit (I chose it when I built a system from scratch, at the time there was also an older-style init included IIRC util-linux, think that's been gone for many a year). It had a good run! But as systems got more complicated, I think a more managed approach was needed, rather than init being super minimal.

I don't know how they manage to mux all that I/O. It must be several hundred phones (maybe thousands) all connected to one computer.

The one you saw is probably the fake one. However, Chinese phone farms do exist and they advertise in the open.

Please, find me an example of this fantasy.

Here you go.

For a slightly less gruesome story, this guy misrepresened himself for years, lying about his credentials.

So systemd-the-init-system is that. Arguably having straight-forward config files rather than wildly-varying shell scripts for startup is much cleaner. For example, since systemd can handle non-daemonizing programs cleanly, it makes throwing together a script to do something much easier (no daemonization necessary, can just run, if it fails for some reason systemd can automatically restart it if configured, etc.).

systemd-the-project is bloated in all the things they've added, but systemd-the-init-system is IMHO a good replacement for the classic SysV and older BSD rc (I'm really out of date with BSD so don't know what they do now) styles of init. I feel that "PID 1 is dumb about what's running" turned out to not be the best idea, that's why we got things like djb's daemontools and such, but trying to be init without being PID 1 has it's own issues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8RAbWs1yo

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.