Workaphobia

I wonder how the treadmill affects its stability. It doesn't need to overcome its own momentum in order to accelerate; rather, slowing down requires acceleration.

There was a lot of repetition about X, Y, and Z being anathema to the systemd people. I would've appreciated some links backing up these claims of their hostility. I've heard so much against systemd, and so little that wasn't hearsay. (This is not a comment on the merits of the objections against systemd, just on the exposure to the arguments I've gotten from casually browsing hackernews.)

Article makes it sound like the student was being shut out unfairly and that the entrenched editor was hostile or even sexist. This isn't borne out at all by the talk page. It looks like there was just an edit war and a call for citation, with further discussion pending.

A strange rant. I saw nothing in it to back up the title. Indeed, it seemed to completely contradict itself when it quoted the text of the first amendment.

What does that have to do with this vulnerability? The problem was a missing bounds check in the implementation. It's not as though they suspect heartbeats are inherently insecure, right?

I intend to dual boot next time I upgrade laptops, so we'll see. I absolutely loved the customizability of the desktop environments.

But I hated worrying about graphics drivers, updates, xorg.conf, automake, and finagling my system configuration to get source tarballs to compile.

Incredible. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt until comment 10.

I haven't used linux on a desktop in several years, but my experience was that "it broke many days, something about everything". Why should this one component be held on a pedestal as make-or-break for the whole OS? Is a broken init daemon worse than a broken xorg.conf from a desktop user's perspective?

> "How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we've got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?"

You say that sarcastically, but I see that as a legitimate concern. Why miss out on a great opportunity to make a connection with thousands of users who otherwise wouldn't see any uniqueness or individuality to what you do? And the only risk is that they'd piss off someone with a corny joke.

That said, I sympathize. I enjoy jokes, but I'd like to read real news too.

I didn't look at the game, but converting from hex to binary is easy since one of those bases is a power of the other. It's a 16-entry lookup table, but just like memorizing the multiplication table, there are easy-to-remember patterns. The fact that there are two digits just means to do it twice and concatenate the results (padding to 4 bits first).

What's hard about it? If you can eliminate even one answer it's in your favor to guess.

I always assumed analogies were explicitly designed as a mechanism for testing vocabulary, not reasoning. I don't understand how analogies would have any value in testing reasoning skills. I can't imagine an analogy question that isn't either obvious or subjective.

I've actually experienced this years and years ago on my grandmother's machine. It played Fur Elise because it had a short. We needed to figure out the name of the song in order for tech support to help us identify what it meant.