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However, that doesn't mean that Charlie is suddenly an AMD fanboy, as I've seen the pro-Intel crowd proclaiming, as a attempt to defend Intel by smearing his reputation.
[1] is a strange bug, because the devs have consistently been unable to reproduce it, despite constantly looking over the issue. Users of ZFS have hit problems, also, suggesting that it is not an EXT4 bug, but a very subtle problem elsewhere in the block subsystem.
The agriculture industry is a major reason why pesticides, herbicides, destructive monocrops cultures and such, are done. They are responsible for the destruction of the Amazon by planting soyabean monocultures, because of the rich soil.
Both are as horrible as each other.
Both can be done quite sustainably. Problem is that there's not money in doing so, because greed runs the show.
I could offer something just as useless: "don't eat plants".
Meat and plants can both be infected with bacteria. And both require freezing and refrigeration to avoid spoiling.
BCacheFS's development is slow, but that's because stability is the ultimate goal. Don't rush to make everything work, but gradually crank out stable code that's actually reliable.
Kent almost single-handedly developed BCache, but eventually, other kernel maintainers took over from him. BCache is basically stable now.
Kent's plan for BCache was for it to be the basis for BCacheFS from the very beginning, it seems. So, while BCache does what it's good at, it is also architectured to make developing BCacheFS easier.
Basically, Kent has been building an entire filesystem almost single-handedly, and has been doing so much better than BtrFS has been.
Kent has a corporate sponser now, thankfully, so he can a bit more easily afford to spend more time on it.
His Patreon donations seem bare-minimum, though, for the task. Enough-ish, but not ideal.
I encountered enough permanent BtrFS file system corruptions when the power would suddenly go out after a storm... which I thought should have been impossible with copy-on-write file systems that use extents... apparently not.
BCacheFS is looking far more stable, even this early in its development.
To put it another way ~ he lived in an area that was approximately 50% Jewish white people, and 50% non-Jewish white people.
"White" is a skin colour, otherwise categorized as "race", which technically doesn't really exist anyways.
All that really exists is a diverse range of genetic differences, however, all humans can 100% interbreed without any issues.
There are areas where it just doesn't work, such as in the embedded space.
Was it due to bcachefs in some way?
Is there anything you felt was still missing back when you were using it?
Problem with the reasoning is that surveillance doesn't really stop terrorism and crime.
Indeed, if I were a criminal worth my salt, I'd slither into positions where I am effectively exempt from surveillance, or could control how surveillance is used against me.
Also, salt in meat and vege stews ~ if you have nothing else in terms of flavour, salt makes it infinitely more appetizing.
It is NOT a red herring ~ it is a real problem for reductionist physicalism. However, because it cannot explain qualia, it tries to ignore, dismiss, and belittle, the enormity of the problems presented by qualia for its attempts at trying to explain.
> Consciousness is a program run on your brain to make you think you are conscious.
This is a presumption with scientific evidence. This is merely reductionist physicalist philosophical dogma.
We can be certain that we are individually conscious and aware ~ but not necessarily why or how.
Consciousness cannot be reduced down to a bunch of changes of the brain's matter. Consciousness is qualitatively different to how the brain functions, even though consciousness can indeed be influenced by the changes in brain states. Even though literally no-one knows how.
> (And as long as this explanation works and is simpler than all the others, we should go with it, instead of claiming how incredibly hard and unfathomable consciousness is.)
It is not simpler ~ it makes a set of presumptions which reductionist physicalism must explain scientifically. And even now, no scientific explanations are forthcoming. The philosophy has had centuries to explain how consciousness arises from the material and physical, and yet no explanation has been offered as to how the brain can magically create consciousness.
There are literally no models at all that demonstrate, solidly and irrevocably, how particular configurations of brain matter directly translate into consciousness.
> What's hard is bootstrapping the whole thing. Evolution simply used brute force and copy-pastes a sort of working, already pre-wired, fine-tuned mishmash of faculties as a brain from the previous generation to the next. And uses the old gen to train the next gen.
A bunch of presumptions and just-so hypotheses without scientific evidence.
It was too late to go the doctor, and I only had Vitamin C (as Sodium Ascorbate powder) on hand, so I chugged that down, up to maybe 5 grams every half-hour in orange juice, and about 6 hours later, the worst of the flu was gone. Next morning, I was feeling like I only had a minor cold. The flu never came back, either.
Since then, that's been my go-to strategy.
And to think that many are led to believe that the medical system is filled with "professionals" who know what they're doing.
I see enough people just blinding trusting the "experts", because they must be right, because they were trained by a university/college for many years.
Maybe I'm ranting, but I'm sick of blind faith in a system demonstrated more often than not, to be broken in various ways.
How sad.
This does lead me to wonder if said nurse, and other nurses, are properly trained to think for themselves.
> Poison control was called, but it didn't seem like they were able to give a clear treatment advice.
It gets worse... how come they weren't able to? Poor training? By-the-book training?
Shit like this doesn't inspire confidence in me that the medical system is even functioning properly, half of the time.
Mozilla does not have a history remotely related to any sort of privacy violations, except in the eyes of those who think that literally anything to do with "telemetry" or "advertizing" is automatically evil.
Problem is, you can have non-privacy-invasive and non-malicious telemetry and advertizing.
Google and Microsoft are particularly nasty in this regard. But don't extrapolate their behaviour onto Mozilla.
A naturopath who focuses on diet and nutrition will not push this kind of stuff on you! They've known about the gut-brain connection for years, now.
No, we aren't. AMD's promise was fulfilled quite a while ago. They officially contributed, and work on, a FOSS driver for the Linux kernel, and also for Mesa. One of their devs is one of the most active Mesa committers this year alone.
AMD are more committed than Intel is, it would seem, given that AMD's drivers are far better quality than Intel's.
Hardly.
It works extremely well for Linux distribution maintainers, and for the FOSS projects that work with this model in mind. Within the FOSS community, the platform model is excellent.
It doesn't work so well for proprietary application developers, who should just be using static libs because of this.
This includes corporate influence on governments, so that the politicians act as their servants in also squashing said good ideas.
Not sure what some of these ideas might be, off the top of my head right now, but I know that some have to exist.