But he ded!

Dear Duffus,

He doesn't even deny it, he just makes procedural arguments why he shouldn't be punished for it.

And you're either not smart enough to understand the words, or you're too much of a dingus to stick to actual arguments instead of yelling, "Squirrel!"

(The canvassing rule doesn't say that people involved in activism can't be editors. It says that people who are editors can't use activism to gain support for their edits.)

No, here on Slashdot.

IME, grub is that reason.

You should have noauto in your options. Or today, better yet, use autofs.

You mean where they're still using scripts?

I've been maintaining serious Unix-like systems since I was a teenager, when at home I had a Sun SLC netbooting Xkernel from a 486 running Linux so I could run Netscape on a fanless system by my bed. Now I run Devuan with root on encrypted ZFS for funsies. You don't need to tell me about boot problems. I just don't blame my problems on sysvinit because I know which components are actually responsible, and it has never failed me. It does one job and does it well. I too have had my system be problematic because I could have done better with my fstab, but that's not sysvinit's fault.

You're pretty weird. Are you mad that he doesn't take your bait so you're going to come at me or what? Unfortunately, you are pretty boring. If you would like to make me mad, please come up with some new material. Peace!

Sure, that's a reasonable approach, if you can keep it up. But evidence says we can't.

"Capitalism forces the worst people to keep each other in check."

Yeah we can see how well that works when they all go fuck kids on the same island.

Which is ironic because they completely do support that happening for the owning class, but not for them, even though they are promoting their own demise by supporting that class.

There's only one word you got wrong, which is "completely." And implications of the statement rest heavily on it; if the absolute is true, then they'd be safer than when new, due to improvements in manufacturing and metallurgy. But if the absolute isn't true, if it's only mostly-true, or almost true, then the implications completely flip because the hardest things to replace are structural elements that will stress over time in ways that you can't really measure while the aircraft is assembled.

The engines have been rebuilt many times, but not everything else. That's why they're money pits. If you're gonna spend what it takes to keep it in good shape it's cheaper to get something newer.

It was a Cessna 421, which is a twin engine with a fair amount of room, and there was only two people on board. So he was probably the pilot.

Price of Persia was the game that showed that you really could write an arcade-style platform game for a home computer.

It was probably the #1 piece of software that pushed home Apple ][ sales.

I didn't have a home computer so I'd hang out the public library to play it there.

Oregon Trail was the game the teachers let you play at school. Price of Persia was the game you wanted to play when you could choose.

This time is already different. You don't need a crystal ball, you need glasses.

Solar is, by far, leading the growth of renewables. Solar is not a good source of energy in Canada, due to their high latitude (the angle of the sun is much less thus passing through more atmosphere), the disparity in amount of daylight received from season to season, and then the amount of snowfall they get, which covers solar panels.

Nuclear is one of the better sources of clean energy for a country like Canada.

The people at Debian who chose to adopt systemd with less than the usual amount of debate, and at other distributions as well. I thought you participated in these discussions at the time? Guess not.

sysvinit has never stopped me from booting, but systemd has. In fact I got into a situation where in order to troubleshoot booting, I would have had to use a debugger. That's when I noped out forever.

sysvinit with startpar and the LSB-derived daemon management boilerplate is more than adequate. If you want to use another init system, feel free, but there is absolutely no justification for deprecating sysvinit. You do not need sleep commands, you need to read the headers of some init scripts and see that they contain dependency information, then use dependency chaining to ensure that scripts fire in the correct order. It's really not different from filling out the appropriate fields of a unit file.

Middle class jobs? They sure don't fucking pay like middle class jobs. Most people who think they are in the middle class are in fact not.

That's not how it's going to work. In the past you'd replace people with automation and then they'd go get a job that was harder to automate. Well, now the job that's harder to automate requires a four year degree or better, and they're looking at automating that job away as well.

Humanity punted on sharing the wealth when this became an issue, but now there's no more time to waste not solving it, because we're at an inflection point. You're going to care if your job is lost to automation today if the other job you were going to do is lost to automation tomorrow.

It's an analog signal, and an analog receiver. The idea that there's zero error, or that all error is centered, is just stupid. The transistors don't have equal turn-on and turn-off characteristics, the capacitance isn't balanced, the self-inductance isn't balanced, etc.

And if it was balanced when it came out of the factory, it doesn't stay balanced over time.

It isn't that PAL televisions don't have the adjustments, it's that the engineers hide the pots inside the case. For vertical hold you might even get a free adjustment (during warranty term). But the colors are gonna be off still.

Also... it's the same signal. They're both "phase alternating."

Nobody said otherwise but you had to prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that you missed the point.

The Luddites didn't say we shouldn't advance technology. They said that the advances in technology should benefit everyone, not just the capitalists at the top of the pyramid.

You are attacking a position that not even the Luddites held. Enjoy playing with your straw man, but you are adding absolutely nothing to the conversation.